| bling | (noun) flashy, ostentatious jewelry | Synonyms: bling bling |
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| blini | (noun) Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream | Synonyms: bliny |
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| blink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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| (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: nictate, nictitate, wink |
| (verb) keep back by blinking | Synonyms: blink away, wink |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: flash, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| blinker | (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: flasher |
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| (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, winker |
| (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal |
| (verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
| 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 |
| blinks | (noun) small Indian lettuce of northern regions | Synonyms: blinking chickweed, Montia lamprosperma, water chickweed |
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| blintz | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintze |
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| blintze | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintz |
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| bliny | (noun) Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream | Synonyms: blini |
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| blip | (noun) a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface | Synonyms: pip, radar target |
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| (noun) a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption | - |
| bliss | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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| blissful | (adjective) completely happy and contented | - |
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| blissfully | (adverb) in a blissful manner | - |
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| blissfulness | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: bliss, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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| blister | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, bulla |
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| (noun) (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | - |
| (noun) a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) | - |
| (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
| (verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
| 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 |
| blistery | (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistering |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blebby |
| blithe | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| (adjective) lacking or showing a lack of due concern | - |
| blithely | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: gayly, happily, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
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| blitheness | (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: cheerfulness |
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| blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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| blithesome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| blitz | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitzkrieg |
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| (noun) (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line | Synonyms: linebacker blitzing, safety blitz |
| (verb) attack suddenly and without warning | - |
| 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 | - |
| blizzard | (noun) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences | Synonyms: rash |
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| (noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: snowstorm |
| bloat | (noun) swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas | - |
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| (verb) become bloated or swollen or puff up | - |
| (verb) make bloated or swollen | - |
| bloated | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| bloater | (noun) large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked | - |
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| blob | (noun) an indistinct shapeless form | - |
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| (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blot, fleck, spot |
| bloc | (noun) a group of countries in special alliance | Synonyms: axis |
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| block | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: blocking |
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| (noun) a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) | - |
| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: blockage, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: pulley-block, pulley, pulley block |
| (noun) a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine | Synonyms: cylinder block, engine block |
| (noun) a platform from which an auctioneer sells | Synonyms: auction block |
| (noun) housing in a large building that is divided into separate units | - |
| (noun) an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension | Synonyms: mental block |
| (noun) a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit | - |
| (noun) a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings | Synonyms: city block |
| (noun) (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted | - |
| (noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: cube |
| (verb) shape into a block or blocks | - |
| (verb) shape by using a block | - |
| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: freeze, immobilise, immobilize |
| (verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, draw a blank, forget |
| (verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | Synonyms: jam |
| (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: deflect, parry |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: choke up, lug, stuff |
| (verb) stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block | - |
| (verb) support, secure, or raise with a block | - |
| (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
| (verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: obstruct |
| (verb) interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: halt, kibosh, stop |
| (verb) run on a block system | - |
| blockade | (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | Synonyms: encirclement |
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| (noun) prevents access or progress | - |
| (verb) impose a blockade on | Synonyms: seal off |
| (verb) obstruct access to | Synonyms: block off |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, stop |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| blockaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, barricaded |
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| blockading | (adjective) blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors | - |
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| blockage | (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: closure, occlusion |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: obstruction |
| blockbuster | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: megahit, smash hit |
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| (noun) a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block) | - |
| blocked | (adjective) closed to traffic | - |
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| (adjective) completely obstructed or closed off | Synonyms: plugged |
| blocker | (noun) a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process | Synonyms: blocking agent |
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| (noun) a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play | - |
| blockhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| blockhouse | (noun) a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire | - |
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| blocking | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: block |
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| blockish | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blocky |
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| blocky | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blockish |
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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 | - |
| blogger | (noun) a person who keeps and updates a blog | - |
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| bloke | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
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| blolly | (noun) evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries | Synonyms: Chiococca alba, West Indian snowberry |
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| blond | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blonde, light-haired |
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| (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blonde |
| (noun) a male person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blonde | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blond, light-haired |
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| (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blond |
