| bald | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: denudate, denuded |
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| (adjective) lacking hair on all or most of the scalp | Synonyms: bald-headed, bald-pated |
| (adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: barefaced |
| (verb) grow bald; lose hair on one's head | - |
| baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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| ballad | (noun) a narrative poem of popular origin | Synonyms: lay |
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| (noun) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain | Synonyms: lay |
| band | (noun) a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body) | - |
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| (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: banding, stripe |
| (noun) a restraint put around something to hold it together | - |
| (noun) jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger | Synonyms: ring |
| (noun) a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) | Synonyms: ring |
| (noun) a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration | - |
| (noun) a driving belt in machinery | - |
| (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: banding, stria, striation |
| (noun) a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure | Synonyms: isthmus |
| (noun) a range of frequencies between two limits | - |
| (noun) instrumentalists not including string players | - |
| (noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: circle, lot, set |
| (noun) a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing | Synonyms: dance band, dance orchestra |
| (verb) bind or tie together, as with a band | - |
| (verb) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify | Synonyms: ring |
| bandaged | (adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bound |
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| banded | (adjective) identified with a band especially around a leg | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by a band of especially white around the body | - |
| (adjective) marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture | - |
| bandstand | (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand |
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| banned | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: prohibited |
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| baptised | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptized |
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| baptized | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptised |
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| barbecued | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: grilled |
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| barbed | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| bard | (noun) an ornamental caparison for a horse | - |
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| (noun) a lyric poet | - |
| (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: barde, caparison, dress up |
| barebacked | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
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| (adverb) without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
| bared | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bareheaded |
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| barefaced | (adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: bald |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| barefooted | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefoot, shoeless |
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| (adverb) without shoes on | Synonyms: barefoot |
| barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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| bareheaded | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bared |
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| barelegged | (adjective) having the legs uncovered by clothing | - |
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| barmaid | (noun) a female bartender | - |
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| barnyard | (noun) a yard adjoining a barn | - |
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| barred | (adjective) marked with stripes or bands | - |
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| (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barricaded, blockaded |
| barreled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barrelled |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barrelled |
| barrelled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barreled |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barreled |
| barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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| baseboard | (noun) a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor | Synonyms: mopboard, skirting board |
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| based | (adjective) having a base of operations (often used as a combining form) | - |
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| (adjective) having a base | - |
| basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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| basined | (adjective) enclosed in a basin | - |
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| basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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| (noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |
| bastard | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony |
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| (noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: mongrel |
| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
| bastardised | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardized |
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| bastardized | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardised |
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| bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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| bated | (adjective) diminished or moderated | - |
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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 | - |
| 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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| baud | (noun) (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems | Synonyms: baud rate |
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| bawd | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| beachhead | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation | - |
| bead | (noun) a small ball with a hole through the middle | - |
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| (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, beading, beadwork |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: drop, pearl |
| (verb) string together like beads | - |
| (verb) decorate by sewing beads onto | - |
| (verb) form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example | - |
| beaded | (adjective) covered with beads of liquid | - |
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| beaked | (adjective) having or resembling a beak | - |
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| beard | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: byssus |
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| (noun) hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals | - |
| (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: face fungus, whiskers |
| (noun) a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) | - |
| (noun) a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses | - |
| (verb) go along the rim, like a beard around the chin | - |
| bearded | (adjective) having a growth of hairlike awns | - |
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| (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
| bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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| beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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| becalmed | (adjective) rendered motionless for lack of wind | - |
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| becloud | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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| bed | (noun) a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep | - |
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| (noun) a plot of ground in which plants are growing | - |
| (noun) a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track | - |
| (noun) the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. | - |
| (noun) single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance | Synonyms: layer |
| (noun) a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit | Synonyms: seam |
| (noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bottom |
| (noun) (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) | - |
| (verb) prepare for sleep | Synonyms: crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| (verb) put to bed | - |
| (verb) place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil | - |
| (verb) furnish with a bed | - |
| bedaubed | (adjective) ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion | - |
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| bedded | (adjective) having a bed or beds as specified | - |
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| (adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: stratified |
| bedewed | (adjective) wet with dew | Synonyms: dewy |
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| bedground | (noun) an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night | Synonyms: bed-ground, bed ground |
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| bedimmed | (adjective) made dim or indistinct | - |
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| bedraggled | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| (adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | Synonyms: draggled |
| bedrid | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedfast, bedridden, sick-abed |
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| bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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| bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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| beebread | (noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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| beechwood | (noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beech |
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| beefwood | (noun) a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber | Synonyms: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata |
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| (noun) any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork | - |
| (noun) tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: Grevillea striata |
| (noun) tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus |
| (noun) any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork | - |
| beetleweed | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower |
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| befogged | (adjective) stupefied by alcoholic drink | Synonyms: befuddled |
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| beforehand | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: advance |
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| (adverb) ahead of time; in anticipation | Synonyms: ahead, in advance |
| befouled | (adjective) made dirty or foul | Synonyms: fouled |
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| befriend | (verb) become friends with | - |
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| befuddled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
| (adjective) stupefied by alcoholic drink | Synonyms: befogged |
| beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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| begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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| begrimed | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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| beguiled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| behead | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: decapitate, decollate |
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| beheaded | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: decapitated |
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| behind | (adjective) having the lower score or lagging position in a contest | - |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (adverb) in or to or toward the rear | - |
| (adverb) remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from | - |
| (adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behindhand, in arrears |
| (adverb) in or into an inferior position | - |
| (adverb) showing a time that is earlier than the actual time | Synonyms: slow |
| behindhand | (adjective) behind schedule | - |
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| (adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behind, in arrears |
| behold | (verb) see with attention | Synonyms: lay eyes on |
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| belated | (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: late, tardy |
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| belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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| bellbird | (noun) any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call | - |
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| bellied | (adjective) having a belly | - |
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| (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
| bellyband | (noun) a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon | - |
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| (noun) a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) | - |
| beloved | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: darling, dear |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
| belted | (adjective) having or provided with a belt | - |
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| bemused | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| (adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: lost, preoccupied |
| bend | (noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) | Synonyms: curve |
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| (noun) diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left | Synonyms: bend dexter |
| (noun) movement that causes the formation of a curve | Synonyms: bending |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: crook, turn, twist |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: deform, flex, turn, twist |
| (verb) bend a joint | Synonyms: flex |
| (verb) form a curve | Synonyms: flex |
| (verb) change direction | - |
| (verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: deflect, turn away |
| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bow, crouch, stoop |
| bended | (adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bent |
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| beneficed | (adjective) having a benefice | - |
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| benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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| (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
| benniseed | (noun) small oval seeds of the sesame plant | Synonyms: sesame seed |
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| bentwood | (noun) wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture | - |
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| benumbed | (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: asleep, numb |
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| (adjective) having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure | Synonyms: dulled |
| benweed | (noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity | Synonyms: ragweed, ragwort, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort |
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| benzenoid | (adjective) similar to benzene in structure or linkage | - |
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| bereaved | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing |
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| (noun) a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved | Synonyms: bereaved person |
| berried | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, bacciferous |
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