2-Letter Words Starting with S

To the rear

Supervised, as a kitchen.

Managed

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

With a plug

One of today's leading playwrights reportedly blocked at the opening

Was on both sides!

Took an equivocal position Colloq.

Took an equivocal position: Colloq.

Wandered from the direct course

Wandered off.

Leader of tour intercepting hapless laggers who'd ultimately wandered from group

Choked to death

What Othello did to Desdemona

Choked and killed

Stravage

It holds water

It holds running water

Rock locale

Extended, one's limbs perhaps

Like some truths

Extended in time or space

Strickle

Had difficulty (with)

Found the going tough

Made violent efforts.

Sang 'My Generation,' say

Sang "My Generation," say

Good man spoke - with hesitation!

Suberise

Suberize

Underwater mud grebes churned up

Completely covered by liquid

Under water

Developing buds seem to have resistance under water

PERIOD to put an end to

Subserve

Undermined

Comforted, having been duped by The Voice

Sounds as if one has helped to have removed shoots on the side

Stop man at newspaper being fumigated

Red from rays

Bright red in summer

Suffering from overexposure to the source of light

Environmental program since 1980

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Took sides with

Bolstered up

Bolstered, sustained

Came to an end

Drew to a close

Discontinued

On which to have a swell time (wordplay)

On which to make waves (wordplay)

On which to rule the waves (wordplay)

Overfed fruit seed, possibly

Hear master had a seizure, having overindulged

Refused it anyway, having had more than enough

Did better than

Did better to dress up as arranged

Idiot introduced to silly prudes excelled

Is that what you expected (wordplay)

One thing one doesn't expect to be

Shocked by teacher valued in hearing

Surprize

Sashayed or strutted

Did Ed swear and boast about the horse (wordplay)

Walked pompously

E.g. bloody weapon put over wardrobe

Curse deterioration in a weapon

Censor's target

Suffered from great heat

Suffered from excessive heat

Felt the heat

Pig's head (wordplay)

Gurth, in "Ivanhoe"

Tender of pigs

Swither

Given up for the greater good

Acted unselfishly

Gave up

SADDLE to put a leather seat for a rider on a horse

Scabbard

Conductor's stand (wordplay)

Jazz performance display (wordplay)

Ball park feature.

""Of or belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidei, which includes the scorpion fishes and rockfishes.""

Scouther

The movie industry; Hollywood.

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Scrootch

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

With fine and regular features, son grew to assume power

Carved

Chiseled

Thus kept a part as one

Gets agreed damages set aside

Gets agreed alternative set aside

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

SACRED consecrated or holy

""SEPULCHRE The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.""

Top player pocketing Arab cash is in parts

SERIALIZE

Spoke from the pulpit

Preached

Emulated Bo-Peep

Tended sheep

Escorted

Squeezed (into)

Bobby's favorite snack (wordplay)

Rich crumbly biscuit

Lorna Doone makeup

Took on (a burden)

Took, as with a burden

Perforated part of a bathroom fitting

Certain water dispenser

Bathtub fixture

I have two lines in small part as an old man (wordplay)

Past tense or past participle

A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath. Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

Women with similar habits (wordplay)

Kinship between women

Community of nuns

Participate in the X Games, perhaps

Teen's transportation, perhaps

Rage created in "Back to the Future"

Engaged in a minor conflict

Slipform

""A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.""

Society decayed and harboured bad emotions

Staid

Somerset

Afflicted with migraine.

A soundingboard.

Made a mess, maybe

Splashed (all over the place)

Sloshed water on.

Cracked lips, tender perhaps

Broke into small, sharp pieces

Fragmented

Records spinning, said remarks thus indistinct (wordplay)

Struggled to get words out when rushed to grasp line, say

SPORULATE

A fountain or source.

""Young, usually soft wood that lies directly beneath the bark and develops in early spring.""

Spurgall

Formed defense groups, of a sort

Played ducks and drakes with

Frittered away

Recklessly wasted

Squatter

Stored up for future use Colloq.

Stored up for future use: Colloq.

Stashed (away).

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

Worked the docks

Cut off, in a way

Held up by weather.

Cut off by the elements.

Plot device (wordplay)

Director's device

Lie on table to make an outline

Straight

Distressed when pressed to accept a note

Like some circumstances

Characterized by poverty

Stranger

Formed in layers

Arranged in layers

Stone cut, formally approved, and arranged in layers

Stravaig

Keep firm grip

Defensive position taken by a wrestler

Fastness of dogs left North exhausted

Built up

Made up

Organized

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

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

Gave money (to a project)

Contributed money

Journalist's taken leaflet away

Paper is after loan before editor's removed

FARMED OUT WORK

It's taken away from rough brute's hand

""SULFURET to treat with sulfur, also SULPHURET""

SULFURIZE

Put briefly, tot gets angry when about to get out of bed

Did a quick recap of

Digested

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

Superadd

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SUPERCEDE

Helium alone can be this; or Coca-Cola, according to some (wordplay)

SUPERHYPE

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

Supplanted.

Like orders of magnitude (wordplay)

Larger than large

Enlarged, as an order of fries

SUPERVENE To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

""SUPERVISE To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.""

Didn't think about

Drink and jam gets journalist censored

Inhibited

""SUPPURATE To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates. as, a boil or abscess suppurates.""

""SURCHARGE To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.""

Like a mountain goat

Like mountain goats

Descriptive of certain walkers

Overcame (an obstacle)

Overcame

Surprint

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Dour nurse working for department is besieged by her enemies

Encircled

Surveil

Sugar-loaf (wordplay)

Pancreas (as food)

Baked thymus (wordplay)

Power-station area

Protected

Smoothed, as a wooden surface

Got ready to put on a new coat

Smoothed, as wood

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

Schnorkel

SCLEROTIZE

Scrimshaw

SCRUTINISE

""SCRUTINIZE To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.""

SECULARISE

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

SECURITIZE

Not quite out to pasture

Like many senior part-timers

Like some seniors in the workplace

Sepulcher

In seclusion

Isolated flare up disrupted by expedition

Secluded

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Having several parts or members.

Stranded, in a way

Mainly ruined

Like some cats

In need of stenographers

Not having enough staff

Without enough staff

Diverted from the main issue.

Thrown off course

Shunted (wordplay)

Firework, limited edition, rose high and fast

In Scottish island, plant density shot up

Killed

SLENDERIZE

Sloganeer

Choice meal (wordplay)

Swedish-style hors d'oeuvres

Scandinavian-style buffet

Too compassionate (wordplay)

A bunch of pseuds of the art editor kind

Daftest hero becomes compassionate

Somerset

Spearfish

Initiated, as an undertaking

Took the lead, as in a campaign.

Pioneered, as a movement

""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.""

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

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

Protected from fire by a water system.

Protected from fire by a water system

Squirrel

Starboard

Defeated and then some

Whupped and then some

Conforming to stock idea

Conforming to a stock image

Tired Tory with deep-set disorder

Like a bluenose.

Having strict morals

Prudish and appallingly clad artiste

STRATEGIZE

Up-to-date

Efficient when dealing with derailments

Efficient way to sort out derailments

Made a shrill sound, as katydids, crickets, etc.

Paralysed by industrial action

Affected by industrial action

CULTURED culture

Not good enough!

Inferior underwater vehicle ideal

Falling short of some prescribed norm

Sweetened (as a pill)

Made easier to swallow

Made more palatable

Sulfuret

SULPHURISE

""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

Past tense or past participle

With temperature raised to excess

Be responsible for the management of

Manage when turnips need cooking

Control, manage

Surfboard

Almost convinced, melted and yielded to temptation

Carriage mostly stopped, carried on, gave up

Gave in

Suspender

Operator's post, once

Manual telephone exchange

Where telephones are connected

SYMMETRIZE To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

""-fies , -fying , -fied (Chemistry) (tr) to convert (starch) into sugar saccharification  , saccharization , saccharisation n""

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 .

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

SHARECROP

SHIRTSLEEVE

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

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Slipstream

Flipped

Soundproof