brook | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: creek |
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(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
brooklet | (noun) a small brook | - |
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brooklime | (noun) plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | Synonyms: American brooklime, Veronica americana |
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(noun) European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga |
brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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(noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
crook | (noun) a long staff with one end being hook shaped | Synonyms: shepherd's crook |
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(noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
(noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, turn, twist |
(verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: curve |
crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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(noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
crookbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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crooked | (adjective) having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned | - |
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(adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: corrupt |
(adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
(adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
crookedly | (adverb) in a crooked lopsided manner | Synonyms: lopsidedly |
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crookedness | (noun) having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
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(noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: deviousness |
(noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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rook | (noun) common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow | Synonyms: Corvus frugilegus |
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(noun) (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard | Synonyms: castle |
(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
rookery | (noun) a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks) | - |
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rookie | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, greenhorn |
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