Definitions for fissure

fissure fis·sure

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IPA: /ˈfɪʃ ər/

Fissure is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in fissure (efirssu).

Definitions for fissure

noun

  1. a narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts.
  2. cleavage (def 1).
  3. Anatomy. a natural division or groove in an organ, as in the brain.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make fissures in; cleave; split.

verb (used without object)

  1. to open in fissures; become split.

Origin of fissure

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin fissūra cleaving, cleft, fissure, equivalent to fiss(us) divided (see fissi-) + -ūra -ure

Examples for fissure

She peered into the shadowy gulf, but could not see the bottom of the fissure.

It did not require long to find a spot where the fissure was easily leaped.

The least fissure in the latter would have inundated the channel.

He walked and walked, and came to a hill: in that hill was a fissure, and in the fissure stood a hut.

The other had already disappeared; or else was killed, and had fallen down some fissure.

From his position he could see about all there was to be seen in the fissure.

It is the sound of our souls escaping from some fissure of the brain.

But both sides of this American fissure create a life lived less than fully.

Once opened, this fissure between internal and external splits Hemon apart, giving him, effectively, double lives.

In Fig. 16 is shown a front view of the blossom, showing this fissure.

Word Value for fissure
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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