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soot
soot is a 4-letter English word with 5 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 5 senses
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- 1noun
A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.
- 2transitive verb
To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.
- 3adjective
Alt. of Soote
- 4noun
a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
- 5verb
coat with soot
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