bristled
Meaning of bristled
verb
- To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
- Abound, to have an abundance of something
- (with at) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
The employees bristled at the prospect of working through the holidays.
- To fix a bristle to.
to bristle a thread
adjective
Having bristles
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Hyphenation of bristled
bris-tled
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- bristled is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
bristled synonyms
Meaning barbed:
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
Anagrams of bristled
Words that rhyme with bristled
beetled, retled, betitled, cuitled, disentitled, entitled, intitled, mistitled, nontitled, preentitled, retitled, subentitled, subtitled, titled, unentitled, unintitled, untitled, cantled, disgruntled, dismantled, gentled, gruntled, immantled, mantled, outmantled, scantled, scintled, skintled, undismantled, ungentled, unmantled, wintled, footled, rootled, tootled, chortled, dartled, hurtled, kirtled, outstartled, snirtled, spartled, startled, turtled, unstartled, brustled, bustled, castled, epistled, hustled
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