felt

About 134.59 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
2. noun A hat made of felt.
3. noun A felt-tip pen.
4. noun A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
5. verb To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
6. verb To cover with, or as if with, felt.

   to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

7. verb To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
8. verb To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).

Similar words

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Often followed by

that the a like as it in to by

Word family

feel felted felting feltlike felts