| ankle | (noun) a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus | Synonyms: ankle joint, articulatio talocruralis, mortise joint |
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| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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| brickle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickly, brittle |
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| buckle | (noun) fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong | - |
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| (noun) a shape distorted by twisting or folding | Synonyms: warp |
| (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: heave, warp |
| (verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: clasp |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: crumple |
| cackle | (noun) a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle | - |
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| (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
| (noun) the sound made by a hen after laying an egg | - |
| (verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
| (verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
| (verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
| chuckle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chortle |
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| (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
| cockle | (noun) common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs | - |
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| (noun) common edible European bivalve | - |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: crumple, knit, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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| (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
| (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackling, crepitation |
| (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| crinkle | (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
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| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| deckle | (noun) (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets | - |
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| (noun) rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper | Synonyms: deckle edge |
| fickle | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments | Synonyms: volatile |
| freckle | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: lentigo |
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| (verb) mark with freckles | - |
| (verb) become freckled | - |
| grackle | (noun) long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage | Synonyms: crow blackbird |
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| (noun) glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech | Synonyms: Gracula religiosa, hill myna, Indian grackle |
| hackle | (noun) long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants | - |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
| heckle | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: hatchel |
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| (verb) challenge aggressively | - |
| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
| honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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| (noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
| (noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
| inkle | (noun) a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration | - |
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| knuckle | (noun) a joint of a finger when the fist is closed | Synonyms: knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal joint |
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| (verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
| (verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
| mackle | (noun) a printed impression that is blurred or doubled | - |
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| mickle | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| muckle | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| periwinkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: winkle |
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| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: winkle |
| (noun) chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers | - |
| (noun) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers | Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea |
| pickle | (noun) vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle |
| (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
| prickle | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn |
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| (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prick |
| (verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: tingle |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prick |
| ramshackle | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| rankle | (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, fret, grate |
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| ruckle | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make a hoarse, rattling sound | - |
| shackle | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, hamper, trammel |
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| (noun) a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar | - |
| (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
| sickle | (noun) an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle | Synonyms: reap hook, reaping hook |
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| spackle | (noun) powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster | Synonyms: spackling compound |
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| sparkle | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, glitter, scintillation |
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| (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, spark, twinkle |
| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: coruscation, glitter |
| (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth |
| (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate |
| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate |
| (verb) emit or produce sparks | Synonyms: spark |
| speckle | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, spot |
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| (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: bespeckle |
| (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: stipple |
| sprinkle | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling |
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| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling |
| (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| stickle | (verb) dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) | - |
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| strickle | (noun) a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand | - |
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| (noun) a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure | - |
| (noun) an implement for sharpening scythes | - |
| (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) level off with a strickle in a measuring container | - |
| suckle | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, wet-nurse |
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| (verb) suck milk from the mother's breasts | - |
| tackle | (noun) (American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground | - |
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| (noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, typically opposite one of the offensive guards | - |
| (noun) gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails | Synonyms: rigging |
| (noun) gear used in fishing | Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig |
| (noun) the person who plays offensive or defensive tackle on a football team | - |
| (verb) seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball | - |
| (verb) put a harness | Synonyms: harness |
| (verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: take on, undertake |
| tickle | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickling, titillation |
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| (noun) a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking | - |
| (verb) touch or stroke lightly | - |
| (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, vibrate |
| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: titillate, vellicate |
| tinkle | (noun) a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell | Synonyms: ting |
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| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, clink, tink |
| trickle | (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
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| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, filter |
| truckle | (noun) a low bed to be slid under a higher bed | Synonyms: truckle bed, trundle, trundle bed |
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| (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady |
| (verb) yield to out of weakness | - |
| turnbuckle | (noun) an oblong metal coupling with a swivel at one end and an internal thread at the other into which a threaded rod can be screwed in order to form a unit that can be adjusted for length or tension | - |
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| twinkle | (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, spark, sparkle |
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| (noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: scintillation, sparkling |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, wink, winkle |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, winkle |
| unbuckle | (verb) undo the buckle of | - |
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| winkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: periwinkle |
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| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: periwinkle |
| (verb) remove or displace from a position | Synonyms: winkle out |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, twinkle, wink |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, twinkle |
| wrinkle | (noun) a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) | - |
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| (noun) a minor difficulty | - |
| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam |
| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up |
| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: purse |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, furrow |