Definitions for marrow

marrow mar·row

Spelling: [mar-oh]
IPA: /ˈmær oʊ/

Marrow is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in marrow (amorrw).

Definitions for marrow

noun

  1. Anatomy. a soft, fatty, vascular tissue in the interior cavities of bones that is a major site of blood cell production.
  2. the inmost or essential part:
  3. strength or vitality:
  4. rich and nutritious food.
  5. Chiefly British. vegetable marrow.
  6. a partner; fellow worker.
  7. a spouse; helpmate.
  8. a companion; close friend.

Origin of marrow

before 900; Middle English mar(o)we, Old English mearg; cognate with Dutch merg, German Mark, Old Norse mergr

Examples for marrow

When she pressed a little she felt she distinguished the suffering cries of the marrow.

Unlike donors of vital organs like kidneys, marrow donors can give again and again.

The first principle of all of them was the generation of the marrow.

For, as the poet Bialik said in another context, it is we who will pay the price of the blaze with our blood and marrow.

Lambert did some hard thinking for a little while, so hard that it wrenched him to the marrow.

Those times when I realize I am alone with myself and my thoughts I do take the time to suck the marrow out of it.

The bone was formed by sifting pure smooth earth and wetting it with marrow.

Worst of all and most fatal is the disease of the marrow, by which the whole course of the body is reversed.

It is the pith and marrow of every substance, every relation, and every process.

Mr. Thoreau wanted to drive life into a corner, to live deep and suck out all the marrow.

Word Value for marrow
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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