Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/10

boor

• boor, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, backwoodsman, barbarian, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boob, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, buffoon, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, country bumpkin, dolt, epicier, farmer, fumbler, galoot, gawk, gawky, goop, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hooligan, hoyden, ill-bred fellow, klutz, looby, loon, lout, low fellow, lubber, lummox, mucker, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, parvenu, peasant, philistine, provincial, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, slob, slouch, slubberer, swain, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yahoo, yokel

boorish

• boorish, all thumbs, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, blunderheaded, blundering, bucolic, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, caddish, careless, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, countrified, country-born, country-bred, crude, cumbersome, farmerish, fingers all thumbs, from the sticks, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hayseed, heavy-handed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, hulking, hulky, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inconsiderate, inelegant, insensitive, inurbane, left-hand, left-handed, loobyish, loutish, louty, lowbred, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, maladroit, nasty, oafish, offensive, outlandish, ponderous, provincial, raffish, robustious, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, sloppy, stiff, tactless, tasteless, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unfeminine, ungainly, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unhandy, unladylike, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, unsolicitous, unwieldy, up-country, vulgar, yokel, yokelish

boost

• boost, Great Leap Forward, a leg up, abstract, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, acculturate, accumulation, acknowledgment, add to, addition, advance, advancement, advantage, advertise, advocate, aggrandize, aggrandizement, aid, ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, amplification, amplify, and, animate, annex, appreciation, appropriate, ascent, assault, assist, assistance, augment, augmentation, back, bag, ballooning, ballyhoo, bark, bear, bear upon, bearing, beef up, better, bettering, betterment, bill, bloating, blurb, boom, borrow, breakthrough, brighten, bring forward, broaden, broadening, buck, build, build up, buildup, bull, bulldoze, bulletin, bump, bump against, bunt, buoy up, butt, butt against, cast up, cheer, circularize, civilize, commend, commendation, conduce to, contribute to, cop, cram, crescendo, crib, crowd, cry up, defraud, development, dig, drive, edema, edify, educate, elbow, elevate, elevation, embezzle, emend, encourage, encouragement, enhance, enhancement, enlarge, enlargement, enlighten, enliven, ennoblement, enrich, enrichment, erect, escalate, establish, eugenics, euthenics, exalt, exaltation, exhilarate, expand, expansion, expedite, extend, extension, extort, facilitate, fatten, favor, filch, fill out, flood, force, forward, foster, further, furtherance, gain, give a lift, give a write-up, give publicity, gladden, go straight, goad, good word, graduation, greatening, growth, gush, hand, hasten, head, headway, hearten, heave, heft, heighten, heist, help, helping hand, hike, hike up, hoick, hoist, hold up, honorable mention, hook, hurtle, hustle, hype, improve, improve upon, improvement, increase, increment, inflate, inflation, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, jab, jack up, jam, jerk up, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jump, jump up, knighting, knock up, lard, leap, leg, leg up, lend wings to, lengthen, levitate, lift, lift up, liven, lob, loft, magnify, make an improvement, make for, make off with, maximize, meliorate, melioration, mend, mending, mounting, multiplication, multiply, nip, nudge, nurture, palm, parlay, passing, pay raise, perk up, pick up, pickup, pile drive, pilfer, pinch, placard, plug, poach, poke, post, post bills, post up, preferment, press, press-agent, pressure, prod, productiveness, progress, progression, proliferation, promote, promotion, publicize, puff, punch, purloin, push, push forward, put forward, put up, pyramid, quicken, raise, raise up, ram, ram down, rattle, rear, rear up, recognition, recommend, recovery, refine upon, reform, rejoice, rejoice the heart, restoration, revival, rise, run, run against, run away with, rustle, scrounge, sell, set forward, set up, shake, shoplift, shoulder, shove, sky, snare, snatch, snitch, snowballing, socialize, speak highly of, speak warmly of, speak well of, speed, spiel, spread, steal, stick up, straighten out, stress, support, surge, swelling, swindle, swipe, take, tamp, thicken, thieve, throw up, thrust, tout, transfigure, transform, tumescence, up, upbeat, upbuoy, upcast, upgrade, upgrading, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, upsurge, upswing, upthrow, uptrend, upturn, upward mobility, vitalize, walk off with, wax, waxing, widening, write up

booster

• booster, Comsat, Intelsat, Syncom, Telstar, adherent, admirer, amateur, antitoxin, applauder, appreciator, bag, bang, blind, body snatcher, bonnet, booster amplifiers, booster dose, booster rocket, booster shot, boosters, buff, capper, chicken thief, claqueur, collector, commender, communication satellite, con man, crook, deck, den of thieves, devotee, dilettante, dose, draft, dropping, drug packet, embezzler, encomiast, eulogist, eulogizer, extoller, fan, fancier, filcher, fix, follower, ganef, ghoul, grafter, grave robber, groupie, hit, hypodermic, hypodermic injection, idolater, idolizer, injection, inoculation, jet injection, jewel thief, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, larcener, larcenist, lauder, lifter, mainlining, multistage rocket, narcotic injection, narcotic shot, overdose, panegyrist, peculator, petty thief, pilferer, plugger, poacher, popping, portion, potion, praiser, promoter, prowler, puffer, purloiner, relay links, robber, rooter, scrounger, shill, shooting up, shoplifter, shot, single-stage rocket, skin-popping, sneak thief, stealer, step rocket, stick, stratovision, swindler, thief, three-stage rocket, tout, touter, vaccination, vaccine, votary, white-collar thief, worshiper

boot

• boot, Naval Reservist, Procrustean bed, Royal Marine, Seabee, abecedarian, additionally, alphabetarian, also, apprentice, articled clerk, as well, avail, bang, bed of Procrustes, beginner, besides, bloomer, blooper, blow, bluejacket, bobble, bonehead play, boner, bonnet, boo-boo, boob stunt, booting out, boots, bounce, break, breech, bump, bust, cadet, calcitration, can, cap, cashier, cashiering, catechumen, charge, chaussure, cloak, clodhoppers, coat, coif, colt, conge, conscript, debutant, defenestration, defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, deposal, depose, deprive, detrusion, disbar, discharge, disemploy, disemployment, dismiss, dismissal, displace, displacing, displume, draft, drafted man, draftee, drop a brick, drop kick, drop the ball, drum out, drumming out, duff, dumb trick, eject, ejection, ejectment, enlistee, enrollee, entrant, expel, expulsion, extrusion, fire, firing, fledgling, fluff, flush, fool mistake, footgear, footwear, foozle, forced separation, foul up, foul-up, freshman, frock, frogman, furlough, furloughing, give the ax, give the gate, gob, goof, gown, greenhorn, gunboats, hat, help, hood, horse marine, howler, ignoramus, in addition, inductee, initiate, into the bargain, iron heel, jacket, jettison, jollies, jolly, kick, kick upstairs, kicking, kicking downstairs, knee, lay off, layoff, let go, let out, levy, lift, louse up, louse-up, make redundant, mantle, marine, midshipman, midshipmite, moreover, muck up, muck-up, naval cadet, navy man, neophyte, novice, novitiate, obtrusion, ouster, ousting, pattens, pension off, pink slip, place kick, postulant, pratfall, probationer, probationist, profit, propel, pull a boner, punt, push, quiver, rack, raw recruit, read out of, recruit, rejection, release, removal, remove, replace, retire, retirement, rookie, rush, rush of emotion, sabots, sack, scarpines, screamer, screw, screw up, screw-up, selectee, sensation, separate forcibly, shirt, shiver, shoe, shoes, shove, shudder, sock, stocking, strip, superannuate, surge of emotion, surplus, surplusing, suspend, suspension, swabbie, tenderfoot, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, thrill, throwing out, thumbscrew, ticket, tingle, tingling, titillation, to boot, too, trainee, tremor, tremor of excitement, turn off, turn out, tyro, unfrock, walking papers, wallop, wheel, wooden shoes

bootblack

• bootblack, Ganymede, Hebe, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, boots, cabin boy, caddie, chore boy, copyboy, cupbearer, errand boy, errand girl, footboy, gofer, hostess, office boy, office girl, orderly, page, squire, steward, stewardess, tender, trainbearer, usher, yeoman

booth

• booth, Nissen hut, Quonset hut, box, cavity, cell, cellule, chamber, compartment, crib, crypt, cubicle, enclosed space, gatehouse, hold, hole, hollow, hut, hutch, kiosk, lean-to, manger, news kiosk, newsstand, outbuilding, outhouse, pavilion, pew, sentry box, shack, shanty, shed, stall, stand, tollbooth, tollhouse, vault

bootleg

• bootleg, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, bathtub gin, black-market, black-marketeer, blockade, brew, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, distill, felonious, fence, flawed, hooch, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, irregular, justiciable, lawless, moonlight, moonshine, mountain dew, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, outlaw, outlawed, punishable, push, run, shove, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful, unofficial, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, white lightning, wrongful

bootlegger

• bootlegger, Mafioso, barkeep, barkeeper, barmaid, barman, bartender, black marketeer, brewer, brewmaster, dealer, distiller, drug pusher, gray marketeer, liquor dealer, liquor store owner, mixologist, moonshiner, publican, pusher, racketeer, tapster, tapstress, vintner, wine merchant

bootless

• bootless, abortive, barren, counterproductive, effete, empty, etiolated, failed, failing, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, fruitless, frustrating, futile, gainless, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, lame, manque, miscarried, miscarrying, nonremunerative, nugacious, nugatory, of no effect, of no force, otiose, pointless, profitless, purposeless, rewardless, sterile, stickit, stillborn, successless, unavailable, unavailing, unfortunate, unproductive, unprofitable, unremunerative, unrewarding, unsuccessful, useless, vain, wasteful, worthless

bootlicker

• bootlicker, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlick, brown-nose, brownie, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe, fawner, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, helot, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, stooge, suck, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toadeater, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, yes-man

booty

• booty, bag, blackmail, boodle, capture, catch, contraband, gain, graft, haul, hot goods, loot, perks, perquisite, pickings, plunder, pork barrel, prize, public till, public trough, seizure, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, swag, take, takings, till

booze

• booze, John Barleycorn, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, bat, bender, beverage, bib, brannigan, brew, bum, carouse, chug, chug-a-lug, drain the cup, drink, drink in, drink off, drink to, drink up, drunk, firewater, grog, guzzle, hard liquor, hooch, imbibe, inebriant, intoxicant, intoxicating liquor, jag, juice, liquor, liquor up, little brown jug, lush, mountain dew, pledge, poison, potable, potation, pull, punch bowl, quaff, raise the elbow, rum, sauce, schnapps, sip, soak, social lubricant, souse, spirits, strong drink, strong waters, suck, suck in, suckle, sup, swig, swill, tank up, the Demon Rum, the bottle, the cup, the flowing bowl, the luscious liquor, the ruddy cup, tipple, toast, toss down, toss off, toxicant, wash down, water of life, whiskey, white lightning, white mule

bop

• bop, acid rock, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, baloney, bash, bat, bebop, belt, biff, bilge, blah, blah-blah, boogie-woogie, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, country rock, crap, dance music, dances, douse, flapdoodle, folk rock, gas, guff, gup, hard rock, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, hot jazz, jazz, jive, mainstream jazz, malarkey, moonshine, musical suite, piffle, poppycock, pound, rag, ragtime, rhythm-and-blues, rock, rock-and-roll, rot, scat, shit, smack, sock, suite, suite of dances, swing, syncopated music, syncopation, the new music, tommyrot, tripe, whop, wind

bordello

• bordello, bagnio, bawdy house, bawdyhouse, brothel, cathouse, clip joint, crib, den, den of thieves, den of vice, disorderly house, dive, dump, fleshpots, gyp joint, hole, house of assignation, house of joy, house of prostitution, joint, lair, panel den, panel house, red-light district, sink of iniquity, sporting house, stew, stews, tenderloin, whorehouse

border

• border, Berlin wall, Japanese garden, Pillars of Hercules, abut, abut on, act drop, adjoin, alpine garden, ambit, approach, approximate, arboretum, arena, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, bailiwick, bamboo curtain, bank, batten, be contiguous, be in contact, beam, beat, bed, befringe, beginning, bind, binding, board, bog garden, border ground, border on, borderland, borderline, borders, bordure, botanical garden, bound, boundary, bounds, brim, brink, broadside, brow, butt, cheek, chop, circle, circuit, circumference, circumscribe, cloth, coast, communicate, compare, confine, confines, conjoin, connect, contour, cortex, coulisse, counterweight, covering, crust, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, dado, decor, define, delineate, demesne, department, domain, dominion, door, drop, drop curtain, dry garden, edge, edging, encircle, enclose, end, enframe, entrance, envelope, epidermis, exterior, external, extremity, facade, face, facet, featheredge, field, fire curtain, flange, flank, flat, flipper, flower bed, flower garden, frame, frieze, fringe, front, frontier, frontier post, garden, garden spot, grape ranch, grapery, hand, handedness, hanging, haunch, hem, hemisphere, herbarium, hip, hortus siccus, integument, iron curtain, jardin, join, jowl, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, kitchen garden, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, laterality, ledge, lie by, limb, limbus, limit, limits, line, lineaments, lines, lip, list, many-sidedness, march, marches, marchland, marge, margin, marginate, mark off, market garden, metes and bounds, multilaterality, near, neighbor, orb, orbit, ornamental garden, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outline, outpost, outside, outskirts, pale, paradise, perimeter, periphery, pinetum, planking, precinct, profile, province, purfle, purl, quarter, rag, ragged edge, realm, rim, rind, rock garden, roof garden, round, scene, scenery, screen, selvage, set off, shell, shore, shrubbery, side, side scene, sideline, siding, skin, skirt, sphere, stage screw, stand by, sunken garden, superficies, superstratum, surface, surround, tab, tableau, tea garden, teaser, temple, termination, three-mile limit, threshold, top, tormentor, touch, transformation, transformation scene, trench, trim, trimming, truck garden, twelve-mile limit, unilaterality, vegetable garden, verge, verge upon, victory garden, vinery, vineyard, wainscot, wainscoting, walk, wing, wingcut, woodcut

