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 |
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 |
chauffeur | (verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
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chuff | (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: huff, puff |
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crossruff | (verb) trump alternately in two hands | - |
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cuff | (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: whomp |
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(verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: handcuff, manacle |
(verb) to get involved in a relationship with another person | - |
fluff | (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: tease |
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(verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: ruffle |
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
gauffer | (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: goffer |
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guffaw | (verb) laugh boisterously | Synonyms: laugh loudly |
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handcuff | (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, manacle |
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huff | (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, puff |
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(verb) inhale recreational drugs | Synonyms: snort |
insufflate | (verb) blow or breathe hard on or into | - |
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(verb) treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity | - |
(verb) breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit | - |
luff | (verb) flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides | - |
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(verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: point |
muff | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, 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, screw up, spoil |
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(verb) fail to catch, as of a ball | - |
muffle | (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: repress, smother, stifle, strangle |
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(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down |
overstuff | (verb) stuff too much | - |
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puff | (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, heave, pant |
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(verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, huff |
(verb) to swell or cause to enlarge | Synonyms: blow up, puff out, puff up |
(verb) speak in a blustering or scornful manner | - |
(verb) praise extravagantly | Synonyms: puff up |
(verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, draw |
(verb) smoke and exhale strongly | Synonyms: whiff |
(verb) make proud or conceited | - |
rebuff | (verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: repel, snub |
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(verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, repel, repulse |
reshuffle | (verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people | - |
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(verb) shuffle again | - |
ruff | (verb) play a trump | Synonyms: trump |
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ruffle | (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: pleat |
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(verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: fluff |
(verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple |
(verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, riffle |
(verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, shuffle |
(verb) trouble or vex | - |
(verb) discompose | - |
(verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate |
(verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
scuff | (verb) poke at with the foot or toe | - |
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(verb) mar by scuffing | - |
(verb) get or become scuffed | - |
(verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: drag |
scuffle | (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: tussle |
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(verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle |
shuffle | (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, ruffle |
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(verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shamble |
(verb) move about, move back and forth | - |
snuff | (verb) inhale (something) through the nose | - |
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(verb) sniff or smell inquiringly | Synonyms: snuffle |
snuffle | (verb) snuff up mucus through the nose | Synonyms: snivel |
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(verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, sniffle, snivel |
(verb) sniff or smell inquiringly | Synonyms: snuff |
stuff | (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: farce |
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(verb) fill tightly with a material | - |
(verb) treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting | - |
(verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out |
(verb) cram into a cavity | - |
(verb) obstruct | Synonyms: block, choke up, lug |
(verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, thrust |
suffer | (verb) be in pain | Synonyms: hurt |
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(verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, have, sustain |
(verb) feel unwell or uncomfortable | - |
(verb) get worse in quality | - |
(verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: lose |
(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, support, tolerate |
(verb) experience (emotional) pain | - |
(verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: ache, hurt |
(verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: endure |
(verb) undergo or suffer | Synonyms: meet |
(verb) be given to | - |
suffice | (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, serve |
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suffix | (verb) attach a suffix to | - |
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suffocate | (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, strangle |
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(verb) feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air | - |
(verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle |
(verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: choke |
(verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: choke |
(verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, smother |
(verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, stifle |
suffuse | (verb) to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light | - |
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(verb) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | Synonyms: perfuse |
unstuff | (verb) cause to become unblocked | Synonyms: loosen up |
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