toll

toll is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take away; to vacate; to annul. Face value is 4 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.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To take away; to vacate; to annul.
2. transitive verb. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
3. transitive verb. To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
4. transitive verb. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.
5. transitive verb. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
6. intransitive verb. To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
7. noun. The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
8. noun. A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.
9. noun. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
10. noun. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
11. intransitive verb. To pay toll or tallage.
12. intransitive verb. To take toll; to raise a tax.
13. transitive verb. To collect, as a toll.
14. noun. value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

    "the cost in human life was enormous"

    "the price of success is hard work"

    Synonyms: cost, price

15. noun. the sound of a bell being struck

    "saved by the bell"

    "she heard the distant toll of church bells"

    Synonyms: bell

16. noun. a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
17. verb. ring slowly

    "For whom the bell tolls"

18. verb. charge a fee for using

    "Toll the bridges into New York City"

Synonyms

cost, price, bell

Common word forms

tolls, tolled, toller, tolling, tollable

Words from these letters

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