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Synonyms for whip
The synonym for whip recorded in this bank is lash, in the sense "a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object". 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 whip
- lashnoun, in the sense "a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for whip.
a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
The whip raised a red welt.
The true synonym
lash
Same sentence, swapped: The lash raised a red welt.
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.
- boot
- pound
- hammer
Where whip turns up in the game
whip 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 whip is the trap
- weaponnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is arm, in the sense "any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting", and whip is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play whip
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so whip 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 actions at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. whip carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.