Closer examination revealed that the skull had been crushed by some heavy blow.
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Skull
//ˈskʌl//
Synonyms for "skull" (40 found)
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Strong matches (12)
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1 entriesTranslations
297 translations across 183 languages.
Adyghe
1 entries- шъхьэкъупшъхь noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Afrikaans
1 entries- skedel noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Ainu
1 entries- オナシ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Albanian
1 entries- kafkë noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Amharic
2 entries- የራስ ቅል noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ጭንቅላት noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κρανίον noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Arabic
2 entries- جمجمة noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- جُمْجُمَة noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Aragonese
1 entries- cranio noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Aramaic
2 entries- גולגלתא noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ܩܪܩܦܬܐ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Armenian
1 entries- գանգ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Aromanian
4 entries- cafcalã noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- cafcã noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- cocã noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- craniu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Assamese
1 entries- লাওখোলা noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Asturian
1 entries- craniu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Avar
1 entries- гвангвара noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Aymara
1 entries- amay pekge noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kəllə noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Bashkir
1 entries- баш һөйәге noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Basque
1 entries- burezur noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Bau Bidayuh
1 entries- tikuruok noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Belarusian
1 entries- чэ́рап noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Bengali
1 entries- করোটি noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Breton
1 entries- klopenn noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Bube
1 entries- mötyuèkököra noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Bulgarian
3 entries- глава noun ((figuratively) mind or brain)
- че́реп noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- че́реп noun (death's-head, skull)
Burmese
1 entries- ဦးခွံ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Catalan
1 entries- crani noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Cebuano
2 entries- bagolbagol noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- kalabera noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- کاپۆڵ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Central Melanau
1 entries- abekulou noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏍᎦ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Chinese
2 entries- 頭殼碗 /头壳碗 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- 頭蓋骨 /头盖骨 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 腦殼 /脑壳 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 腦殼 /脑壳 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- 頭蓋骨 /头盖骨 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- 頭骨 /头骨 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- 顱骨 /颅骨 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- tzontecomatl noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Czech
1 entries- lebka noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Danish
3 entries- dødningehoved noun (death's-head, skull)
- kranie noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- kranium noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Dari
1 entries- جُمْجُمَه noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Dhivehi
1 entries- ބޮލުގެ ނާށިގަނޑު noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Dutch
4 entries- cranium noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- doodshoofd noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- doodskop noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- doodskop noun (death's-head, skull)
Egyptian
1 entries- D-n:n:t*tp noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Esperanto
1 entries- kranio noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Estonian
3 entries- kolju noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- kolp noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- pealuu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Farefare
1 entries- zuwaŋrɛ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Faroese
4 entries- heysur noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- skalli noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- skróvbein noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- skøltur noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Finnish
3 entries- kallo noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- pääkallo noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- pääkallo noun (death's-head, skull)
French
1 entries- crâne noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Friulian
1 entries- crepe noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Galician
3 entries- caveira noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- caveira noun (death's-head, skull)
- cranio noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Georgian
3 entries- თავის ქალა noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ქალა noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ქალა noun (death's-head, skull)
German
3 entries- Kranium noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- Schädel noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- Totenkopf noun (death's-head, skull)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌴𐌹 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Greek
2 entries- κρανίο noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- νεκροκεφαλή noun (death's-head, skull)
Greenlandic
1 entries- qaratserfik noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Gujarati
1 entries- ખોપરી noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- zo tèt noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 腦殼 /脑壳 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Hausa
1 entries- kwanyar noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Hawaiian
1 entries- iwi poʻo noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Hebrew
1 entries- גולגולת \ גֻּלְגֹּלֶת noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- bagol noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Hindi
1 entries- कपाल noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Hungarian
2 entries- halálfej noun (death's-head, skull)
- koponya noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Icelandic
2 entries- hauskúpa noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- höfuðkúpa noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Ido
1 entries- kranio noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Igbo
1 entries- okpukpo isi noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Indonesian
3 entries- batok kepala noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- jumjumah noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- tengkorak noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Ingrian
1 entries- pääluu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Interlingua
1 entries- cranio noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- جُمْجُمِه noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- کاسِهخانِهٔ سَر noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- کاسِهٔ سَر noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Irish
4 entries- blaosc noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- blaosc an chinn noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- blaosc an chloiginn noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- cloigeann noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Italian
3 entries- cranio noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- teschio noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- teschio noun (death's-head, skull)
Japanese
3 entries- 頭蓋骨 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- 頭骨 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- 髑髏 noun (death's-head, skull)
Javanese
1 entries- tengkorak noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Kabuverdianu
2 entries- kraniu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- kraniu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Kabyle
1 entries- abbaɣ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Kalmyk
1 entries- һавл noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Kannada
1 entries- ತಲೆಬುರುಡೆ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Kazakh
1 entries- бас сүйек noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- khēukīng noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Khmer
2 entries- លលាដ៍ក្បាល noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- សិរកបាល noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Kinaray-a
1 entries- bagol noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Komi-Permyak
1 entries- юр лы noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Korean
1 entries- 두개골 noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- баш сөөгү noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- баш сөөк noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Lak
1 entries- бакӏрал ттаркӏ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Lao
3 entries- ກະລາ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ກະໂຫລກ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ກະໂຫຼກ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Latgalian
1 entries- čereps noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Latin
3 entries- calva noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- calvāria noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- crānium noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Latvian
3 entries- galvaskauss noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- miroņgalva noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- miroņgalva noun (death's-head, skull)
Lezgi
1 entries- келле noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Limburgish
1 entries- sjeiel noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Lingala
