ablution | (noun) the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels | - |
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ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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blub | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blubber, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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blubber | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, fat, fatness |
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(noun) an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil | - |
(verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
(verb) utter while crying | Synonyms: blubber out |
blubberer | (noun) someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs | - |
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blubbery | (adjective) swollen with fat | - |
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blucher | (noun) a high shoe with laces over the tongue | - |
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bludgeon | (noun) a club used as a weapon | - |
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(verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: club |
(verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club | - |
bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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blue | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blueish, bluish |
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(adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
(adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
(adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician |
(adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: puritanic, puritanical |
(adjective) used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) | - |
(adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
(adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
(noun) any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae | - |
(noun) the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic | Synonyms: amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue angel, blue devil |
(noun) blue clothing | - |
(noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blueness |
(noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue | - |
(noun) the sky as viewed during daylight | Synonyms: blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder |
(noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blueing, bluing |
(verb) turn blue | - |
bluebell | (noun) one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas | Synonyms: Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian |
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(noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Campanula rotundifolia, harebell |
(noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
blueberry | (noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants | - |
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(noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries | Synonyms: blueberry bush |
bluebill | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: broadbill, scaup, scaup duck |
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bluebird | (noun) blue North American songbird | - |
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(noun) fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies | Synonyms: fairy bluebird |
bluebonnet | (noun) a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side | Synonyms: Balmoral |
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(noun) low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: buffalo clover, Lupinus subcarnosus, Texas bluebonnet |
bluebottle | (noun) blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight | Synonyms: Calliphora vicina |
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(noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower |
bluecoat | (noun) a person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor) | - |
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bluefin | (noun) largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics | Synonyms: bluefin tuna, horse mackerel, Thunnus thynnus |
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(noun) flesh of very large tuna | Synonyms: bluefin tuna |
bluefish | (noun) bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters | Synonyms: Pomatomus saltatrix |
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(noun) fatty bluish flesh of bluefish | - |
bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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(noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
bluehead | (noun) small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head | Synonyms: Thalassoma bifasciatum |
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blueing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: bluing |
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(noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, bluing |
blueish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, bluish |
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bluejacket | (noun) a serviceman in the navy | Synonyms: navy man, sailor, sailor boy |
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blueness | (noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blue |
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bluenose | (noun) a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia | Synonyms: Nova Scotian |
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bluepoint | (noun) small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island | Synonyms: blue point |
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(noun) oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw | Synonyms: blue point |
blueprint | (noun) photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc. | - |
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(noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: design, pattern |
(verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: draft, draught |
blues | (noun) a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes | - |
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(noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours |
bluestem | (noun) tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States | Synonyms: Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii, blue stem |
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bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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bluestone | (noun) bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
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bluethroat | (noun) songbird of northern Europe and Asia | Synonyms: Erithacus svecicus |
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bluetick | (noun) a very fast American hound; white mottled with bluish grey | - |
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bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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blueweed | (noun) a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: blue devil, blue thistle, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss |
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bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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bluff | (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bold, sheer |
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(adjective) bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured | - |
(noun) the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards | Synonyms: four flush |
(noun) pretense that your position is stronger than it really is | - |
(noun) a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion) | - |
(verb) frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is | - |
(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 |
bluffer | (noun) a person who tries to bluff other people | Synonyms: four-flusher |
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bluffly | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluntly, brusquely, flat out, roundly |
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bluffness | (noun) good-natured frankness | - |
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bluing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: blueing |
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(noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, blueing |
bluish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, blueish |
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bluishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat blue or having a tinge of blue. | - |
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blunder | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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(verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
(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 |
blunderbuss | (noun) a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle | - |
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blunderer | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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blunt | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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(adjective) used of a knife or other blade; not sharp | - |
(adjective) having a broad or rounded end | - |
(adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: crude, stark |
(verb) make less sharp | - |
(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 |
blunted | (adjective) made dull or blunt | Synonyms: dulled |
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bluntly | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluffly, brusquely, flat out, roundly |
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bluntness | (noun) without sharpness or clearness of edge or point | Synonyms: dullness |
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(noun) the quality of being direct and outspoken | - |
blur | (noun) a hazy or indistinct representation | Synonyms: fuzz |
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(verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: dim, slur |
(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 |
blurb | (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: endorsement, indorsement |
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blurred | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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(adjective) unclear in form or expression | Synonyms: clouded |
blurriness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness |
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blurry | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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blurt | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt out, ejaculate |
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blush | (noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) | Synonyms: flush |
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(noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blusher, paint, rouge |
(noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: bloom, flush, rosiness |
(verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: crimson, flush, redden |
(verb) become rosy or reddish | - |
blusher | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, paint, rouge |
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(noun) yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched | Synonyms: Amanita rubescens, blushing mushroom |
blushful | (adjective) of blush color | Synonyms: rosy |
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(adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushing, red-faced |
blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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bluster | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bravado |
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(noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: braggadocio, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
(noun) a violent gusty wind | - |
(noun) noisy confusion and turbulence | - |
(verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
(verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
blusterer | (noun) a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly | Synonyms: loudmouth |
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blustering | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blusterous, blustery |
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blusterous | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blustery |
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blustery | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: bullying |
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(adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blusterous |
pablum | (noun) worthless or oversimplified ideas | Synonyms: pap |
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sublunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunary |
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(adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunary, terrestrial |
sublunary | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunar |
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(adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, terrestrial |
subluxate | (verb) sprain or dislocate slightly | - |
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subluxation | (noun) partial displacement of a joint or organ | - |
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unblushing | (adjective) feeling no shame | Synonyms: shameless |
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unblushingly | (adverb) without blushing | - |
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