| bootjack | (noun) has V-shaped notch for pulling off boots | - |
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| bootlick | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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| bosk | (noun) a small wooded area | - |
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| bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
| (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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| break | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: breakage, breaking |
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| (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: disruption, gap, interruption |
| (noun) a sudden dash | - |
| (noun) the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool | - |
| (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
| (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: recess, respite, time out |
| (noun) any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare | Synonyms: open frame |
| (noun) (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving | Synonyms: break of serve |
| (noun) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity | Synonyms: interruption |
| (noun) an unexpected piece of good luck | Synonyms: good luck, happy chance |
| (noun) the occurrence of breaking | - |
| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
| (noun) an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion) | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: fracture |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: intermission, interruption, pause, suspension |
| (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: fracture |
| (verb) weaken or destroy in spirit or body | - |
| (verb) diminish or discontinue abruptly | - |
| (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments | Synonyms: come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: develop, recrudesce |
| (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break off, discontinue, stop |
| (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: interrupt |
| (verb) come into being | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) render inoperable or ineffective | - |
| (verb) crack; of the male voice in puberty | - |
| (verb) fall sharply | - |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: damp, dampen, soften, weaken |
| (verb) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments | - |
| (verb) make submissive, obedient, or useful | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) be broken in | - |
| (verb) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another | - |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: check, crack |
| (verb) find the solution or key to | - |
| (verb) find a flaw in | - |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: intermit, pause |
| (verb) be released or become known; of news | Synonyms: get around, get out |
| (verb) undergo breaking | - |
| (verb) interrupt the flow of current in | - |
| (verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: better |
| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: bust, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| (verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) separate from a clinch, in boxing | - |
| (verb) break a piece from a whole | Synonyms: break off, snap off |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate | - |
| (verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) exchange for smaller units of money | - |
| (verb) become punctured or penetrated | - |
| (verb) make the opening shot that scatters the balls | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: burst, erupt |
| (verb) do a break dance | Synonyms: break-dance, break dance |
| (verb) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves | - |
| (verb) move away or escape suddenly | Synonyms: break away, break out |
| (verb) scatter or part | - |
| (verb) emerge from the surface of a body of water | - |
| (verb) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing | - |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way |
| (verb) change directions suddenly | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, ruin, smash |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| (verb) interrupt a continued activity | Synonyms: break away |
| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
| (verb) cause the failure or ruin of | - |
| (verb) invalidate by judicial action | - |
| (verb) enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break up, part, separate, split, split up |
| (verb) happen or take place | - |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: go against, violate |
| (verb) give up | - |
| (verb) cause to give up a habit | - |
| (verb) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity | - |
| (verb) come forth or begin from a state of latency | - |
| (verb) come to an end | - |
| breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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| breastwork | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: parapet |
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| breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |
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| brick | (noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material | - |
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| (noun) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy | - |
| (verb) To stop working (of an electronic device) | - |
| brickwork | (noun) masonry done with bricks and mortar | - |
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| bridgework | (noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridge |
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| brink | (noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: verge |
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| (noun) the edge of a steep place | - |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: threshold, verge |
| brisk | (adjective) very active | - |
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| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
| (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk up, brisken |
| brook | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: creek |
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| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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| brushwork | (noun) an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush | - |
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| brusk | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusque, curt, short |
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| buck | (noun) mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope) | - |
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| (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: horse, sawbuck, sawhorse |
| (noun) a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting | Synonyms: long horse, vaulting horse |
| (noun) a piece of paper money worth one dollar | Synonyms: clam, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: hitch, jerk |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: charge, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) resist | Synonyms: go against |
| (verb) to strive with determination | - |
| bulk | (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | Synonyms: mass, volume |
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| (noun) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part | Synonyms: majority |
| (noun) the property possessed by a large mass | - |
| (verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulge |
| (verb) stick out or up | - |
| (verb) to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet | - |
| bullock | (noun) castrated bull | Synonyms: steer |
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| (noun) young bull | - |
| bulwark | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| (noun) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | Synonyms: rampart, wall |
| (noun) a fencelike structure around a deck | - |
| (verb) defend with a bulwark | - |
| bunk | (noun) a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers | Synonyms: berth, built in bed |
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| (noun) a rough bed (as at a campsite) | - |
| (noun) beds built one above the other | Synonyms: bunk bed |
| (noun) a long trough for feeding cattle | Synonyms: feed bunk |
| (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot |
| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) provide with a bunk | - |
| (verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: beat |
| burdock | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: clotbur |
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| bushbuck | (noun) antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | Synonyms: guib, Tragelaphus scriptus |
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| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| busk | (verb) play music in a public place and solicit money for it | - |
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| busywork | (noun) active work of little value | Synonyms: make-work |
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| buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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| buttock | (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: cheek |
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| buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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| buyback | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: redemption, repurchase |
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| cabinetwork | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetry |
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| (noun) woodwork finished by hand by a cabinetmaker | - |
| caipiblack | (noun) a variation of the Caipirinha made with black vodka instead of cachaça. | - |
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| cakewalk | (noun) a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake | - |
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| (noun) an easy accomplishment | - |
| (verb) perform the cakewalk dance | - |
| calk | (noun) a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping | Synonyms: calkin |
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| (verb) injure with a calk | - |
| (verb) seal with caulking | Synonyms: caulk |
| (verb) provide with calks | - |
| callback | (noun) a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) | Synonyms: recall |
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| calpack | (noun) a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus | Synonyms: calpac, kalpac |
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| candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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| candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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| (noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
| canvasback | (noun) North American wild duck valued for sport and food | Synonyms: Aythya valisineria, canvasback duck |
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| carack | (noun) a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman | Synonyms: carrack |
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| carjack | (verb) take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it | - |
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| cark | (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
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| carrack | (noun) a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman | Synonyms: carack |
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| carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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| casebook | (adjective) according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical | Synonyms: textbook |
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| (noun) a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work | - |
| casework | (noun) close sociological study of a maladjusted person or family for diagnosis and treatment | - |
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| cask | (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids | Synonyms: barrel |
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| (noun) the quantity a cask will hold | Synonyms: caskful |
| cassock | (noun) a black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers | - |
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| catwalk | (noun) narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge) | - |
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| (noun) narrow platform extending out into an auditorium | - |
| caulk | (noun) a waterproof filler and sealant that is used in building and repair to make watertight | Synonyms: caulking |
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| (verb) seal with caulking | Synonyms: calk |
| cellblock | (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: ward |
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| chadlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, charlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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| chalk | (noun) a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces | - |
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| (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
| (noun) a pure flat white with little reflectance | - |
| (noun) a soft whitish calcite | - |
| (verb) write, draw, or trace with chalk | - |
| charlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, chadlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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| cheapjack | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: shoddy, tawdry |
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| (noun) a peddler of inferior goods | - |
| check | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: bridle, curb |
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| (noun) obstructing an opponent in ice hockey | - |
| (noun) (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king | - |
| (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, checkout |
| (noun) a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard) | - |
| (noun) a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something | Synonyms: chip |
| (noun) an appraisal of the state of affairs | Synonyms: assay |
| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: confirmation, substantiation, verification |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: chit, tab |
| (noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check mark, tick |
| (noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, cheque |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
| (verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
| (verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
| (verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) place into check | - |
| (verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
| (verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
| (verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
| (verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
| (verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
| (verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
| (verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
| checkbook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: chequebook |
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| cheek | (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, brass, face, nerve |
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| (noun) either side of the face below the eyes | - |
| (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: buttock |
| (noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: impertinence, impudence |
| (verb) speak impudently to | - |
| cheewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chequebook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: checkbook |
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| chewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: cheewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chick | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: biddy |
