Definitions for towel

towel tow·el

Spelling: [tou-uh l, toul]
IPA: /ˈtaʊ əl, taʊl/

Towel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in towel (elotw).

Definitions for towel

noun

  1. an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.

Idioms

  1. throw in the towel, Informal. to concede defeat; give up; yield:

verb (used with object)

  1. to wipe or dry with a towel.

Origin of towel

1250-1300; Middle English (noun) Old French toaille cloth for washing or wiping West Germanic *thwahliō (> Old High German dwahilla, akin to dwahal bath); cognate with Gothic thwahl, thwēa

Examples for towel

The cyclist had turned the heads of the women in the dorm on his way back from the showers, wearing just a towel.

Robin Williams was on his way to the showers down the hall, wearing a white t-shirt and a towel over his shoulder.

Joe answered with a grating laugh, and then with a burr he applied a towel to his face.

He had as little occasion for a towel as Jonas had for a start.

Briskly rubbing his gray head with a towel, he was eyeing my evening clothes.

“They would bend my head back, put a towel over my face and pour water over the towel,” Harrison was quoted as saying.

Inside the bag, a second body was naked, wrapped in a towel, and almost decapitated.

Mr Sweedlepipe turned aside to the towel, and wiped his eyes with it.

"Damn, my hands are wet," he said aloud, and picked up a towel.

A naked dancer held a towel around his waist as he slicks back his hair in the ladies toilets.

Word Value for towel
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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