Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wad

3 senses of wad

Sense 1
wad -- (a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter")
       => material, stuff -- (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread")

Sense 2
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad -- ((often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money")
       => large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount -- (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

Sense 3
chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad -- (a wad of something chewable as tobacco)
       => morsel, bit, bite -- (a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb wad

2 senses of wad

Sense 1
pack, bundle, wad, compact -- (compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box")
       => arrange, set up -- (put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order")

Sense 2
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad -- (crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked")
       => stuff -- (cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets")

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