tusk

1. 1.

   stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

   “the rhino horned the explorer”

   Synonymshorn

   Broaderpierce
2. 2.

   remove the tusks of animals

   “tusk an elephant”

   Synonymsdetusk

   Broaderremove

Other forms of tusk

plural

tusks·

past tense

tusked·

present participle

tusking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tusk

What does tusk mean?

tusk means "a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tusk?

tusk has 1 syllable: tusk. In IPA it is /ˈtʌsk/.

What is another word for tusk?

Close synonyms include ivory, horn, detusk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tusk a common word?

tusk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.