Contact and joining
Synonyms for whittle
The synonym for whittle recorded in this bank is pare, in the sense "cut small bits or pare shavings from". 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 whittle
- pareverb, in the sense "cut small bits or pare shavings from"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for whittle.
cut small bits or pare shavings from
Whittle a piece of wood.
The true synonym
pare
Same sentence, swapped: Pare a piece of wood.
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.
- undercut
- tomahawk
- steel
Where whittle turns up in the game
whittle is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 whittle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so whittle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. whittle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.