Usually means: Small mammal with sharp teeth.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. shrew: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shrew: Merriam-Webster
  3. shrew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shrew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shrew: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shrew: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shrew, shrew: Wordnik
  8. shrew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shrew: Wiktionary
  10. shrew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shrew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shrew: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shrew: Dictionary.com
  14. shrew: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Shrew (archetype), Shrew (disambiguation), Shrew (stock character), Shrew: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shrew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shrew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Shrew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. shrew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. shrew: FreeDictionary.org
  21. shrew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. shrew: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. shrew: Rhymezone

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  1. shrew: Legal dictionary

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  1. shrew: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. shrew: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Shrew, shrew: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shrew)

▸ noun:  Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Eulipotyphla).
▸ noun:  Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews.
▸ noun:  (derogatory) An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To beshrew; to curse.

Similar:
shrewmouse, termagant, shrow, soricine, soricomorph, soricid, common shrew, shrew mole, shrew opossum, mole shrew, more...

Opposite:
docile, submissive, compliant, meek

Phrases:
tree shrew, water shrew, common shrew, elephant shrew, pygmy shrew, more...

Adjectives:
tailed, common, old, little, masked, tiny, toothed, pigmy, poor, pestilent, terrible

Colors:
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Similar:
shrewmouse, termagant, shrow, soricine, soricomorph, soricid, common shrew, shrew mole, shrew opossum, mole shrew, more...

Opposite:
docile, submissive, compliant, meek

Phrases:
tree shrew, water shrew, common shrew, elephant shrew, pygmy shrew, masked shrew, musk shrew, least shrew, otter shrew, shrew mole, shrew mouse, Etruscan shrew, mole shrew, short-tailed shrew, short tailed shrew, more...

Adjectives:
tailed, common, old, little, masked, tiny, toothed, pigmy, poor, pestilent, terrible

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     charcoal,     sable,     umber, more...



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