| avulse | (verb) separate by avulsion | - |
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| azure | (verb) color azure | - |
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| background | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
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| badmouth | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: drag through the mud, malign, traduce |
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| bankrupt | (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: break, ruin, smash |
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| banquet | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: feast, junket |
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| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: feast, junket |
| barbecue | (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbeque, cook out |
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| barbeque | (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbecue, cook out |
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| baulk | (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, jib, resist |
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| beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| becloud | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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| bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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| befoul | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: defile, foul, maculate |
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| befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
| begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
| beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
| belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
| beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
| bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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| bemuse | (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bewilder, discombobulate, throw |
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| benumb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: blunt, dull, numb |
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| bequeath | (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: leave, will |
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| bifurcate | (verb) divide into two branches | - |
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| (verb) split or divide into two | - |
| bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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| bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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| bivouac | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: camp, camp out, encamp, tent |
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| blackguard | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, clapperclaw, shout |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
| blub | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blubber, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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| blubber | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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| (verb) utter while crying | Synonyms: blubber out |
| 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 | - |
| blue | (verb) turn blue | - |
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| blueprint | (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: draft, draught |
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| bluff | (verb) frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is | - |
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| (verb) deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand | Synonyms: bluff out |
| 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 |
| blur | (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: dim, slur |
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| (verb) make dim or indistinct | Synonyms: blear |
| (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: confuse, obnubilate, obscure |
| (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: smear, smudge, smutch |
| (verb) to make less distinct or clear | - |
| (verb) become glassy; lose clear vision | Synonyms: film over, glaze over |
| blurt | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| blush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: crimson, flush, redden |
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| (verb) become rosy or reddish | - |
| bluster | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
| 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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| 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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| burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
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| burglarize | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burgle, heist |
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| burgle | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, heist |
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| burke | (verb) get rid of, silence, or suppress | - |
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| (verb) murder without leaving a trace on the body | - |
| burl | (verb) remove the burls from cloth | - |
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| burlesque | (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: parody, spoof |
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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 |