Definitions for Shore

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Shore shore

Spelling: [shawr, shohr]

IPA: /ʃɔr, ʃoʊr/

Shore is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in Shore (ehors).

Definitions for Shore

noun

1. the land along the edge of a sea, lake, broad river, etc.
2. some particular country:
3. land, as opposed to sea or water:
4. Law. the space between the ordinary high-water and low-water mark.
5. a supporting post or beam with auxiliary members, especially one placed obliquely against the side of a building, a ship in drydock, or the like; prop; strut.
6. Jane, 1445?–1527, mistress of Edward IV of England.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or located on land, especially land along the edge of a body of water:

verb (used with object)

1. to support by or as if by a shore or shores; prop (usually followed by up):
2. to threaten (someone).
3. to offer or proffer (something).

Origin of Shore

1300-50; Middle English schore, Old English scora; cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schore; perhaps akin to shear

Examples for Shore

And it has become a go-to stop for Republican politicians eager to shore up their Christian credentials.

He quickly turned the boat to the shore, and the stranger jumped on board.

It would be pleasanter inland, but we must be near the shore, so as to be in sight of ships.

Let us go down to the shore, and see if we can see anything of the ship.

The two bent their steps to the shore, and looked out to sea.

Each of us believes what we choose to believe, and facts have become bricks to shore up the fortress of our own biases.

"If there were any use in wishing, I'd wish myself on shore," said the second.

German artillery chased the landing craft where they milled off shore.

It announced a withdrawal from the French shore due to invincible enemy resistance.

It has taken more than that so far to just relocate the population and shore up the buildings.