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| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, dame, doll, skirt, wench |
| chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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| chink | (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: click, clink |
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| (noun) a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall | - |
| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent | Synonyms: Chinaman |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: check |
| (verb) fill the chinks of, as with caulking | - |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle |
| chinook | (noun) large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon |
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| (noun) pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon |
| (noun) a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies | Synonyms: chinook wind, snow eater |
| chipmunk | (noun) a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body | - |
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| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
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| chock | (noun) a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object | Synonyms: wedge |
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| (adverb) as completely as possible | Synonyms: chock-a-block |
| (verb) support on chocks | - |
| (verb) secure with chocks | - |
| chockablock | (adjective) packed full to capacity | Synonyms: chock-full, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full |
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| chopsteak | (noun) a patty of ground cooked beef | Synonyms: beef patty, chop steak, chopped steak, hamburger steak |
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| chopstick | (noun) one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with | - |
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| chuck | (noun) a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill | - |
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| (noun) the part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade | - |
| (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, eats, grub |
| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| (verb) throw carelessly | Synonyms: toss |
| (verb) pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin | Synonyms: pat |
| (verb) throw away | Synonyms: ditch |
| chunk | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, clod, clump, glob, lump |
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| (noun) a substantial amount | - |
| (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: collocate, lump |
| (verb) put together indiscriminately | Synonyms: lump |
| chutzpanik | (noun) (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa | - |
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| clack | (noun) a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction | Synonyms: clack valve, clapper valve |
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| (noun) a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated | Synonyms: clap |
| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: click, cluck |
| (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clatter |
| clank | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clash, crash |
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| (verb) make a clank | - |
| classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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| clawback | (noun) finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way | - |
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| clerk | (noun) an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts) | - |
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| (noun) a salesperson in a store | Synonyms: salesclerk, shop assistant, shop clerk |
| (verb) work as a clerk, as in the legal business | - |
| click | (noun) depression of a button on a computer mouse | Synonyms: mouse click |
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| (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: detent, dog, pawl |
| (noun) a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) | Synonyms: suction stop |
| (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, clink |
| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, cluck |
| (verb) produce a click | - |
| (verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: flick, snap |
| (verb) move or strike with a noise | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a clicking or ticking sound | Synonyms: tick |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: chatter |
| clink | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer |
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| (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, click |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, tink, tinkle |
| (verb) make a high sound typical of glass | - |
| cloak | (noun) a loose outer garment | - |
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| (noun) anything that covers or conceals | - |
| (verb) cover with or as if with a cloak | - |
| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: clothe, drape, robe |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: dissemble, mask |
| clock | (noun) a timepiece that shows the time of day | - |
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| (verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time | Synonyms: time |
| clockwork | (noun) any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock | - |
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| cluck | (noun) the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) | Synonyms: clucking |
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| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, click |
| clunk | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, thud, thump, thumping |
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| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, plunk |
| clusterfuck | (noun) A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong | - |
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| coatrack | (noun) a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats | Synonyms: coat rack, hatrack |
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| cock | (noun) adult male bird | - |
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| (noun) adult male chicken | Synonyms: rooster |
| (noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: stopcock, turncock |
| (noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled | Synonyms: hammer |
| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: dick, pecker, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
| (verb) set the trigger of a firearm back for firing | - |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| (verb) tilt or slant to one side | - |
| coldcock | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: deck, dump, floor, knock down |
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| coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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| comeback | (noun) return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte |
| conk | (noun) informal term for the nose | - |
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| (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: faint, pass out, swoon |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) hit, especially on the head | - |
| (verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: stall |
| cook | (noun) someone who cooks food | - |
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| (verb) transform and make suitable for consumption by heating | - |
| (verb) transform by heating | - |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready |
| (verb) prepare a hot meal | - |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| cookbook | (noun) a book of recipes and cooking directions | Synonyms: cookery book |
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| copeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: kopeck, kopek |
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