gravel
Meaning of gravel
noun
- Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
- A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
- A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
- Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
- To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
- To puzzle or annoy
- To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
- To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
- To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
Information about gravel
- The plural form of gravel is: gravels.
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Hyphenation of gravel
gravel
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- gravel is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
gravel synonyms
Meaning grating:
grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy
Meaning annoy:
annoy, rag, bother, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, vex, chafe, devil
Meaning perplex:
perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, amaze, dumbfound
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Translation of gravel
- German: stören, ärgern, ausmachen, Kies, nerven, verärgern
- Spanish: alterar, perturbar, grava, molestar, fastidiar, importunar, irritar, incomodar
- French: gravier, importuner
- Italian: ghiaia, infastidire, scomodare, importunare
- Portuguese: cascalho, incomodar
Anagrams of gravel
Words that rhyme with gravel
cascavel, cavel, scavel, rondavel, curryfavel, favel, disgavel, gavel, Havel, chavel, havel, Machiavel, machiavel, javel, clavel, gomavel, Kanavel, manavel, navel, snavel, Pavel, espavel, Ravel, bedravel, betravel, caravel, outtravel, overtravel, pretravel, protravel, ravel, regravel, retravel, semigravel, travel, unravel, Tavel
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