Word Chain Level 285 Answers
The full answer is SUDDEN → DEATH → RATE → CUT → …, with a definition for every word. This chain is longer than the game average of 6.8 words.
Level 285 — 8 Words
Read it left to right: every neighbouring pair makes a compound or a phrase. More chains are in levels 251–300.
Why Each Word Follows the Last
Each pair below is the compound or phrase that joins two neighbours. Spotting one usually gives you the next.
What Each Word Means
Useful when a link looks wrong: a word in a chain is often being used in its second or third sense rather than the obvious one.
Happening quickly and with little or no warning, snell.
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
Having been cut.
In a direction away from the speaker or object.
A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps. Other Levels Jump to a few of the next or previous levels in Word Chain. Previous Levels Level 282 Level 283 Level 284 Next Levels Level 286 Level 287 Level 288 We want to provide as many answers and guides as possible to help you beat