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LEVERING

8 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

LEVERING 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.

LEVERING root LEVER-ing

Word family

LEVER 2 LEVERS-s 3 LEVERED-ed 5 LIEVER 3
noun
  1. A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
  2. Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
  3. A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a switch or a button).
  4. A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
  5. An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
  6. obsoleteA crowbar.
  7. rareA levee.
verb
  1. transitiveTo move with a lever.
    • With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
  4. UKTo increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
adverb
  1. obsoleteRather.