bordering

• bordering, adjacent, adjoining, beading, binding, borderline, bordure, boundary, bounding, coastal, connecting, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, determinant, determinative, determining, edging, end to end, endways, endwise, extreme, face to face, fimbria, fimbriation, flounce, frill, frilling, fringe, fringing, frontier, furbelow, galloon, hem, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting, list, littoral, marginal, motif, neighbor, neighboring, next, rimming, ruffle, selvage, skirting, terminal, threshold, trimming, valance, welt

borderland

• borderland, Berlin wall, Pillars of Hercules, alentours, ambience, ambit, arena, back country, backwoods, bailiwick, bamboo curtain, beat, boondock, boondocks, border, border ground, borderlands, brush, bush country, bushveld, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, compass, context, demesne, department, domain, dominion, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, field, forests, frontier, frontier post, gestalt, habitat, hemisphere, hinterland, iron curtain, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, march, marches, marchland, milieu, neighborhood, orb, orbit, outback, outpost, outposts, outskirts, pale, perimeter, periphery, precinct, precincts, province, purlieus, realm, round, situation, sphere, suburbs, surroundings, the bush, three-mile limit, timbers, total environment, twelve-mile limit, uninhabited region, up-country, vicinage, vicinity, virgin land, virgin territory, walk, wasteland, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods

borderline case

• borderline case, aliene, bedlamite, blind bargain, chance, contingency, crackbrain, crackpot, dement, demoniac, double contingency, energumen, fanatic, flake, fou, gamble, guess, idiot, kook, loon, loony, lunatic, madman, maniac, meshuggenah, noncompos, nut, open question, phrenetic, piece of guesswork, question, raving lunatic, screwball, sight-unseen transaction, toss-up, touch and go, undecided issue, wager, weirdo

borderline

• borderline, ambiguous, bordering, boundary, bounding, coastal, determinant, determinative, determining, dubitable, equivocal, extreme, fringing, frontier, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting, littoral, marginal, open, problematic, rimming, skirting, terminal, threshold, uncertain, unclear, undecided, unsettled

bore

• bore, acupunctuation, acupuncture, aggravation, annoyance, auger, bad news, be tedious, bedevilment, billow, bite, bore stiff, bore to death, bore to distraction, bore to tears, boring, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, breakers, broach, burrow, buttonhole, buttonholer, caliber, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, countersink, crashing bore, delve, devilment, diameter, difficulty, dig, dig out, dike, dirty water, discompose, discontent, disquiet, dogging, downer, drag, dredge, drill, drill hole, drip, drive, dryasdust, dusty, eagre, empierce, empiercement, ennui, exasperation, excavate, exhaust, fix, fixing, flat tire, frightful bore, furrow, gape, gaup, gawk, glare, gloat, goggle, gore, goring, gouge, gouge out, gravity wave, groove, ground swell, grub, harassment, harrying, headache, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, hole, hollow out, honeycomb, hounding, humdrum, impale, impalement, jade, lance, lancing, leave unsatisfied, lift, lop, lower, mine, molestation, needle, nuisance, pall, peak, peer, penetrate, penetration, perforate, perforation, persecution, pest, pierce, piercing, pill, pink, popple, prick, pricking, problem, proser, punch, punching, puncture, puncturing, quarry, radius, ream, ream out, riddle, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, run through, sap, scend, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, sea, semidiameter, send, send to sleep, shovel, sink, skewer, skewering, spade, spear, spike, spit, stab, stare, stick, surf, surge, swell, tap, terebration, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, tire, transfix, transfixation, transfixion, transforation, transpierce, trench, trepan, trepanning, trephine, trephining, trial, trouble, trough, tsunami, tunnel, twaddler, undulation, vexation, vexatiousness, water wave, wave, wavelet, wear out, weary, wet blanket, white horses, whitecaps, worriment, worry

boreal

• boreal, Siberian, aeolian, aestival, airish, airy, algid, antarctic, arctic, austral, autumn, autumnal, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blasty, bleak, blowy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, breezy, brisk, brumal, canicular, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, drafty, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, equinoctial, favonian, flawy, freezing, freezing cold, fresh, frigid, gelid, glacial, gusty, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, meridional, midsummer, midwinter, nipping, nippy, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, numbing, occidental, oriental, out of season, penetrating, piercing, pinching, puffy, raw, rigorous, seasonal, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, solstitial, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, spring, springlike, squally, stone-cold, subzero, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, supercooled, vernal, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, windy, winter, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

bored

• bored, aloof, anguished, anxious, apathetic, benumbed, blase, bored stiff, bored to death, bored to tears, careless, cheerless, dead, debilitated, depressed, detached, disgusted, disinterested, distant, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, enervated, exanimate, grim, heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, impassive, inanimate, incurious, indifferent, inert, insouciant, jaded, joyless, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, mindless, moribund, nauseated, nauseous, numb, phlegmatic, pleasureless, pooped, prey to malaise, regardless, repelled, revolted, sad, sated, sickened, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, stagnant, stagnating, stolid, stultified, stuporous with boredom, suffering angst, supine, torpid, unconcerned, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmindful, unquiet, unsatisfied, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary

boredom

• boredom, acedia, aloofness, angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, boredness, carelessness, cheerlessness, detachment, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, disgust, disinterest, disinterestedness, dislike, dispiritedness, displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction, distaste, doldrums, dread, dreariness, drowsiness, dullness, emptiness, enervation, ennui, existential woe, fatigue, fed-upness, flatness, grimness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, inanimation, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, inquietude, insouciance, intellectual inertia, jadedness, joylessness, lack of interest, lack of pleasure, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy, life-weariness, lifelessness, listlessness, malaise, melancholy, monotony, nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, oscitancy, painfulness, passivity, phlegm, regardlessness, satedness, satiation, satiety, savorlessness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, spleen, staleness, stolidity, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, taedium vitae, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, uncomfortableness, unconcern, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit, wearifulness, weariness, withdrawal, world-weariness, yawn

boring

• boring, acupunctuation, acupuncture, arid, bore, boresome, broach, dead, drab, dreary, drill hole, drudging, dry, dull, empiercement, exhausting, fatiguing, fixing, flat, goring, gray, humdrum, impalement, irksome, lancing, long-drawn-out, monotonous, penetration, perforation, piercing, pricking, prolix, punching, puncture, puncturing, repetitious, repetitive, same, samely, skewering, soporific, stale, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, tedious, terebration, tired, tiresome, tiring, transfixation, transfixion, transforation, trepanning, trephining, unending, unexciting, uninteresting, unrelieved, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wordy, yawny

born yesterday

• born yesterday, artless, bluff, blunt, candid, childlike, confiding, direct, frank, guileless, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, trustful, trusting, unguarded, unreserved, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, unwary

born

• born, absolute, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, atavistic, bearing, birth, bodily, bring forth, broad-based, calved, cast, clean, clear, coeval, comprehensive, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, consummate, deep-dyed, deep-seated, deliver, downright, dropped, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, essential, exhaustive, foaled, genetic, given birth, giving birth, hatched, hereditary, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, intensive, intrinsic, native, native to, natural, natural to, nee, newborn, omnibus, omnipresent, organic, out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, physical, plain, plumb, primal, pure, radical, regular, sheer, stillborn, straight, sweeping, temperamental, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous, unconditional, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, utter, veritable, whelped, wholesale

borne out

• borne out, ascertained, attested, authenticated, certified, circumstantiated, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated, determined, established, fixed, proved, proven, settled, shown, substantiated, validated, verified

borne

• borne, based on, bolstered, braced, buttressed, founded on, grounded on, guyed, held, ineffectual, limited, maintained, mean, narrow, paltry, propped, set, shored up, small, stayed, supported, sustained, upheld

borough

• borough, Kreis, Stadt, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, banlieue, bishopric, boom town, bourg, burg, burgh, canton, city, close borough, commune, congressional district, constablewick, conurbation, county, departement, diocese, district, duchy, election district, electoral district, electorate, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, gerrymander, gerrymandered district, ghost town, government, greater city, hamlet, hundred, magistracy, market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, municipality, oblast, okrug, outskirts, parish, pocket borough, polis, precinct, principality, province, region, riding, rotten borough, safe district, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, silk-stocking district, single-member district, soke, spread city, stake, state, suburb, suburbia, swing district, territory, town, township, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, village, ville, wapentake, ward

borrow

• borrow, abstract, act like, adopt, affect, and, annex, appropriate, assume, bag, boost, bum, cadge, chorus, cop, copy, counterfeit, crib, defraud, discount, discount notes, ditto, do, do like, draw, echo, embezzle, extort, fake, filch, float a loan, forge, get a loan, get into debt, get on credit, go in debt, go in hock, go like, hit one for, hit up, hoke, hoke up, hook, imitate, infringe a copyright, lend, lift, make like, make off with, mirror, mooch, negotiate a loan, nip, obtain, palm, pawn, pilfer, pinch, pirate, plagiarize, plunge into debt, poach, purloin, raise money, reecho, refer to, reflect, repeat, run away with, run into debt, rustle, scrounge, shave, shoplift, show a deficit, simulate, snare, snatch, snitch, sponge, steal, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, touch, walk off with

borrowing power

• borrowing power, bank credit, book credit, cash credit, commercial credit, consumer credit, credit, credit insurance, credit rating, credit union, hire purchase plan, installment credit, installment plan, investment credit, line of credit, never-never, rating, tax credit, tick, trust

borrowing

• borrowing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, amount due, appropriation, autoplagiarism, bad debts, bill, bills, borrowed word, calque, charges, cheap money, chits, cribbing, debt, discounting, due, dues, financial commitment, floating debt, foreignism, funded debt, indebtedness, indebtment, infringement of copyright, lending, liability, literary piracy, loan translation, loan word, maturity, money market, national debt, note discounting, note shaving, obligation, outstanding debt, paronym, piracy, plagiarism, plagiarizing, plagiary, pledge, public debt, score, tight money, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge

borstal

• borstal, POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal institution, borstal school, bridewell, brig, cell, concentration camp, condemned cell, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, remand school, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school

boscage

• boscage, bosket, brake, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, coppice, copse, copsewood, covert, frith, motte, thicket, thickset, underbrush, undergrowth, undershrubs, underwood

bosh

• bosh, balderdash, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, blatherskite, bop, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, scat, shit, tommyrot, tripe, wind

bosom

• bosom, bag, bear, being, beloved, blood, bones, boobs, boon, bottle up, bowels, breast, breasts, brisket, bury, bust, cache, center, center of life, cherish, cherished, chest, clasp, classify, cling to, clip, close, conceal, confidential, core, crop, dear, deepest recesses, deposit, dug, embosom, embrace, enfold, entertain, esoteric reality, esprit, file and forget, fold, fondle, foster, gut, guts, harbor, have, have and hold, heart, heart of hearts, heartstrings, hide away, hold, hold on to, hold out on, hug, in petto, inmost heart, inmost soul, inner, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, innermost being, inside, interior, interior man, intern, internal, intimate, intrados, inward, keep, keep back, keep between us, keep buttoned up, keep close, keep dark, keep from, keep hidden, keep in ignorance, keep mum, keep secret, keep snug, keep under wraps, knockers, lock up, make no sign, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, midst, nenes, nerve center, never let on, nipple, not give away, not tell, nurse, nurture, pair, pap, papilla, penetralia, pigeon breast, plant, play dumb, press, put away, quick, recesses, seal up, secret heart, secret place, secret places, secrete, soul, special, spirit, squeeze, stash, store away, stow away, teat, thorax, tit, tits, titties, titty, treasure, treasure up, true being, true inwardness, udder, veil, viscera, vital center, vital principle, vitals, withhold

bosomy

• bosomy, adipose, bagging, baggy, ballooning, beefy, bellying, big-bellied, billowing, billowy, bloated, blowzy, brawny, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, burly, buxom, chesty, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hillocky, hippy, hummocky, imposing, lusty, meaty, moutonnee, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly, potbellied, pouching, pudgy, puffy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, rounded, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, swelling, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, verrucated, verrucose, warty, well-fed

boss

• boss, A per se, Big Brother, OK, ace, ace-high, administrator, anaglyph, ascendant, at the head, auditor, bad, bang-up, bas-relief, big cheese, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boatswain, bonzer, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bully, bump, bunch, burl, but good, button, bwana, cacique, cahot, cameo, cameo glass, capital, cavo-rilievo, champion, chaperon, chase, chef, chief, chieftain, chine, church dignitary, clump, coarsen, cock, colophon, command, commander, commanding, comptroller, concavity, condyle, control, controller, controlling, convex, convexity, cool, corking, crackerjack, cut glass, dactylogram, dactylograph, dandy, dean, delicious, dent, dint, direct, director, dominant, dominate, domineer, dowel, ducky, ear, ecclesiarch, elder, emboss, embossment, employer, excrescence, fab, famous, fine, fine and dandy, fingerprint, first-rate, flange, flap, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, footmark, footprint, footstep, foreman, fossil footprint, fugleman, gaffer, gall, ganger, gear, general, genius, glyph, glyptograph, gnarl, goodman, governing, governor, granulate, great, groovy, guru, handle, head, headman, heavy, hegemonic, hegemonistic, hierarch, high relief, higher-up, hill, himself, honcho, horripilate, hot, hump, hunch, hunky-dory, husband, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, indent, indentation, indention, inspector, intaglio, intaglio rilevato, intaglio rilievo, jam-up, jog, joggle, just dandy, keen, keep in order, keynoter, kingpin, knob, knot, knur, knurl, laureate, leader, leading, liege, liege lord, lip, loop, lord, lord it over, lord paramount, low relief, lump, man higher up, manage, manager, managing director, marvy, mask, master, mean, medal, medallion, mole, monitor, mountain, neat, nevus, nifty, nobby, noncommissioned officer, nonpareil, nub, nubbin, nubble, okay, order about, out of sight, overlook, overlord, overman, oversee, overseeing, overseer, owner, pad, padrone, papilloma, paragon, paramount, paterfamilias, patriarch, patron, paw print, pawmark, peachy, peachy-keen, peg, pimple, plaquette, policy maker, predominant, predominate, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, president, prevalent, prexy, principal, print, proctor, prodigy, proprietor, pug, pugmark, quarterback, rabbi, raise, regnant, regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, relief, relievo, rib, ride herd on, ridge, ring, ringleader, ripping, rough, rough up, roughen, ruler, ruling, rum, run, sachem, sahib, scrumptious, sculptured glass, seal, seigneur, seignior, senior, shoulder, sigil, signet, sirdar, slap-up, slave driver, smashing, solid, something else, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, spine, stamp, stand over, standard-bearer, star, starets, step, straw boss, stud, stunning, style, subforeman, super, superintend, superintendent, superior, superman, superstar, supervise, supervising, supervisor, supervisory, supreme, survey, surveyor, swell, tab, take care of, take charge, taskmaster, teacher, the greatest, the most, thumbmark, thumbprint, top, top dog, tough, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, vestige, virtuoso, visitor, wale, wart, welt, wizard

bossism

• bossism, Machtpolitik, Realpolitik, Tammany Hall, arbitrariness, authoritarianism, authoritativeness, autocraticalness, career politics, confrontation politics, consensus politics, domineering, domineeringness, economics in action, empirical politics, imperativeness, imperiousness, kid-glove politics, lordliness, machine politics, magisterialness, magistrality, masterfulness, overbearance, overbearing, overbearingness, partisan politics, partisanism, peanut politics, peremptoriness, petty politics, politics, polity, pork-barrel politics, power politics, practical politics, pressure-group politics, reform politics, silk-stocking politics, tyrannicalness, ward politics

bossy

• bossy, Brahman, Indian buffalo, Partlet, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aurochs, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, beef, beef cattle, beeves, biddy, bison, bitch, bold, bossed, bovine, bovine animal, brood mare, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, chased, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, despotic, dictatorial, doe, dogie, domineering, embossed, ewe, ewe lamb, feudal, filly, grinding, guinea hen, gyp, heifer, hen, high-handed, hind, hornless cow, imperative, imperial, imperious, in relief, jenny, kine, leppy, lioness, lordly, magisterial, magistral, mare, masterful, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, monocratic, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, nanny, nanny goat, neat, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, ox, oxen, peahen, peremptory, raised, repressive, roe, severe, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, slut, sow, steer, stirk, stot, strict, suppressive, tigress, tyrannical, tyrannous, vixen, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu

botanic

• botanic, bulbous, cereal, farinaceous, fruitlike, fruity, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, leguminose, leguminous, phytobiological, phytochemical, phytologic, plantlike, pomological, radicated, radiciform, radicular, rhizoid, rootlike, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy

botanical

• botanical, botanic, bulbous, cereal, farinaceous, fruitlike, fruity, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, leguminose, leguminous, phytobiological, phytochemical, phytologic, plantlike, pomological, radicated, radiciform, radicular, rhizoid, rootlike, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy

botanist

• botanist, anatomist, bacteriologist, biochemist, biologist, biometrist, biophysicist, bryologist, cytologist, dendrologist, ecologist, geneticist, herbalist, mycologist, natural scientist, naturalist, physiologist, phytobiologist, phytoecologist, phytogeographer, phytographer, phytologist, phytonomist, phytopaleontologist, phytopathologist, phytoteratologist, pomologist, zoologist

botany

• botany, aerobiology, agrobiology, amnion, anatomy, astrobiology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, bladder, bleb, blister, boll, calyx, capsule, cell, cell physiology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cyst, cytology, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, fistula, flora, flowerage, follicle, gallbladder, genetics, gnotobiotics, greenery, greens, herbage, legume, life science, loculus, marsupium, microbiology, molecular biology, pericarp, pharmacology, physiology, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, pocket, pod, radiobiology, sac, saccule, sacculus, saccus, scrotum, seedcase, silique, sinus, sound, stomach, taxonomy, udder, vasculum, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation, vegetation spirit, ventricle, verdure, vesica, vesicle, virology, xenobiology, zoology

botch

• botch, anamorphosis, bad job, bad likeness, bat out, be all thumbs, bevue, bitch up, blight, blow, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botchery, bugger up, bumble, bungle, bungling, burlesque, butcher, caricature, clumsy performance, cobble, commit a gaffe, confuse, dash off, daub, destroy, disorder, distortion, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, dub, error, etourderie, fake up, faux pas, fiasco, flounder, flub, fluff, flunk, foozle, fudge up, fumble, gaffe, gaucherie, goof up, gum up, haphazardness, hash, indiscretion, jury-rig, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, loose ends, louse up, lumber, make a blunder, make a misstep, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, messiness, misconduct, miscue, misdraw, mishandle, mismanage, mispaint, misspeak, mistake, mix-up, muck, muck up, mucker, muddle, muff, mull, murder, muss, mutilate, off day, parody, patch, patch together, patch up, play havoc with, play hell with, pound out, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, ruin, sad work, scratch, screw up, scribble, shambles, slap up, slapdash, slip, slipshoddiness, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenly performance, slovenry, sluttishness, solecism, spoil, stumble, stupidity, throw off, throw together, tinker, toss off, toss out, toss together, travesty, trifle with, trip, untidiness, washout, whomp up, wreck

botched

• botched, blighted, bungled, bungling, butchered, clumsy, deficient, destroyed, fumbled, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, marred, messy, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered, negligent, promiscuous, ruined, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, spoiled, spoilt, untidy, wrecked

both

• both, a deux, brace, couple, couplet, distich, double harness, doublet, duad, duet, duo, dyad, either, for two, match, mates, pair, set of two, span, team, tete-a-tete, the two, twain, two, twosome, yoke

bother

• bother, abash, abrade, abuse a privilege, addle, addle the wits, ado, afflict, aggravate, aggravation, agitate, agitation, ail, annoy, annoyance, anxiety, awkwardness, bad news, badger, baffle, bafflement, bait, ball up, be at, be the matter, becloud, bedazzle, bedevil, bedevilment, befuddle, befuddlement, beset, besetment, bewilder, bewilderment, bore, botheration, bothersomeness, brawl, bristle, broil, brouhaha, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burden, burdening, burn up, burst, bustle, can of worms, chafe, chaos, charging, chivy, cloud, clumsiness, commotion, complicate matters, concern, confoundment, confuse, confusion, crashing bore, daze, dazzle, demand, devil, devilment, difficulty, dilemma, disaccommodate, disadvantage, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discomfort, discommode, discommodity, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, dismay, disoblige, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, disturbance, dither, dog, dogging, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, downer, drag, dustup, effort, embarrass, embarrassment, embroilment, encroach upon, enigma, entangle, evil, exaction, exasperate, exasperation, exercise, fash, feery-fary, ferment, fidgetiness, fit, fix, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, flutteriness, fog, foofaraw, fracas, frazzle, free-for-all, freighting, frenzy, fret, fuddle, fuddlement, fuss, fuss at, fussiness, get, give concern, great ado, gripe, harass, harassment, harry, harrying, hassle, haze, headache, heckle, hector, helter-skelter, hound, hounding, hubbub, hullabaloo, impose on, impose upon, imposing an onus, imposition, incommode, incommodity, inconsiderateness, inconvenience, inconveniency, inconvenientness, infliction, irk, irritant, irritate, irritation, jam, jumble, lather, laying on, load with care, loading, loading down, maelstrom, make free with, matter, maze, melee, mess, miff, mist, mix up, moider, molest, molestation, muddle, muddlement, mystery, nag, needle, nettle, nonplus, nudge, nudzh, nuisance, obtrude upon, obtrusiveness, overstep, pain, peck of troubles, peeve, pell-mell, perplex, perplexity, persecute, persecution, perturb, perturbation, pest, pester, pet, pick on, pickle, pique, plague, plight, pluck the beard, pother, predicament, presume on, presume upon, presumptuousness, problem, provoke, pucker, put out, put to inconvenience, put to it, put to trouble, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, racket, raise hell, rampage, rattle, restlessness, riddle, ride, rile, riot, roil, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scramble, scrape, sea of troubles, shindy, shuffle, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, sweat, swirl, swivet, take a liberty, take liberties, tasking, taxing, tease, throw into confusion, tizzy, to-do, torment, trial, trouble, troublesomeness, try the patience, tumult, turmoil, tweak the nose, twitter, twitteration, unassuredness, unhandiness, unhinge, unquiet, unsettle, unsettlement, unwarranted demand, unwieldiness, uproar, upset, vex, vexation, vexatiousness, vortex, weighting, whirl, worriment, worry

bothered

• bothered, abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, aggravated, agitated, all-overish, angry, annoyed, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, astray, at sea, balled-up, beset, bewildered, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, cast down, chafed, chagrined, chaotic, chapfallen, clueless, concerned, confused, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disordered, disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, exasperated, fearful, flustered, fluttered, foreboding, fussed, galled, griped, guessing, harassed, hung up, ill at ease, in a fix, in a jumble, in a maze, in a pickle, in a pother, in a pucker, in a scrape, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, inconvenienced, irked, irritated, jumbled, lost, mazed, miffed, misgiving, mixed-up, mortified, nervous, nettled, off the track, on tenterhooks, out of countenance, overanxious, overapprehensive, peeved, perplexed, perturbed, piqued, plagued, provoked, put to it, put-out, put-upon, puzzled, rattled, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, shaken, shook, shuffled, solicitous, sore beset, strained, suspenseful, tense, troubled, turned around, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsettled, upset, vexed, without a clue, worried, zealous

bothersome

• bothersome, aggravating, annoying, backbreaking, besetting, bothering, burdensome, chafing, crushing, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, fretting, galling, grueling, harassing, heavy, hefty, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, onerous, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, trying, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying

bottle up

• bottle up, arrest, asphyxiate, bosom, box in, box up, bury, cabin, cache, cage, casket, censor, check, choke off, clamp down on, cloister, closet, coffin, confine, constrain, coop, coop in, coop up, cork, cork up, countercheck, crack down on, cramp, crib, crush, curb, dam up, damp, damp down, dampen, delay, deposit, detain, drown, embosom, encage, encase, enclose, entomb, extinguish, fence in, file and forget, gag, hem in, hide away, hinder, hold, hold back, hold down, hold in, hold in check, hold in custody, hold in restraint, hold up, immure, impede, impound, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, jump on, keep, keep back, keep down, keep hidden, keep in, keep in check, keep in custody, keep in detention, keep secret, keep under, kill, lock in, lock up, maintain, meddle, mew, mew up, muzzle, oppose, pen, pen up, plant, pound, pour water on, preserve, put away, put down, quash, quell, quench, rail in, repress, resist, restrain, restrict, retain, retard, save, save up, scotch, seal up, secrete, set back, shackle, shut down on, shut in, shut up, silence, sit down on, sit on, slacken, smash, smother, snub, squash, squelch, stanch, stash, stifle, store away, stow away, straiten, strangle, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, throttle, wall in

bottle

• bottle, Dutch courage, alcohol, alcoholic drink, backbone, bag, barrel, basket, booze, bottle up, box, box in, box up, burden, cabin, calabash, can, canteen, capsule, carafe, carboy, carton, case, cask, casket, caster, cloister, closet, coffin, confine, contain, container, control, courage, cramp, crate, crib, cruet, cruse, cut off, decanter, demijohn, do up, encase, encyst, entomb, ewer, fiasco, fifth, fill, flacon, flagon, flask, flasket, freight, gourd, grit, gumption, guts, hamper, heap, heap up, hem in, hipflask, hold back, hold in check, hot-water bottle, immure, jar, jeroboam, jug, keep in check, lade, liquor, load, lota, magnum, manfulness, manliness, mass, mettle, moxie, mussuk, nerve, olla, pack, pack away, package, parcel, phial, pile, pluck, pocket, pot, put up, repress, restrain, sack, sauce, ship, spirits, spunk, stack, starch, stifle, store, stoup, stow, straiten, suppress, tank, the bottle, tin, trap, vacuum bottle, vial

