abetter | (noun) one who helps or encourages or incites another | Synonyms: abettor |
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abutter | (noun) the owner of contiguous property | - |
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aflutter | (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: nervous |
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aglitter | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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antimatter | (noun) matter consisting of elementary particles that are the antiparticles of those making up normal substances | - |
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babysitter | (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, sitter |
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backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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barretter | (noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast, ballast resistor |
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batter | (noun) a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking | - |
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(noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batsman, hitter, slugger |
(verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: dinge |
(verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, clobber |
(verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: buffet, knock about |
battercake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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battered | (adjective) exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury | - |
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(adjective) damaged by blows or hard usage | Synonyms: beat-up, beaten-up |
(adjective) damaged especially by hard usage | - |
battering | (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: banging |
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battery | (noun) an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact | Synonyms: assault and battery |
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(noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling |
(noun) a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series | Synonyms: electric battery |
(noun) a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp battery |
(noun) a collection of related things intended for use together | - |
(noun) group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place | - |
(noun) a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher | - |
bedsitter | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsit, bedsitting room |
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bedwetter | (noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, wetter |
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begetter | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: father, male parent |
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bespatter | (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: spatter |
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better | (adjective) (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another | - |
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(adjective) (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness | - |
(adjective) (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable | Synonyms: best |
(adjective) more than half | - |
(noun) something superior in quality or condition or effect | - |
(noun) the superior one of two alternatives | - |
(noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: bettor, punter, wagerer |
(noun) a superior person having claim to precedence | - |
(adverb) comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc. | - |
(adverb) from a position of superiority or authority | Synonyms: best |
(verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate |
(verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, improve, meliorate |
(verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: break |
bettering | (adjective) changing for the better | - |
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betterment | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: amelioration, melioration |
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(noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, improvement |
(noun) an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility | - |
bitter | (adjective) proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity | - |
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(adjective) very difficult to accept or bear | - |
(adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: biting |
(adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: acrimonious |
(adjective) expressive of severe grief or regret | - |
(adjective) causing a sharp and acrid taste experience | - |
(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
(noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitterness |
(noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitterness |
(noun) English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) | - |
(adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitterly, piercingly |
(verb) make bitter | - |
bittercress | (noun) any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic | Synonyms: bitter cress |
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bitterish | (adjective) somewhat bitter | Synonyms: sharp-tasting |
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bitterly | (adverb) with bitterness; in a resentful manner | - |
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(adverb) indicating something hard to accept | - |
(adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitter, piercingly |
bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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(noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
(noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
(noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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bitterroot | (noun) showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower | Synonyms: Lewisia rediviva |
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bitters | (noun) alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots | - |
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bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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(adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
(noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork |
(noun) poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America | Synonyms: bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade |
bitterweed | (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: ambrosia, ragweed |
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(noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bristly oxtongue, bugloss, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
bitterwood | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: quassia, Quassia amara |
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(noun) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia | Synonyms: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum |
(noun) medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits | Synonyms: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca |
blotter | (noun) the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station | Synonyms: charge sheet, day book, police blotter, rap sheet |
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(noun) absorbent paper used to dry ink | Synonyms: blotting paper |
bonesetter | (noun) someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones | - |
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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 |
canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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chatter | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
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(noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chattering |
(noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chattering |
(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
(verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
(verb) make noise as if chattering away | - |
(verb) cut unevenly with a chattering tool | - |
(verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: click |
chatterbox | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
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(noun) orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf | Synonyms: Epipactis gigantea, giant helleborine, stream orchid |
chatterer | (noun) passerine bird of New World tropics | Synonyms: cotinga |
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(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, magpie, prater, spouter |
chattering | (noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chatter |
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(noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chatter |
chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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chitterlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitlins |
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cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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clatter | (noun) a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement) | - |
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(verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clack |
clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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clutter | (noun) unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen | - |
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(noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
(verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
cluttered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: littered |
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cotter | (noun) fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together | Synonyms: cottar |
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(noun) a medieval English villein | Synonyms: cottier |
(noun) a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands | Synonyms: cottar |
critter | (noun) a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals) | - |
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cutter | (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutlery, cutting tool |
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(noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: pinnace, ship's boat, tender |
(noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop | - |
(noun) someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) | - |
(noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: carver |
(noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: stonecutter |
dotterel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotrel, Eudromias morinellus |
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embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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emitter | (noun) the electrode in a transistor where electrons originate | - |
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fencesitter | (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: independent, mugwump |
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fetter | (noun) a shackle for the ankles or feet | Synonyms: hobble |
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(verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: shackle |
fetterbush | (noun) showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel | Synonyms: fetter bush, Lyonia lucida, shiny lyonia |
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(noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: mountain andromeda, mountain fetterbush, Pieris floribunda |
fettered | (adjective) bound by chains fastened around the ankles | Synonyms: shackled |
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fitter | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: healthier |
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(noun) someone who fits a garment to a particular person | - |
flatter | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: blandish |
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flatterer | (noun) a person who uses flattery | Synonyms: adulator |
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flattering | (adjective) showing or representing to advantage | - |
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(adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: adulatory |
flattery | (noun) excessive or insincere praise | - |
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flitter | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flutter, quiver, waver |
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flutter | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flicker, waver |
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(noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, fluttering |
(noun) abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block | - |
(noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, disturbance, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
(verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: bat |
(verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: palpitate |
(verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, quiver, waver |
(verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flit |
(verb) flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements | - |
fluttering | (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, flutter |
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flyswatter | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswat, swatter |
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fritter | (noun) small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables | - |
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(verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
garrotter | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, strangler, throttler |
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gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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glitter | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, scintillation, sparkle |
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(noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: coruscation, sparkle |
(verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, shine |
glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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globetrotter | (noun) someone who travels widely and often | Synonyms: world traveler |
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gutter | (noun) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater | Synonyms: trough |
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(noun) a tool for gutting fish | - |
(noun) a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.) | - |
(noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: sewer, toilet |
(verb) provide with gutters | - |
(verb) wear or cut gutters into | - |
(verb) flow in small streams | - |
(verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker | - |
guttersnipe | (noun) a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas | Synonyms: street urchin |
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hairsplitter | (noun) a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions | - |
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hatter | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, milliner, modiste |
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hitter | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batsman, batter, slugger |
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(noun) someone who hits | Synonyms: striker |
jitter | (noun) small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources | - |
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(noun) a small irregular movement | - |
jitterbug | (noun) a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s | - |
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(verb) do the jitterbug | - |