Tuck

/tʌk/

Synonyms for "tuck" (89 found)

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Closest matches (18)

Noun(9 words)

ball positionbend blouses blousing conceal crease curl dart darts

banquet birr bread chow crease creasing crimp crisp

Verb(1 words)

bloused

Strong matches (27)

Noun(4 words)

dig infetal positionfold food

dog-ear doubledouble overdoubling duplicature eats energy enfold feed flection flexure flounce flute foil foldfold overfood frill gather go

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grub hardihood

Verb(1 words)

gather

Related words (44)

infold interfoldlap overlapel lappet meat moxie pep plait plat pleat plica plicate plication plicature ply potency provender quill ruche

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ruching ruff ruffle scoff swordturn overtwill vigor

Noun(11 words)

insert pleat pleats pocket rapier secure store stowtucked posetuckeringwaist gather

Verb(5 words)

insert nestle pleated pocketed pucker

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More general

36 entries

attitude bladebody positionbrandclose incomestible conceal eat eatable edible enclosefabric featurefoldfold upgarment feature

Showing 16 of 36 words.

More specific

13 entries

box tuckknife tuckpike positionpin tuckstowtuck awaytuck divetuck intuck into foodtuck into mealtuck jumptuck positiontuck roll

Collocations

11 entries

box tuckknife tuckpin tucktuck awaytuck intuck intotuck jumptuck positiontuck shoptuck undertuck up

Inflections

3 entries

tucked tucking tucks

Derivations

5 entries

tuckage tucker tucking untuck untucked

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

At night, parents tuck their children into bed.

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Tuck your shirt in.

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I tuck my children into bed every night.

Source: tatoeba (3617518)

Can you tuck me in?

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