blackening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: darkening |
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blacking | (noun) a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear | Synonyms: shoe polish |
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blacktopping | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktop |
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blancmange | (noun) sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded | - |
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blaring | (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, cacophony, clamor, din |
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blazing | (noun) a strong flame that burns brightly | Synonyms: blaze |
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bleeding | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: haemorrhage, hemorrhage |
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blending | (noun) a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades | Synonyms: shading |
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(noun) the act of blending components together thoroughly | Synonyms: blend |
blessing | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
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(noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, approving |
(noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
(noun) a short prayer of thanks before a meal | Synonyms: grace, thanksgiving |
(noun) a desirable state | Synonyms: boon |
bling | (noun) flashy, ostentatious jewelry | Synonyms: bling bling |
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blinking | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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blistering | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
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blocking | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: block |
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bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
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(noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
blooming | (noun) the organic process of bearing flowers | Synonyms: bloom |
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blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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blowbang | (noun) A sexual activity where fellatio is performed on multiple men | - |
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blowing | (noun) processing that involves blowing a gas | - |
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blueing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: bluing |
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(noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, bluing |
bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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bluing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: blueing |
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(noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, blueing |
boarding | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: embarkation, embarkment |
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(noun) a structure of boards | - |
boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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boasting | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, jactitation, self-praise |
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boating | (noun) water travel for pleasure | Synonyms: yachting |
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bobsledding | (noun) riding on a bobsled | - |
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boding | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: foreboding, premonition, presentiment |
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bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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boiling | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: simmering, stewing |
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(noun) the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas | - |
bombing | (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombardment |
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(noun) the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists | - |
bonding | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: soldering |
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(noun) (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel | - |
(noun) a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child) | - |
bong | (noun) a dull resonant sound as of a bell | - |
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bongo | (noun) large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns | Synonyms: Boocercus eurycerus, Tragelaphus eurycerus |
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(noun) a small drum; played with the hands | Synonyms: bongo drum |
bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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booking | (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: reservation |
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(noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: engagement |
bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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boomerang | (noun) a miscalculation that recoils on its maker | Synonyms: backfire |
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(noun) a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower | Synonyms: throw stick, throwing stick |
bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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(noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
booyong | (noun) large tree of Australasia | Synonyms: brown oak, crow's foot, Heritiera trifoliolata, red beech, silky elm, stave wood, Terrietia trifoliolata |
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boozing | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: crapulence, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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boring | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: drilling, oil production |
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(noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: drilling |
boringness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: dreariness, insipidity, insipidness |
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borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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(noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
bouncing | (noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bounce |
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bowing | (noun) managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument | - |
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(noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, obeisance |
bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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(noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
(noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
bowstring | (noun) the string of an archer's bow | - |
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boxing | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, pugilism |
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(noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: packing |
bracing | (noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: brace |
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bragging | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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braiding | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braid, gold braid |
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brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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branching | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
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branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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breathing | (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
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breeding | (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
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(noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
(noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization | - |
(noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: education, training |
(noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: genteelness, gentility |
brewing | (noun) the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast | - |
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bricklaying | (noun) the craft of laying bricks | - |
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briefing | (noun) detailed instructions, as for a military operation | - |
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bringing | (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: delivery |
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brisling | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: Clupea sprattus, sprat |
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(noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: sprat |
broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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(noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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(noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
(noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
broiling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, grilling |
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brooding | (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: pensiveness |
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(noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: incubation |
browning | (noun) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | Synonyms: toasting |
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browsing | (noun) the act of feeding by continual nibbling | Synonyms: browse |
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(noun) reading superficially or at random | Synonyms: browse |
brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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(noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
buccaneering | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: piracy |
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budding | (noun) reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent | - |
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buffeting | (noun) repeated heavy blows | Synonyms: pounding |
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building | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: construction |
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(noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: construction |
(noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: edifice |
(noun) the occupants of a building | - |
bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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bullring | (noun) a stadium where bullfights take place | - |
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bullying | (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: intimidation |
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bundling | (noun) the act of binding something into a bundle | - |
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(noun) the act of shoving hastily | - |
(noun) a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing | - |
bung | (noun) a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask | Synonyms: spile |
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bungalow | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: cottage |
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bungee | (noun) an elasticized rope | Synonyms: bungee cord |
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bunghole | (noun) a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it | - |
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(noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, arsehole, asshole |
bungle | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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bungler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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bunting | (noun) any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America | - |
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(noun) a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. | - |
burning | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: combustion |
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(noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: electrocution |
(noun) execution by fire | Synonyms: burning at the stake |
(noun) a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin | - |
(noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: combustion |
(noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burn |
burping | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, eructation |
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burrawong | (noun) large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales | Synonyms: Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis |
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burying | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burial |
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bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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(noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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buying | (noun) the act of buying | Synonyms: purchasing |
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cabinetmaking | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: joinery |
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cairngorm | (noun) a smoky yellow or brown quartz | Synonyms: smoky quartz |
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