volley
volley is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
- noun. A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.
- noun. A return of the ball before it touches the ground.
- noun. A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
- transitive verb. To discharge with, or as with, a volley.
- intransitive verb. To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.
- intransitive verb. To return the ball before it touches the ground.
- intransitive verb. To send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
- noun. a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
- noun. rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
"our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise"
- verb. utter rapidly
"volley a string of curses"
- verb. make a volley
- verb. discharge in, or as if in, a volley
"the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians"
- verb. hit before it touches the ground
"volley the tennis ball"
- verb. be dispersed in a volley
"gun shots volleyed at the attackers"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in volley:
Common word forms
volleys, volleyed, volleyer, volleying
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