| rum | (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rummy, singular |
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| (noun) a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards | Synonyms: rummy |
| (noun) liquor distilled from fermented molasses | - |
| rumba | (noun) a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement | Synonyms: rhumba |
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| (noun) a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance | Synonyms: rhumba |
| (noun) syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba | Synonyms: rhumba |
| (verb) dance the rhumba | Synonyms: rhumba |
| rumble | (noun) a fight between rival gangs of adolescents | Synonyms: gang fight |
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| (noun) a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage | - |
| (noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, rumbling |
| (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, grumble |
| (verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: grumble |
| rumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: grumbling |
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| (noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, rumble |
| rumbustious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, unruly |
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| rumen | (noun) the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing | Synonyms: first stomach |
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| ruminant | (adjective) related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud | - |
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| (noun) any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments | - |
| ruminate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) chew the cuds | - |
| rumination | (noun) regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding | - |
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| (noun) (of ruminants) chewing (the cud) | - |
| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: contemplation, musing, reflection, reflexion, thoughtfulness |
| ruminative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective |
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| ruminator | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, muser, ponderer |
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| rummage | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: ransacking |
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| (noun) a jumble of things to be given away | - |
| (verb) search haphazardly | - |
| rummer | (noun) a large drinking glass (ovoid bowl on a stem) for drinking toasts | - |
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| rummy | (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, singular |
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| (noun) a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards | Synonyms: rum |
| (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, sot, wino |
| rumor | (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: hearsay, rumour |
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| (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumour |
| rumormonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumourmonger |
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| rumour | (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: hearsay, rumor |
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| (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumor |
| rumourmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger |
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| rump | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, croupe, hindquarters |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round | - |
| rumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle, ruffle up |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, pucker |
| rumpled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, tousled |
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| rumpus | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, tumult |
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| (verb) cause a disturbance | - |
| rumrunner | (noun) someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border | - |
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