| bray | (verb) laugh loudly and harshly | - |
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| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash |
| (verb) braying characteristic of donkeys | Synonyms: hee-haw |
| braze | (verb) solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point | - |
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| brazen | (verb) face with defiance or impudence | - |
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| breach | (verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: gap |
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| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| bread | (verb) cover with bread crumbs | - |
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| break | (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: fracture |
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| (verb) weaken or destroy in spirit or body | - |
| (verb) diminish or discontinue abruptly | - |
| (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments | Synonyms: come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: develop, recrudesce |
| (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break off, discontinue, stop |
| (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: interrupt |
| (verb) come into being | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) render inoperable or ineffective | - |
| (verb) crack; of the male voice in puberty | - |
| (verb) fall sharply | - |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: damp, dampen, soften, weaken |
| (verb) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments | - |
| (verb) make submissive, obedient, or useful | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) be broken in | - |
| (verb) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another | - |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: check, crack |
| (verb) find the solution or key to | - |
| (verb) find a flaw in | - |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: intermit, pause |
| (verb) be released or become known; of news | Synonyms: get around, get out |
| (verb) undergo breaking | - |
| (verb) interrupt the flow of current in | - |
| (verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: better |
| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: bust, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| (verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) separate from a clinch, in boxing | - |
| (verb) break a piece from a whole | Synonyms: break off, snap off |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate | - |
| (verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) exchange for smaller units of money | - |
| (verb) become punctured or penetrated | - |
| (verb) make the opening shot that scatters the balls | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: burst, erupt |
| (verb) do a break dance | Synonyms: break-dance, break dance |
| (verb) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves | - |
| (verb) move away or escape suddenly | Synonyms: break away, break out |
| (verb) scatter or part | - |
| (verb) emerge from the surface of a body of water | - |
| (verb) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing | - |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way |
| (verb) change directions suddenly | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, ruin, smash |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| (verb) interrupt a continued activity | Synonyms: break away |
| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
| (verb) cause the failure or ruin of | - |
| (verb) invalidate by judicial action | - |
| (verb) enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break up, part, separate, split, split up |
| (verb) happen or take place | - |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: go against, violate |
| (verb) give up | - |
| (verb) cause to give up a habit | - |
| (verb) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity | - |
| (verb) come forth or begin from a state of latency | - |
| (verb) come to an end | - |
| breakfast | (verb) eat an early morning meal | - |
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| (verb) provide breakfast for | - |
| bream | (verb) clean (a ship's bottom) with heat | - |
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| breast | (verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: front |
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| (verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: summit |
| (verb) meet at breast level | - |
| breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| breaststroke | (verb) swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg | - |
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| breathalyse | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyze |
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| breathalyze | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyse |
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| breathe | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: emit, pass off |
| (verb) reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked | - |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather |
| (verb) utter or tell | - |
| (verb) manifest or evince | - |
| (verb) impart as if by breathing | - |
| (verb) be alive | - |
| (verb) allow the passage of air through | - |
| brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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| (verb) form into breccia | - |
| breed | (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: multiply |
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| (verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: cover |
| (verb) cause to procreate (animals) | - |
| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: engender, spawn |
| breeze | (verb) to proceed quickly and easily | - |
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| (verb) blow gently and lightly | - |
| brevet | (verb) promote somebody by brevet, in the military | - |
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| brew | (verb) sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor | - |
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| (verb) prepare by brewing | - |
| bribe | (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: buy, corrupt, grease one's palms |
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| brick | (verb) To stop working (of an electronic device) | - |
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| bridge | (verb) make a bridge across | - |
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| (verb) cross over on a bridge | - |
| (verb) connect or reduce the distance between | Synonyms: bridge over |
| bridle | (verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
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| (verb) put a bridle on | - |
| (verb) anger or take offense | - |
| brief | (verb) give essential information to someone | - |
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| brigade | (verb) form or unite into a brigade | - |
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| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| brim | (verb) fill as much as possible | - |
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| (verb) be completely full | - |
| brine | (verb) soak in brine | - |
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| bring | (verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: land |
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| (verb) induce or persuade | - |
| (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: convey, fetch, get |
| (verb) be accompanied by | - |
| (verb) cause to come into a particular state or condition | - |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: make for, play, work, wreak |
| (verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: institute |
| (verb) attract the attention of | - |
| (verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | Synonyms: convey, take |
| (verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring in, fetch |
| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, contribute, impart, lend |
| brisk | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk up, brisken |
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| brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
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| bristle | (verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
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| (verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
| (verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
| broach | (verb) bring up a topic for discussion | Synonyms: initiate |
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| broadcast | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, send, transmit |
| (verb) sow over a wide area, especially by hand | - |
| broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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| (verb) make broader | - |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
| (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
| broadside | (verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
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| brocade | (verb) weave a design into (textiles) | - |
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| broider | (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: embroider |
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| broil | (verb) cook under a broiler | Synonyms: oven broil |
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| (verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: bake |
| (verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: bake |
| broker | (verb) act as a broker | - |
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| bromate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
| brominate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
| bronze | (verb) get a tan, from wind or sun | Synonyms: tan |
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| (verb) give the color and appearance of bronze to something | - |
| brooch | (verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: clasp |
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| brood | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: cover, hatch, incubate |
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| (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: dwell |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: grizzle, stew |
| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: pout, sulk |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: bulk large, hover, loom |
| brook | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| broom | (verb) sweep with a broom or as if with a broom | Synonyms: sweep |
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| (verb) finish with a broom | - |
| browbeat | (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: bully, swagger |
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| (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
| brown | (verb) fry in a pan until it changes color | - |
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| (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: embrown |
| browse | (verb) eat lightly, try different dishes | Synonyms: graze |
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| (verb) look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular | Synonyms: surf |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: crop, graze, pasture, range |
| (verb) shop around; not necessarily buying | Synonyms: shop |
| bruise | (verb) damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure | - |
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| (verb) break up into small pieces for food preparation | - |
| (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: contuse |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound |
| bruit | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
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| brunch | (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
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| brush | (verb) remove with or as if with a brush | - |
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| (verb) touch lightly and briefly | - |
| (verb) rub with a brush, or as if with a brush | - |
| (verb) clean with a brush | - |
| (verb) cover by brushing | - |
| (verb) sweep across or over | Synonyms: sweep |
| brutalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalize |
| brutalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalise |
| bubble | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, burp, eruct |
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| (verb) form, produce, or emit bubbles | - |
| (verb) cause to form bubbles | - |
| (verb) rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles | - |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
| buccaneer | (verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
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| buck | (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: hitch, jerk |
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| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: charge, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) resist | Synonyms: go against |
| (verb) to strive with determination | - |
| bucket | (verb) carry in a bucket | - |
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| (verb) put into a bucket | - |
| buckle | (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: heave, warp |
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| (verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: clasp |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: crumple |
| buckram | (verb) stiffen with or as with buckram | - |
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| bud | (verb) develop buds | - |
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| (verb) start to grow or develop | - |
| budge | (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, shift, stir |
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| budget | (verb) make a budget | - |
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| buff | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: burnish, furbish |
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| (verb) strike, beat repeatedly | Synonyms: buffet |
| buffalo | (verb) intimidate or overawe | - |
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| buffer | (verb) add a buffer (a solution) | - |
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| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: cushion, soften |
| buffet | (verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: batter, knock about |
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| (verb) strike, beat repeatedly | Synonyms: buff |
| bug | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, pester, tease |
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| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: intercept, tap, wiretap |
| bugger | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: sodomise, sodomize |
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| bugle | (verb) play on a bugle | - |
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| build | (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build up, progress, work up |
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| (verb) improve the cleansing action of | - |
| (verb) bolster or strengthen | Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up |
| (verb) develop and grow | - |
| (verb) found or ground | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: construct, make |
| (verb) give form to, according to a plan | - |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: establish |
| (verb) be engaged in building | - |
| (verb) order, supervise, or finance the construction of | - |
| bulge | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: pouch, protrude |
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| (verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulk |
| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude, start |
| (verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge | Synonyms: bag |
| bulk | (verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulge |
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| (verb) stick out or up | - |
| (verb) to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet | - |
| bull | (verb) advance in price | - |
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| (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bullshit, fake, talk through one's hat |
| (verb) try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying | - |
| (verb) push or force | Synonyms: bull through |
| bulldog | (verb) attack viciously and ferociously | - |
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| (verb) throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo | - |
| bulldoze | (verb) flatten with or as if with a bulldozer | - |
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| bulletin | (verb) make public by bulletin | - |
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| bulletproof | (verb) make bulletproof | - |
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| bullshit | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, fake, talk through one's hat |
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| bully | (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: browbeat, swagger |
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| (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
| bullyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| bulwark | (verb) defend with a bulwark | - |
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| bum | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: cadge, grub, mooch, sponge |
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| (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
| bumble | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: falter, stammer, stutter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: falter, stumble |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| bump | (verb) knock against with force or violence | Synonyms: knock |
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| (verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied | Synonyms: dislodge |
| (verb) to play music at loud volume | Synonyms: slap |
| (verb) to enjoy some music greatly | - |
| (verb) dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward | - |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: chance, encounter, find, happen |
| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
| bunch | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
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| (verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
| bunco | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| bundle | (verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed | Synonyms: practice bundling |
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| (verb) make into a bundle | Synonyms: bundle up, roll up |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: compact, pack, wad |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
| bung | (verb) close with a cork or stopper | - |
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| (verb) give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on | Synonyms: fee, tip |
| bungle | (verb) spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly | - |
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| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| bunk | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| (verb) provide with a bunk | - |
| (verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: beat |
| bunker | (verb) hit a golf ball into a bunker | - |
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| (verb) transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse | - |
| (verb) fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil | - |
| bunt | (verb) to strike, thrust or shove against | Synonyms: butt |
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| (verb) hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance | Synonyms: drag a bunt |
| buoy | (verb) mark with a buoy | - |
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| (verb) keep afloat | Synonyms: buoy up |
| (verb) float on the surface of water | - |
| bur | (verb) remove the burrs from | Synonyms: burr |
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| burble | (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
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| burden | (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
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| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| burgeon | (verb) grow and flourish | - |
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