tucked
verbHow many syllables in tucked?
There are 2 syllables in the word tucked.How to pronounce tucked:
Definition of tucked:
- tucked (verb):
- to push in the loose end of so as to hold tightly
- to thrust the loose ends or sides of (something) into a confining space, so as to make it neat and secure
Synonyms for tucked:
chew
chow (down on)
consume
devour
ease
eat
gnaw (at or on)
gobble (up or down)
ingest
insert
lick
mouth (down)
nibble (on)
partake (of)
pick (at)
pop
push
put away
put down
slip
stick
stuff
Antonyms for tucked:
expanded
spread
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- scatters
- garnished
- fostered
- tollgates
- nelly
- deserves
- amoke
- wielding
- oking
- expel
- achroite
- whipstock
- spouting
- scuffing
- refilled
- ootid
- questions
- hitchhike
- handing
- cranking
- chummy
- arent
- dislodged
- discharged
- trellis
- softy
- nary
- frolics
- butting
- snorted
- saddling
- blaspheme
- uptight
- surger
- portend
- lightless
- tawdry
- tailspin
- hilly
- grayness
- downstream
- Amzi
- plugging
- phobic
- hoarfrost
- sauntered
- clipboard
- owes
- t-shirt
- preplan
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