tree

tree is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 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 4 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
2. noun. Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
3. noun. A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
4. noun. A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
5. noun. Wood; timber.
6. noun. A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
7. transitive verb. To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
8. transitive verb. To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
9. noun. English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)
10. noun. a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
11. noun. a figure that branches from a single root

    "genealogical tree"

12. verb. stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree

    Synonyms: shoetree

13. verb. chase an animal up a tree

    "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"

    "her dog likes to tree squirrels"

14. verb. plant with trees

    "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer"

15. verb. force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

    Synonyms: corner

Synonyms

shoetree, corner

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tree:

reet, rete, teer

Common word forms

treed, trees, treeful, treeing, treeless

Words from these letters

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