The body
Synonyms for midriff
The synonym for midriff recorded in this bank is middle, in the sense "the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)". 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 midriff
- middlenoun, in the sense "the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for midriff.
the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
Young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable.
The true synonym
middle
Same sentence, swapped: Young American women believe that a bare middle is fashionable.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where midriff stands in the sentence above.
- areola
- perineum
- side
Where midriff turns up in the game
midriff is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 midriff is the trap
- diaphragmnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is stop, in the sense "a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens", and midriff is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play midriff
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so midriff 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 the body at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
midriff is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.