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Synonyms for chip
The synonym for chip recorded in this bank is spall, in the sense "to break a small piece off the edge or surface of something". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for chip
- spallverb, in the sense "to break a small piece off the edge or surface of something"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and chip carries one sense so far.
to break a small piece off the edge or surface of something
Years of freezing and thawing caused the old brick facade to chip along every exposed corner.
The true synonym
spall
Same sentence, swapped: Years of freezing and thawing caused the old brick facade to spall along every exposed corner.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- corrode
- warp
- tarnish
Where chip turns up in the game
chip is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where chip is the trap
- wrenchverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is turn, in the sense "twist suddenly so as to sprain", so chip is there to be ruled out.
Play chip
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so chip reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other materials words at Summit, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. chip carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.