Dictionary Entry
vest
vest is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 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 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
- 2noun
Any outer covering; array; garb.
- 3noun
Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
- 4noun
To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
- 5noun
To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.
- 6noun
To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
- 7noun
To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.
- 8noun
To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.
- 9intransitive verb
To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
- 10noun
a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body
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- 11noun
a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat
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- 12verb
clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes
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- 13verb
clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments
- 14verb
become legally vested
"The property vests in the trustees"
- 15verb
place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons
"She vested her vast fortune in her two sons"
- 16verb
provide with power and authority
"They vested the council with special rights"
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