| airbrush | (noun) an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air | - |
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| (verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
| ambush | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambuscade, lying in wait, trap |
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| (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
| (verb) hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing | Synonyms: still-hunt |
| ambusher | (noun) an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack | - |
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| babushka | (noun) a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women | - |
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| blush | (noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) | Synonyms: flush |
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| (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blusher, paint, rouge |
| (noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: bloom, flush, rosiness |
| (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: crimson, flush, redden |
| (verb) become rosy or reddish | - |
| blusher | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, paint, rouge |
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| (noun) yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched | Synonyms: Amanita rubescens, blushing mushroom |
| blushful | (adjective) of blush color | Synonyms: rosy |
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| (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushing, red-faced |
| blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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| bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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| 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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| brush | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: clash, encounter, skirmish |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) contact with something dangerous or undesirable | - |
| (noun) a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) | - |
| (noun) an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle | - |
| (noun) conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor | - |
| (noun) momentary contact | Synonyms: light touch |
| (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket |
| (verb) remove with or as if with a brush | - |
| (verb) touch lightly and briefly | - |
| (verb) rub with a brush, or as if with a brush | - |
| (verb) clean with a brush | - |
| (verb) cover by brushing | - |
| (verb) sweep across or over | Synonyms: sweep |
| brushed | (adjective) (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush | - |
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| (adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: fleecy, napped |
| (adjective) touched lightly in passing; grazed against | - |
| brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
| brushlike | (adjective) resembling a brush | - |
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| brushup | (noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: review |
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| brushwood | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, coppice, copse, thicket |
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| (noun) the wood from bushes or small branches | - |
| brushwork | (noun) an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush | - |
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| brushy | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: bosky |
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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 |
| bulrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bullrush, 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: bullrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| bush | (adjective) not of the highest quality or sophistication | Synonyms: bush-league |
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| (noun) hair growing in the pubic area | Synonyms: crotch hair, pubic hair |
| (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: chaparral, scrub |
| (noun) a large wilderness area | - |
| (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: shrub |
| (verb) provide with a bushing | - |
| bushbaby | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, galago |
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| bushbuck | (noun) antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | Synonyms: guib, Tragelaphus scriptus |
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| bushed | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, dead |
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| bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
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| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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| (noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
| bushman | (noun) a dweller in the Australian bush country | - |
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| bushtit | (noun) active grey titmice of western North America | Synonyms: bush tit |
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| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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| (noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| bushy | (adjective) resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading | - |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired, shaggy |
| clothesbrush | (noun) a brush used for cleaning clothing | - |
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| crush | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crunch |
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| (noun) temporary love of an adolescent | Synonyms: calf love, infatuation, puppy love |
| (noun) a dense crowd of people | Synonyms: jam, press |
| (noun) leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated | Synonyms: crushed leather |
| (verb) break into small pieces | - |
| (verb) become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure | - |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) make ineffective | Synonyms: break down |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: jam |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: smash |
| (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: oppress, suppress |
| crushed | (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, humbled, humiliated, low |
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| (adjective) treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance | - |
| crusher | (noun) a device that crushes something | - |
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| crushing | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: devastating |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
| crushingly | (adverb) in a crushing manner | - |
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| cushat | (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, ringdove, wood pigeon |
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| cushaw | (noun) globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind | - |
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| (noun) plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds | Synonyms: Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta |
| cushion | (noun) a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc. | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses | Synonyms: shock, shock absorber |
| (noun) the layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle | - |
| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
| cushioned | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushiony, padded |
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| cushioning | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: padding |
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| cushiony | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushioned, padded |
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| cushy | (adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: easygoing, soft |
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| daisybush | (noun) any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays | Synonyms: daisy-bush, daisy bush |
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| 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 |
| flannelbush | (noun) any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers | Synonyms: California beauty, flannel bush |
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| flush | (adjective) of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane | - |
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| (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
| (noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) | Synonyms: blush |
| (noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: gush, outpouring |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, kick, rush, thrill |
| (noun) a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit | - |
| (noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: bloom, blush, rosiness |
| (noun) sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders) | Synonyms: hot flash |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, heyday, peak, prime |
| (adverb) squarely or solidly | - |
| (adverb) in the same plane | - |
| (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden |
| (verb) cause to flow through something | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: purge, scour |
| (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice |
| (verb) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, level |
| (verb) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light | - |
| flushed | (adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: crimson, red-faced, red, reddened |
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| (adjective) having the pinkish flush of health | Synonyms: rose-cheeked, rosy-cheeked, rosy |
| goldenbush | (noun) a plant of the genus Haplopappus | - |
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| (noun) any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America | - |
| gush | (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, ebullition, effusion, outburst |
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| (noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: flush, outpouring |
| (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: rave |
| (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: jet |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: spirt, spout, spurt |
| gusher | (noun) an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary | - |
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| gushing | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, effusive |
| (adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: pouring |
| gushingly | (adverb) in a gushing manner | - |
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| gushy | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushing |
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| hairbrush | (noun) a brush used to groom a person's hair | - |
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| hush | (noun) (poetic) tranquil silence | Synonyms: still, stillness |
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| (verb) become quiet or still; fall silent | - |
| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still |
| (verb) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: wash |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
| hushed | (adjective) in a softened tone | Synonyms: muted, quiet, subdued |
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| hushing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hissing, sibilation |
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| hushpuppy | (noun) deep-fried cornbread ball (southern) | Synonyms: hush puppy |
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| inrush | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inpouring |
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| lawyerbush | (noun) stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth | Synonyms: bush lawyer, lawyer bush, Rubus australis, Rubus cissoides |
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| lush | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, luxuriant, profuse, riotous |
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| (adjective) tender and full of juice | Synonyms: succulent |
| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous |
| (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, soaker, souse |
| lushness | (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriance, voluptuousness |
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| macushla | (noun) (an Irish term of address expressing affection) darling | - |
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| matchbush | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches | Synonyms: matchweed |
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| minniebush | (noun) low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs | Synonyms: Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush |
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| mush | (noun) a journey by dogsled | - |
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| (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, slop, treacle |
| (noun) cornmeal boiled in water | Synonyms: cornmeal mush |
| (noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: pulp |
| (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: dogsled |
| (verb) drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) | - |
| musher | (noun) a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team | - |
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| mushiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: pulpiness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| mushroom | (noun) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi | - |
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| (noun) a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) | Synonyms: mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom cloud |
| (noun) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) | - |
| (noun) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium | - |
| (verb) grow and spread fast | - |
| (verb) pick or gather mushrooms | - |
| mushy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) having the consistency of mush | - |
| nailbrush | (noun) a brush used to clean a person's fingernails | - |
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| needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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| onrush | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onset, onslaught |
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| (noun) a forceful forward rush or flow | - |
| paintbrush | (noun) a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint) | - |
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| penpusher | (noun) a clerk who does boring paperwork | Synonyms: pencil pusher |
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| pincushion | (noun) a small stiff cushion into which pins are stuck ready for use | - |
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| plush | (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, lucullan, plushy |
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| (noun) a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet | - |
| plushy | (adjective) (of textures) resembling plush | Synonyms: plush-like |
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| (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, lucullan, plush |
| puckerbush | (noun) evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles | Synonyms: bay myrtle, Myrica cerifera |
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| push | (noun) the act of applying force in order to move something away | Synonyms: pushing |
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| (noun) an effort to advance | - |
| (noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: button, push button |
| (noun) enterprising or ambitious drive | Synonyms: energy, get-up-and-go |
| (noun) the force used in pushing | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, promote |
| (verb) press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action | Synonyms: bear on |
| (verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: press |
| (verb) move with force | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) press against forcefully without moving | - |
| (verb) move strenuously and with effort | - |
| (verb) sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs) | - |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, labour, tug |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, press |
| pushball | (noun) a game using a leather ball six feet in diameter; the two side try to push it across the opponents' goal | - |
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| pushcart | (noun) wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels | Synonyms: cart, go-cart, handcart |
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| pushchair | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pusher, stroller |
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| pusher | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, stroller |
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| (noun) a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes | Synonyms: zori |
| (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: shover |
| (noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler |
| (noun) one who intrudes or pushes himself forward | Synonyms: thruster |
| pushful | (adjective) marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative | Synonyms: pushy |
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| pushiness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, cockiness, forwardness |
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| pushing | (noun) the act of applying force in order to move something away | Synonyms: push |
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| pushover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) someone who is easily taken advantage of | - |
| pushpin | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, thumbtack |
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| pushup | (noun) an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms | Synonyms: press-up |
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| pushy | (adjective) marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative | Synonyms: pushful |
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| qurush | (noun) 20 qurush equal 1 riyal in Saudi Arabia | - |
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| redbrush | (noun) common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers | Synonyms: American dogwood, Cornus stolonifera, red dogwood, red osier, red osier dogwood |
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| rosebush | (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rose |
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| rush | (adjective) done under pressure | Synonyms: rushed |
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| (adjective) not accepting reservations | Synonyms: first-come-first-serve |
| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rushing |
| (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rushing |
| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: spate, surge, upsurge |
| (noun) a sudden burst of activity | - |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, thrill |
| (noun) grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems | - |
| (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hasten, hurry, look sharp |
| (verb) urge to an unnatural speed | Synonyms: hurry |
| (verb) attack suddenly | - |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) run with the ball, in football | - |
| (verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race | Synonyms: race |
| rushed | (adjective) done under pressure | Synonyms: rush |
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| rusher | (noun) a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously | - |
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| (noun) someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory | - |
| (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball | - |