The body

Synonyms for vein

The synonym for vein recorded in this bank is vena, in the sense "a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for vein

venanoun, in the sense "a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart"

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

The sensenounTier 4, High CampThe body

a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart

All veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

vena

Same sentence, swapped: All veins except the pulmonary vena carry unaerated blood.

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.

artery
capillary
tattoo

Where vein turns up in the game

vein 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 vein is the trap

pulsenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is heartbeat, in the sense "the rhythmic beat of blood through the arteries, felt as a throb", so vein is there to be ruled out.

Play vein

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so vein reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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