| brabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| brace | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) support by bracing | - |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: stabilise, stabilize, steady |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: poise |
| brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
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| bracket | (verb) classify or group | - |
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| (verb) place into brackets | Synonyms: bracket out |
| (verb) support with brackets | - |
| brad | (verb) fasten with brads | - |
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| brag | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| braid | (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: pleach |
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| (verb) decorate with braids or ribbons | - |
| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: lace, plait |
| brail | (verb) haul fish aboard with brails | - |
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| (verb) take in a sail with a brail | - |
| braille | (verb) transcribe in braille | - |
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| brain | (verb) hit on the head | - |
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| (verb) kill by smashing someone's skull | - |
| brainstorm | (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
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| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| braise | (verb) cook in liquid | - |
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| brake | (verb) cause to stop by applying the brakes | - |
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| (verb) stop travelling by applying a brake | - |
| branch | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
| brand | (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
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| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
| brandish | (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
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| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| brattice | (verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
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| brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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| brave | (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave out, endure, weather |
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| bravo | (verb) applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava' | - |
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| brawl | (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: wrangle |
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| bray | (verb) laugh loudly and harshly | - |
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| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash |
| (verb) braying characteristic of donkeys | Synonyms: hee-haw |
| braze | (verb) solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point | - |
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| brazen | (verb) face with defiance or impudence | - |
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| breach | (verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: gap |
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| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| bread | (verb) cover with bread crumbs | - |
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| break | (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: fracture |
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| (verb) weaken or destroy in spirit or body | - |
| (verb) diminish or discontinue abruptly | - |
| (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments | Synonyms: come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: develop, recrudesce |
| (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break off, discontinue, stop |
| (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: interrupt |
| (verb) come into being | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) render inoperable or ineffective | - |
| (verb) crack; of the male voice in puberty | - |
| (verb) fall sharply | - |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: damp, dampen, soften, weaken |
| (verb) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments | - |
| (verb) make submissive, obedient, or useful | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) be broken in | - |
| (verb) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another | - |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: check, crack |
| (verb) find the solution or key to | - |
| (verb) find a flaw in | - |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: intermit, pause |
| (verb) be released or become known; of news | Synonyms: get around, get out |
| (verb) undergo breaking | - |
| (verb) interrupt the flow of current in | - |
| (verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: better |
| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: bust, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| (verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) separate from a clinch, in boxing | - |
| (verb) break a piece from a whole | Synonyms: break off, snap off |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate | - |
| (verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) exchange for smaller units of money | - |
| (verb) become punctured or penetrated | - |
| (verb) make the opening shot that scatters the balls | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: burst, erupt |
| (verb) do a break dance | Synonyms: break-dance, break dance |
| (verb) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves | - |
| (verb) move away or escape suddenly | Synonyms: break away, break out |
| (verb) scatter or part | - |
| (verb) emerge from the surface of a body of water | - |
| (verb) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing | - |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way |
| (verb) change directions suddenly | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, ruin, smash |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| (verb) interrupt a continued activity | Synonyms: break away |
| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
| (verb) cause the failure or ruin of | - |
| (verb) invalidate by judicial action | - |
| (verb) enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break up, part, separate, split, split up |
| (verb) happen or take place | - |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: go against, violate |
| (verb) give up | - |
| (verb) cause to give up a habit | - |
| (verb) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity | - |
| (verb) come forth or begin from a state of latency | - |
| (verb) come to an end | - |
| breakfast | (verb) eat an early morning meal | - |
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| (verb) provide breakfast for | - |
| bream | (verb) clean (a ship's bottom) with heat | - |
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| breast | (verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: front |
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| (verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: summit |
| (verb) meet at breast level | - |
| breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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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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| breathalyse | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyze |
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| breathalyze | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyse |
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| breathe | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: emit, pass off |
| (verb) reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked | - |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather |
| (verb) utter or tell | - |
| (verb) manifest or evince | - |
| (verb) impart as if by breathing | - |
| (verb) be alive | - |
| (verb) allow the passage of air through | - |
| brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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| (verb) form into breccia | - |
| breed | (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: multiply |
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| (verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: cover |
| (verb) cause to procreate (animals) | - |
| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: engender, spawn |
| breeze | (verb) to proceed quickly and easily | - |
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| (verb) blow gently and lightly | - |
| brevet | (verb) promote somebody by brevet, in the military | - |
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| brew | (verb) sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor | - |
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| (verb) prepare by brewing | - |
| bribe | (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: buy, corrupt, grease one's palms |
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| brick | (verb) To stop working (of an electronic device) | - |
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| bridge | (verb) make a bridge across | - |
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| (verb) cross over on a bridge | - |
| (verb) connect or reduce the distance between | Synonyms: bridge over |
| bridle | (verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
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| (verb) put a bridle on | - |
| (verb) anger or take offense | - |
| brief | (verb) give essential information to someone | - |
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| brigade | (verb) form or unite into a brigade | - |
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| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| brim | (verb) fill as much as possible | - |
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| (verb) be completely full | - |
| brine | (verb) soak in brine | - |
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| bring | (verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: land |
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| (verb) induce or persuade | - |
| (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: convey, fetch, get |
| (verb) be accompanied by | - |
| (verb) cause to come into a particular state or condition | - |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: make for, play, work, wreak |
| (verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: institute |
| (verb) attract the attention of | - |
| (verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | Synonyms: convey, take |
| (verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring in, fetch |
| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, contribute, impart, lend |
| brisk | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk up, brisken |
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| brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
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| bristle | (verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
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| (verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
| (verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |