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wolf
wolf is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 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 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses
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- 1adjective
Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
- 2adjective
One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
- 3adjective
Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
- 4adjective
A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
- 5adjective
An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
- 6adjective
The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
- 7adjective
In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
- 8adjective
A willying machine.
- 9noun
any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
- 10noun
a cruelly rapacious person
- 11noun
a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
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- 12noun
German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)
- 13noun
Austrian composer (1860-1903)
- 14verb
eat hastily
"The teenager wolfed down the pizza"
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