Dictionary Entry
splay
splay is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To display; to spread. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 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 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To display; to spread.
- 2transitive verb
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
- 3transitive verb
To spay; to castrate.
- 4transitive verb
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
- 5adjective
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
- 6adjective
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
- 7noun
an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
- 8verb
move out of position
"dislocate joints"
"the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
- 9verb
turn outward
"These birds can splay out their toes"
"ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
Synonyms
- 10verb
spread open or apart
"He splayed his huge hands over the table"
- 11adjective
turned outward in an ungainly manner
"splay knees"
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