| beadwork | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beading |
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| (noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beading |
| beady | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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| (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, buttonlike, buttony |
| beagle | (noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound | - |
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| beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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| beak | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: bill, neb, nib, pecker |
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| (noun) beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles) | - |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| (noun) a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures | - |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: peck, pick |
| beaked | (adjective) having or resembling a beak | - |
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| beaker | (noun) a cup (usually without a handle) | - |
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| (noun) a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry | - |
| beakless | (adjective) not having a beak or bill | - |
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| beaklike | (adjective) resembling the beak of a bird | - |
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| beam | (noun) long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction | - |
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| (noun) a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts | Synonyms: balance beam |
| (noun) the broad side of a ship | - |
| (noun) (nautical) breadth amidships | - |
| (noun) a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather | Synonyms: radio beam |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
| (noun) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: electron beam, ray |
| (verb) smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression | - |
| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, broadcast, send, transmit |
| (verb) express with a beaming face or smile | - |
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
| (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: shine |
| beaming | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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| (adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: glad |
| (adjective) pleased and proud | - |
| beamish | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: smiling, twinkly |
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| beamy | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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| (adjective) broad in the beam | - |
| bean | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
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| (noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | Synonyms: edible bean |
| (noun) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods | Synonyms: bean plant |
| (noun) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans | - |
| (verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball | - |
| beanbag | (noun) a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games | - |
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| beanball | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beaner |
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| beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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| beanfeast | (noun) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees | - |
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| beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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| beano | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: bingo, keno, lotto |
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| beanstalk | (noun) stem of a bean plant | - |
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| beany | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beanie |
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| bear | (noun) massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws | - |
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| (noun) an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price | - |
| (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: carry, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
| (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: birth, deliver, give birth, have |
| (verb) have on one's person | Synonyms: wear |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) move while holding up or supporting | - |
| (verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: carry, hold |
| (verb) bring forth | Synonyms: turn out |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: entertain, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
| (verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices | Synonyms: hold |
| (verb) bring in | Synonyms: pay, yield |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, assume, take over |
| (verb) have | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: carry, contain, hold |
| bearable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: endurable, sufferable, supportable |
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| bearberry | (noun) chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas | - |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry |
| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| bearcat | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, binturong |
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| beard | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: byssus |
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| (noun) hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals | - |
| (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: face fungus, whiskers |
| (noun) a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) | - |
| (noun) a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses | - |
| (verb) go along the rim, like a beard around the chin | - |
| bearded | (adjective) having a growth of hairlike awns | - |
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| (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
| beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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| beardless | (adjective) lacking hair on the face | Synonyms: smooth-faced |
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| (adjective) having no beard | Synonyms: whiskerless |
| beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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| bearer | (noun) a messenger who bears or presents | - |
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| (noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: pallbearer |
| (noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: holder |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: carrier, toter |
| bearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain | - |
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| (noun) a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily | - |
| (noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing |
| (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence |
| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: carriage, posture |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, heading |
| (noun) relevant relation or interconnection | - |
| bearish | (adjective) expecting prices to fall | - |
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| bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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| bearskin | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: busby, shako |
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| (noun) the pelt of a bear | - |
| bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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| beast | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna |
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| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: brute, savage, wildcat, wolf |
| beastliness | (noun) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: meanness |
| beastly | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: bestial, brutal, brute, brutish |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: god-awful, hellish |
| (adverb) in a beastly manner | - |
| beat | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, bushed, dead |
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| (noun) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing | - |
| (noun) a stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular rate of repetition | - |
| (noun) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music | Synonyms: musical rhythm, rhythm |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: cadence, measure, meter, metre |
| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: heartbeat, pulsation, pulse |
| (noun) the sound of stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | Synonyms: round |
| (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beatnik |
| (noun) a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations | - |
| (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) hit repeatedly | - |
| (verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | Synonyms: beat up, work over |
| (verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: scramble |
| (verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music | - |
| (verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting | - |
| (verb) shape by beating | - |
| (verb) make by pounding or trampling | - |
| (verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly | - |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty | - |
| (verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: flap |
| (verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks | - |
| (verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: flap |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
| (verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: drum, thrum |
| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
| (verb) glare or strike with great intensity | - |
| (verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: bunk |
| (verb) be superior | - |
| beatable | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: vanquishable, vincible |
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| beaten | (adjective) formed or made thin by hammering | - |
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| (adjective) much trodden and worn smooth or bare | - |
| beater | (noun) an implement for beating | - |
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| (noun) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter | - |
| beatific | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
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| (adjective) experiencing or bestowing celestial joy | - |
| beatification | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization | - |
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| (noun) the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy | - |
| (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness |
| beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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| beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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| (verb) make blessedly happy | - |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| beating | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | Synonyms: whipping |
| beatitude | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, blessedness |
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| beatnik | (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beat |
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| beatniks | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beats |
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| beats | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks |
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| beau | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: boyfriend, fellow, swain |
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| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
| beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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| beaut | (noun) an outstanding example of its kind | Synonyms: beauty |
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| beauteous | (adjective) (poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight | - |
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| beauteousness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: comeliness, fairness, loveliness |
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| beautician | (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: cosmetician |
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| beautification | (noun) the act of making something more beautiful | - |
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| beautiful | (adjective) delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather) highly enjoyable | - |
| beautifully | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: attractively |
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| beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| beauty | (noun) the qualities that give pleasure to the senses | - |
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| (noun) an outstanding example of its kind | Synonyms: beaut |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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| (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
| (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
| (noun) a full beard | - |
| (noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |
| (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
| bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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| bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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| beebread | (noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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| beefeater | (noun) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch | Synonyms: yeoman, yeoman of the guard |
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| beefsteak | (noun) a beef steak usually cooked by broiling | - |
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| behead | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: decapitate, decollate |
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| beheaded | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: decapitated |
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| beheading | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: decapitation |
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| (noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: decapitation |
| beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
| beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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| beneath | (adverb) in or to a place that is lower | Synonyms: at a lower place, below, to a lower place |
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| bequeath | (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: leave, will |
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| bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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| bereaved | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing |
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| (noun) a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved | Synonyms: bereaved person |
| bereavement | (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: mourning |
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| besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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| bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| bilinear | (adjective) linear with respect to each of two variables or positions | - |
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| binuclear | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binucleate, binucleated |
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| binucleate | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleated |
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| binucleated | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleate |
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| bioweapon | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: bioarm, biological weapon |
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| bitthead | (noun) the upper end of a bitt | - |
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| biyearly | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| (adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biennial |
| (adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biennially |
| (adverb) twice a year | Synonyms: semiannually |
| blackhead | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: comedo |
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| blackheart | (noun) heart cherry with dark flesh and skin | Synonyms: blackheart cherry |
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| (noun) any of various diseases in which the central tissues blacken | - |
| blacklead | (verb) cover with graphite | - |
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| blameable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| bleach | (noun) the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) | - |
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| (noun) the whiteness that results from removing the color from something | - |
| (noun) an agent that makes things white or colorless | Synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener |
| (verb) make whiter or lighter | - |
| (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
| bleached | (adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural | Synonyms: colored, coloured, dyed |
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| (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: faded, washed-out, washy |
| bleacher | (noun) a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.) | - |
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