| battle | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: conflict, engagement, fight |
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| (noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: struggle |
| (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: conflict, struggle |
| (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: combat |
| battledore | (noun) an ancient racket game | Synonyms: battledore and shuttlecock |
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| (noun) a light long-handled racket used by badminton players | Synonyms: badminton racket, badminton racquet |
| battlefield | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| battlefront | (noun) the line along which opposing armies face each other | Synonyms: front, front line |
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| battleful | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicose, combative |
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| battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| battlement | (noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: crenelation, crenellation |
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| battlemented | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: castellated, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| (adjective) protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through | - |
| battler | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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| battleship | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battlewagon |
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| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| battlewagon | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battleship |
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| belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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| (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
| belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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| belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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| bluebottle | (noun) blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight | Synonyms: Calliphora vicina |
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| (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower |
| bottle | (noun) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | - |
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| (noun) a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children | Synonyms: feeding bottle, nursing bottle |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottleful |
| (verb) put into bottles | - |
| (verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles | - |
| bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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| bottlecap | (noun) a cap that seals a bottle | - |
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| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| bottleful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottle |
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| bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
| (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| bottlenose | (noun) northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead | Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus |
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| (noun) any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean | Synonyms: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin |
| bottler | (noun) a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages | - |
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| brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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| brittle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brickly |
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| (adjective) lacking warmth and generosity of spirit | - |
| (adjective) (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured | Synonyms: unannealed |
| (noun) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets | Synonyms: toffee, toffy |
| brittlebush | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, Encelia farinosa, incienso |
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| brittleness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: crispiness, crispness |
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| cattle | (noun) domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age | Synonyms: Bos taurus, cows, kine, oxen |
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| cattleman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) cattle | Synonyms: beef man, cow man |
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| (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowboy, cowman |
| cattleship | (noun) a cargo ship for the transport of livestock | Synonyms: cattle boat |
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| cattleya | (noun) any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a three-lobed lip enclosing the column; among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known | - |
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| crottle | (noun) any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made | Synonyms: crotal, crottal |
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| cuttle | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttlefish |
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| cuttlefish | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttle |
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| dottle | (noun) the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking | - |
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| embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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| (verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
| embattled | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, crenelated |
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| (adjective) prepared for battle | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict | - |
| embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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| fettle | (noun) a state of fitness and good health | - |
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| (verb) remove mold marks or sand from (a casting) | - |
| greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
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| guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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| kettle | (noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: boiler |
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| (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettledrum, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
| (noun) (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits | Synonyms: kettle hole |
| (noun) the quantity a kettle will hold | Synonyms: kettleful |
| kettledrum | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
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| kettleful | (noun) the quantity a kettle will hold | Synonyms: kettle |
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| little | (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: short |
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| (adjective) limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: slight |
| (adjective) small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context) | - |
| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: minuscule, small |
| (adjective) (of a voice) faint | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| (adjective) (of children and animals) young, immature | Synonyms: small |
| (noun) a small amount or duration | - |
| (adverb) not much | - |
| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| littleness | (noun) the property of having a relatively small size | Synonyms: smallness |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: pettiness, smallness |
| (noun) the property of having relatively little strength or vigor | Synonyms: smallness |
| littler | (adjective) small or little relative to something else | Synonyms: smaller |
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| mettle | (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: heart, nerve, spunk |
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| mettlesome | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, spirited, spunky |
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| (adjective) having a proud and unbroken spirit | - |
| mettlesomeness | (noun) courageous high-spiritedness | - |
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| mottle | (noun) an irregular arrangement of patches of color | - |
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| (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, dapple |
| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, streak |
| mottled | (adjective) having spots or patches of color | Synonyms: dappled |
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| nettle | (noun) any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae) | - |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: urticate |
| nettled | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| nettlesome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| pottle | (noun) a pot that holds 2 quarts | - |
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| prattle | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prate |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| prattler | (noun) someone who speaks in a childish way | - |
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| rattle | (noun) loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail | - |
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| (noun) a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken | - |
| (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rale, rattling |
| (verb) shake and cause to make a rattling noise | - |
| (verb) make short successive sounds | - |
| rattlebox | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: crotalaria |
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| rattlebrained | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty |
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| rattled | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed |
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| rattlepated | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, scatterbrained, scatty |
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| rattler | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattlesnake |
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| (noun) a railroad train consisting of freight cars | Synonyms: freight train |
| rattlesnake | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattler |
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| resettle | (verb) settle in a new place | - |
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| resettled | (adjective) settled in a new location | Synonyms: relocated |
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| resettlement | (noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: relocation |
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| scuttle | (noun) container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire | Synonyms: coal scuttle |
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| (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, opening |
| (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
| scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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| settle | (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | Synonyms: settee |
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| (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: locate |
| (verb) form a community | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: root, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) establish or develop as a residence | - |
| (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, finalize, nail down |
| (verb) become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet | - |
| (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, fall |
| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, resolve |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: determine, square off, square up |
| (verb) end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement | - |
| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile |
| (verb) accept despite lack of complete satisfaction | - |
| (verb) get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury | Synonyms: get back |
| (verb) fix firmly | Synonyms: ensconce |
| (verb) arrange or fix in the desired order | - |
| (verb) come to rest | - |
| (verb) settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground | Synonyms: settle down |
| (verb) cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids) | - |
| (verb) sink down or precipitate | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, sink |
| (verb) become clear by the sinking of particles | - |
| (verb) dispose of; make a financial settlement | - |
| settled | (adjective) established in a desired position or place; not moving about | - |
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| (adjective) established or decided beyond dispute or doubt | - |
| (adjective) not changeable | - |
| (adjective) inhabited by colonists | Synonyms: colonised, colonized |
| settledness | (noun) The quality or state of being fixed, permanent or stationary; established. | - |
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| settlement | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, colonization |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, resolution |
| (noun) a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it | - |
| (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: colony |
| (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: small town, village |
| (noun) an area where a group of families live together | - |
| settler | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: colonist |
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| (noun) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who settles disputes | - |
| shuttle | (noun) bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads | - |
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| (noun) public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points | - |
| (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttlecock |
| (verb) travel back and forth between two points | - |
| shuttlecock | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttle |
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| (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
| skittle | (noun) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles | Synonyms: ninepin, skittle pin |
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| (verb) play skittles | - |
| skittles | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: ninepins |
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| spittle | (noun) a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches | Synonyms: saliva, spit |
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| spittlebug | (noun) small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete | Synonyms: spittle insect |
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| tattle | (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, telling |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk |
| tattler | (noun) any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry | - |
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| (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattletale, telltale |
| tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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| teakettle | (noun) kettle for boiling water to make tea | - |
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| throttle | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: accelerator, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun |
| (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, trammel |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, strangulate |
| throttlehold | (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, stranglehold |
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| throttler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, strangler |
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| tittle | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, whit |
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| unsettle | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, faze, unnerve |
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| unsettled | (adjective) not settled or established | - |
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| (adjective) still in doubt | - |
| (adjective) not yet settled | - |
| (adjective) subject to change | Synonyms: changeable, uncertain |
| wattle | (noun) framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence | - |
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| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: lappet |
| (noun) any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle | - |
| (verb) interlace to form wattle | - |
| (verb) build of or with wattle | - |
| whittle | (verb) cut small bits or pare shavings from | Synonyms: pare |
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| whittler | (noun) someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime) | - |
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