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Synonyms for ribbing
The synonym for ribbing recorded in this bank is tease, in the sense "the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule)". 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 ribbing
- teasenoun, in the sense "the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule)"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day ribbing is audited in a second meaning.
the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule)
His ribbing was gentle but persistent.
The true synonym
tease
Same sentence, swapped: His tease was gentle but persistent.
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.
- baiting
- badgering
- worrying
Where ribbing turns up in the game
ribbing is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play ribbing
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ribbing reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because actions is the company ribbing keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ribbing carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.