abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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(adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
(adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
(adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
abruption | (noun) an instance of sudden interruption | Synonyms: breaking off |
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abruptly | (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: all of a sudden, dead, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly |
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abruptness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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(noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: precipitousness, steepness |
(noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
airbrush | (noun) an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air | - |
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(verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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brucellosis | (noun) an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings | Synonyms: Bang's disease, contagious abortion |
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(noun) infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache | Synonyms: Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever, Rock fever, undulant fever |
brucine | (noun) a bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica | - |
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bruin | (noun) large ferocious bear of Eurasia | Synonyms: brown bear, Ursus arctos |
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(noun) a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox' | - |
bruise | (noun) an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration | Synonyms: contusion |
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(verb) damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure | - |
(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 |
bruiser | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bull, Samson, strapper |
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bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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(adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
bruit | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
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bruitism | (noun) The use in music of sounds taken from an extra-musical source or context. The term is used most often of percussion or of electronic music that suggests the sounds of machinery. | - |
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brumal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: hibernal, hiemal |
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brumous | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: foggy, hazy, misty |
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brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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(verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
brunet | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunette |
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(noun) a person with dark (brown) hair | Synonyms: brunette |
brunette | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunet |
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(noun) a person with dark (brown) hair | Synonyms: brunet |
brunt | (noun) main force of a blow etc | - |
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brush | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: clash, encounter, skirmish |
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(noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brushing |
(noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brushing |
(noun) contact with something dangerous or undesirable | - |
(noun) a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) | - |
(noun) an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle | - |
(noun) conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor | - |
(noun) momentary contact | Synonyms: light touch |
(noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket |
(verb) remove with or as if with a brush | - |
(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 |
brushed | (adjective) (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush | - |
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(adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: fleecy, napped |
(adjective) touched lightly in passing; grazed against | - |
brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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(noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
brushlike | (adjective) resembling a brush | - |
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brushup | (noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: review |
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brushwood | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, coppice, copse, thicket |
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(noun) the wood from bushes or small branches | - |
brushwork | (noun) an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush | - |
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brushy | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: bosky |
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brusk | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusque, curt, short |
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brusque | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, curt, short |
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brusquely | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluffly, bluntly, flat out, roundly |
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brusqueness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
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brut | (adjective) (of champagne) extremely dry | - |
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brutal | (adjective) disagreeably direct and precise | - |
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(adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brute, brutish |
(adjective) punishingly harsh | Synonyms: unrelenting |
(adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
brutalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalization |
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(noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalization |
(noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalization |
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 |
brutality | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, savagery |
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(noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: ferociousness, savagery, viciousness |
brutalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalisation |
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(noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalisation |
(noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalisation |
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 |
brutally | (adverb) in a vicious manner | Synonyms: savagely, viciously |
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brute | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish |
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(noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna |
(noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, savage, wildcat, wolf |
brutish | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brute |
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brutishly | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: bestially, in a beastly manner |
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bruxism | (noun) involuntarily or unconsciously clenching or grinding the teeth, typically during sleep | - |
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candelabrum | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabra |
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cerebrum | (noun) anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans | - |
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clothesbrush | (noun) a brush used for cleaning clothing | - |
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hairbrush | (noun) a brush used to groom a person's hair | - |
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imbrue | (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: drench |
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nailbrush | (noun) a brush used to clean a person's fingernails | - |
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paintbrush | (noun) a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint) | - |
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redbrush | (noun) common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers | Synonyms: American dogwood, Cornus stolonifera, red dogwood, red osier, red osier dogwood |
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sagebrush | (noun) any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium | Synonyms: sage brush |
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toothbrush | (noun) small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth | - |
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(noun) slang for a mustache | Synonyms: soup-strainer |
unbrushed | (adjective) (of hair or clothing) not brushed | - |
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underbrush | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: undergrowth, underwood |
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