| besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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| besotted | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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| bestubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: stubbled, stubbly |
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| betrothed | (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: bespoken, engaged |
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| (noun) the person to whom you are engaged | - |
| bewhiskered | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, whiskered, whiskery |
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| bewildered | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| bewitched | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: ensorcelled |
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| beyond | (adverb) over and above | - |
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| (adverb) farther along in space or time or degree | - |
| (adverb) on the farther side from the observer | - |
| biased | (adjective) favoring one person or side over another | Synonyms: colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted |
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| bibbed | (adjective) having a bib | - |
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| bichromated | (adjective) treated or combined with bichromate | - |
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| bicolored | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| bicoloured | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, dichromatic |
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| bicorned | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicuspid | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspidate |
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| (noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: premolar |
| bid | (noun) an attempt to get something | Synonyms: play |
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| (noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | Synonyms: tender |
| (noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bidding |
| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bidding, command, dictation |
| (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: invite |
| (verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: wish |
| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, press |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: offer, tender |
| (verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: call |
| (verb) make a serious effort to attain something | - |
| bifid | (adjective) divided into two lobes | - |
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| bifurcated | (adjective) divided into or made up of two parts | - |
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| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
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| bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bigoted | (adjective) blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others | - |
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| billboard | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: hoarding |
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| billed | (adjective) having a beak or bill as specified | - |
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| billfold | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallet |
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| billiard | (adjective) of or relating to billiards | - |
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| bilobated | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobate, bilobed |
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| bilobed | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobate, bilobated |
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| bilsted | (noun) a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap | Synonyms: American sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, red gum, sweet gum, sweet gum tree |
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| bimotored | (adjective) having two motors | - |
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| bind | (noun) something that hinders as if with bonds | - |
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| (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: constipate |
| (verb) form a chemical bond with | - |
| (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: hold, obligate, oblige |
| (verb) make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope | - |
| (verb) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord | Synonyms: tie |
| (verb) provide with a binding | - |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to |
| (verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss |
| (verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bandage |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bond, tie |
| bindweed | (noun) any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit | - |
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| binucleated | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleate |
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| bioflavinoid | (noun) a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation | Synonyms: citrin, vitamin P |
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| biohazard | (noun) any bacterium or virus or toxin that could be used in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological agent |
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| (noun) hazard to humans or the environment resulting from biological agents or conditions | - |
| biped | (adjective) having two feet | Synonyms: bipedal, two-footed |
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| (noun) an animal with two feet | - |
| bipinnatifid | (adjective) pinnatifid with the segments also pinnatifid | - |
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| bird | (noun) warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings | - |
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| (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: birdie, shuttle, shuttlecock |
| (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razz, razzing, snort |
| (noun) the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food | Synonyms: fowl |
| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: chick, dame, doll, skirt, wench |
| (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: birdwatch |
| birdseed | (noun) food given to birds; usually mixed seeds | Synonyms: bird feed, bird food |
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| bistered | (adjective) colored with or as if with bister | Synonyms: bistred |
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| bistred | (adjective) colored with or as if with bister | Synonyms: bistered |
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| bitterweed | (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: ambrosia, ragweed |
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| (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bristly oxtongue, bugloss, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
| bitterwood | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: quassia, Quassia amara |
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| (noun) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia | Synonyms: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum |
| (noun) medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits | Synonyms: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca |
| bitthead | (noun) the upper end of a bitt | - |
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| bitumenoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bituminoid |
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| bituminoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bitumenoid |
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| bivalved | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalve |
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| blabbermouthed | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: leaky, talebearing, tattling |
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| (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabby, talkative |
| blackbird | (noun) any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black | Synonyms: New World blackbird |
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| (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: European blackbird, merl, merle, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
| blackboard | (noun) sheet of slate; for writing with chalk | Synonyms: chalkboard |
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| blackened | (adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: black |
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| (adjective) darkened by smoke | - |
| blackguard | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: bounder, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, clapperclaw, shout |
| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
| blackhead | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: comedo |
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| blacklead | (verb) cover with graphite | - |
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| blackseed | (noun) grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus | Synonyms: carpet grass, smut grass, Sporobolus poiretii |
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| blackwood | (noun) any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood | Synonyms: blackwood tree |
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| (noun) very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees | - |
| bladderpod | (noun) any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods | - |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods | - |
| (noun) annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella | - |
| (noun) North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: Indian tobacco, Lobelia inflata |
| bladed | (adjective) bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a blade or blades; often used in combination | - |
| (adjective) composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade | - |
| blamed | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| blanched | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, bloodless, livid, white |
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| (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: etiolate, etiolated |
| bland | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: politic, smooth, suave |
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| (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
| (adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | Synonyms: flat |
| blanketed | (adjective) covered with (or as if with) a blanket | - |
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| blasted | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| bleached | (adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural | Synonyms: colored, coloured, dyed |
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| (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: faded, washed-out, washy |
| blebbed | (adjective) (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material | Synonyms: blebby |
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| bleed | (verb) lose blood from one's body | Synonyms: hemorrhage, shed blood |
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| (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
| (verb) drain of liquid or steam | - |
| (verb) be diffused | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone | - |
| blemished | (adjective) marred by imperfections | - |
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| (adjective) having a blemish or flaw | Synonyms: flawed |
| blend | (noun) the act of blending components together thoroughly | Synonyms: blending |
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| (noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: portmanteau, portmanteau word |
| (noun) an occurrence of thorough mixing | - |
| (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
| (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: immingle, intermingle, intermix |
| (verb) blend or harmonize | Synonyms: blend in, go |
| blended | (adjective) combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable | - |
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| blennioid | (noun) elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins | Synonyms: blennioid fish |
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| blessed | (adjective) highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) | Synonyms: blest |
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| (adjective) characterized by happiness and good fortune | - |
| (adjective) enjoying the bliss of heaven | - |
| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
| (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: beatified |
| blighted | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: spoilt |
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| blind | (adjective) unable to see | Synonyms: unsighted |
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| (adjective) not based on reason or evidence | Synonyms: unreasoning |
| (adjective) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand | - |
| (noun) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight | Synonyms: screen |
| (noun) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) | - |
| (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: subterfuge |
| (noun) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group | - |
| (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: dim |
| (verb) make blind by putting the eyes out | - |
| (verb) render unable to see | - |
| blinded | (adjective) deprived of sight | - |
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| blindfold | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfolded |
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| (noun) a cloth used to cover the eyes | - |
| (verb) cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing | - |
| blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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| blizzard | (noun) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences | Synonyms: rash |
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| (noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: snowstorm |
| bloated | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| blockaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, barricaded |
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| blocked | (adjective) closed to traffic | - |
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| (adjective) completely obstructed or closed off | Synonyms: plugged |
| blockhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| blond | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blonde, light-haired |
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| (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blonde |
| (noun) a male person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blood | (noun) temperament or disposition | - |
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| (noun) the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) people viewed as members of a group | - |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
| (verb) smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill | - |
| blooded | (adjective) of unmixed ancestry | Synonyms: full-blood, full-blooded |
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| bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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| bloodshed | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting |
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| (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: gore |
| bloodstained | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: gory |
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| blotched | (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotchy, splotched |
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| blowhard | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| bluebird | (noun) blue North American songbird | - |
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| (noun) fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies | Synonyms: fairy bluebird |
| bluehead | (noun) small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head | Synonyms: Thalassoma bifasciatum |
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| blueweed | (noun) a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: blue devil, blue thistle, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss |
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| blunted | (adjective) made dull or blunt | Synonyms: dulled |
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| blurred | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| (adjective) unclear in form or expression | Synonyms: clouded |
| board | (noun) a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose | - |
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| (noun) a table at which meals are served | Synonyms: dining table |
| (noun) electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices | Synonyms: control board, control panel, instrument panel, panel |
| (noun) a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view | Synonyms: display board, display panel |
| (noun) a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities | Synonyms: add-in, card, circuit board, circuit card, plug-in |
| (noun) a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games | Synonyms: gameboard |
| (noun) food or meals in general | Synonyms: table |
| (noun) a committee having supervisory powers | - |
| (noun) a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes | Synonyms: plank |
| (verb) provide food and lodging (for) | - |
| (verb) lodge and take meals (at) | - |
| (verb) get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.) | Synonyms: get on |
| (verb) live and take one's meals at or in | Synonyms: room |
| boarhound | (noun) large hound used in hunting wild boars | - |
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