| binturong | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, bearcat |
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| bioengineering | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: biotechnology, ergonomics |
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| birdnesting | (noun) hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs | - |
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| birdsong | (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, call, song |
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| birling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: logrolling |
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| birthing | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, giving birth, parturition |
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| bitewing | (noun) a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography | - |
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| biting | (adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| bivouacking | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: camping, encampment, tenting |
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| blackening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: darkening |
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| blacking | (noun) a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear | Synonyms: shoe polish |
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| blackleg | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: rat, scab, strikebreaker |
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| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: fink, rat, scab |
| blacktopping | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktop |
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| blaring | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blasting |
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| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, cacophony, clamor, din |
| blasting | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blaring |
| blazing | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, conspicuous |
| (noun) a strong flame that burns brightly | Synonyms: blaze |
| bleeding | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: haemorrhage, hemorrhage |
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| blending | (noun) a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades | Synonyms: shading |
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| (noun) the act of blending components together thoroughly | Synonyms: blend |
| blessing | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
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| (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, approving |
| (noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
| (noun) a short prayer of thanks before a meal | Synonyms: grace, thanksgiving |
| (noun) a desirable state | Synonyms: boon |
| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| bling | (noun) flashy, ostentatious jewelry | Synonyms: bling bling |
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| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
| blistering | (adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed | Synonyms: hot, red-hot |
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| (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
| blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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| (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
| blockading | (adjective) blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors | - |
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| blocking | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: block |
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| blog | (noun) a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies | Synonyms: web log |
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| (verb) read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal | - |
| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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| bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
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| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| blooming | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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| (noun) the organic process of bearing flowers | Synonyms: bloom |
| blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| blowbang | (noun) A sexual activity where fellatio is performed on multiple men | - |
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| blowing | (noun) processing that involves blowing a gas | - |
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| blueing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: bluing |
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| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, bluing |
| bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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| bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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| bluing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: blueing |
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| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, blueing |
| blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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| blustering | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blusterous, blustery |
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| boarding | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: embarkation, embarkment |
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| (noun) a structure of boards | - |
| boasting | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, jactitation, self-praise |
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| boating | (noun) water travel for pleasure | Synonyms: yachting |
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| bobsledding | (noun) riding on a bobsled | - |
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| boding | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: foreboding, premonition, presentiment |
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| bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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| bog | (noun) wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel | Synonyms: peat bog |
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| (verb) cause to slow down or get stuck | Synonyms: bog down |
| (verb) get stuck while doing something | Synonyms: bog down |
| boiling | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: simmering, stewing |
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| (noun) the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas | - |
| (adverb) passionately or agitatedly | - |
| bombing | (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombardment |
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| (noun) the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists | - |
| bonding | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: soldering |
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| (noun) (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel | - |
| (noun) a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child) | - |
| bong | (noun) a dull resonant sound as of a bell | - |
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| (verb) ring loudly and deeply | - |
| bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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| booking | (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: reservation |
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| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: engagement |
| bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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| boomerang | (noun) a miscalculation that recoils on its maker | Synonyms: backfire |
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| (noun) a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower | Synonyms: throw stick, throwing stick |
| (verb) return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang | - |
| booming | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: stentorian |
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| (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
| bootleg | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, contraband, smuggled |
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| (noun) the part of a boot above the instep | - |
| (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: corn liquor, moonshine |
| (verb) produce or distribute illegally | - |
| (verb) sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol | - |
| bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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| (noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| booyong | (noun) large tree of Australasia | Synonyms: brown oak, crow's foot, Heritiera trifoliolata, red beech, silky elm, stave wood, Terrietia trifoliolata |
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| boozing | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: crapulence, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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| boring | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: drilling, oil production |
| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: drilling |
| borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
| bouncing | (adjective) vigorously healthy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy |
| (noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bounce |
| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| (noun) managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument | - |
| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, obeisance |
| bowleg | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowlegged |
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| (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
| bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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| (noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
| (noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
| bowstring | (noun) the string of an archer's bow | - |
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| boxing | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, pugilism |
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| (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: packing |
| bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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| (noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: brace |
| brag | (adjective) exceptionally good | Synonyms: boss |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| bragging | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| braiding | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braid, gold braid |
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| brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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| brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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| braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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| brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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| branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
| (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
| branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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| breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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| breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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| (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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| (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
| (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
| (noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization | - |
| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: education, training |
| (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: genteelness, gentility |
| brewing | (noun) the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast | - |
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| bricklaying | (noun) the craft of laying bricks | - |
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| briefing | (noun) detailed instructions, as for a military operation | - |
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| brig | (noun) a penal institution (especially on board a ship) | - |
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| (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts | - |
| brimming | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimfull |
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| bring | (verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: land |
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| (verb) induce or persuade | - |
| (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: convey, fetch, get |
| (verb) be accompanied by | - |
| (verb) cause to come into a particular state or condition | - |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: make for, play, work, wreak |
| (verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: institute |
| (verb) attract the attention of | - |
| (verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | Synonyms: convey, take |
| (verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring in, fetch |
| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, contribute, impart, lend |
| bringing | (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: delivery |
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| brisling | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: Clupea sprattus, sprat |
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| (noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: sprat |
| broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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| (noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
| broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
| (noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
| broiling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, grilling |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: pensiveness |
| (noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: incubation |
| browning | (noun) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | Synonyms: toasting |
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| browsing | (noun) the act of feeding by continual nibbling | Synonyms: browse |
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| (noun) reading superficially or at random | Synonyms: browse |
| bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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| (adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
| brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
| bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |