Phonetics:
Meanings:
noun
Definition: A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
Definition: Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer’s antlers.
Definition: A female chinchilla; a sow.
Definition: The drug dextromethorphan.
Definition: Money acquired by gambling.
verb
Definition: To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
Definition: To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
Definition: To remove the velvet from a deer’s antlers.
Definition: To soften; to mitigate.
Definition: (of a cat’s claws) to retract.
adjective
Definition: Made of velvet.
Definition: Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
Definition: Peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.