| boatload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: carload, shipload |
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| boatyard | (noun) a place where boats are built or maintained or stored | - |
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| bobsled | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsleigh |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsleigh |
| (verb) ride a bobsled | Synonyms: bob |
| bobtailed | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtail |
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| bod | (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
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| bodied | (adjective) having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
| bodyguard | (noun) a group of men who escort and protect some important person | - |
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| (noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: escort |
| boiled | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: poached, stewed |
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| bold | (adjective) fearless and daring | - |
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| (adjective) clear and distinct | - |
| (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bluff, sheer |
| (noun) a typeface with thick heavy lines | Synonyms: bold face, boldface |
| bollard | (noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines) | Synonyms: bitt |
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| bombard | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombardon |
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| (verb) direct high energy particles or radiation against | - |
| (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: barrage |
| (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bomb |
| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: pelt |
| bombycid | (noun) moderate-sized Asiatic moth whose larvae feed on mulberry leaves and produce silk | Synonyms: bombycid moth, silkworm moth |
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| bond | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: hamper, shackle, trammel |
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| (noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: attachment |
| (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness |
| (noun) an electrical force linking atoms | Synonyms: chemical bond |
| (noun) a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal | Synonyms: bond certificate |
| (noun) (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial | Synonyms: bail, bail bond |
| (noun) a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest | Synonyms: alliance |
| (noun) a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents | Synonyms: bond paper |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, hold fast, stick, stick to |
| (verb) bring together in a common cause or emotion | Synonyms: draw together |
| (verb) issue bonds on | - |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bind, tie |
| bondmaid | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
| boned | (adjective) having bones as specified | - |
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| (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: deboned |
| bonehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| bonnethead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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| booked | (adjective) reserved in advance | Synonyms: engaged, set-aside |
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| bookend | (noun) a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) | - |
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| booted | (adjective) wearing boots | - |
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| borated | (adjective) mixed or impregnated with borax | - |
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| bordered | (adjective) having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term | - |
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| borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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| bored | (adjective) tired of the world | Synonyms: world-weary |
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| (adjective) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence | Synonyms: blase |
| boskopoid | (adjective) belonging or relating to or resembling Boskop man | - |
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| bosomed | (adjective) having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds | - |
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| botched | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: bungled |
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| bothered | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: daunted, fazed |
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| botryoid | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoidal, boytrose |
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| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| bottomed | (adjective) having a bottom of a specified character | - |
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| bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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| boughed | (adjective) having boughs (of trees) | - |
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| bouldered | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldery, rocky, stony |
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| boulevard | (noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: avenue |
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| bound | (adjective) confined by bonds | - |
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| (adjective) secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form | - |
| (adjective) held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union | - |
| (adjective) confined in the bowels | - |
| (adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: destined |
| (adjective) bound by an oath | - |
| (adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bandaged |
| (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: apprenticed, articled, indentured |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: destined |
| (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
| (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: boundary, limit |
| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: boundary, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: boundary, edge |
| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: jump, leap, spring |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: border |
| bounded | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: delimited |
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| bountied | (adjective) rewarded or able to be rewarded by a bounty | - |
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| bovid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovine |
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| (noun) hollow-horned ruminants | - |
| bowed | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow | - |
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| (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate |
| (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowleg, bowlegged |
| (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowing |
| bowerbird | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: catbird |
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| bowhead | (noun) large-mouthed Arctic whale | Synonyms: Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, Greenland whale |
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| bowlegged | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowleg |
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| boxed | (adjective) enclosed in or set off by a border or box | - |
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| (adjective) enclosed in or as if in a box | Synonyms: boxed-in, boxed in |
| boxwood | (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: box |
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| (noun) very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks | Synonyms: Turkish boxwood |
| boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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| boyhood | (noun) the childhood of a boy | - |
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| braced | (adjective) positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger | - |
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| (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: buttressed |
| brachiopod | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopodous |
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| (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell |
| bracted | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracteate |
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| brad | (noun) a small nail | - |
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| (verb) fasten with brads | - |
| braid | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braiding, gold braid |
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| (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: plait, tress, twist |
| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: pleach |
| (verb) decorate with braids or ribbons | - |
| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: lace, plait |
| braided | (adjective) woven by (or as if by) braiding | - |
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| brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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| brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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| braised | (adjective) cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container | - |
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| branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
| branchiopod | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous |
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| (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
| brand | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, steel, sword |
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| (noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: make |
| (noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma |
| (noun) identification mark on skin, made by burning | - |
| (noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: firebrand |
| (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
| branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
| brassard | (noun) armor plate that protects the arm | - |
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| brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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| (adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
| brazilwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood |
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| (noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods | - |
| bread | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| (verb) cover with bread crumbs | - |
| breadboard | (noun) a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced | Synonyms: bread board |
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| breasted | (adjective) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds | - |
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| breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
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| breed | (noun) a special type | - |
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| (noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: stock, strain |
| (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: multiply |
| (verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: cover |
| (verb) cause to procreate (animals) | - |
| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: engender, spawn |
| briard | (noun) old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat | - |
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| briarwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: brier-wood, brierwood |
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| brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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| brickyard | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickfield |
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| bridesmaid | (noun) an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding | Synonyms: maid of honor |
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| bridgehead | (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy | - |
| brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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| brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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| brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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| brindled | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, tabby |
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| bristled | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| broached | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: abroach |
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| broad | (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other | Synonyms: wide |
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| (adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: large-minded, liberal, tolerant |
| (adjective) lacking subtlety; obvious | Synonyms: unsubtle |
| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
| (adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: unspecific |
| (adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: full |
| (adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: spacious, wide |
| (adjective) (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional | - |
| (noun) slang term for a woman | - |
| broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
| broadnosed | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| broadsword | (noun) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab | - |
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| brocaded | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: embossed, raised |
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| broiled | (adjective) cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill) | Synonyms: grilled |
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| brokenhearted | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: heartbroken, heartsick |
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| bronzed | (adjective) (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun | Synonyms: suntanned, tanned |
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| brood | (noun) the young of an animal cared for at one time | - |
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| (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: cover, hatch, incubate |
| (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: dwell |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: grizzle, stew |
| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: pout, sulk |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: bulk large, hover, loom |
| brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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| (noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
| broomweed | (noun) annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers | Synonyms: broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana |
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| brotherhood | (noun) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | - |
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| (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: fraternity, sodality |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | - |
| browned | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: brown |
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| 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 | - |
| brushwood | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, coppice, copse, thicket |
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| (noun) the wood from bushes or small branches | - |
| buckboard | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axles | - |
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| bud | (noun) a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals | - |
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| (noun) a partially opened flower | - |
| (verb) develop buds | - |
| (verb) start to grow or develop | - |