Definitions for wolves

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wolves wolves

Spelling: [woo lvz]

IPA: /wʊlvz/

Wolves is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in wolves (elosvw).

Definitions for wolves

noun

1. plural of wolf.
2. any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
3. the fur of such an animal.
4. any of various wolflike animals of different families, as the thylacine.
5. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Lupus.
6. the larva of any of various small insects infesting granaries.
7. a cruelly rapacious person.
8. Informal. a man who makes amorous advances to many women.
9. Music. the harsh discord heard in certain chords of keyboard instruments, especially the organ, when tuned on some system of unequal temperament. a chord or interval in which such a discord appears. (in bowed instruments) a discordant or false vibration in a string due to a defect in structure or adjustment of the instrument.

Idioms

1. cry wolf, to give a false alarm:
2. keep the wolf from the door, to avert poverty or starvation; provide sufficiently for:
3. throw to the wolves. throw (def 57).
4. wolf in sheep's clothing, a person who conceals his or her evil intentions or character beneath an innocent exterior.

verb (used with object)

1. to devour voraciously (often followed by down):

verb (used without object)

1. to hunt for wolves.

Origin of wolves

before 900; Middle English; Old English wulf; cognate with German Wolf, Old Norse ulfr, Gothic wulfs, Polish wilk, Lithuanian vil̃kas, Sanskrit vṛka; akin to Latin lupus, Greek lýkos

Examples for wolves

Yes, they were wolves leaping at the throat of her father, and joying in the defeat of Lucretia.

And so it is Asian British women who are flung to the wolves.

“The dynamic of pushing people further into these wilderness areas is almost like putting out meat for the wolves,” she says.

Down almost to our own day the depredations of wolves were frightful.

“Raised by wolves” tells the story of a traumatic car-bombing in Dublin.

Women were like she wolves for greed when they had a brood of whelps.

I did once see a pack of wolves try to bring down a bison at decade or so ago.

Why should a coyote, who is the least of all wolves, hunt for himself when he can find a man to follow?

wolves or watch-dogs, it was hard to say from which the sheep had most to fear.

Smith, the current police chief, called Lee a “scapegoat” who was “thrown to the wolves” to satisfy political critics.