tunnel

tunnel is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel. Face value is 6 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 6 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
2. noun. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel.
3. noun. An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.
4. noun. A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
5. transitive verb. To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
6. transitive verb. To catch in a tunnel net.
7. transitive verb. To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
8. noun. a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)

   "the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection"

9. noun. a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter

   Synonyms: burrow

10. verb. force a way through
11. verb. move through by or as by digging

    "burrow through the forest"

    Synonyms: burrow

Synonyms

burrow

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tunnel:

nunlet, unlent

Common word forms

tunnels, tunneled, tunneler, tunnelly, tunneling, tunnelled, tunneller, tunnelling

Words from these letters

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