The body

Synonyms for torso

The synonym for torso recorded in this bank is trunk, in the sense "the human trunk, excluding the head and limbs". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The synonym for torso

trunknoun, in the sense "the human trunk, excluding the head and limbs"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for torso.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineThe body

the human trunk, excluding the head and limbs

The tailor measured his torso before cutting the jacket.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

trunk

Same sentence, swapped: The tailor measured his trunk before cutting the jacket.

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 torso in the sentence quoted.

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Where torso turns up in the game

torso is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 torso

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so torso 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 wrong tile gets explained too

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