bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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dazzle | (noun) brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily | - |
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(verb) amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill | - |
(verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, daze |
dazzled | (adjective) having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light | - |
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(adjective) stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering | - |
dazzling | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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(adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous |
dazzlingly | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder | - |
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drizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: mizzle |
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(verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: moisten |
(verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: mizzle |
drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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drizzly | (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drippy |
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embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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embezzled | (adjective) taken for your own use in violation of a trust | Synonyms: misappropriated |
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embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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embezzler | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, peculator |
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fizzle | (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: bust, flop |
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(noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: hiss, hissing, hushing, sibilation |
(verb) end weakly | Synonyms: fizzle out, peter out, taper off |
frazzle | (noun) a state of extreme exhaustion | - |
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(verb) exhaust physically or emotionally | - |
(verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: fray |
frizzle | (verb) fry something until it curls and becomes crisp | - |
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(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, kink, kink up |
frizzly | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzy, kinky, nappy |
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frowzled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, dishevelled, rumpled, tousled |
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grizzle | (noun) a grey wig | - |
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(verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: whine, yammer, yawp |
(verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, stew |
grizzled | (adjective) having dark hairs mixed with grey or white | - |
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grizzly | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
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(noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
guzzle | (verb) drink greedily or as if with great thirst | - |
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guzzler | (noun) someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages) | - |
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(noun) a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily | Synonyms: gulper |
guzzling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, swilling |
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mizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: drizzle |
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(verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: drizzle |
muzzle | (noun) forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose | - |
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(noun) restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting | Synonyms: gag |
(noun) the open circular discharging end of a gun | Synonyms: gun muzzle |
(noun) a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting | - |
(verb) tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them | Synonyms: gag |
(verb) prevent from speaking out | Synonyms: gag |
(verb) fit with a muzzle | - |
muzzler | (noun) someone who muzzles animals | - |
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nozzle | (noun) a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged | Synonyms: nose |
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(noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
nuzzle | (verb) rub noses | Synonyms: nose |
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(verb) dig out with the snout | - |
(verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, snuggle |
puzzle | (noun) a game that tests your ingenuity | - |
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(noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzler, teaser |
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide | - |
puzzled | (adjective) filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at a loss, nonplused, nonplussed |
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puzzlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation |
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puzzler | (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, teaser |
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puzzling | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, enigmatical |
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(adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, perplexing |
razzle | (noun) any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent | Synonyms: razmataz, razzle-dazzle, razzmatazz |
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schemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: shemozzle |
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schnozzle | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, snoot, snout |
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shemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: schemozzle |
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sizzle | (noun) a sizzling noise | - |
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(verb) burn or sear with a sizzling sound | - |
(verb) make a sound like frying fat | - |
(verb) seethe with deep anger or resentment | - |
sizzling | (adjective) hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound | - |
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(adjective) characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement | Synonyms: red-hot |
sozzled | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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swizzle | (noun) any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice | - |
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unmuzzle | (verb) remove the muzzle from (a dog) | - |
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zloty | (noun) the basic unit of money in Poland | - |
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