| baa | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: blat, blate, bleat |
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| babbitt | (verb) line with a Babbitt metal | - |
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| babble | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter |
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| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| (verb) utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way | - |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
| baby | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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| babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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| (verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
| bach | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bachelor |
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| bachelor | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
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| back | (verb) establish as valid or genuine | Synonyms: back up |
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| (verb) strengthen by providing with a back or backing | - |
| (verb) shift to a counterclockwise direction | - |
| (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: bet on, gage, game, punt, stake |
| (verb) travel backward | - |
| (verb) cause to travel backward | - |
| (verb) support financial backing for | - |
| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, second |
| (verb) be in back of | - |
| backbite | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: bitch |
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| backcross | (verb) mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents | - |
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| backdate | (verb) make effective from an earlier date | - |
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| backfire | (verb) set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire | - |
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| (verb) emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire | - |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backlash, recoil |
| background | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
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| backhand | (verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
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| backlash | (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
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| backlog | (verb) accumulate and create a backlog | - |
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| backpack | (verb) hike with a backpack | Synonyms: pack |
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| backpedal | (verb) modify one's opinion, make it less strong | - |
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| (verb) pedal backwards on a bicycle | - |
| (verb) step backwards, in boxing | - |
| backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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| backslap | (verb) display excessive cordiality (towards) | - |
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| backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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| backspace | (verb) hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard | - |
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| backstitch | (verb) do backstitches | - |
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| backstop | (verb) act as a backstop | - |
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| backstroke | (verb) swim on one's back | - |
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| backtrack | (verb) retrace one's course | Synonyms: double back, turn back |
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| bacterise | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterize |
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| bacterize | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterise |
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| badge | (verb) put a badge on | - |
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| badger | (verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
| badmouth | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: drag through the mud, malign, traduce |
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| baffle | (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: regulate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| bag | (verb) put into a bag | - |
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| (verb) capture or kill, as in hunting | - |
| (verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: pocket |
| (verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge | Synonyms: bulge |
| (verb) hang loosely, like an empty bag | - |
| bail | (verb) remove (water) from a vessel with a container | - |
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| (verb) empty (a vessel) by bailing | - |
| (verb) secure the release of (someone) by providing security | - |
| (verb) deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period | - |
| (verb) release after a security has been paid | - |
| bait | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| (verb) attack with dogs or set dogs upon | - |
| (verb) lure, entice, or entrap with bait | - |
| bake | (verb) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven | - |
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| (verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: broil |
| (verb) prepare with dry heat in an oven | - |
| (verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: broil |
| balance | (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: poise |
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| (verb) compute credits and debits of an account | - |
| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| (verb) be in equilibrium | - |
| bald | (verb) grow bald; lose hair on one's head | - |
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| bale | (verb) make into a bale | - |
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| balk | (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: baulk, jib, resist |
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| ball | (verb) form into a ball by winding or rolling | - |
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| (verb) to live very well | - |
| ballast | (verb) make steady with a ballast | - |
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| balloon | (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: billow, inflate |
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| (verb) ride in a hot-air balloon | - |
| ballot | (verb) vote by ballot | - |
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| ballyhoo | (verb) advertize noisily or blatantly | - |
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| ballyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| ban | (verb) prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure | - |
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| (verb) forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) | Synonyms: censor |
| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
| (verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | Synonyms: banish |
| band | (verb) bind or tie together, as with a band | - |
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| (verb) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify | Synonyms: ring |
| bandage | (verb) dress by covering or binding | - |
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| (verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bind |
| bandy | (verb) discuss lightly | Synonyms: kick around |
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| (verb) exchange blows | - |
| (verb) toss or strike a ball back and forth | - |
| bang | (verb) strike violently | Synonyms: slam |
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| (verb) close violently | Synonyms: slam |
| (verb) leap, jerk, bang | Synonyms: spang |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: be intimate, bed, bonk, 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 |
| (verb) move noisily | - |
| (verb) to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound | - |
| banish | (verb) drive away | - |
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| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: bar, relegate |
| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
| (verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | Synonyms: ban |
| bank | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bet, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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| (verb) enclose with a bank | - |
| (verb) cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning | - |
| (verb) tip laterally | - |
| (verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: deposit |
| (verb) be in the banking business | - |
| (verb) do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank | - |
| (verb) act as the banker in a game or in gambling | - |
| bankroll | (verb) provide with sufficient funds; finance | - |
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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 |
| banter | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: chaff, jolly, josh, kid |
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| baptise | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptize, christen |
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| baptize | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, christen |
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| bar | (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: debar, exclude |
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| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| (verb) secure with, or as if with, bars | - |
| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, relegate |
| barb | (verb) provide with barbs | - |
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| barbarise | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarize |
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| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarize |
| barbarize | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarise |
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| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarise |
| 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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| barber | (verb) perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of | - |
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| bard | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: barde, caparison, dress up |
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| barde | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, caparison, dress up |
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| bare | (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: denudate, denude, strip |
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| (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, publicise, publicize |
| (verb) expose to view | - |
| barf | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| bargain | (verb) come to terms; arrive at an agreement | - |
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| (verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange | Synonyms: dicker |
| barge | (verb) push one's way | Synonyms: push forward, thrust ahead |
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| (verb) transport by barge on a body of water | - |
| bark | (verb) tan (a skin) with bark tannins | - |
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| (verb) make barking sounds | - |
| (verb) speak in an unfriendly tone | - |
| (verb) remove the bark of a tree | Synonyms: skin |
| (verb) cover with bark | - |
| barnstorm | (verb) tour the country making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting plays | - |
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| (verb) appear at county fairs and carnivals as a stunt flier and parachute jumper | - |
| baronetise | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetize |
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| baronetize | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetise |
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| barrack | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: flout, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) lodge in barracks | - |
| barrage | (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
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| barrel | (verb) put in barrels | - |
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| barricade | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
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| (verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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| barter | (verb) exchange goods without involving money | - |
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| base | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: establish, found, ground |
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| (verb) use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes | Synonyms: free-base |
| (verb) situate as a center of operations | - |
| bash | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bonk, bop, sock, whap, whop |
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| basify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize |
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| bask | (verb) be exposed | - |
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| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: enjoy, relish, savor, savour |
| basset | (verb) appear at the surface | Synonyms: crop out |
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| bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
| bastardize | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardise |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardise |
| baste | (verb) cover with liquid before cooking | - |
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| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: tack |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: batter, clobber |
| bastinado | (verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
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| bat | (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: flutter |
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| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
| (verb) strike with, or as if with a baseball bat | - |
| (verb) use a bat | - |
| (verb) have a turn at bat | - |
| batch | (verb) batch together; assemble or process as a batch | - |
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| bate | (verb) soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments | - |
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| (verb) flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons | - |
| (verb) moderate or restrain; lessen the force of | - |
| batfowl | (verb) catch birds by temporarily blinding them | - |
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| bathe | (verb) cleanse the entire body | - |
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| (verb) suffuse or envelope with something | - |
| (verb) swim for pleasure or recreation | - |
| batik | (verb) dye with wax | - |
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| batten | (verb) secure with battens | - |
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| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten down, secure |
| batter | (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: dinge |
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| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, clobber |
| (verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: buffet, knock about |