strut

strut is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To swell; to bulge out. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 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 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To swell; to bulge out.
2. transitive verb. To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
3. noun. The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
4. noun. In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.
5. noun. Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.
6. transitive verb. To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.
7. adjective. Protuberant.
8. noun. a proud stiff pompous gait

   Synonyms: prance, swagger

9. noun. brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression
10. verb. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

    "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"

    Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, swagger, tittup

Synonyms

prance, swagger, cock, ruffle, sashay, tittup

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in strut:

sturt, trust

Common word forms

struts, strutted, strutter, strutting

Words from these letters

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