bottleneck

• bottleneck, abbreviation, approach, astriction, astringency, asymptote, bar, barrier, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, canal, catch, cecum, cervix, channel, choking, choking off, circumscription, clog, coarctation, collision course, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentralization, concentration, concourse, concurrence, condensation, confluence, conflux, congestion, congress, consolidation, constipation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, convergence, converging, cordon, costiveness, crossing, cul-de-sac, curtailment, curtain, dead end, decrease, defile, determent, deterrent, difficulty, diminuendo, drawback, embolism, embolus, focalization, focus, funnel, gorge, hang-up, hazard, hitch, hourglass, hourglass figure, hub, hurdle, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, isthmus, jam, joker, knitting, meeting, mutual approach, narrow, narrow place, narrowing, narrowing gap, narrows, neck, objection, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, pass, puckering, pursing, radius, reduction, rub, sealing off, shortening, snag, solidification, spokes, stop, stoppage, strait, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, stumbling block, stumbling stone, systole, tangent, throat, wasp waist, wrinkling

bottom dollar

• bottom dollar, Swiss bank account, Thule, Ultima Thule, assets, balance, bank account, bitter end, boundary, budget, butt, butt end, cash reserves, checking account, command of money, exchequer, extreme, extremity, fag end, farthest bound, finances, fund, funds, jumping-off place, kitty, life savings, limit, means, moneys, nest egg, nib, pecuniary resources, pocket, point, pole, pool, purse, reserves, resources, savings, savings account, stub, stump, substance, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, tip, treasure, unregistered bank account, wherewithal

bottom out

• bottom out, alter, ameliorate, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, break, change, checker, chop, chop and change, come about, come around, come round, degenerate, deteriorate, deviate, diverge, diversify, flop, haul around, improve, jibe, meliorate, mitigate, modulate, mutate, revive, shift, swerve, tack, take a turn, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, undergo a change, vary, veer, warp, worsen

bottom

• bottom, argosy, arse, ass, at bottom, backbone, backside, bark, basal, base, basement, basic, basically, basin, basis, baygall, bed, bedrock, behind, belly, best, boat, bog, bottom glade, bottomland, bottommost, bottoms, breech, bucket, buffalo wallow, bum, butt, buttocks, can, cause, channel, chutzpah, coulee, courage, craft, cut, dale, dell, depths, derriere, dingle, duff, end, essentiality, essentially, establish, everglade, fanny, fen, fenland, floor, foot, footing, found, foundation, foundational, fundament, fundamentally, gameness, gap, gill, giveaway, glade, glen, gluteus maximus, grit, ground, groundwork, grove, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, half-price, heart, heart of oak, heinie, hindquarters, hog wallow, holm, hooker, hulk, hull, in reality, in truth, intervale, intestinal fortitude, keel, keister, leviathan, low, lower strata, lowermost, lowest, lowest level, lowest point, lunar rill, marais, marish, marked down, marrow, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mettle, mettlesomeness, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, moxie, mud, mud flat, nadir, nerve, nethermost, nub, ocean bottom, origin, packet, pass, peat bog, pith, pluck, pluckiness, posterior, prat, predicate, primary, quagmire, quicksand, quintessence, quintessential, radical, ravine, really, rear, rear end, reduced, rest, rock-bottom, rump, sacrificial, salt marsh, seat, ship, slashed, slob land, slough, sole, sough, soul, source, spirit, spunk, spunkiness, stamina, stay, stout heart, strath, stuff, substance, substructure, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, toughness, trench, trough, true grit, truly, tub, tuchis, tush, tushy, underbelly, underlying, underlying level, undermost, underneath, underpinning, underside, vale, valley, vessel, virtuality, wadi, wallow, wash, watercraft

bottomland

• bottomland, alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, baygall, bog, bottom, bottoms, buffalo wallow, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs, everglade, fell, fen, fenland, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, glade, grass veld, grassland, heath, hog wallow, holm, lande, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, marais, mare, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mesa, mesilla, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, open country, pampa, pampas, peat bog, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, quagmire, quicksand, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, slob land, slough, sough, steppe, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, table, tableland, taiga, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, wallow, wash, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

bottomless pit

• bottomless pit, Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, Naraka, Pandemonium, Sheol, Tophet, avichi, bowels, deep space, deeps, depths, gaping depths, hell, infernal pit, infernal regions, inferno, jahannan, limbo, lower world, nether world, outer space, perdition, place of torment, purgatory, shades below, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, underworld, unfathomed deeps, unknown depths

bottomless

• bottomless, a hog for, abounding, abundant, abysmal, abyssal, acquisitive, affluent, all-devouring, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, avaricious, avid, bounteous, bountiful, cavernous, copious, coveting, covetous, deep as hell, devouring, diffuse, effuse, endless, epidemic, esurient, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fathomless, fertile, flush, full, galore, gaping, generous, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, gratuitous, greedy, groundless, hoggish, immeasurable, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, infinite, insatiable, insatiate, lavish, liberal, limitless, luxuriant, many, maximal, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, much, numerous, omnivorous, opulent, overflowing, overgreedy, piggish, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plumbless, plunging, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, quenchless, rampant, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, reasonless, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, slakeless, sordid, soundless, superabundant, swinish, teeming, unappeasable, unappeased, uncalled-for, unfathomable, unfathomed, unfounded, ungrounded, unjustifiable, unlimited, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, unsounded, unsupportable, unwarranted, venal, voracious, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, without bottom, yawning

bough

• bough, appendage, arm, bine, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, deadwood, flagellum, fork, frond, hand, imp, joint, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, offshoot, organ, pinion, ramage, ramification, runner, sarment, scion, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stolon, sucker, switch, tail, tendril, thallus, twig, wing

bouillabaisse

• bouillabaisse, Irish stew, bisque, borscht, bouillon, broth, burgoo, chicken soup, chowder, clam chowder, clear soup, consomme, curry, egg drop soup, etuvee, fish soup, fricassee, gazpacho, goulash, gravy soup, gumbo, julienne, matzo ball soup, meat stew, minestrone, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, mulligan, mulligan stew, mulligatawny, olio, olla, olla podrida, oxtail soup, oyster stew, paella, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, puree, ragout, soup, stew, stock, thick soup, thin soup, tomato soup, turtle soup, vegetable soup, vichyssoise, won ton soup

bouillon

• bouillon, beef, beef extract, beef tea, bisque, borscht, bouillabaisse, broth, bully, bully beef, burgoo, charqui, chicken soup, chipped beef, chowder, clam chowder, clear soup, consomme, dried beef, egg drop soup, fish soup, gazpacho, gravy soup, ground beef, gumbo, hamburger, jerky, julienne, matzo ball soup, minestrone, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, mulligatawny, oxtail soup, pastrami, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, puree, roast beef, salt beef, soup, stock, suet, thick soup, thin soup, tomato soup, turtle soup, vegetable soup, vichyssoise, won ton soup

boulevard

• boulevard, Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drag, drive, driveway, expressway, freeway, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, interstate highway, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, parkway, path, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, speedway, state highway, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, track, turnpike, wynd

bounce back

• bounce back, backfire, backlash, be reflected, be sent back, boom, boomerang, bounce, bound, bound back, cannon, cannon off, carom, come around, come back, come round, come to, come up smiling, echo, echo back, fly back, get about, get over, get well, have repercussions, kick, kick back, lash back, make a comeback, pull round, pull through, rally, rebound, recalcitrate, recoil, recover, reecho, reflect, repercuss, resile, resound, return, reverberate, revive, ricochet, roll, rumble, send back, snap back, sound, spring, spring back, strong arm, survive, weather the storm

bounce

• bounce, AM signal, CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, FM signal, Highland fling, IF signal, IM display, RF amplifier, RF echoes, RF signal, RF stage, adaptability, airiness, and jump, animation, ax, backfire, backlash, backlashing, beam, beat signal, blips, bludgeon, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, bob, bobble, boomerang, boot, boot out, bounce, bounce back, bounces, bounciness, bound, bound back, brag, brave show, break, breeziness, broad jump, browbeat, buck, buckjump, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, bump, buoyance, buoyancy, bust, can, cannon, cannon off, caper, capriole, caracole, carefreeness, carom, cashier, cast, cast out, cavort, chatter, chirpiness, chuck out, clear, contrecoup, cow, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, debonairness, defenestrate, defrock, degrade, demivolt, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, detrude, didder, direct signal, disbar, discard, discharge, disemploy, dismiss, displace, display, displume, dither, double-dot display, dragoon, drum out, dynamism, echo, echo signal, eject, elasticity, energy, exclude, expel, extensibility, extrude, falter, fire, flexibility, flounce, fly back, flying jump, frisk, furlough, galliard, gambado, gambol, gasconade, gelandesprung, get-up-and-go, give, give the ax, give the gate, give the hook, go, grand jete, grimace, handspring, have an ague, have repercussions, heave out, hector, high jump, hippety-hop, hop, hurdle, hustle, intimidate, jactitate, jar, jauntiness, jerk, jete, jettison, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, jump about, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off, junk, kick, kick back, kick downstairs, kick out, kick upstairs, kickback, lash back, lavolta, lay off, leap, leap over, leapfrog, let go, let out, levity, life, light heart, lightheartedness, lightness, lightsomeness, liveliness, local oscillator signal, long jump, lop, make redundant, morris, negotiate, obtrude, oust, out-herod Herod, output signal, overjump, overleap, overskip, peacockery, peacockishness, pension off, pep, perkiness, pertness, picture, pips, pole vault, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, prance, put out, quake, quaver, quiver, radar signal, radio-frequency amplifier, radio-frequency signal, radio-frequency stage, rage, ramp, rant, rave, read out of, reading, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, reflected signal, reflection, reject, release, remove, repercuss, repercussion, replace, repulse, resile, resilience, resiliency, responsiveness, retire, return, return signal, ricochet, rictus, roister, rollick, romp, running broad jump, running high jump, sack, saut de basque, separate forcibly, shake, shiver, shock, shortwave signal, shudder, signal, signal display, ski jump, skip, slang, snap, snap back, splutter, spot, spring, spring back, springiness, sputter, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, storm, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, strip, strut, strutting, superannuate, surplus, suspend, swagger, swaggering, swank, swash, swashbuckle, swashbucklering, swashbucklery, swashbuckling, target image, terminate, throw away, throw out, throw overboard, thrust out, tic, tone, tonicity, tonus, toss out, tour jete, trace, transmitter signal, tremble, tremor, trip, turn off, turn out, twitch, twitter, unfrock, unidirectional signal, updive, upleap, upspring, vapor, vault, verve, vibrate, video signal, vitality, vivacity, wobble, yield, zest, zip

bouncing

• bouncing, active, activist, activistic, alive, animated, beefy, bouncy, bounding, breezy, brisk, bubbly, chipper, doughty, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, full-blooded, full-strength, gutsy, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, hefty, hopping, husky, iron-hard, jumping, leaping, live, lively, lusty, mercurial, mighty, militant, nervy, obstinate, peppy, perky, pert, potent, powerful, prancing, puissant, quicksilver, rebounding, recalcitrant, recoiling, red-blooded, repercussive, resilient, robust, robustious, robustuous, rude, rugged, saltant, saltatorial, saltatory, skipping, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, sprightly, springing, spry, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, vigorous, vital, vivacious, zingy

bound

• bound, Highland fling, absolute, adjoin, affianced, affiliate, affiliated, allied, and jump, apodictic, apprenticed, articled, assembled, associate, associated, assured, backfire, backlash, backlashing, banded together, barred, befringe, beholden, beholden to, beleaguer, beleaguered, beset, besiege, besieged, betrothed, bind, blockade, blockaded, blocked, booked, boomerang, border, border line, borders, bounce, bounce back, bound and determined, bound back, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bounded, bounden, bounden to, bounds, bourn, box in, bracketed, break boundary, breakoff point, broad jump, buck, buckjump, cabined, cage, caged, cannon, cannon off, canter, caper, capriole, carom, ceiling, certain, chamber, choked, choked up, circle in, circumscribe, circumscription, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, clogged, clogged up, cloistered, close in, closed-in, collateral, collected, committed, compass, compelled, compromised, conclusive, condition, conditioned, confine, confined, confines, congested, conjoined, conjugate, connected, constipated, constrained, contain, contracted, contrecoup, coop, coop in, coop up, cooped, copulate, copyright, copyrighted, cordon, cordon off, cordoned, cordoned off, corral, corralled, correlated, costive, coupled, cramped, cribbed, curvet, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, decided, decisive, dedicated, define, definite, delimit, delimitate, delimitation, demarcate, demivolt, destined, determinant, determinate, determine, determined, devoted, directed, discipline, disciplined, divide, division line, doomed, draw the line, duty-bound, earnest, edge, encircle, enclose, enclosed, encompass, end, enframe, engaged, enshrine, enslaved, extent, extremity, fast, fastened, fated, fence in, fenced, fettered, finish, finite, fix, fixed, floor, fly back, flying jump, forced, foul, fouled, fox-trot, frame, fringe, frolic, frontier, full, galliard, gallop, gambol, gathered, gelandesprung, get, git, grand jete, guaranteed, hampered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, handcuffed, handspring, have repercussions, headed, hedge, hedge about, hedge in, hedged, hem, hem in, hemmed, high jump, high-water mark, hightail, hippety-hop, hop, hop along, hotfoot, house in, hurdle, immured, implicated, impound, imprison, imprisoned, in bonds, in chains, in duty bound, in irons, incarcerate, incarcerated, include, incorporated, indebted to, indentured, ineluctable, inevitable, infarcted, integrated, intended, interface, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, involved, ironbound, jail, jailed, jammed, jete, jig, joined, jump, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off, kennel, kick, kick back, kickback, knotted, lap, lash back, lavolta, lay off, leagued, leaguer, leaguered, leap, leap over, leapfrog, likely, limen, limit, limitation, limited, limiting factor, limits, line, line of demarcation, linked, list, long jump, lop, lope, low-water mark, lower limit, make tracks, manacled, march, marge, margin, marginate, mark, mark boundaries, mark off, mark out, mark the periphery, matched, mated, measure, merged, mete, mew, mew up, mewed, moderate, moderated, morris, narrow, necessary, negotiate, obligate, obligated, obliged, obliged to, obstinate, obstipated, obstructed, of that ilk, of that kind, overjump, overleap, overskip, packed, paired, paled, parallel, patent, patented, pen, pen in, penned, pent-up, perfectly sure, persevering, persistent, pledged, plighted, plugged, plugged up, pocket, pole vault, positive, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, precincts, predestined, predetermined, prescribed, promised, proscribed, purfle, purl, purlieus, purposeful, qualified, qualify, quarantine, quarantined, rail in, railed, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, register, related, relentless, repercuss, repercussion, repulse, required, resile, resilience, resolute, resolved, restrain, restrained, restrict, restricted, ricochet, rim, romp, rope off, run, running broad jump, running high jump, saddled, saut de basque, scant, scheduled, secured, separate, serious, set off, set the limit, shackled, shrine, shut in, shut up, shut-in, side, sincere, single-minded, ski jump, skip, skirt, snap back, specialize, specify, spliced, spring, spring back, sprint, stable, stake out, start, start aside, start up, starting line, starting point, steeplechase, step, step along, step lively, stint, stopped, stopped up, strait, straiten, straitened, strapped, stuffed, stuffed up, sure, sure-enough, surround, sworn, target date, tenacious, term, terminal date, terminus, tethered, threshold, tied, tied down, tied up, time allotment, tour jete, trammeled, trim, trip, trot, true, twinned, unambiguous, under obligation, underwritten, undivided, unequivocal, united, univocal, unmistakable, updive, upleap, upper limit, upspring, vault, verge, wall in, walled, walled-in, warranted, wed, wedded, wholehearted, wrap, yard, yard up, yoked

boundary

• boundary, Thule, Ultima Thule, ankle, articulation, balustrade, barrier, bisector, bitter end, border line, bordering, borderline, borders, bottom dollar, bound, boundary condition, boundary line, bounding, bounds, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, butt, butt end, caesura, caudal, ceiling, cervix, circumscription, clinch, closure, coastal, colon, comma, compass, conclusive, confine, confinement, confines, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, continence, coupling, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, definitive, delimitation, determinant, determinative, determining, diameter, discipline, divider, division line, dovetail, elbow, embrace, end, endmost, equator, eventual, extreme, extremity, fag end, farthest, farthest bound, fence, final, finish, floor, fringing, frontier, frontiers, gliding joint, halfway mark, hedge, high-water mark, hinge, hinged joint, hip, interface, join, joining, joint, jumping-off place, juncture, knee, knuckle, last, limbic, limen, liminal, limit, limitation, limiting, limiting factor, limits, line, line of demarcation, link, littoral, low-water mark, lower limit, march, marginal, mark, mete, miter, moderation, mortise, neck, nib, partition, pause, perimeter, period, pivot, pivot joint, point, polar, pole, precincts, prescription, proscription, purlieus, qualification, rabbet, rail, railing, restrain, restriction, rimming, scarf, seam, semicolon, shoulder, skirting, start, starting line, starting point, stitch, stone wall, stop, stub, stump, suture, symphysis, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, target date, term, terminal, terminal date, terminating, terminative, terminus, threshold, tie rod, time allotment, tip, toggle, toggle joint, ultimate, union, upper limit, wall, weld, wrist

bounder

• bounder, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, boor, bourgeois, cad, churl, clown, cur, epicier, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, mucker, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, ribald, rotter, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel

boundless

• boundless, Gargantuan, a bit much, abandoned, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, amplitudinous, astronomical, awesome, bulky, changeless, colossal, cosmic, countless, creating, creative, egregious, endless, enormous, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, exaggerated, excessive, exhaustless, exorbitant, extending everywhere, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, galactic, gigantic, glorious, gluttonous, good, hallowed, high, highest, holy, huge, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, immense, immoderate, immortal, immutable, incalculable, incomprehensible, incontinent, indefinite, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, inordinate, intemperate, interminable, interminate, just, king-size, large, limitless, loving, luminous, majestic, making, mammoth, massive, massy, measureless, merciful, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, no end of, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, outsize, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overweening, permanent, perpetual, prodigious, radiant, sacred, shaping, shoreless, sizable, sovereign, spacious, steep, stiff, stupendous, sumless, supreme, termless, timeless, titanic, too much, tremendous, ubiquitous, unbounded, unbridled, unchanging, unchecked, uncircumscribed, unconscionable, uncontrolled, undefined, undue, unending, unfathomable, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, unreasonable, unrestrained, unrestricted, unstoppable, untold, vast, voluminous, weighty, without bound, without end, without limit, without measure, without number

bountiful

• bountiful, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, beneficent, bighearted, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bursting, bursting out, charitable, copious, creative, diffuse, effuse, eleemosynary, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, free, freehanded, freehearted, fructiferous, fruitful, full, galore, generous, giving, gracious, greathearted, handsome, hospitable, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, magnanimous, many, maximal, much, munificent, numerous, open, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, stintless, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thriving, uberous, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale

bounty

• bounty, Trinkgeld, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance, award, beneficence, bigheartedness, bonus, bonus system, bounteousness, bountifulness, bribe, charitableness, charity, consideration, depletion allowance, dole, donative, double time, easy purse strings, endowment, fee, fellowship, financial assistance, free hand, freedom, freehandedness, freeheartedness, freeness, fringe benefit, generosity, generousness, gift, givingness, goodness, graciousness, grant, grant-in-aid, gratuity, gravy, grease, great heart, greatheartedness, guaranteed annual income, help, honorarium, hospitality, incentive pay, inducement, lagniappe, largeheartedness, largeness, largess, largesse, liberality, liberalness, magnanimity, munificence, old-age insurance, open hand, open heart, openhandedness, openheartedness, overtime pay, palm oil, pecuniary aid, pension, perks, perquisite, perquisites, philanthropy, pourboire, premium, present, price support, public assistance, public welfare, relief, retirement benefits, reward, salve, scholarship, solatium, something extra, sportula, stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, support, sweetener, tax benefit, tip, unselfishness, welcome, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments

bouquet

• bouquet, TL, aroma, arrangement, bale, balm, balminess, bindle, bolt, boughpot, boutonniere, budget, bunch, bundle, buttonhole, chaplet, commendation, compliment, compliments, corsage, deck, fagot, fardel, fasces, fascine, festoon, flattering remark, flower arrangement, fragrance, fragrancy, fruitiness, garland, incense, lei, muskiness, nosegay, odor, orchids, pack, package, packet, parcel, perfume, polite commendation, posy, praise, quiver, redolence, roll, rouleau, scent, sheaf, spice, spiciness, spray, sweet savor, sweet smell, trade-last, truss, wreath

bourgeois

• bourgeois, Babbitt, Babbittish, Cockney, Everyman, John Smith, Middle American, Philistine, accordant, anal, anal character, arriviste, average, average man, big-city man, boor, bounder, burgess, burgher, cad, campy, capitalist, churl, city dweller, city man, city slicker, clown, common, common man, commoner, commonplace, compulsive, compulsive character, concordant, conformer, conformist, conventional, conventionalist, corresponding, epicier, exurbanite, formalist, formalistic, free-enterprise, garden, garden-variety, general, greedy, groundling, guttersnipe, harmonious, high-camp, homely, homespun, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, individualistic, kitschy, kosher, little fellow, little man, looby, lout, low fellow, low-camp, materialistic, methodologist, middle-class, middle-class type, model child, money-hungry, mucker, no great shakes, nonsocialistic, normal, nouveau riche, oppidan, ordinary, organization man, orthodox, parrot, parvenu, peasant, pedant, pedantic, perfectionist, philistine, plastic, plastic person, pleb, plebeian, pop, popular, precisian, precisianist, precisianistic, private-enterprise, proletarian, propertied, public, regular, ribald, roturier, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, sheep, square, straight, stuffy, suburban, suburbanite, teenybopper, townee, towner, townfolk, townfolks, townsman, townspeople, townswoman, traditionalist, trimmer, unexceptional, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unspectacular, upstart, uptight, urbanite, usual, vernacular, villager, villageress, vulgarian, vulgarist, working-class, yes-man, yokel

bourn

• bourn, adolescent stream, anchorage, arroyo, beck, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, braided stream, branch, break boundary, breakoff point, brook, brooklet, burn, ceiling, channel, circumscription, compass, confine, creek, crick, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, delimitation, destination, determinant, division line, end, extremity, finish, floor, flowing stream, fluviation, fresh, freshet, frontier, gill, goal, harbor, haven, hedge, high-water mark, interface, kill, last stop, lazy stream, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, low-water mark, lower limit, march, mark, meandering stream, mete, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, port, race, racing stream, river, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sike, spill stream, start, starting line, starting point, stop, stopping place, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, target date, term, terminal, terminal date, terminal point, terminus, threshold, time allotment, upper limit, wadi, watercourse, waterway

bourse

• bourse, American Stock Exchange, Amex, Wall Street, board, commodity exchange, corn pit, curb, curb exchange, curb market, exchange, exchange floor, outside market, over-the-counter market, pit, quotation board, stock exchange, stock market, stock ticker, telephone market, the Big Board, the Exchange, third market, ticker, ticker tape, wheat pit

bout

• bout, Chinese boxing, Olympic games, Olympics, arsis, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, beat, bender, binge, boxing, boxing match, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, chance, circle, circuit, close fighting, compotation, concours, contest, course, cycle, debauch, decathlon, derby, diastole, double-header, doubles, downbeat, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, duel, encounter, engagement, escapade, event, fight, fighting, fisticuffs, fling, foursome, game, games, games of chance, go, guzzle, gymkhana, infighting, inning, innings, jag, joust, lark, match, matching, meet, meeting, occasion, opportunity, orgy, pentathlon, period, place, play, play-off, ploy, potation, prizefight, prizefighting, pub-crawl, pugilism, pulse, race, rally, randan, randy, relief, rencontre, revel, revolution, rotation, round, runoff, savate, say, series, session, set-to, shadowboxing, shift, singles, spar, spell, sport, spree, stint, struggle, symposium, systole, tear, test, the clinches, the fights, the ring, thesis, threesome, tilt, time, time at bat, toot, tour, tournament, tourney, trial, trick, turn, twosome, upbeat, wassail, whack, wheel, wingding

boutique

• boutique, chain store, co-op, concession, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, department store, dime store, discount house, discount store, emporium, establishment, five-and-ten, general store, house, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, post, retail store, salon, shop, store, supermarket, trading post, variety shop, variety store, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house

bovine

• bovine, Boeotian, Brahman, Indian buffalo, asinine, aurochs, beef, beef cattle, beef-brained, beef-witted, beeves, bison, blockish, bossy, bovid, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, caprid, caprine, carabao, cattle, chumpish, cloddish, complacent, cow, cowish, cowlike, crass, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, deerlike, dense, dispassionate, dogie, doltish, dull, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, equestrian, equine, even-tempered, fat, goatish, goatlike, gross, heifer, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, hornless cow, horsy, impassive, imperturbable, ineducable, inexcitable, inirritable, kine, klutzy, leppy, lumpish, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, mulish, musk-ox, neat, oafish, opaque, ovine, ox, oxen, patient, piggish, ruminant, self-complacent, self-content, self-contented, self-satisfied, sheepish, sheeplike, smug, sottish, steady, steer, stirk, stoic, stolid, stot, stupid, swinish, thick, undisturbable, unflappable, ungulate, unirritable, unnervous, unpassionate, unteachable, wisent, wrongheaded, yak, yearling, zebu

bow out

• bow out, abandon, abscond, beat a retreat, bundle, bundle off, depart, disappear, dismiss, duck out, egress, escape, evacuate, exit, get out, give the air, give the gate, go on furlough, go on leave, go out, hustle out, leave the scene, make an exit, march out, pack off, pass out, quit, remove, retire, retreat, run out, send away, send off, send packing, show the door, show the gate, slip away, slip off, slip out, sneak out, take leave, turn away, turn off, vacate, vanish, walk out, withdraw

bow

• bow, A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, S-curve, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, accost, address, angle, arc, arch, bass, bass viol, beak, bend, bend back, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, bending, bending the knee, bilge, bite the dust, blain, bleb, blister, blob, bob, bob a curtsy, bob down, bootlick, boss, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow the head, bow to, bowing, bowing and scraping, bowsprit, bridge, bubble, bulb, bulge, bull fiddle, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, capitulate, carriage bow, catacaustic, catenary, caustic, cave in, cello, chine, circle, clump, conchoid, condyle, conflexure, contrabass, convex, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, cringe to, crook, crossbow, crouch, crouch before, crowd, curl, curtsy, curvation, curvature, curve, decurve, defer, deflect, deflection, diacaustic, dipping the colors, do homage, do obeisance, dome, double bass, dowel, duck, ear, ellipse, embow, embrace, fall, fall down before, fawn, festoon, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, figurehead, fingerboard, flange, flap, flatter, flection, flex, flexure, forecastle, foredeck, forepeak, gall, geanticline, genuflect, genuflection, geosyncline, gnarl, go down, go under, greeting, grovel, hail, hairpin turn, hand-clasp, handle, handshake, have enough, hello, hill, homage, hook, how-do-you-do, hug, hump, hunch, hyperbola, inclination, incurvate, incurve, inflect, inflection, jib boom, jog, joggle, kiss, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin, kneel, kneel to, kneeling, knob, knot, knuckle, knuckle to, knuckle under, knur, knurl, kowtow, lick the dust, lickspittle, lip, lituus, longbow, loop, lose, lose out, lose the day, lump, make a leg, make a reverence, make obeisance, making a leg, meander, mole, mountain, nevus, nod, nose, nub, nubbin, nubble, obeisance, obsequiousness, oxbow, papilloma, parabola, peg, play violin, presenting arms, prore, prostration, prow, recurve, reflect, reflection, reflex, retroflex, reverence, rib, ridge, ring, rostrum, round, sag, salaam, salutation, salute, saw, say uncle, scrape, scroll, servility, shoulder, sinus, smile, smile of recognition, soundboard, spine, squat, standing at attention, stem, stoop, string, stud, style, submission, submissiveness, submit, succumb, supination, swag, sweep, tab, take the count, tenor violin, toadeat, toady, tracery, truckle, truckle to, tubercle, tubercule, tumble, tuning peg, turn, turning, vault, verruca, vesicle, viola, violin, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta, wale, wart, wave, welt, wind

bowdlerize

• bowdlerize, abbreviate, abridge, bleach, blot out, blue-pencil, cancel, censor, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, cross out, cut, delete, delouse, depurate, deterge, dry-clean, dust, dust off, edit, edit out, erase, expunge, expurgate, freshen, kill, lustrate, omit, purge, purify, reform, rescind, rub out, scavenge, spruce, steam-clean, strike, strike off, strike out, sweep out, sweeten, tidy, void, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up

bowel movement

• bowel movement, BM, bloody flux, buffalo chips, ca-ca, catharsis, coprolite, coprolith, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, defecation, dejection, diarrhea, dingleberry, droppings, dung, dysentery, evacuation, feces, feculence, flux, guano, jakes, lientery, loose bowels, manure, movement, night soil, ordure, purgation, purge, runs, sewage, sewerage, shit, shits, stool, trots, turd, turistas, voidance

bowels

• bowels, abdomen, anus, appendix, belly, blind gut, bottomless pit, brain, cecum, colon, core, deep space, deeps, depths, duodenum, endocardium, entrails, foregut, gaping depths, giblets, gizzard, gut, guts, heart, hell, hindgut, infernal pit, innards, inner mechanism, insides, interior, internals, intestine, intestines, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, midgut, nether world, outer space, perineum, pump, pylorus, rectum, small intestine, spleen, stomach, ticker, tripes, underworld, unfathomed deeps, unknown depths, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

bower

• bower, ace, alcove, arbor, best bower, cards, clubs, conservatory, deck, deuce, diamonds, dummy, face cards, flush, full house, gazebo, glasshouse, greenhouse, hand, hearts, jack, joker, king, kiosk, knave, lathhouse, left bower, pack, pair, pergola, picture cards, playing cards, queen, retreat, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff, singleton, spades, straight, summerhouse, trey, trick, trump

bowl over

• bowl over, amaze, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, bedaze, bedazzle, bewilder, blow down, blow over, boggle, bowl down, bring down, bulldog, cast down, chop down, confound, cut down, dash down, daze, dazzle, deck, down, drop, dumbfound, dumbfounder, electrify, fell, fetch down, flabbergast, flatten, floor, frighten, ground, hew down, jar, jolt, knock down, knock over, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, mow down, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, petrify, precipitate, prostrate, pull down, rase, raze, send headlong, shake, shock, spread-eagle, stagger, startle, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stun, stupefy, supinate, surprise, take aback, take down, throw, throw down, topple, trip, tumble, whack down

bowl

• bowl, adobe, advance, agora, alveolation, alveolus, amphitheater, antrum, arena, armpit, athletic field, auditorium, background, basin, bear garden, biscuit, bisque, boxing ring, brick, bull ring, bunt, butt, campus, canvas, cast, catapult, cave, cave in, cavity, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, change of pace, change-up, china, chuck, chunk, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, concave, concavity, course, crater, crock, crockery, crypt, cup, curve, dart, dash, depression, dip, dish, downcurve, drive, enamelware, fastball, field, fire, firebrick, fling, flip, floor, fold, follicle, fork, forum, forward, forward pass, funnel chest, furl, glass, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, heave, hippodrome, hole, hollow, hollow out, hollow shell, hurl, hurtle, impel, incurve, jerk, jug, knuckleball, lacuna, lance, lateral, lateral pass, launch, let fly, lists, lob, locale, marketplace, mat, milieu, move, open forum, outcurve, palaestra, pan, parade ground, pass, pedal, peg, pelt, pit, pitch, pitchfork, place, platform, pocket, pole, porcelain, pot, pottery, precinct, prize ring, propel, public square, punch bowl, purlieu, push, put, put the shot, range, refractory, retire, retreat, ring, roll, roll up, row, scene, scene of action, scenery, scoop, screwball, serve, service, setting, shell, shot-put, shove, shunt, shy, sink, sinker, sinus, site, slider, sling, snap, socket, sphere, spin, spitball, spitter, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, sweep, sweep along, terrain, theater, throw, thrust, tile, tiling, tilt, tilting ground, tiltyard, toss, treadle, troll, trough, trundle, upcurve, urn, vase, vug, walk, wheel, wrestling ring

bowlegged

• bowlegged, bandy, bandy-legged, bent, blemished, bloated, bowed, club-footed, crooked, curved, defaced, deformed, disfigured, dwarfed, flatfooted, grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, knock-kneed, malformed, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape, pigeon-toed, pug-nosed, rachitic, rickety, simous, snub-nosed, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, truncated

box in

• box in, abate, adjust to, alter, assuage, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, bound, box, box up, cabin, cage, casket, chamber, circumscribe, cloister, close in, closet, coffin, compass, condition, confine, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, cramp, crib, diminish, encase, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, entomb, fence in, hedge, hedge about, hedge in, hem, hem in, house in, immure, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, jail, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, kennel, leaguer, leaven, limit, localize, mew, mew up, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, narrow, palliate, pen, pen in, pocket, qualify, quarantine, rail in, reduce, regulate by, restrain, restrict, season, set conditions, set limits, shrine, shut in, shut up, soften, stable, stint, straiten, surround, temper, tighten, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

box office

• box office, attendance, avails, booking office, branch, branch office, cabinet, chambers, chancellery, chancery, closet, commissions, consulate, corporate headquarters, credit, credits, den, disposable income, dividend, dividends, draw, earned income, earnings, embassy, executive office, frequence, frequenting, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gross, gross income, gross receipts, headquarters, home office, income, intake, legation, main office, make, net, net income, net receipts, number present, office, output, proceeds, produce, profits, receipt, receipts, receivables, returns, revenue, royalties, shop, study, take, take-in, takings, ticket office, turnout, unearned income, yield

box

• box, Christmas present, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, auditorium, award, bag, balcony, bank, barrel, basement, basket, battle, bay, bin, birthday present, blind alley, blip, blockhouse, blow, bonded warehouse, bookcase, booth, bottle, box in, box seat, box the ears, box up, brawl, broil, buffet, bungalow, bunker, burden, burial case, buttery, cabin, caboose, cadeau, camp, can, capsule, cargo dock, carton, case, cask, casket, cavity, cell, cellar, cellule, chalet, chamber, chest, chop, circumscribe, clash, close, closet, clout, coffin, collide, combat, come to blows, compartment, confine, conservatory, contend, contest, corner, cot, cote, cottage, cramp, crate, crib, crypt, cuff, cul-de-sac, cupboard, cut, cut and thrust, dead end, dead-end street, deadlock, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dress circle, duel, dump, embox, embrace, encapsulate, encase, enclosed space, encyst, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, exchange blows, exchequer, extremity, fairing, fauteuil, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fill, fix, flap, freight, gallery, gift, give and take, give satisfaction, glory hole, godown, grapple, grapple with, halt, hamper, handsel, haymaker, heap, heap up, hem, hem in, hold, hole, hollow, hutch, impasse, invest, jam, jar, jostle, joust, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, kist, lade, lap, lash, library, limit, load, localize, locker, lodge, log cabin, loge, love nest, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, manger, mass, mix it up, mummy case, narrow, nigger heaven, oblation, offering, orchestra, orchestra circle, pack, pack away, package, paradise, parcel, parquet, parquet circle, parterre, paste, peace offering, peanut gallery, pew, pickle, pied-a-terre, pile, pit, plight, pocket, pot, present, presentation, proscenium boxes, punch, qualify, quarrel, rack, rassle, repertory, repository, reservoir, restrict, rick, riot, run a tilt, sack, sarcophagus, scramble, scrape, scuffle, shack, shanty, sheathe, shelf, ship, shroud, skirmish, slap, slap the face, smack, smother, snuggery, sock, spank, spar, spot, stack, stack room, stalemate, stall, stand, standing room, standstill, stint, stock room, stop, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, stow, strike, stripe, strive, struggle, supply base, supply depot, surround, swaddle, swathe, tank, theatre stall, thrust and parry, tighten, tilt, tin, token punishment, tourney, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, tribute, tussle, vat, vault, wage war, war, warehouse, whack, whip, white elephant, whomp, wine cellar, wrap, wrap about, wrap up, wrestle

boxcar

• boxcar, Pullman, Pullman car, baggage car, caboose, car, carriage, chair car, coach, coal car, covered waggon, day coach, diner, dinghy, dining car, drawing room, flat, flatcar, gondola, local, luggage van, mail car, mail van, palace car, parlor car, passenger car, railway car, reefer, refrigerator car, roomette, sleeper, smoker, smoking car, stockcar, tank, tender, truck, van, waggon

boxcars

• boxcars, L, Sexagesima, boxcar, dozen, duodecimo, eighty, eleven, fifteen, fifty, five and twenty, fortnight, forty, four and twenty, fourscore, fourscore and ten, fourteen, half a hundred, long dozen, ninety, nonagenarian, octogenarian, quindecennial, quindecim, quindecima, quindene, score, septuagenarian, seventy, sexagenarian, sexagenary, sexagesimo-quarto, sixteen, sixteenmo, sixty, sixty-four, sixty-fourmo, teens, thirteen, thirty-two, thirty-twomo, threescore, threescore and ten, twelve, twelvemo, twenty, twenty-five, twenty-four, twenty-fourmo, two dozen, two weeks, twoscore

boxer

• boxer, Chinese boxer, bantamweight, black belt, brown belt, bruiser, featherweight, fighter, fisticuffer, flyweight, heavyweight, karate expert, light heavyweight, lightweight, middleweight, palooka, prizefighter, pug, pugilist, savate expert, sparrer, welterweight

boxing

• boxing, Chinese boxing, bottling, bout, boxing match, canning, close fighting, crating, encasement, fighting, fisticuffs, infighting, package, packaging, packing, prizefight, prizefighting, pugilism, ring, savate, shadowboxing, spar, the clinches, the fights, the ring, tinning

boy

• boy, American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, bloke, brown man, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, burrhead, chauffeur, coachman, colored person, colt, coon, cub, darky, driver, equerry, fellow, fledgling, gamin, gardener, gee, gent, gentleman, gillie, goody, gook, guy, he, hobbledehoy, honky, houseboy, houseman, jigaboo, jungle bunny, lad, laddie, lord-in-waiting, man, manchild, manservant, master, muchacho, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pup, puppy, pygmy, ragamuffin, red man, redskin, schoolboy, slant-eye, small fry, son, sonny, sonny boy, spade, street arab, stripling, tad, the Man, urchin, valet, valet de chambre, whelp, whippersnapper, white, white man, whitey, yellow man, young man, youth

boycott

• boycott, avoid, ban, banish, banishment, bar, barring, beef, bitch, blackball, blacklist, blockade, boggle, boycottage, call in question, challenge, circumscription, complain, complaint, compunction, cry out against, debarment, debarring, demarcation, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demur, demurrer, disfellowship, dispute, embargo, enter a protest, eschew, exception, exclusion, expostulate, expostulation, go on strike, go out, grievance, grievance committee, hold out, holler, howl, inadmissibility, indignation meeting, injunction, job action, kick, lock out, lockout, march, narrowing, nonadmission, nonviolent protest, object, objection, omission, ostracism, ostracization, ostracize, outlaw, outlaw strike, pass by, pass over, picket, picketing, preclusion, press objections, prohibition, proscribe, proscription, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, qualm, raise a howl, rally, refuse, reject, rejection, relegation, remonstrance, remonstrate, remonstration, repudiation, restriction, revolt, rulebook slowdown, scruple, shun, shut it down, sick-in, sit down, sit in, sit-down, sit-down strike, sit-in, slow down, slowdown, squawk, state a grievance, strike, sympathy strike, taboo, teach in, teach-in, tie-up, turnout, walk out, walkout, wildcat strike, work stoppage, yell bloody murder

