| birdnest | (verb) gather birdnests | Synonyms: bird-nest |
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| bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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| bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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| blacken | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, melanise, melanize |
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| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: char, scorch, sear |
| blanch | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blench, pale |
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| (verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: parboil |
| blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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| blank | (verb) keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning | - |
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| blanket | (verb) cover as if with a blanket | - |
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| (verb) form a blanket-like cover (over) | - |
| blarney | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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| blazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: emblazon |
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| blench | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, pale |
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| blend | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: immingle, intermingle, intermix |
| (verb) blend or harmonize | Synonyms: blend in, go |
| blind | (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: dim |
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| (verb) make blind by putting the eyes out | - |
| (verb) render unable to see | - |
| blindfold | (verb) cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing | - |
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| blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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| (verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
| blink | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: nictate, nictitate, wink |
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| (verb) keep back by blinking | Synonyms: blink away, wink |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: flash, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| blinker | (verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
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| bludgeon | (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: club |
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| (verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club | - |
| blueprint | (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: draft, draught |
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| blunder | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
| blunt | (verb) make less sharp | - |
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| (verb) make less intense | - |
| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: deaden |
| (verb) make dull or blunt | Synonyms: dull |
| (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, dull, numb |
| bodypaint | (verb) apply paint to a body | - |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| bond | (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, hold fast, stick, stick to |
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| (verb) bring together in a common cause or emotion | Synonyms: draw together |
| (verb) issue bonds on | - |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bind, tie |
| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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| bone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: debone |
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| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| bong | (verb) ring loudly and deeply | - |
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| bonk | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bop, sock, whap, whop |
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| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| bonnet | (verb) dress in a bonnet | - |
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| boomerang | (verb) return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang | - |
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| boondoggle | (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
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| botanise | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanize |
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| botanize | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanise |
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| bottleneck | (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
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| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| bounce | (verb) eject from the premises | - |
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| (verb) hit something so that it bounces | - |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) leap suddenly | - |
| (verb) move up and down repeatedly | Synonyms: jounce |
| (verb) come back after being refused | - |
| (verb) refuse to accept and send back | - |
| bound | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: jump, leap, spring |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: border |
| bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| brain | (verb) hit on the head | - |
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| (verb) kill by smashing someone's skull | - |
| brainstorm | (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
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| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| branch | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
| brand | (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
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| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
| brandish | (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
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| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| brazen | (verb) face with defiance or impudence | - |
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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 |
| 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 |
| brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
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| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| brown | (verb) fry in a pan until it changes color | - |
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| (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: embrown |
| brunch | (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
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| buccaneer | (verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
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| bulletin | (verb) make public by bulletin | - |
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| 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 |
| 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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| burn | (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
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| (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
| (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
| (verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
| (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
| (verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
| (verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) feel hot or painful | - |
| (verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
| (verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
| burnish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
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| burthen | (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
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| button | (verb) fasten with buttons | - |
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| (verb) provide with buttons | - |
| buttonhole | (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: lobby |
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| cabin | (verb) confine to a small space, such as a cabin | - |
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| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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| calcimine | (verb) cover with calcimine | - |
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| calcine | (verb) heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces | - |
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| calendar | (verb) enter into a calendar | - |
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| calender | (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
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| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| campaign | (verb) go on a campaign; go off to war | Synonyms: take the field |
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| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, crusade, fight, press, push |
| can | (verb) preserve in a can or tin | Synonyms: put up, tin |
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| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| canal | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canalise, canalize |
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| canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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| canalize | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalise |
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| cancel | (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: invalidate |
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| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) declare null and void; make ineffective | Synonyms: strike down |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, scratch, scrub |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: offset, set off |
| candle | (verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
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| candy | (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat |
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| cane | (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: flog, lambast, lambaste |
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| canker | (verb) infect with a canker | - |
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| (verb) become infected with a canker | - |
| cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
| cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
| cannon | (verb) fire a cannon | - |
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| (verb) make a cannon | - |
| cannonade | (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
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| cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cannulize | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, canulate, intubate |
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| canoe | (verb) travel by canoe | - |
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| canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
| canonize | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonise |
| canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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