Definitions for extremities

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extremities ex·trem·i·ty

Spelling: [ik-strem-i-tee]

IPA: /ɪkˈstrɛm ɪ ti/

Extremities is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 319 anagrams from letters in extremities (eeeiimrsttx).

Definitions for extremities

noun

1. the extreme or terminal point, limit, or part of something.
2. a limb of the body.
3. Usually, extremities. the end part of a limb, as a hand or foot:
4. Often, extremities. a condition or circumstance of extreme need, distress, etc.:
5. the utmost or any extreme degree:
6. an extreme or extraordinary measure, act, etc.:
7. extreme nature or character:
8. Archaic. a person's last moment before death.

Origin of extremities

First recorded in 1325-75; Middle English word from Latin word extrēmitās. See extreme, -ity

Examples for extremities

This was all the old hen needed to drive her to extremities.

I don't know how long I was in there: When I got out all my extremities were numb and I couldn't move.

One had been shot in the face and extremities, while another was shot in the stomach and a third was being evaluated.

A most condemnatory glance at my extremities accompanied this speech.

If the head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short.

Though when weakness does find its way into the extremities it is usually worse in the legs than the arms.

At the two extremities of European thought the lyre has raised two vast cities.

They may be very serious if they push the city to extremities.

Then she burst forth, with the growl of a slave driven to extremities.

Yet here, too, there was an evident shrinking from extremities.