boyfriend

• boyfriend, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Romeo, admirer, amoroso, beau, beloved, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, crush, esquire, fancy man, fellow, fiance, flame, gallant, gentleman friend, gigolo, heartthrob, inamorato, lady-killer, love-maker, lover, man, master, necker, old man, paramour, petter, philanderer, seducer, sheik, squire, steady, sugar daddy, swain, sweetheart, truelove, young man

boyhood

• boyhood, babyhood, childhood, childkind, children, girlhood, kids, little kids, maidenhead, maidenhood, new generation, pre-teens, rising generation, small fry, subteens, tots, young, young blood, young fry, young people, youth

boyish

• boyish, adolescent, airy, attenuate, attenuated, beardless, boylike, calflike, childish, childlike, coltish, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, girlish, girllike, gossamer, gracile, immature, insubstantial, juvenile, kiddish, lacy, light, maiden, maidenly, misty, papery, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, rare, rarefied, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy, young, youthful

bra

• bra, advocate, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier, cervix, corset, crook, crutch, falsies, foundation garment, fulcrum, girdle, guy, guywire, jock, jockstrap, mainstay, maintainer, mast, neck, prop, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rigging, shoulder, shroud, soutien-gorge, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, strengthener, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder, walking stick

brace up

• brace up, animate, assure, beef up, bolster, brace, brighten up, brisk, brisken, buck up, buttress, case harden, cheer, cheer up, chirk up, confirm, convalesce, embolden, encourage, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, gain strength, get better, gird, harden, hearten, improve, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, light up, nerve, perk up, pick up, prop, quicken, rally, reanimate, reassure, recreate, recruit, recuperate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinforce, reinvigorate, renew, restrengthen, revive, revivify, set up, shore up, sleep it off, steel, stiffen, stimulate, strengthen, support, sustain, take courage, take heart, temper, toughen, turn the corner, undergird, vivify

brace

• brace, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, adhesive tape, advocate, afford support, alpenstock, animate, appeal, application, arm, athletic supporter, back, back up, backbone, backing, band, bandage, bandaging, bandeau, bar, bar line, bear, bear up, bearer, beef up, belt, bend, beseech, bind, bind up, binder, bolster, bolster up, both, bra, brace up, bracer, bracket, brassiere, brisk, brisken, buck up, buckle, bundle, buoy up, buttress, cane, carrier, carry, case harden, cast, cataplasm, catch, cervix, chain, cheer, chirk up, cinch, clamp, clasp, clip, column, compress, confirm, corset, cotton, couple, couplet, coupling, court plaster, cradle, cravat, crave, crook, crutch, cushion, degree, distich, do up, double harness, doublet, dressing, drill, duad, duet, duo, dyad, elastic bandage, enliven, entreat, epithem, exhilarate, fastener, fortify, foundation garment, four-tailed bandage, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, fulcrum, gallows, galluses, gauze, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give support, guy, guywire, hang on, harden, hold, hold on, hold up, holdfast, implore, importune, invigorate, jock, jockstrap, keep afloat, keep up, lace, lash, leash, ledger line, lend support, line, lint, mainstay, maintain, maintainer, mast, match, mates, neck, nerve, pair, perk up, pick up, pillow, plaster, plaster cast, plead, pledget, poultice, pray, prop, prop up, quicken, reanimate, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, reinvigorate, renew, rest, resting place, restrengthen, revive, revivify, rigging, rigidify, roller, roller bandage, rope, rubber bandage, screw up, set of two, set up, shore, shore up, shoulder, shroud, sling, space, span, spine, splice, splint, sponge, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, steady, steel, stick, stiffen, stiffener, stimulate, strap, strengthen, strengthener, strut, stupe, subsidize, subvention, supplicate, support, supporter, sustain, sustainer, swaddle, swathe, tampon, tape, team, temper, tense, tent, the two, tie, tie up, tighten, toughen, tourniquet, triangular bandage, trice up, truss, twain, two, twosome, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underpinning, underset, upbear, uphold, upholder, upkeep, vivify, walking stick, wire, wrap, wrap up, yoke

bracelet

• bracelet, anklet, armlet, band, bangle, beads, belt, bijou, breastpin, brooch, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, cincture, cingulum, circle, collar, collarband, coronet, crown, diadem, earring, ecliptic, equator, fascia, fillet, finger ring, fob, gem, girdle, girt, girth, great circle, hoop, jewel, locket, neckband, necklace, nose ring, pin, precious stone, quoit, rhinestone, ring, stickpin, stone, tiara, torque, wampum, wristband, wristlet, zodiac, zone

bracer

• bracer, advocate, alpenstock, analeptic, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, bra, brace, bracing, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier, cervix, cordial, corset, crook, crutch, enlivenment, exhilaration, foundation garment, fulcrum, girdle, guy, guywire, invigoration, jock, jockstrap, mainstay, maintainer, mast, neck, pick-me-up, pickup, prop, reanimation, recreation, refection, refresher, refreshing, refreshment, regale, regalement, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, reinvigoration, renewal, rest, resting place, restorative, revival, reviver, revivescence, revivescency, revivification, rigging, roborant, shoulder, shroud, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, stimulation, strengthener, support, supporter, sustainer, tonic, upholder, vitamin shot, vivification, walking stick

bracing

• bracing, activating, analeptic, animating, animative, bearing, beneficial, benign, bolstering, brisk, burdened, buttressing, carrying, cheering, chill, chilly, constitutional, cool, coolish, cordial, corroborant, crisp, crispy, energizing, enlivening, exhilarating, exhilarative, fortifying, fresh, good, good for, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, holding, hygeian, hygienic, invigorating, invigorative, maintaining, propping, quickening, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, restorative, reviving, roborant, rousing, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, shoring, stimulating, stimulative, strengthening, supporting, supportive, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, temperate, tonic, upholding, viable, vitalizing, wholesome, zestful, zesty

bracken

• bracken, algae, autophyte, bean, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack

bracket

• bracket, accouple, accumulate, advocate, agglutinate, ally, alpenstock, amass, analyze, apply, arm, articulate, assemble, associate, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, band, bandeau, bearer, bind, blood, bond, bra, brace, bracer, branch, brassiere, bridge, bridge over, buttress, cane, carrier, caste, category, cement, cervix, chain, clan, clap together, class, classification, classify, collate, collect, combine, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, console, contrast, copulate, corbel, correlate, corset, couple, couple up, cover, crook, crutch, decline, division, double-harness, double-team, draw a parallel, embrace, encompass, equate, estate, foundation garment, fulcrum, gather, girdle, glue, grade, group, grouping, guy, guywire, head, heading, hyphenate, identify, include, inflect, interrelate, jock, jockstrap, join, kin, knot, label, lay together, league, level, link, lump together, mainstay, maintainer, mark, marry, marshal, mass, mast, match, mate, merge, mobilize, neck, order, pair, pair off, parallel, parallelize, parenthesize, parse, piece together, pigeonhole, point, position, predicament, prop, punctuate, put together, race, rank, rating, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, relate, relativize, rest, resting place, rigging, roll into one, rubric, section, sept, set, shelf, shoulder, shroud, solder, span, spine, splice, sprit, staff, standing rigging, station, status, stave, stay, stick, stick together, stiffener, strain, stratum, strengthener, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, support, supporter, sustainer, take in, tape, team, team up, tie, title, unify, unite, upholder, walking stick, wed, weld, yoke

brackish

• brackish, bad, barfy, briny, cloying, fetid, foul, fulsome, high, icky, maggoty, mawkish, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, offensive, overripe, pickled, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rotten, saline, salt, salted, saltish, salty, sickening, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky

bract

• bract, blade, bracteole, bractlet, cotyledon, flag, floral leaf, foliole, frond, glume, involucre, involucrum, lamina, leaf, leaflet, lemma, ligule, needle, petal, pile, pine needle, seed leaf, sepal, spathe, spear, spire, stipula, stipule

brag about

• brag about, adulate, apotheosize, belaud, bepraise, bless, blow up, boast of, celebrate, cry up, deify, emblazon, eulogize, exalt, extol, flatter, glorify, hero-worship, idolize, laud, lionize, magnify, make much of, overpraise, panegyrize, pay tribute, porter aux nues, praise, puff, puff up, salute, trumpet

brag

• brag, Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, big mouth, blow, blower, blowhard, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blusterer, boast, boaster, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bounce, braggadocio, braggart, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, conceit, crow, draw the longbow, fanfaron, fanfaronade, flourish, gasbag, gasconade, gasconader, gasconism, hector, heroics, hot-air artist, intimidate, jactation, jactitation, miles gloriosus, mouth, out-herod Herod, prate, puff, rage, rant, rave, rodomontade, roister, rollick, show off, side, slang, speak for Buncombe, splutter, sputter, storm, strut, swagger, swashbuckle, talk big, trumpet, vanity, vapor, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, windbag, windjammer, windy

braggart

• braggart, Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Herod, Narcissus, Scaramouch, Texan, big mouth, blatherskite, blower, blowhard, bluff, bluffer, blusterer, boaster, boastful, boasting, brag, braggadocio, bragging, bravo, bucko, bully, bullyboy, conceited, egocentric, egoist, egotist, fanfaron, fanfaronading, gasbag, gasconader, gasconading, hector, hectorer, hot-air artist, individualist, know-it-all, loudmouth, miles gloriosus, narcissist, narcist, no modest violet, peacock, ranter, raver, rodomontade, roisterer, self-advertising, self-applauding, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-lauding, self-vaunting, show-off, smart aleck, swaggerer, swashbuckler, swasher, swellhead, thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vainglorious, vaporer, vaporing, vaunting, windbag, windjammer, windy

bragging

• bragging, Gascon, bluster, boast, boastful, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggart, braggartism, bravado, conceit, conceited, fanfaron, fanfaronade, fanfaronading, gasconade, gasconading, gasconism, heroics, jactation, jactitation, rodomontade, self-advertising, self-applauding, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-lauding, self-vaunting, side, swagger, thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vainglorious, vanity, vaporing, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting

Bragi

• Bragi, Aesir, Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Balder, Bor, Bori, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Donar, Erato, Euterpe, Forseti, Frey, Freya, Freyja, Freyr, Frigg, Frigga, Heimdall, Hel, Helicon, Hertha, Hippocrene, Hoenir, Idun, Ing, Ithunn, Loki, Muse, Nanna, Nerthus, Njord, Njorth, Odin, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, Reimthursen, Sif, Sigyn, Thor, Tiu, Tyr, Ull, Ullr, Vali, Vanir, Vidar, Vitharr, Wayland, Weland, Woden, Wotan, Wyrd, afflatus, creative imagination, fire of genius, inspiration, poesy, poetic genius, the Muses

Brahma

• Brahma, Agni, Asvins, Atman, Avalokita, Bhairava, Bhairavi, Chandi, Daksha, Devaki, Devi, Dharma, Dharti Mai, Durga, Dyaus, Ganapati, Ganesa, Ganesha, Garuda, Hanuman, Himavat, Indra, Kali, Kama, Kamsa, Karttikeya, Lakshmi, Parjanya, Parvati, Pushan, Rahu, Rhibhus, Rudra, Sarasvati, Savitar, Shiva, Sita, Siva, Soma, Surya, Uma, Ushas, Vaja, Varuna, Varuni, Vayu, Vishnu, Yama, the Destroyer, the Preserver, the Regenerator, the Supreme Soul, the Universal Ego

Brahman

• Brahman, Buddhist, Christian, Ramwat, anthroposophist, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, bairagi, baron, baronet, bashara, bhikhari, bhikshu, blue blood, count, daimio, duke, earl, esquire, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, guru, hidalgo, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, nobleman, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, pujari, pundit, purohit, sannyasi, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, vairagi, viscount, waldgrave, yogi, yogin

braid

• braid, band, brail, bun, cable, chignon, coil, cord, cue, embroidery, enlace, entwine, fillet, interknit, interlace, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, knit, knot, lace, ligament, ligation, ligature, line, loom, loop, mat, net, noose, pigtail, plait, pleach, queue, raddle, rattail, ribbon, rope, splice, spun yarn, string, tail, tendon, thong, tissue, topknot, trimming, twill, twine, twist, wattle, weave, web, wire, wreath, wreathe, wreathwork, yarn

