Dictionary Entry
stickle
stickle is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To separate combatants by intervening. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To separate combatants by intervening.
- 2intransitive verb
To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
- 3intransitive verb
To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
- 4transitive verb
To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
- 5transitive verb
To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
- 6transitive/intransitive verb
A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
- 7verb
dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
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