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BASTILLE
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TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
11
pts
Big
11
pts
Super Big
11
pts
BASTILLE is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.
Word family
noun
- Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.
- figurativelyA jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.
- UKderogatoryfigurativelySynonym of workhouse (“an institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work”).
- historicalThe fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; also, any of the buildings in such an encampment.
verb
- alsofigurativelytransitiveTo confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.