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snake
snake is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia Serpent.
- 2transitive verb
To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
- 3transitive verb
To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- 4intransitive verb
To crawl like a snake.
- 5noun
limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- 6noun
something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
- 7noun
a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
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- 8noun
a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- 9noun
a deceitful or treacherous person
- 10verb
move along a winding path
"The army snaked through the jungle"
- 11verb
move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
- 12verb
form a snake-like pattern
"The river snakes through the valley"
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