be | (verb) spend or use time | - |
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(verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: follow |
(verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: exist |
(verb) have life, be alive | Synonyms: live |
(verb) form or compose | Synonyms: comprise, constitute, make up, represent |
(verb) have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) | - |
(verb) occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere | - |
(verb) be identical to; be someone or something | - |
(verb) be identical or equivalent to | Synonyms: equal |
(verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: embody, personify |
(verb) be priced at | Synonyms: cost |
(verb) to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form | - |
beach | (verb) land on a beach | - |
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beacon | (verb) guide with a beacon | - |
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(verb) shine like a beacon | - |
bead | (verb) string together like beads | - |
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(verb) decorate by sewing beads onto | - |
(verb) form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example | - |
beak | (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: peck, pick |
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beam | (verb) smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression | - |
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(verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, broadcast, send, transmit |
(verb) express with a beaming face or smile | - |
(verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
(verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
(verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: shine |
bean | (verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball | - |
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bear | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: carry, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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(verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: birth, deliver, give birth, have |
(verb) have on one's person | Synonyms: wear |
(verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
(verb) move while holding up or supporting | - |
(verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: carry, hold |
(verb) bring forth | Synonyms: turn out |
(verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: entertain, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
(verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices | Synonyms: hold |
(verb) bring in | Synonyms: pay, yield |
(verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, assume, take over |
(verb) have | - |
(verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: carry, contain, hold |
beard | (verb) go along the rim, like a beard around the chin | - |
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beat | (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) hit repeatedly | - |
(verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | Synonyms: beat up, work over |
(verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: scramble |
(verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music | - |
(verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting | - |
(verb) shape by beating | - |
(verb) make by pounding or trampling | - |
(verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly | - |
(verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: pound, thump |
(verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty | - |
(verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: flap |
(verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks | - |
(verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: flap |
(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
(verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: drum, thrum |
(verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
(verb) glare or strike with great intensity | - |
(verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: bunk |
(verb) be superior | - |
beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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(verb) make blessedly happy | - |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
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 |
beaver | (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
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bebop | (verb) dance the bebop | Synonyms: bop |
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becalm | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: calm, steady |
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bechance | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: befall, happen |
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(verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: befall, betide |
becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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(verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
beckon | (verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: wave |
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(verb) summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture | - |
(verb) appear inviting | - |
becloud | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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become | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: get, go |
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(verb) come into existence | - |
(verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: turn |
(verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: suit |
bed | (verb) prepare for sleep | Synonyms: crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in |
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(verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, 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) put to bed | - |
(verb) place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil | - |
(verb) furnish with a bed | - |
bedamn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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bedaze | (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: daze, stun |
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bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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(verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
bedew | (verb) cover with drops of dew or as with dew | - |
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bedhop | (verb) be sexually active with more than one partner | Synonyms: bed-hop, sleep around |
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bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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bedim | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: benight |
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(verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: obscure, overcloud |
bedizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: dizen |
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(verb) decorate tastelessly | - |
bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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beef | (verb) complain | Synonyms: bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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beep | (verb) call, summon, or alert with a beeper | - |
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(verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: blare, claxon, honk, toot |
beeswax | (verb) cover with beeswax | - |
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beetle | (verb) beat with a beetle | - |
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(verb) fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle | - |
(verb) be suspended over or hang over | Synonyms: overhang |
befall | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, happen |
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(verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, betide |
befit | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: beseem, suit |
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befog | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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befool | (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
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(verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: fool, gull |
befoul | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: defile, foul, maculate |
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befriend | (verb) become friends with | - |
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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 |
beg | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: implore, pray |
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(verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: solicit, tap |
(verb) dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted | - |
(verb) ask to obtain free | - |
beget | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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beggar | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: pauperise, pauperize |
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(verb) be beyond the resources of | - |
begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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begin | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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(verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: commence, lead off, start |
(verb) begin to speak or say | - |
(verb) begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language | - |
(verb) achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative | - |
(verb) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object | Synonyms: start |
(verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense | Synonyms: start |
(verb) be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series | - |
(verb) have a beginning characterized in some specified way | Synonyms: start |
(verb) have a beginning, of a temporal event | - |
begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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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 |
behave | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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(verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: comport |
behead | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: decapitate, decollate |
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behold | (verb) see with attention | Synonyms: lay eyes on |
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behoove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behove |
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behove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behoove |
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bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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belabor | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabour |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabour |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabour |
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 |
belay | (verb) fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
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(verb) turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him | - |
belch | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: bubble, burp, eruct |
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(verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: erupt, extravasate |
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 |
belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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(verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
(verb) credit with veracity | - |
(verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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(verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
bell | (verb) attach a bell to | - |
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bellow | (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
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(verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
belly | (verb) swell out or bulge out | Synonyms: belly out |
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bellyache | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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belong | (verb) be owned by; be in the possession of | - |
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(verb) be rightly classified in a class or category | - |
(verb) be suitable or acceptable | - |
(verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: go |
(verb) be a part or adjunct | Synonyms: belong to |
(verb) be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place) | - |
belt | (verb) deliver a blow to | - |
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(verb) fasten with a belt | - |
(verb) sing loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: belt out |
bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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bemoan | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bewail, deplore, lament |
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bemock | (verb) treat with contempt | Synonyms: mock |
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bemuse | (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bewilder, discombobulate, throw |
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bench | (verb) To lift a weight using a bench press | - |
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(verb) To exercise using a bench press | - |
(verb) exhibit on a bench | - |
(verb) take out of a game; of players | - |
bend | (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: deform, flex, turn, twist |
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(verb) bend a joint | Synonyms: flex |
(verb) form a curve | Synonyms: flex |
(verb) change direction | - |
(verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: deflect, turn away |
(verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bow, crouch, stoop |
benday | (verb) reproduce by the Benday process | - |
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benefact | (verb) help as a benefactor | - |
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benefice | (verb) endow with a benefice | - |
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beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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benefit | (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: gain, profit |
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(verb) be beneficial for | Synonyms: do good |
benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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(verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
(verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
benumb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: blunt, dull, numb |
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beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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bequeath | (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: leave, will |
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berate | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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berry | (verb) pick or gather berries | - |
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berth | (verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: moor, tie up |
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(verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: moor, wharf |
(verb) provide with a berth | - |
beseech | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
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beseem | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: befit, suit |
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beset | (verb) assail or attack on all sides: | Synonyms: set upon |
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(verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: encrust, incrust |
(verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
beshrew | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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(verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
(verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |