| ampulla | (noun) a flask that has two handles; used by Romans for wines or oils | - |
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| (noun) the dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear | - |
| ampullar | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullary |
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| ampullary | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullar |
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| artfully | (adverb) in a manner exhibiting art or skill | - |
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| (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: disingenuously |
| (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
| awfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, frightfully, terribly |
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| (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: dreadfully, horribly |
| (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, atrociously, rottenly, terribly |
| balefully | (adverb) in a baleful manner | - |
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| banefully | (adverb) in a noxiously baneful way | Synonyms: perniciously |
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| bashfully | (adverb) in a shy or timid or bashful manner | Synonyms: shyly, timidly |
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| beautifully | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: attractively |
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| bellpull | (noun) a handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc. | - |
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| blissfully | (adverb) in a blissful manner | - |
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| boastfully | (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, large, vauntingly |
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| boulle | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boule, buhl |
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| bountifully | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bounteously, plenteously, plentifully |
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| brimfull | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimming |
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| buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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| bull | (noun) a serious and ludicrous blunder | - |
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| (noun) uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle | - |
| (noun) mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle | - |
| (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
| (noun) a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla) | Synonyms: papal bull |
| (noun) the center of a target | Synonyms: bull's eye |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: cop, copper, fuzz, pig |
| (noun) an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later | - |
| (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, Samson, strapper |
| (verb) advance in price | - |
| (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bullshit, fake, talk through one's hat |
| (verb) try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying | - |
| (verb) push or force | Synonyms: bull through |
| bulla | (noun) the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull | - |
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| (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, blister |
| bullace | (noun) small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters | Synonyms: Prunus insititia |
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| bullate | (adjective) of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered | - |
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| bullbat | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: mosquito hawk, nighthawk |
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| bullbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| bulldog | (noun) a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting | Synonyms: English bulldog |
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| (verb) attack viciously and ferociously | - |
| (verb) throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo | - |
| bulldoze | (verb) flatten with or as if with a bulldozer | - |
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| bulldozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: dozer |
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| bullet | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: fastball, heater, hummer, smoke |
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| (noun) a projectile that is fired from a gun | Synonyms: slug |
| (noun) a high-speed passenger train | Synonyms: bullet train |
| bullethead | (noun) a head shaped like a bullet | - |
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| bulletin | (noun) a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast) | - |
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| (verb) make public by bulletin | - |
| bulletproof | (adjective) not penetrable by bullets | - |
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| (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: ironclad, unassailable, unshakable, watertight |
| (verb) make bulletproof | - |
| bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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| bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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| bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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| bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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| bullfrog | (noun) largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice | Synonyms: Rana catesbeiana |
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| bullhead | (noun) freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines | - |
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| (noun) any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States | Synonyms: bullhead catfish |
| bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
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| bullheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
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| bullhorn | (noun) a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier | Synonyms: loud-hailer, loud hailer |
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| bullion | (noun) gold or silver in bars or ingots | - |
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| (noun) a mass of precious metal | - |
| bullish | (adjective) expecting a rise in prices | - |
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| bullnecked | (adjective) having a thick short powerful neck | - |
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| bullnose | (noun) a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front | Synonyms: bullnosed plane |
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| bullock | (noun) castrated bull | Synonyms: steer |
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| (noun) young bull | - |
| bullocky | (adjective) resembling a bullock in strength and power | - |
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| bullpen | (noun) a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily | Synonyms: detention cell, detention centre |
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| (noun) a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game | - |
| bullring | (noun) a stadium where bullfights take place | - |
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| bullrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bulrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bulrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| bullshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, fake, talk through one's hat |
| bullshot | (noun) a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme | - |
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| bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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| bully | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
| (noun) a hired thug | - |
| (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: browbeat, swagger |
| (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
| bullyboy | (noun) a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction | - |
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| bullying | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: blustery |
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| (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: intimidation |
| bullyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| carefully | (adverb) taking care or paying attention | - |
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| (adverb) as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact | Synonyms: cautiously, with kid gloves |
| cheerfully | (adverb) in a cheerful manner | - |
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| citrulline | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is an intermediate in the conversion of ornithine to arginine | - |
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| cruller | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: twister |
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| cull | (noun) the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality | Synonyms: reject |
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| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
| (verb) remove something that has been rejected | - |
| cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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| cullis | (noun) a gutter in a roof | - |
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| deceitfully | (adverb) in a corrupt and deceitful manner | Synonyms: dishonestly, venally |
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| delightfully | (adverb) in a delightful manner | - |
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| despitefully | (adverb) in a maliciously spiteful manner | Synonyms: spitefully |
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| direfully | (adverb) in a direful manner | - |
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| disdainfully | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contemptuously, contumeliously, scornfully |
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| (adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: cavalierly |
| disgracefully | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: discreditably, dishonorably, dishonourably, ignominiously, ingloriously, shamefully |
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| disrespectfully | (adverb) in a disrespectful manner | - |
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| distastefully | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: disgustingly, revoltingly, sickeningly |
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| (adverb) in an offensively distasteful manner | - |
| distressfully | (adverb) with distress | - |
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| distrustfully | (adverb) with distrust | Synonyms: mistrustfully |
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| dolefully | (adverb) with sadness; in a sorrowful manner | Synonyms: sorrowfully |
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| doubtfully | (adverb) in a doubtful manner | Synonyms: dubiously |
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| dreadfully | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, horribly |
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| (adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dismally |
| dreamfully | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamily, moonily |
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| dull | (adjective) not having a sharp edge or point | - |
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| (adjective) emitting or reflecting very little light | - |
| (adjective) lacking in liveliness or animation | - |
| (adjective) not keenly felt | - |
| (adjective) darkened with overcast | Synonyms: leaden |
| (adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: slow, sluggish |
| (adjective) blunted in responsiveness or sensibility | - |
| (adjective) being or made softer or less loud or clear | Synonyms: muffled, muted, softened |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dim, dumb, obtuse, slow |
| (adjective) not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft | Synonyms: thudding |
| (adjective) (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted | - |
| (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
| (verb) become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness | - |
| (verb) make less lively or vigorous | - |
| (verb) become less interesting or attractive | Synonyms: pall |
| (verb) make dull in appearance | - |
| (verb) make dull or blunt | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, muffle, mute, tone down |
| (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, blunt, numb |
| dullard | (noun) a person who evokes boredom | Synonyms: bore |
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| (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
| dulled | (adjective) deprived of color | Synonyms: greyed |
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| (adjective) made dull or blunt | Synonyms: blunted |
| (adjective) having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure | Synonyms: benumbed |
| dullness | (noun) lack of sensibility | - |
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| (noun) without sharpness or clearness of edge or point | Synonyms: bluntness |
| (noun) the quality of lacking interestingness | - |
| (noun) a lack of visual brightness | - |
| (noun) the quality of being slow to understand | Synonyms: obtuseness |
| dully | (adverb) without liveliness | - |
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| (adverb) without luster or shine | - |
| dutifully | (adverb) out of a sense of duty; in a dutiful manner | - |
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| ebullience | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: enthusiasm, exuberance |
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| ebullient | (adjective) joyously unrestrained | Synonyms: exuberant, high-spirited |
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| ebulliently | (adverb) in an ebullient manner | Synonyms: expansively, exuberantly |
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| ebullition | (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, effusion, gush, outburst |
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| faithfully | (adverb) in a faithful manner | Synonyms: dependably, reliably |
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| fancifully | (adverb) in a fanciful manner | Synonyms: whimsically |
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| fatefully | (adverb) in a prophetically fateful manner | - |
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| fearfully | (adverb) in fear | - |
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| (adverb) in an alarming manner | - |
| fitfully | (adverb) in a fitful manner | - |
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| forcefully | (adverb) with full force | - |
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| forgetfully | (adverb) in a forgetful manner | - |
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| foully | (adverb) in a wicked and shameful manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an unfair and insulting manner | Synonyms: insultingly |
| fretfully | (adverb) in a fretful manner | - |
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| frightfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, awfully, terribly |
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| fruitfully | (adverb) in a productive way | Synonyms: productively, profitably |
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| full | (adjective) containing as much or as many as is possible or normal | - |
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| (adjective) (of sound) having marked deepness and body | - |
| (adjective) having the normally expected amount | Synonyms: good |
| (adjective) complete in extent or degree and in every particular | Synonyms: total |
| (adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: broad |
| (adjective) filled to satisfaction with food or drink | Synonyms: replete |
| (adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete | Synonyms: entire, total |
| (adjective) having ample fabric | Synonyms: wide-cut, wide |
| (noun) the time when the Moon is fully illuminated | Synonyms: full-of-the-moon, full moon, full phase of the moon |
| (adverb) to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form) | Synonyms: fully, to the full |
| (verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: wax |
| (verb) make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering | - |
| (verb) beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening | - |
| fullback | (noun) (American football) the position of a back on a football team, generally larger in size than halfbacks | - |
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| (noun) (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team | - |
| (verb) play the fullback | - |
| fuller | (noun) a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living | - |
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| fullerene | (noun) a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms | - |
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