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Synonyms for hoist
The synonym for hoist recorded in this bank is heave, in the sense "to raise something heavy, often using effort or a mechanism". 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 hoist
- heaveverb, in the sense "to raise something heavy, often using effort or a mechanism"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and hoist carries one sense so far.
to raise something heavy, often using effort or a mechanism
The sailors hoist the sail up the mast each morning.
The true synonym
heave
Same sentence, swapped: The sailors heave the sail up the mast each morning.
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.
- tether
- anchor
- fold
Where hoist turns up in the game
hoist is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 hoist is the trap
- propverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is lean, in the sense "to support something by leaning it against or under a surface", and hoist is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play hoist
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hoist 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 objects words at Treeline, 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. hoist carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.