| backbench | (noun) any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons | - |
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| bench | (noun) a long seat for more than one person | - |
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| (noun) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic | Synonyms: work bench, workbench |
| (noun) (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom | - |
| (noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: judiciary |
| (noun) the reserve players on a team | - |
| (noun) a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) | Synonyms: terrace |
| (verb) To lift a weight using a bench press | - |
| (verb) To exercise using a bench press | - |
| (verb) exhibit on a bench | - |
| (verb) take out of a game; of players | - |
| blanch | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blench, pale |
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| (verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: parboil |
| blench | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, pale |
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| branch | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, limb |
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| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, subdivision |
| (noun) a stream or river connected to a larger one | - |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant | - |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: leg, ramification |
| (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
| brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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| (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
| bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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| bunch | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: clump, cluster, clustering |
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| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: crew, crowd, gang |
| (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: caboodle, lot |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
| (verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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| chinch | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, bedbug, Cimex lectularius |
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| cinch | (noun) a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps | - |
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| (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
| (noun) stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place | Synonyms: girth |
| (verb) get a grip on; get mastery of | - |
| (verb) make sure of | - |
| (verb) tie a cinch around | Synonyms: girth |
| clench | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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| (noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clinch |
| (verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clinch |
| (verb) squeeze together tightly | - |
| clinch | (noun) (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily | - |
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| (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: hug, squeeze |
| (noun) the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet | - |
| (noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clench |
| (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clamp |
| (verb) settle conclusively | - |
| (verb) flatten the ends (of nails and rivets) | - |
| (verb) secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts | - |
| (verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clench |
| (verb) embrace amorously | - |
| (verb) hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches | - |
| clunch | (noun) stiff clay | - |
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| conch | (noun) any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip | - |
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| counterpunch | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counter, parry |
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| cranch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: craunch, crunch, grind |
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| craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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| crossbench | (noun) any of the seats in the House of Commons used by members who do not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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| crunch | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crush |
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| (noun) the sound of something crunching | - |
| (noun) a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources) | - |
| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
| dibranch | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranchiate, dibranchiate mollusk |
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| drench | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: imbrue |
| (verb) force to drink | - |
| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: swamp |
| elasmobranch | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: selachian |
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| entrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: intrench |
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| (verb) occupy a trench or secured area | Synonyms: dig in |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, impinge, trench |
| finch | (noun) any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds | - |
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| flinch | (noun) a reflex response to sudden pain | Synonyms: wince |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
| goldfinch | (noun) small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings | Synonyms: Carduelis carduelis |
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| (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, yellowbird |
| grassfinch | (noun) usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: grass finch |
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| haunch | (noun) the loin and leg of a quadruped | - |
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| (noun) the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings | - |
| hawfinch | (noun) a common large finch of Eurasia | Synonyms: Coccothraustes coccothraustes |
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| hunch | (noun) the act of bending yourself into a humped position | - |
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| (noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: intuition, suspicion |
| (verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over |
| inch | (noun) a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot | Synonyms: in |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for advertising space | Synonyms: column inch |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: edge |
| intrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: entrench |
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| lamellibranch | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: pelecypod, pelecypodous |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
| launch | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launching |
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| (noun) a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck | - |
| (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) propel with force | - |
| (verb) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage | - |
| (verb) get going; give impetus to | Synonyms: set in motion |
| (verb) smoothen the surface of | - |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, found, set up |
| lunch | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: dejeuner, luncheon, tiffin |
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| (verb) take the midday meal | - |
| (verb) provide a midday meal for | - |
| lynch | (verb) kill without legal sanction | - |
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| munch | (noun) a large bite | - |
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| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: crunch |
| nudibranch | (noun) any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body | Synonyms: sea slug |
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| oldwench | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwife, queen triggerfish |
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| paunch | (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: belly |
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| pinch | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: tweak |
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| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody |
| (noun) a small sharp bite or snip | Synonyms: nip |
| (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, exigency |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| (noun) an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed | - |
| (noun) a painful or straitened circumstance | - |
| (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
| (verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| punch | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, slug |
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| (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: puncher |
| (noun) an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl | - |
| (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: plug |
| (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch | - |
| quench | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, squelch |
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| (verb) cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid | - |
| (verb) reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance | - |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, slake |
| (verb) suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device | - |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, extinguish, snuff out |
| ranch | (noun) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, spread |
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| (verb) manage or run a ranch | - |
| raunch | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarism, vulgarity |
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| retrench | (verb) make a reduction, as in one's workforce | - |
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| (verb) tighten one's belt; use resources carefully | - |
| runch | (noun) Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits | Synonyms: jointed charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, wild radish, wild rape |
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| scranch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scraunch |
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| scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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| scrunch | (noun) a crunching noise | - |
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| (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 up, wrinkle |
| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
| squinch | (noun) a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire) | - |
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| (verb) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus | Synonyms: squint |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, wince |
| (verb) crouch down | - |
| stanch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, staunch, stem |
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| staunch | (adjective) firm and dependable especially in loyalty | Synonyms: steadfast, unswerving |
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| (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, stem |
| stench | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stink |
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| tench | (noun) freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water | Synonyms: Tinca tinca |
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| trench | (noun) a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth | - |
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| (noun) any long ditch cut in the ground | - |
| (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: deep, oceanic abyss |
| (verb) cut or carve deeply into | - |
| (verb) dig a trench or trenches | - |
| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: ditch |
| (verb) fortify by surrounding with trenches | - |
| (verb) set, plant, or bury in a trench | - |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge |
| wench | (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, skirt |
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| (verb) frequent prostitutes | - |
| winch | (noun) lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds | Synonyms: windlass |
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| (verb) pull or lift up with or as if with a winch | - |
| workbench | (noun) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic | Synonyms: bench, work bench |
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| wrench | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: spanner |
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| (noun) a jerky pulling movement | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: pull, twist |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: twist |
| (verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wring |
| (verb) make a sudden twisting motion | - |