Definitions For Cradle

noun

  • A baby bed with sides and rockers
  • A trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
  • Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
  • Birth of a person
  • A bed for a baby that is usually designed to rock back and forth when pushed gently
  • The place where something begins
  • Something that is used to hold or support something else

verb

  • Run with the stick
  • Hold gently and carefully
  • Wash in a cradle
  • Cut grain with a cradle scythe
  • Hold or place in or as if in a cradle
  • Bring up from infancy
  • To hold (something or someone) gently in your arms or hands

Is Cradles a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
12

The word Cradle is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Cradle in a Sentence

  • She placed the phone back on its cradle.
  • A number of ships were resting in their cradles in the shipyard.
  • He cradled her face in his hands.
  • She was cradling the injured man's head in her arms.

Synonyms for Cradle

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