The body

Synonyms for waist

The synonym for waist recorded in this bank is middle, in the sense "the narrower part of the body between the ribs and the hips". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The synonym for waist

middlenoun, in the sense "the narrower part of the body between the ribs and the hips"

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

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsThe body

the narrower part of the body between the ribs and the hips

She tied the apron around her waist before starting to cook.

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

The true synonym

middle

Same sentence, swapped: She tied the apron around her middle before starting to cook.

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.

hip
belt
spine

Where waist turns up in the game

waist is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 waist

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

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. waist carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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