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matchwood

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted acdhmootwStarts with MEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. fragments of wood

Word origin

From match + wood.

Used in a sentence

  • The great stick was torn from his grasp and broken in two as though it had been matchwood, to be flung aside as the now infuriated beast charged for his adversary’s throat.
  • The walls were as thin as matchwood, and to hide the cracks they had been covered with layer after layer of pink paper, which had come loose and housed innumerable bugs.
  • The prison at Omsk, which had known Dostoyevsky, was not like any old Gulag transit prison, hastily knocked together from matchwood.

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