Crossword-Solution: STRUM 5 letters, 158 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Strum	v. t. & i.	To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STRUM	anagram	STURM

We have 158 clues for the answer “STRUM”

Clue	Answers
A way to play	1 answer
Act the harpist	1 answer
Act the troubadour	1 answer
Alternative to picking	1 answer
Alternative to picking, as a guitar	1 answer
Apt word found in "instrument"	1 answer
Banjo beat	1 answer
Brush strings	1 answer
Choose not to pick?	1 answer
Dabble on a uke	1 answer
Dabble on the uke	1 answer
Doodle on the guitar	1 answer
Emulate Roy Clark	1 answer
Fiddle with a guitar	1 answer
Fiddle with a lute, say	1 answer
Fiddle with a uke	1 answer
Finger the strings	1 answer
Finger the strings of	1 answer
Fool around with a guitar	1 answer
Guitar stroke	1 answer
Hit strings	1 answer
Hum's partner	1 answer
Make a banjo heard	1 answer
Make like a banjoist	1 answer
Make some dulcimer music	1 answer
Neither bow nor pick	1 answer
Noodle on a banjo	1 answer
Noodle on a guitar	1 answer
Not be picky with a guitar?	1 answer
Not be picky with an instrument?	1 answer
Not pick?	1 answer
Old name for Salisbury, England.	1 answer
One way to play a guitar	1 answer
Opt against picking, maybe	1 answer
Opt not to pick?	1 answer
PLAY guitar strings	1 answer
PLAY idly	1 answer
Pick alternative	1 answer
Play a Stratocaster	1 answer
Play a balalaika	1 answer
Play a banjo	1 answer
Play a dulcimer, say	1 answer
Play a guitar	1 answer
Play a guitar ballad, perhaps	1 answer
Play a guitar casually	1 answer
Play a guitar lightly	1 answer
Play a guitar, say	1 answer
Play a mandolin	1 answer
Play a musical instrument.	1 answer
Play a piano unskillfully.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TRAEE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with STRUM (5)

The person in most esteem among them is invariably the greatest _majo_, and to acquire that character it is necessary to appear in the dress of a Merry Andrew, to bully, swagger, and smoke continually, to dance passably, and to strum the guitar.

The Zincali George Borrow 2019

Accordingly, having armed himself with a native zither, on which, being an adept with the light guitar, he had easily learned to strum, he proceeded at midnight—the fashionable hour for this sort of caterwauling—to make night hideous with his amorous yells.

Allan Quatermain H. Rider Haggard 1996

Sing ‘Dites, la jeune belle!’ It will compose your spirits, Elvira, I am sure.” And without waiting an answer he began to strum the symphony.

New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1997

Nay, the good ladies would sit and be delighted with the music of the Miss Lambs, who would condescend to strum an Irish melody for them on the piano; and they would listen with wonderful interest to Mrs.

Little Britain Washington Irving 1997

Still my own wishes were not allowed to weigh in the matter, for there came to me tutors, aged men who might have found better employment, to instruct me in the use of the lute, and on this instrument I must learn to strum.

Montezuma’s Daughter H. Rider Haggard 1999

Quotes with STRUM (3)

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

Christina Westover

When boys called Bob and Bono would bring their own wild-rhythm celebration and the world would fall down in worshipful hallelujahs as it again acknowledged Ireland's capacity to create missionaries. So what if they were "the boys in the band"? They sang from a pulpit, an enormous pulpit looking down on a congregation that would knock your eyes out. A city that had produced Joyce and Beckett and Yeats, a country that had produced poet-heroes and more priests and nuns per head…

Josephine Hart The truth about love

There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and shadow, where a combination of fate and decision can define a family's legacy.

Nancy Young Strum

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 245 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).