| burglary | (noun) entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
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| burgle | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, heist |
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| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| burgoo | (noun) porridge made of rolled oats | Synonyms: oatmeal |
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| (noun) thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States | - |
| (noun) a gathering at which burgoo stew is served | - |
| burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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| burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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| (noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
| burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
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| burial | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burying |
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| (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
| buried | (adjective) placed in a grave | Synonyms: inhumed, interred |
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| burin | (noun) a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving | - |
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| burka | (noun) a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | Synonyms: burqa |
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| burke | (verb) get rid of, silence, or suppress | - |
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| (verb) murder without leaving a trace on the body | - |
| burked | (adjective) suppressed quietly or indirectly | - |
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| burl | (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: knot, slub |
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| (noun) a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree | - |
| (noun) the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer | - |
| (verb) remove the burls from cloth | - |
| burlap | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: gunny |
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| burled | (adjective) (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl | - |
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| burlesque | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a burlesque | - |
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| (noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: parody, spoof |
| burly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping |
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| burn | (noun) damage inflicted by fire | - |
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| (noun) a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: burn mark |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation | - |
| (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
| (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
| (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
| (verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
| (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
| (verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
| (verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) feel hot or painful | - |
| (verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
| (verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| burnable | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: ignitable, ignitible |
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| burned | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burnt |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burnt-out, burnt |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burnt |
| burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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| (noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
| burning | (adjective) of immediate import | - |
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| (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: electrocution |
| (noun) execution by fire | Synonyms: burning at the stake |
| (noun) a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin | - |
| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burn |
| burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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| (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| burnoose | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnous, burnouse |
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| burnous | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnouse |
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| burnouse | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnous |
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| burnside | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: mutton chop, side-whiskers, sideburn |
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| burnt | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burned |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burned, burnt-out |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burned |
| burnup | (noun) the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) | - |
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| (noun) a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road | - |
| burp | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burping, eructation |
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| (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, eruct |
| burping | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, eructation |
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| burqa | (noun) a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | Synonyms: burka |
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| burr | (noun) rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting | - |
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| (noun) rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece | - |
| (noun) small bit used in dentistry or surgery | Synonyms: bur |
| (noun) seed vessel having hooks or prickles | Synonyms: bur |
| (verb) remove the burrs from | Synonyms: bur |
| burrawong | (noun) large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales | Synonyms: Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis |
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| burred | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| burrfish | (noun) any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines | - |
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| burrito | (noun) a flour tortilla folded around a filling | - |
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| burrlike | (adjective) resembling a burr; especially in being prickly | - |
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| burro | (noun) small donkey used as a pack animal | - |
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| burrow | (noun) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter | Synonyms: tunnel |
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| (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: tunnel |
| burry | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bursa | (noun) a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints | - |
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| bursal | (adjective) relating to or affecting a bursa | - |
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| bursar | (noun) the treasurer at a college or university | - |
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| bursary | (noun) the treasury of a public institution or religious order | - |
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| bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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| bursitis | (noun) inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder | - |
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| burst | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: explosion |
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| (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: fusillade, salvo, volley |
| (noun) a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) | Synonyms: fit |
| (noun) a sudden intense happening | Synonyms: flare-up, outburst |
| (verb) come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure | Synonyms: break open, split |
| (verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) emerge suddenly | - |
| (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: explode |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, erupt |
| (verb) move suddenly, energetically, or violently | - |
| (verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: collapse |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, bristle |
| burster | (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: bursting charge, charge, explosive charge |
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| burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
| burunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| bury | (verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: forget |
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| (verb) place in the earth and cover with soil | - |
| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: sink |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up |
| (verb) cover from sight | - |
| (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
| burying | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burial |
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| bus | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| (noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: heap, jalopy |
| (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: busbar |
| (noun) the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar | Synonyms: bus topology |
| (verb) remove used dishes from the table in restaurants | - |
| (verb) ride in a bus | - |
| (verb) send or move around by bus | - |
| busbar | (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: bus |
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| busboy | (noun) a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes | Synonyms: waiter's assistant |
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| busby | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: bearskin, shako |
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| bush | (adjective) not of the highest quality or sophistication | Synonyms: bush-league |
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| (noun) hair growing in the pubic area | Synonyms: crotch hair, pubic hair |
| (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: chaparral, scrub |
| (noun) a large wilderness area | - |
| (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: shrub |
| (verb) provide with a bushing | - |
| bushbaby | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, galago |
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| bushbuck | (noun) antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | Synonyms: guib, Tragelaphus scriptus |
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| bushed | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, dead |
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| bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
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| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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| (noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
| bushman | (noun) a dweller in the Australian bush country | - |
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| bushtit | (noun) active grey titmice of western North America | Synonyms: bush tit |
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| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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| (noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| bushy | (adjective) resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading | - |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired, shaggy |
| busily | (adverb) in a busy manner | - |
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| business | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: job, line, line of work, occupation |
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| (noun) the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects | Synonyms: business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
| (noun) the volume of commercial activity | - |
| (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: byplay, stage business |
| (noun) an immediate objective | - |
| (noun) a rightful concern or responsibility | - |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern |
| (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: clientele, patronage |
| (noun) business concerns collectively | Synonyms: business sector |
| businesslike | (adjective) exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business | - |
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| (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: earnest |
| businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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| businessmen | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | Synonyms: business community |
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| businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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| busk | (verb) play music in a public place and solicit money for it | - |
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| busker | (noun) a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money | - |
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| buskin | (noun) a boot reaching halfway up to the knee | Synonyms: combat boot, desert boot, half boot, top boot |
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| busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
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| busman | (noun) someone who drives a bus | Synonyms: bus driver |
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| buspirone | (noun) a drug (trade name BuSpar) designed specifically for anxiety | Synonyms: BuSpar |
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| buss | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: kiss, osculation |
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| (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: kiss, osculate, snog |
| bust | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, tear |
| (noun) a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person | - |
| (noun) the chest of a woman | Synonyms: female chest |
| (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: fizzle, flop |
| (verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: burst |
| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: break, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| (verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: rupture, snap, tear |
| (verb) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on | Synonyms: raid |
| bustard | (noun) large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes | - |
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| busted | (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: broken |
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| buster | (noun) a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something | - |
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| (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster |
| (noun) a robust child | - |
| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: dude, fellow |
| (noun) a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically | Synonyms: baby buster |
| bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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| bustle | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir |
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| (noun) a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt | - |
| (verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle about, hustle |
| bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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| busty | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| busy | (adjective) actively or fully engaged or occupied | - |
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| (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: fussy |
| (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: engaged, in use |
| (adjective) crowded with or characterized by much activity | - |
| (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: occupy |
| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| busybody | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: nosey-parker, nosy-parker, quidnunc |
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| busyness | (noun) the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity | Synonyms: hum |
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