sweal

sweal is a 5-letter English word with 2 senses as intransitive verb and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 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 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame.
2. transitive verb. To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sweal:

swale, wales, weals

Words from these letters

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