Contact and joining
Synonyms for unplug
The synonym for unplug recorded in this bank is disconnect, in the sense "pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable". 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 unplug
- disconnectverb, in the sense "pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and unplug carries one sense so far.
pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable
Unplug the hair dryer after using it.
The true synonym
disconnect
Same sentence, swapped: Disconnect the hair dryer after using it.
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.
- unwind
- unravel
- unfold
Where unplug turns up in the game
unplug is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 unplug is the trap
- unravelverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is untangle, in the sense "become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of", and unplug is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play unplug
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so unplug 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 contact and joining at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. unplug carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.