Dictionary Entry
trepan
trepan is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive/intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
- 2noun
A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
- 3transitive/intransitive verb
To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
- 4noun
A snare; a trapan.
- 5noun
a deceiver; a cheat.
- 6transitive verb
To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
- 7noun
a drill for cutting circular holes around a center
- 8noun
a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull
Synonyms
- 9verb
cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery
Synonyms
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in trepan:
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for TREPAN lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.