1 entries- ebɛbɛlɛ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kaukolė noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- nop noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Hirschuel noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- Schiedel noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Lü
1 entries- ᦡᦳᧅᧈᦷᦠ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Macedonian
1 entries- череп noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Malagasy
1 entries- karandoha noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Malay
3 entries- batok kepala noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- jumjumah noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- tengkorak noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Malayalam
1 entries- തലയോട്ടി noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Maltese
2 entries- kranju noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- qorriegħa noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Marathi
1 entries- कवटी noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Mon
2 entries- ဂၞာက္ဍဟ် noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- သဳသကပလ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Mongolian
2 entries- гавал noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ᠭᠠᠪᠠᠯᠠ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Māori
4 entries- angaanga noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- korotū noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- papa angaanga noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- pareho noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Nahuatl
1 entries- tzontecomatl noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Nepali
1 entries- खप्पर noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Norman
1 entries- cranne noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
North Frisian
3 entries- Brainkas noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- Haurskrok noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- schäädel noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- kilox noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- dødninghode noun (death's-head, skull)
- hjerneskalle noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- hodeskalle noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- hodeskalle noun (death's-head, skull)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- daudinghovud noun (death's-head, skull)
- daudingskalle noun (death's-head, skull)
- hovudskalle noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- skult noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Occitan
1 entries- cran noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Odia
2 entries- ଖପୁରି noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ମୁଣ୍ଡଖପୁରି noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Ojibwe
1 entries- nishtigwaanigegan noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Old English
2 entries- hēafodbān noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- hēafodpanne noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Old Galician-Portuguese
1 entries- caaveira noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Ossetian
1 entries- сӕргӕхц noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Pangasinan
1 entries- lapislapis noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Pannonian Rusyn
2 entries- лопов noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- лоповик noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Pashto
1 entries- کوپړۍ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schädel noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Polish
1 entries- czaszka noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Portuguese
4 entries- cabeça noun ((figuratively) mind or brain)
- caveira noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- caveira noun (death's-head, skull)
- crânio noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਖੋਪਰੀ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Quechua
1 entries- uma tullu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Romanian
3 entries- craniu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- căpățână noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- țeastă noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Romansch
1 entries- chavazza noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Russian
2 entries- че́реп noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- че́реп noun (death's-head, skull)
Samogitian
1 entries- kramė noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Sanskrit
1 entries- कपाल noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Santali
1 entries- ᱠᱷᱟᱯᱨᱤ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Sardinian
1 entries- cràniu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Saterland Frisian
2 entries- Platte noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- Skedel noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- claigeann noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- lòbanja noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- lùbanja noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ло̀бања noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- лу̀бања noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Shona
1 entries- dehenya noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Sicilian
2 entries- crozza noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- cucuzzuni noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Sinhalese
2 entries- ඔලුව noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- තට්ටය noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Slovak
1 entries- lebka noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Slovene
1 entries- lobanja noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Somali
1 entries- lafmadax noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Southern Altai
2 entries- баштыҥ сӧӧги noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- баштыҥ сӧӧк noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Spanish
4 entries- calaca noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- calavera noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- calavera noun (death's-head, skull)
- cráneo noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Swahili
1 entries- fuvu la kichwa noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Swedish
4 entries- dödskalle noun (death's-head, skull)
- döskalle noun (death's-head, skull)
- kranie noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- kranium noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Tagalog
1 entries- bungo noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Tahitian
1 entries- ʻapuroro noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Tajik
3 entries- косаи сар noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- косахонаи сар noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ҷумҷума noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Tamil
1 entries- தலையோடு noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Taos
1 entries- pʼìtąmúluną noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Tarifit
1 entries- aqešqaš noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Tatar
1 entries- баш сөяге noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Telugu
2 entries- కపాలము noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- పుర్రె noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Thai
1 entries- กะโหลก noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཀ་པ་ལ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Tigrinya
2 entries- ሓምሓም ርእሲ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- ሽክና ርእሲ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Turkish
3 entries- baş kâsesi noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- baş çanağı noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- kafatası noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Turkmen
1 entries- kelleçanak noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Tyap
1 entries- a̱gyigyiek-a̱pyia̱ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Tày
1 entries- búc bẩu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Ukrainian
1 entries- че́реп noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- nop noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Urdu
2 entries- کاسَۂ سَر noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- کَپال noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Uyghur
1 entries- باش سۆڭىكى noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Uzbek
1 entries- bosh suyagi noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Vietnamese
2 entries- sọ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- đầu lâu noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Volapük
1 entries- kran noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Walloon
1 entries- cråne noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Waray-Waray
1 entries- bungo noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Welsh
2 entries- penglog noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- siol noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
West Coast Bajau
1 entries- bengkurung noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
West Flemish
2 entries- dutsekop noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- schedel noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
West-Frisian
3 entries- holleplasse noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- kopbonke noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
- plasse noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
White Hmong
1 entries- pob txha tab hau noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Wolof
1 entries- kaaŋ mi noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Xhosa
1 entries- ukhakayi noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Yiddish
1 entries- שאַרבן noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Yoruba
1 entries- egungun agbárí noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Yucatec Maya
1 entries- tseekʼ noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Yámana
1 entries- taša noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Zhuang
1 entries- ndokgyaeuj noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Zulu
1 entries- ugebhezi noun (bones of the head: cranium and mandible)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
This skull and crossbones was named based on the world-famous Captain Kidd who was active in late 17th century Britain.
Source: tatoeba (329455)
Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.
Source: tatoeba (1167124)
The human skull consists of 23 bones.
Source: tatoeba (1511996)
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