Contact and joining
Synonyms for nip
The synonym for nip recorded in this bank is clip, in the sense "sever or remove by pinching or snipping". 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 nip
- clipverb, in the sense "sever or remove by pinching or snipping"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for nip.
sever or remove by pinching or snipping
Nip off the flowers.
The true synonym
clip
Same sentence, swapped: Clip off the flowers.
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 nip in the sentence quoted.
- tweet
- carve
- trench
Where nip turns up in the game
nip 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 nip is the trap
- blightverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is plague, in the sense "cause to suffer a blight", with nip sitting one tile away.
Play nip
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so nip 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 contact and joining 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. nip carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.