Definitions for eardrums

eardrums ear·drum

Spelling: [eer-druhm]
IPA: /ˈɪərˌdrʌm/

Eardrums is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in eardrums (ademrrsu).

Definitions for eardrums

noun

  1. a membrane in the ear canal between the external ear and the middle ear; tympanic membrane.

Origin of eardrums

First recorded in 1635-45; ear1 + drum1

Examples for eardrums

When the molecules of air next your ear receive the push they in turn push against your eardrum.

When sounds strike the eardrum it vibrates and excites the nerve of hearing.

Monsieur Le Grand drummed till my own eardrum was nearly cracked.

So do the adjacent molecules of air and so does the eardrum of a listener.

He also failed a drug test and allegedly hit a bouncer so hard he punctured his eardrum.

If a shell goes off too near you and the eardrum suffers, Dr. McKernon will be on the job to find out if he can't make a new one.

Interference with the action of the eardrum may be due to the partial destruction of the drum itself.

As they move away they make a little vacuum there and the eardrum puffs out.

Way back inside the ear is a little curtain, or eardrum, made of a thin membrane.

There was no speckle of light to classify and ignore, no susurrus of air molecules raining against the eardrum.

Word Value for eardrums
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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