| (noun) a female person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blondness | (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: fairness, paleness |
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| blood | (noun) temperament or disposition | - |
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| (noun) the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) people viewed as members of a group | - |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
| (verb) smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill | - |
| bloodbath | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodletting, bloodshed |
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| bloodberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry |
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| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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| blooded | (adjective) of unmixed ancestry | Synonyms: full-blood, full-blooded |
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| bloodguilt | (noun) the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder | - |
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| bloodguilty | (adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed | - |
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| bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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| bloodily | (adverb) involving a great bloodshed | - |
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| bloodiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodthirstiness |
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| (noun) the state of being bloody | - |
| bloodleaf | (noun) any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage | - |
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| bloodless | (adjective) free from blood or bloodshed | - |
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| (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, blanched, livid, white |
| (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: exsanguine, exsanguinous |
| (adjective) devoid of human emotion or feeling | - |
| (adjective) without vigor or zest or energy | - |
| bloodlessly | (adverb) without bloodshed; in a bloodless manner; without shedding blood | - |
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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 |
| bloodline | (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| bloodlust | (noun) a desire for bloodshed | - |
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| bloodmobile | (noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations | - |
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| bloodroot | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort |
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| bloodshed | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting |
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| (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: gore |
| bloodshot | (adjective) (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed | - |
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| bloodstain | (noun) a discoloration caused by blood | - |
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| bloodstained | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: gory |
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| bloodstock | (noun) thoroughbred horses (collectively) | - |
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| bloodstone | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: heliotrope |
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| bloodstream | (noun) the blood flowing through the circulatory system | Synonyms: blood stream |
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| bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
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| 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 |
| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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| bloodthirsty | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloody-minded, sanguinary |
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| bloodworm | (noun) a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait | - |
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| bloodwort | (noun) any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter | - |
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| bloody | (adjective) having or covered with or accompanied by blood | - |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| (adverb) extremely | Synonyms: all-fired, all-firedly, damn |
| (verb) cover with blood | - |
| bloom | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: efflorescence |
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| (noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: blossom, flower |
| (noun) the organic process of bearing flowers | Synonyms: blooming |
| (noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: blush, flush, rosiness |
| (noun) the best time of youth | Synonyms: bloom of youth, salad days |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: blossom, flower |
| bloomer | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (noun) a flower that blooms in a particular way | - |
| bloomers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: drawers, knickers, pants |
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| blooming | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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| (noun) the organic process of bearing flowers | Synonyms: bloom |
| blooper | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| blossom | (noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
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| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | Synonyms: blossom forth, blossom out, unfold |
| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
| blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| blot | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: smear, smirch, spot, stain |
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| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: daub, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
| (verb) dry (ink) with blotting paper | - |
| (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, fleck, spot |
| blotch | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: splodge, splotch |
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| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: mottle, streak |
| blotched | (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotchy, splotched |
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| blotchy | (adjective) marred by discolored spots or blotches | - |
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| (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotched, splotched |
| blotter | (noun) the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station | Synonyms: charge sheet, day book, police blotter, rap sheet |
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| (noun) absorbent paper used to dry ink | Synonyms: blotting paper |
| blotto | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| blouse | (noun) a top worn by women | - |
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| bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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| blow | (noun) a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon | - |
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| (noun) forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth | Synonyms: puff |
| (noun) street names for cocaine | Synonyms: C, coke, nose candy, snow |
| (noun) an impact (as from a collision) | Synonyms: bump |
| (noun) an unpleasant or disappointing surprise | Synonyms: shock |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, reversal, reverse, setback |
| (noun) a strong current of air | Synonyms: blast, gust |
| (verb) exhale hard | - |
| (verb) free of obstruction by blowing air through | - |
| (verb) melt, break, or become otherwise unusable | Synonyms: blow out, burn out |
| (verb) burst suddenly | - |
| (verb) shape by blowing | - |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) cause to be revealed and jeopardized | - |
| (verb) allow to regain its breath | - |
| (verb) deposit eggs (of insects) | - |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, drift, float |
| (verb) cause to move by means of an air current | - |
| (verb) leave; informal or rude | Synonyms: shove along, shove off |
| (verb) cause air to go in, on, or through | - |
| (verb) spout moist air from the blowhole | - |
| (verb) play or sound a wind instrument | - |
| (verb) make a sound as if blown | - |
| (verb) sound by having air expelled through a tube | - |
| (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: fellate, go down on, suck |
| (verb) spend lavishly or wastefully on | - |
| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: squander, waste |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| (verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: suck |
| (verb) be blowing or storming | - |
| blowback | (noun) Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge. | - |
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| (noun) misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service | - |
| (noun) the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired | Synonyms: backfire |