beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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(noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
begging | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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begin | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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(verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: commence, lead off, start |
(verb) begin to speak or say | - |
(verb) begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language | - |
(verb) achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative | - |
(verb) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object | Synonyms: start |
(verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense | Synonyms: start |
(verb) be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series | - |
(verb) have a beginning characterized in some specified way | Synonyms: start |
(verb) have a beginning, of a temporal event | - |
beginner | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: initiate, novice, tiro, tyro |
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(noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: father, founder, founding father |
beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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(noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: commencement, start |
(noun) the first part or section of something | - |
(noun) the event consisting of the start of something | - |
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source |
(noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
begonia | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes | - |
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begotten | (adjective) (of offspring) generated by procreation | - |
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begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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begrimed | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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(verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
beguiled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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beguilement | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: distraction |
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(noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery |
beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
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(adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
beguine | (noun) a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba | - |
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(noun) music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance | - |
begum | (noun) a Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan | - |
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behalf | (noun) as the agent of or on someone's part (usually expressed as `on behalf of' rather than `in behalf of') | - |
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(noun) for someone's benefit (usually expressed as `in behalf' rather than `on behalf' and usually with a possessive) | - |
behave | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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(verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: comport |
behavior | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behaviour, conduct, doings |
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(noun) (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation | Synonyms: behaviour |
(noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
(noun) the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | Synonyms: behaviour |
behavioral | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioural |
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behaviorism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behavioristic psychology, behaviourism, behaviouristic psychology |
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behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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(noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviourist |
behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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behaviour | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, doings |
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(noun) (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation | Synonyms: behavior |
(noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
(noun) the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | Synonyms: behavior |
behavioural | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioral |
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behaviourism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology |
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behaviourist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviouristic |
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(noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist |
behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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behead | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: decapitate, decollate |
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beheaded | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: decapitated |
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beheading | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: decapitation |
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(noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: decapitation |
behemoth | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: colossus, giant, goliath, monster |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan |
behest | (noun) an authoritative command or request | - |
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behind | (adjective) having the lower score or lagging position in a contest | - |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(adverb) in or to or toward the rear | - |
(adverb) remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from | - |
(adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behindhand, in arrears |
(adverb) in or into an inferior position | - |
(adverb) showing a time that is earlier than the actual time | Synonyms: slow |
behindhand | (adjective) behind schedule | - |
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(adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behind, in arrears |
behold | (verb) see with attention | Synonyms: lay eyes on |
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beholden | (adjective) under a moral obligation to someone | - |
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beholder | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: observer, perceiver, percipient |
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beholding | (noun) perception by means of the eyes | Synonyms: seeing, visual perception |
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behoove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behove |
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behove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behoove |
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beige | (adjective) of a light greyish-brown color | - |
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(noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: ecru |
beigel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: bagel |
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beignet | (noun) a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar | Synonyms: French fritter |
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being | (noun) a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently | Synonyms: organism |
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(noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: beingness, existence, face of the earth |
beingness | (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, existence, face of the earth |
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bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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belabor | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabour |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabour |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabour |
belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
belated | (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: late, tardy |
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belatedly | (adverb) later than usual or than expected | Synonyms: late, tardily |
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belay | (noun) something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured | - |
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(verb) fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
(verb) turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him | - |
belch | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belching, burp, burping, eructation |
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(verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: bubble, burp, eruct |
(verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: erupt, extravasate |
belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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(noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
beldam | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldame |
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(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldame, crone, hag, witch |
beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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belemnite | (noun) a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae | - |
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belemnitic | (adjective) of or relating to belemnites | - |
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belfry | (noun) a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung | - |
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(noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: campanile |
belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
belieber | (noun) A fan of Justin Bieber | - |
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belief | (noun) any cognitive content held as true | - |
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(noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: feeling, impression, notion, opinion |
believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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believable | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: credible |
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believably | (adverb) in a believable manner | - |
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(adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: credibly, plausibly, probably |
believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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(verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
(verb) credit with veracity | - |
(verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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(noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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believingly | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: credulously |
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belike | (adverb) with considerable certainty; without much doubt | Synonyms: in all likelihood, in all probability, likely, probably |
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belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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(verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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(noun) the act of belittling | - |
(noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
bell | (noun) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck | - |
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(noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: buzzer, doorbell |
(noun) the flared opening of a tubular device | - |
(noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: chime, gong |
(noun) the sound of a bell being struck | Synonyms: toll |
(noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell shape, campana |
(noun) (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. | Synonyms: ship's bell |
(verb) attach a bell to | - |
belladonna | (noun) an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally | - |
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(noun) perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine | Synonyms: Atropa belladonna, belladonna plant, deadly nightshade |
bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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bellbird | (noun) any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call | - |
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bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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bellboy | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellhop, bellman |
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belle | (noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | - |
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belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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bellhop | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellman |
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bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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bellied | (adjective) having a belly | - |
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(adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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(adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
(noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
belligerently | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: hostilely |
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belling | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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bellman | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellhop |
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bellow | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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(verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
(verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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