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Synonyms for arm
Synonyms for arm: branch and weapon. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for arm
Interchangeable with arm in this sense
Audited under arm's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one arm carries in that sense.
- branchnoun, in the sense "any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name arm as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- weaponweapon is a noun in the sense "any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under arm and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
An arm of the sea.
The true synonym
branch
Same sentence, swapped: An branch of the sea.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for arm in the sentence quoted.
- weapon
- sleeve
- boss
Where arm turns up in the game
arm is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where arm is the trap
- guardnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is precaution, in the sense "a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc", with arm sitting one tile away.
- guaranteeverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is undertake, in the sense "promise to do or accomplish", and arm is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play arm
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so arm reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from objects at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. arm carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.