| boast | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: feature, sport |
| boat | (verb) ride in a boat on water | - |
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| bob | (verb) cut hair in the style of a bob | - |
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| (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: curtsy |
| (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: dock, tail |
| (verb) move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement | - |
| (verb) ride a bobsled | Synonyms: bobsled |
| bobble | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bobsled | (verb) ride a bobsled | Synonyms: bob |
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| bode | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| bodge | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| body | (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: personify |
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| bodypaint | (verb) apply paint to a body | - |
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| bog | (verb) cause to slow down or get stuck | Synonyms: bog down |
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| (verb) get stuck while doing something | Synonyms: bog down |
| bogey | (verb) to shoot in one stroke over par | - |
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| boggle | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast |
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| (verb) startle with amazement or fear | - |
| (verb) hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear | - |
| boil | (verb) immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes | - |
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| (verb) come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor | - |
| (verb) bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated emotional state | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: churn, moil, roil |
| boldface | (verb) print in boldface | - |
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| bollix | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bollocks | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bolshevise | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevize, communise, communize |
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| bolshevize | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, communise, communize |
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| bolster | (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
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| (verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
| (verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
| bolt | (verb) make or roll into bolts | - |
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| (verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: gobble |
| (verb) swallow hastily | - |
| (verb) secure or lock with a bolt | - |
| (verb) move or jump suddenly | - |
| (verb) leave suddenly and as if in a hurry | Synonyms: beetle off, bolt out, run off, run out |
| (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
| bomb | (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bombard |
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| (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: fail, flunk, flush it |
| bombard | (verb) direct high energy particles or radiation against | - |
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| (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: barrage |
| (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bomb |
| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: pelt |
| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| bombproof | (verb) make safe against bombings | - |
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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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| boo | (verb) show displeasure, as after a performance or speech | Synonyms: hiss |
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| boob | (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: blunder, drop the ball, goof, sin |
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| boogie | (verb) dance to boogie music | - |
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| book | (verb) engage for a performance | - |
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| (verb) record a charge in a police register | - |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: hold, reserve |
| (verb) register in a hotel booker | - |
| boom | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: expand, flourish, thrive |
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| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, nail, smash |
| (verb) make a resonant sound, like artillery | Synonyms: din |
| (verb) make a deep hollow sound | Synonyms: boom out |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: thunder |
| 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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| boost | (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: advance, supercharge |
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| (verb) give a boost to; be beneficial to | - |
| (verb) push or shove upward, as if from below or behind | - |
| (verb) increase | Synonyms: hike, hike up |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, encourage, further, promote |
| boot | (verb) cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes | Synonyms: bring up, reboot |
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| (verb) kick; give a boot to | - |
| bootleg | (verb) produce or distribute illegally | - |
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| (verb) sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol | - |
| bootlick | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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| bootstrap | (verb) help oneself, often through improvised means | - |
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| booze | (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: drink, fuddle, hit the bottle |
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| bop | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, sock, whap, whop |
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| (verb) dance the bebop | Synonyms: bebop |
| border | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: environ, ring, skirt, surround |
| (verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: frame, frame in |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: edge |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: bound |
| bore | (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: drill |
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| (verb) cause to be bored | Synonyms: tire |
| borrow | (verb) get temporarily | - |
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| (verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, take over, take up |
| bosom | (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: embrace, hug, squeeze |
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| (verb) hide in one's bosom | - |
| boss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: emboss, stamp |
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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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| botch | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bother | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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| (verb) make confused or perplexed or puzzled | - |
| (verb) make nervous or agitated | - |
| (verb) intrude or enter uninvited | - |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| bottle | (verb) put into bottles | - |
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| (verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles | - |
| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| bottleneck | (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
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| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| bottom | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: fathom, penetrate |
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| (verb) strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom | - |
| (verb) provide with a bottom or a seat | - |
| 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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| bouse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bowse |
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| bow | (verb) bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head | Synonyms: bow down |
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| (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, defer, give in, submit |
| (verb) bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting | - |
| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, crouch, stoop |
| (verb) play on a stringed instrument with a bow | - |
| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
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| bowl | (verb) engage in the sport of bowling | - |
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| (verb) hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end | - |
| (verb) roll (a ball) | - |
| bowse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bouse |
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| box | (verb) hit with the fist | - |
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| (verb) engage in a boxing match | - |
| (verb) put into a box | Synonyms: package |
| boycott | (verb) refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with | - |
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| brainstorm | (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
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| bravo | (verb) applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava' | - |
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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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| 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 |
| buffalo | (verb) intimidate or overawe | - |
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| 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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| bulletproof | (verb) make bulletproof | - |
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| bunco | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| buoy | (verb) mark with a buoy | - |
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| (verb) keep afloat | Synonyms: buoy up |
| (verb) float on the surface of water | - |
| burgeon | (verb) grow and flourish | - |
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| burrow | (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: tunnel |
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