Objects
Synonyms for weapon
The synonym for weapon recorded in this bank is arm, in the sense "any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting". 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 weapon
- armnoun, in the sense "any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for weapon.
any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
He was licensed to carry a weapon.
The true synonym
arm
Same sentence, swapped: He was licensed to carry a arm.
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 weapon in the sentence quoted.
- artillery
- engine
- whip
Where weapon turns up in the game
weapon is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 weapon is the trap
- armnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is branch, in the sense "any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm", and weapon is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play weapon
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so weapon 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 objects at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. weapon carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.