| busywork | (noun) active work of little value | Synonyms: make-work |
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| but | (adverb) and nothing more | Synonyms: just, merely, only, simply |
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| butacaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester that is applied to mucous membranes as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: butacaine sulfate |
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| butadiene | (noun) a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
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| butane | (noun) occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels | - |
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| butanol | (noun) a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents | Synonyms: butyl alcohol |
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| butanone | (noun) colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid | Synonyms: methyl ethyl ketone |
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| butat | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butut |
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| butch | (adjective) (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner | Synonyms: macho |
| (noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: crew cut, flattop |
| (noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: dike, dyke |
| butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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| (noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
| (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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| butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
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| (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| butene | (noun) any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers | Synonyms: butylene |
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| buteonine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
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| (noun) any hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
| butler | (noun) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | Synonyms: pantryman |
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| butt | (noun) thick end of the handle | Synonyms: butt end |
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| (noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: stub |
| (noun) a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) | - |
| (noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: target |
| (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fag |
| (noun) a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping | Synonyms: butt joint |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: goat, laughingstock, stooge |
| (noun) the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots | - |
| (verb) to strike, thrust or shove against | Synonyms: bunt |
| (verb) place end to end without overlapping | - |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
| butte | (noun) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides | - |
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| butter | (noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head | - |
| (verb) spread butter on | - |
| butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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| (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
| butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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| butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| butterfat | (noun) the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made | - |
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| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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| butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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| (noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
| (noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
| butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| butterfly | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | Synonyms: butterfly stroke |
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| (noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | - |
| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
| (verb) cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking | - |
| (verb) flutter like a butterfly | - |
| butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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| buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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| butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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| (noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
| butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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| butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
| butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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| buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
| (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
| buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
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| buttock | (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: cheek |
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| buttocks | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| button | (noun) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes | - |
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| (noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: push, push button |
| (noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: release |
| (noun) any artifact that resembles a button | - |
| (noun) a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action | - |
| (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: clit, clitoris |
| (noun) a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment | - |
| (noun) any of various plant parts that resemble buttons | - |
| (verb) fasten with buttons | - |
| (verb) provide with buttons | - |
| buttoned | (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: fastened |
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| buttonhole | (noun) a hole through which buttons are pushed | Synonyms: button hole |
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| (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: lobby |
| buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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| buttonlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttony |
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| buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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| buttony | (adjective) ornamented with many buttons | - |
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| (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike |
| buttress | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttressing |
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| (verb) make stronger or defensible | - |
| (verb) reinforce with a buttress | - |
| buttressed | (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: braced |
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| buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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| buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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| butty | (noun) a sandwich | - |
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| butut | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butat |
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| butyl | (noun) a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9) | - |
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| butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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| butylene | (noun) any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers | Synonyms: butene |
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| butyraceous | (adjective) having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter | - |
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| butyric | (adjective) relating to or producing butyric acid | - |
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| butyrin | (noun) any of three glycerides of butyric acid | - |
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| buxom | (adjective) (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous | Synonyms: zaftig, zoftig |
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| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
| buxomly | (adverb) in a curvaceous way | Synonyms: curvaceously |
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| buxomness | (noun) the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed | - |
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| buy | (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: bargain, steal |
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| (verb) accept as true | - |
| (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: purchase |
| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: bribe, corrupt, grease one's palms |
| (verb) acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange | - |
| (verb) be worth or be capable of buying | - |
| buyback | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: redemption, repurchase |
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| buyer | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: emptor, purchaser, vendee |
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| buying | (noun) the act of buying | Synonyms: purchasing |
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| buyout | (noun) acquisition of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock | - |
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| buzz | (noun) a confusion of activity and gossip | - |
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| (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombilation, bombination |
| (verb) call with a buzzer | - |
| (verb) fly low | - |
| (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, bombinate |
| (verb) be noisy with activity | Synonyms: hum, seethe |
| buzzard | (noun) a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States | Synonyms: Cathartes aura, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture |
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| (noun) the common European short-winged hawk | Synonyms: Buteo buteo |
| buzzer | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, doorbell |
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| (noun) a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound | - |
| buzzing | (adjective) noisy like the sound of a bee | Synonyms: abuzz |
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| buzzword | (noun) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | Synonyms: cant |
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| calabura | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood, silkwood |
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| carbuncle | (noun) an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus | - |
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| (noun) deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets | - |
| carbuncled | (adjective) set with carbuncles | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncular |
| carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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| carburet | (verb) combine with carbon | - |
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| carburetor | (noun) mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion | Synonyms: carburettor |
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| carburettor | (noun) mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion | Synonyms: carburetor |
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| carburise | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburize |
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| carburize | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburise |
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| cheeseburger | (noun) a hamburger with melted cheese on it | - |
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| chlorambucil | (noun) an alkylating agent (trade name Leukeran) used to treat some kinds of cancer | Synonyms: Leukeran |
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| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| clotbur | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: burdock |
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| cloudburst | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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| cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
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| (noun) burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use | Synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock |
| cockleburr | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur |
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| colobus | (noun) arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs | Synonyms: colobus monkey |
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| comburant | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburent, combustive |
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| comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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| combust | (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) get very angry and fly into a rage | Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit |
| (verb) cause to become violent or angry | - |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: burn |
| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| combustible | (adjective) capable of igniting and burning | - |
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| (noun) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | Synonyms: combustible material |
| combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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| combustion | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: burning |
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| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and excitement | - |
| combustive | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, comburent |
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| confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
| (verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |