addle | (verb) become rotten | - |
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(verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: muddle, puddle |
astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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(verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
coddle | (verb) cook in nearly boiling water | - |
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(verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
cuddle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: nestle, snuggle |
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(verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
(verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
diddle | (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
doddle | (noun) an easy task | - |
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fiddle | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: violin |
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(verb) try to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinker |
(verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, play, toy |
(verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: monkey, tamper |
(verb) play the violin or fiddle | - |
(verb) play on a violin | - |
(verb) commit fraud and steal from one's employer | - |
(verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from |
fuddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
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(verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw |
(verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, drink, hit the bottle |
(verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: befuddle |
griddle | (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked | - |
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(verb) cook on a griddle | - |
huddle | (noun) (informal) a quick private conference | Synonyms: powwow |
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(noun) a disorganized and densely packed crowd | - |
(verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: cower |
(verb) crowd or draw together | Synonyms: huddle together |
meddle | (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: tamper |
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middle | (adjective) between an earlier and a later period of time | - |
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(adjective) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages | - |
(adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series | Synonyms: in-between, mediate |
(adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, halfway, midway |
(noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: midriff, midsection |
(noun) an intermediate part or section | - |
(noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, heart |
(noun) the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process | - |
(verb) put in the middle | - |
mollycoddle | (noun) a pampered darling; an effeminate man | - |
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(verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, pamper, spoil |
muddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, smother, welter |
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(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, pickle |
(verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, puddle |
(verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: puddle |
noddle | (noun) an informal British expression for head or mind | - |
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offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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packsaddle | (noun) a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached | - |
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paddle | (noun) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat | Synonyms: boat paddle |
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(noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board | - |
(noun) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel | - |
(noun) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games | - |
(verb) stir with a paddle | - |
(verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, spank |
(verb) propel with a paddle | - |
(verb) swim like a dog in shallow water | - |
(verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle |
(verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: dabble, splash around |
paradiddle | (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, roll |
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peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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piddle | (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piss, urine, water, weewee |
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(verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
(verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
puddle | (noun) something resembling a pool of liquid | Synonyms: pool |
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(noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid | Synonyms: pool |
(noun) a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry | - |
(verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
(verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, muddle |
(verb) mess around, as in a liquid or paste | - |
(verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: muddle |
(verb) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud | - |
(verb) make a puddle by splashing water | - |
(verb) dip into mud before planting | - |
(verb) subject to puddling or form by puddling | - |
(verb) wade or dabble in a puddle | - |
raddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: reddle, ruddle |
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(verb) mark or paint with raddle | - |
(verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: ruddle |
reddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, ruddle |
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riddle | (noun) a coarse sieve (as for gravel) | - |
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(noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma |
(verb) explain a riddle | - |
(verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
(verb) speak in riddles | - |
(verb) pierce with many holes | - |
(verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
(verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
ruddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, reddle |
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(verb) redden as if with a red ocher color | - |
(verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: raddle |
saddle | (noun) posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl | - |
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(noun) a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal | - |
(noun) a seat for the rider of a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle seat |
(noun) a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe | - |
(noun) cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins | - |
(noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddleback |
(verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
(verb) put a saddle on | - |
(verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
sidesaddle | (noun) a saddle for a woman; rider sits with both feet on the same side of the horse | - |
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(adverb) on or as if on a sidesaddle | - |
skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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(verb) run away, as if in a panic | - |
staddle | (noun) a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked | - |
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straddle | (noun) the act of sitting or standing astride | Synonyms: span |
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(noun) the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options | - |
(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars | - |
(noun) a noncommittal or equivocal position | - |
(verb) be noncommittal | - |
(verb) sit or stand astride of | - |
(verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: range |
swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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taradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle |
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(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
tarradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, taradiddle |
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(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
toddle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, totter, waddle |
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twaddle | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh |
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(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
twiddle | (noun) a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns | - |
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(verb) manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: fiddle with |
(verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twirl, whirl |
unsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: offsaddle |
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waddle | (noun) walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other | - |
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(verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |