2-Letter Words Starting with S

Summoned as a witness

SUBROGATE To put in the place of another; to substitute.

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SUFFOCATE Suffocated; choked.

SULFONATE

Wood that is produced during the latter part of the growing season and is harder and less porous than springwood.

English word

""SUPERPOSE To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.""

Like a mountain goat

Like mountain goats

Descriptive of certain walkers

Overcame (an obstacle)

Overcame

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Dour nurse working for department is besieged by her enemies

Encircled

SYLLOGIZE To reason by means of syllogisms.

Represented; idly emboss (anagram)

SYMBOLIZE To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

Offbeat (wordplay)

Cut short, as rhythm

Unusually stressed church council welcomes chapter and head (slightly later)

SYNOPSIZE

Put the blame on

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

Schnorkel

First grader, for example

First grader, e.g

SCLEROTIZE

English word

Having several parts or members.

Didn't really hit

The wood of the shittah tree.

Like some cats

In need of stenographers

Not having enough staff

Without enough staff

Seen as a shape against a light background

SILICONE a silicon compound

Firework, limited edition, rose high and fast

In Scottish island, plant density shot up

Hammer or Spade

Sherlock, for instance.

Detective with a nose for crime fighting

Sloganeer

Choice meal (wordplay)

Swedish-style hors d'oeuvres

Scandinavian-style buffet

Snapshot

Too compassionate (wordplay)

A bunch of pseuds of the art editor kind

Daftest hero becomes compassionate

Past tense or past participle

SOLUBILISE

SOLUBILIZE

Somerset

""A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; in the United States commonly called dashboard. dashboard.""

Splayfoot

With all eyes watching

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

If you're here, you'll take a dive

Stanchion

Starboard

Defeated and then some

Whupped and then some

Conforming to stock idea

Conforming to a stock image

Tired Tory with deep-set disorder

Used delaying tactics

Held things up

Hindered big-time

Like once-popular jeans

Paralysed by industrial action

Affected by industrial action

EMPLOYED employ

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Sweetened (as a pill)

Made easier to swallow

Made more palatable

""To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn. as, the country superabounds with corn.""

Supercoil

Supercool

Surfboard

Suspicion

Operator's post, once

Manual telephone exchange

Where telephones are connected

SYNONYMIZE To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

A drawing board coated with white clay and a surface layer of black ink that is scratched or scraped away to produce an effect similar to engraving. Also called scraperboard .

SHARECROP

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

SKELETONISE

""SKELETONIZE To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

SOLILOQUISE

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Flipped

Soundproof

A shrub for the huntress

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

Being single could make person do this

Unfeeling - like Olive (wordplay)

Devoid of feeling for others

Feeling callous? Then destroy a settlement

Storyboard

Upset due to threats, but resolute

Courageous, resolute

Courageous

Hulk Hogan's choker (wordplay)

Force that menaces freedom.

Complete power over a situation

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

OPTIMIZED optimize

ORDINATED ordinate

""THRESHOLD The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.""

VOCALIZED vocalize

Placed on top

Set over? Fantastic, I'm ready for my close-up!

Superpower

Drenching my own missis, ridiculous sport

SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

Shuttlecock

As guilty woman dramatically did, walked out

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

""A southeastward direction, point, or region.""

""A southwestward direction, point, or region.""

Solderer worked with metal forced through

Crushed or pushed through with overpowering force

Folly, in essence, with intricately remastered edging, overwhelmed

Stereograph

Player on bench that's got diminished is farmed out elsewhere

Superabound

SUPEROVULATE

Snaggletooth

SPLENECTOMIZE

CATEGORIZED placed in a category.

Superconduct

SENSATIONALISE sensational

SENSATIONALIZE

Upright basketball player (wordplay)

Honest direction (wordplay)

Undemanding, unlike a hooker!