Braille

• Braille, Boston type, New York point, Optacon, Pathsounder, Seeing Eye dog, Visotoner, cane, embosser, guide dog, high-speed embosser, line letter, noctograph, optophone, personal sonar, sensory aid, sight-saver type, string alphabet, talking book, ultrasonic spectacles, visagraph, writing frame, writing stamps

brain damage

• brain damage, aberration, abnormality, alienation, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, folie, furor, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, oddness, pixilation, possession, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, strangeness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, witlessness

brain trust

• brain trust, British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisory body, assembly, association, bench, board, body of advisers, borough council, cabinet, camarilla, chamber, city council, common council, conference, congress, consultative assembly, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, deliberative assembly, diet, directory, divan, junta, kitchen cabinet, legislature, parish council, privy council, soviet, staff, syndicate, synod, tribunal

brain wave

• brain wave, automatic response, blind impulse, brainstorm, drive, fancy, flash, fleeting impulse, gut response, impulse, inspiration, instinct, involuntary impulse, natural impulse, notion, quick hunch, reflex, sudden thought, urge

brain

• brain, Vernunft, abdomen, acumen, afferent neuron, anus, appendix, autonomic nervous system, axon, bean, blind gut, blow to pieces, blow up, bowels, brains, bring down, burn to death, capacity, cecum, central nervous system, cerebral cortex, cognition, colon, conception, consciousness, craniosacral nervous system, cut down, cut to pieces, deal a deathblow, dendrite, discernment, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disintegrate, drop, duodenum, effector organ, efferent neuron, encephalon, endocardium, entrails, esprit, fell, foregut, frag, ganglion, genius, giblets, give the quietus, gizzard, gray matter, gun down, guts, head, headpiece, heart, hindgut, imagination, incinerate, innards, inner mechanism, insides, intellect, intellection, intellectual, intellectual faculty, intelligence, internals, internuncial neuron, intestine, inwards, jejunum, jugulate, kidney, kishkes, knowledge, lapidate, large intestine, lay low, leader, liver, liver and lights, lung, mastermind, medullary sheath, mens, mental capacity, mentality, midgut, mind, mother wit, nerve, nerve trunk, nervous system, neuron, noddle, noggin, noodle, nous, organ of thought, pate, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perineum, peripheral nervous system, perspicacity, pistol, planner, plexus, poleax, power of reason, psyche, pump, pylorus, ratio, rationality, reason, reasoning, reasoning faculty, rectum, riddle, sagacity, sconce, seat of thought, sensation, sense, sensorium, sensory, sensory area, sensory cell, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, silence, small intestine, smarts, solar plexus, spinal cord, spleen, stab to death, stomach, stone, stone to death, strike dead, synapse, thoracolumbar nervous system, thought, ticker, tripes, understanding, vaporize, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, white matter, wisdom, wise man, wit, works

brainchild

• brainchild, apparition, art object, article, artifact, autograph, brainstorm, bric-a-brac, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, bubble, child, chimera, classic, coinage, composition, computer printout, concoction, contrivance, copy, creation, creature, crowning achievement, delirium, design, distillation, document, draft, edited version, effect, eidolon, end product, engrossment, essay, essence, extract, fair copy, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, fruit, good idea, grotesque, hallucination, handiwork, holograph, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, inspiration, insubstantial image, invention, issue, kitsch, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, maggot, make-believe, manufacture, manuscript, master, masterpiece, masterwork, matter, mintage, mobile, museum piece, myth, new mintage, nonfiction, nude, offspring, old master, opera, opus, opuscule, original, origination, outcome, outgrowth, paper, parchment, pasticcio, pastiche, penscript, phantasm, phantom, piece, piece of virtu, piece of writing, play, poem, printed matter, printout, product, production, reading matter, recension, result, romance, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, sick fancy, stabile, statue, still life, study, the written word, thick-coming fancies, transcript, transcription, trip, typescript, vapor, version, virtu, vision, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, work, work of art, writing

brainless

• brainless, apish, asinine, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, buffoonish, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, dumb, empty-headed, fatuitous, fatuous, featherbrained, featherheaded, flaky, fluttery, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, goofy, gulled, harebrain, harebrained, headless, idiotic, ignorant, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, insensate, irrational, kooky, lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, loony, mad, maudlin, mindless, moronic, nitwitted, not bright, nutty, of little brain, pea-brained, pin-brained, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, reasonless, sappy, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shatterbrained, silly, slackminded, slackwitted, stupid, thoughtless, ungifted, unintellectual, unintelligent, unreasoning, untalented, unthinking, unwise, unwitty, wacky, weak-minded, wet, witless

brainstorm

• brainstorm, absurd idea, afebrile delirium, automatic response, blind impulse, boutade, brain wave, brainchild, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, capriccio, caprice, conceit, crank, craze, crazy idea, crotchet, deliriousness, delirium, drive, fad, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, flash, fleeting impulse, flimflam, fool notion, freak, freakish inspiration, good idea, gut response, harebrained idea, humor, impulse, incoherence, inspiration, instinct, involuntary impulse, kink, lingual delirium, maggot, megrim, natural impulse, notion, passing fancy, quick hunch, quirk, ranting, raving, reflex, sudden thought, toy, urge, vagary, wandering, whim, whim-wham, whimsy

brainwash

• brainwash, alienate, beat into, catechize, condition, corrupt, counterindoctrinate, imbue, implant, impregnate, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infix, infuse, inoculate, instill, program, reindoctrinate, subvert, win away

brainwork

• brainwork, abstract thought, act of thought, application, boning, cerebration, cogitation, conceit, conception, conceptualization, conning, contemplation, cram, cramming, creative thought, deliberation, drill, engrossment, excogitation, exercise, extensive study, grind, grinding, headwork, heavy thinking, idea, ideation, imageless thought, inspection, intellection, intellectual exercise, intellectualization, lucubration, mental act, mental labor, mental process, mentation, noesis, perusal, practice, ratiocination, reading, reasoning, reflection, restudy, restudying, review, speculation, straight thinking, study, studying, subject, swotting, thinking, thinking aloud, thinking out, thought, wide reading

brainy

• brainy, adroit, alert, apt, bright, brilliant, clever, dexterous, gifted, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, not born yesterday, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted, scintillating, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, steel-trap, talented

braise

• braise, bake, barbecue, baste, blanch, boil, brew, broil, brown, coddle, cook, curry, devil, do, do to perfection, fire, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, griddle, grill, heat, oven-bake, pan, pan-broil, parboil, poach, prepare, prepare food, roast, saute, scallop, sear, shirr, simmer, steam, stew, stir-fry, toast

brake

• brake, arrest, backpedal, backwater, bar, bearing rein, bit, block, boscage, bosket, bring to, bring up short, canebrake, ceja, chain, chamisal, chaparral, check, checkmate, checkrein, chock, clip the wings, clog, constraint, control, coppice, copse, copsewood, countercheck, covert, curb, curb bit, cut short, dam, damper, deadlock, decelerate, delay, detain, doorstop, drag, drag sail, draw rein, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, ease off, ease up, fetter, freeze, frith, halt, hold back, hold in check, hold up, holdback, impede, keep back, let down, let up, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, martingale, moderate, motte, obstruct, pelham, pull up, put paid to, reef, rein, rein in, relax, remora, restraint, restriction, retard, scotch, sea anchor, set back, shackle, slack off, slack up, slacken, slow, slow down, slow up, snaffle, spoke, stalemate, stall, stay, stem, stem the tide, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stymie, take in sail, thicket, thickset, throttle down, trammel

bramble

• bramble, adherent, adhesive, barnacle, brier, brier bush, bristle, bulldog, burr, bush, cactus, catchweed, cement, cleavers, decal, decalcomania, glue, goose grass, gunk, leech, limpet, molasses, mucilage, needle, nettle, paste, pine needle, plaster, prickle, quill, remora, scrub, shrub, shrubbery, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, sticker, syrup, thistle, thorn, yucca

bran

• bran, air pollution, attritus, bark, barley, bird seed, capsule, case, cat food, chaff, chicken feed, chop, corn, corn shuck, cornhusk, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, dog food, dust, dust ball, eatage, efflorescence, ensilage, fallout, farina, feed, filings, flour, fodder, forage, grain, grits, groats, hay, hull, husk, jacket, kittens, lint, mash, meal, oats, palea, pasturage, pasture, peel, pet food, pod, powder, provender, pussies, raspings, rind, sawdust, scratch, scratch feed, shell, shuck, silage, skin, slops, smut, soot, straw, swill, wheat

branch out

• branch out, bestrew, bifurcate, branch, broadcast, circumfuse, deal out, deploy, diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, divaricate, diverge, expand, extend, fan, fan out, flare, fork, furcate, issue, open, open up, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, overscatter, oversow, overspread, propagate, publish, radiate, ramify, retail, scatter, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, stem, strew, trifurcate, unfold, utter, widen

branch

• branch, L, V, adolescent stream, affiliate, affiliation, affluent, angle, angle off, apparentation, appendage, arm, arroyo, bayou, bear off, beck, bend, bifurcate, billabong, bine, biotype, birth, bisect, blood, bloodline, body, booking office, bough, bourn, box office, bracket, braided stream, branch off, branch office, branch out, branchedness, branchiness, breed, brook, brooklet, burgeon, burn, by two, cabinet, cable railway, caste, category, chambers, chancellery, chancery, change the bearing, channel, chapter, church, clan, class, cleave, closet, cog railway, common ancestry, communion, community, confluent, confluent stream, consanguinity, consulate, corporate headquarters, crank, creek, crick, crook, crotch, crutch, curve, cut in two, deadwood, delta, den, dendritic drainage pattern, denomination, depart from, department, deploy, derivation, descent, detour, deviate, dichotomize, digress, dimidiate, direct line, disperse, distaff side, divagate, divaricate, diverge, diversify, divide, division, effluent, el, elbow, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, embassy, estate, executive office, expand, extend, extraction, faction, family, fan, fan out, feeder, feeder line, fellowship, female line, filiation, fission, flagellum, flare, flowing stream, fluviation, fork, fresh, freshet, frond, furcate, furcula, furculum, genotype, genus, gill, grade, gravity-operated railway, groin, group, grouping, halve, hand, head, heading, headquarters, heel, home office, hook, horse railway, house, imp, in half, inguen, joint, junction, kill, kin, kingdom, label, lazy stream, leg, legation, level, light railroad, limb, line, line of descent, lineage, link, lobe, lobule, local, lodge, main line, main office, male line, meandering stream, member, metro, midchannel, midstream, millstream, monorail, moving road, navigable river, office, offset, offshoot, open, open up, order, organ, organization, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, part, party, persuasion, phylum, pigeonhole, pinion, position, post, predicament, prong, race, racing stream, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railway, ramage, ramification, ramify, rank, rating, religious order, river, rivulet, roadbed, roadway, rubric, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, runner, sarment, schism, school, scion, sect, sectarism, section, seed, segment, sept, series, service, set, sheer, shift, shoot, shop, side, sidetrack, siding, sike, slip, society, spear, spear side, species, spill stream, spin-off, spindle side, splay, split in two, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spray, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, station, status, stem, stirps, stock, stolon, strain, stratum, stream, stream action, streamlet, street railway, streetcar line, study, subclass, subdivide, subdivision, subfamily, subgenus, subgroup, subkingdom, suborder, subsidiary, subspecies, subterranean river, subtribe, subway, succession, sucker, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superspecies, swerve, switch, switchback, sword side, tack, tail, tendril, terminal, terminus, thallus, ticket office, title, track, tram, tramline, transect, trend, trestle, tribe, tributary, trident, trifurcate, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turn, turn aside, turnout, twig, underground, unfold, variety, vary, veer, version, wadi, watercourse, waterway, widen, wing, wishbone, zag, zig, zigzag

branching

• branching, V-shaped, Y-shaped, arboreal, arborescence, arborescent, arboriform, arborization, bifidity, biforked, biforking, bifurcate, bifurcated, bifurcation, bipartition, bisected, bisection, bowery, branched, branching off, branchlike, branchy, by two, cleft, cloven, crotched, cutting in two, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dichotomy, dimidiate, dimidiation, divarication, divided, division, foliaged, foliate, foliated, foliose, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, furcation, halved, halving, in half, leafy, leaved, leavy, pronged, ramate, ramification, ramified, ramose, ramous, riven, split, subdivision, tree-shaped, treelike, treelikeness, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, trifurcation, twiggy

brand

• brand, acid, actual cautery, aroma, ash, ashes, aspersion, attaint, attribute, badge, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bedaub, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bespatter, bestain, billhead, birthmark, black eye, black mark, blacken, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blister, blood, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blow upon, blur, body-build, book stamp, bookplate, brand iron, branding iron, breed, broad arrow, burn, burn in, burn off, burning ember, butane lighter, cachet, calx, carbon, cast, caste mark, caustic, cauter, cauterant, cauterize, cauterizer, cautery, censure, chalk, chalk up, champain, char, character, characteristic, characteristics, characterize, charcoal, check, check off, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, cigarette lighter, cinder, clan, clinker, coal, coke, colophon, color, complexion, composition, configuration, constituents, constitution, coom, corrosive, counterfoil, countermark, crack, crasis, cupel, cut, dab, dapple, darken, daub, defame, defile, define, delimit, demarcate, denomination, description, designation, dharma, diathesis, differentia, differential, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discoloration, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disparagement, disposition, distinctive feature, docket, dot, dross, earmark, electrocautery, ember, engrave, engraving, escharotic, ethos, expose, expose to infamy, eyesore, feather, feature, fiber, figure, firebrand, flambeau, flame, flavor, fleck, flick, flint, flint and steel, flyspeck, form, found, frame, freckle, fume, gash, genius, genre, genus, gibbet, government mark, government stamp, grain, graving, gust, habit, hack, hallmark, hang in effigy, hatch, hot iron, hue, humor, humors, identify, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, igniter, ilk, impress, impression, imprint, imputation, index, individualism, jot, keynote, kidney, kin, kind, label, lava, lentigo, letterhead, light, lighter, line, lineaments, live coal, logo, logotype, lot, lunar caustic, macula, maculation, macule, make, make a mark, maker, makeup, manner, mannerism, manufacturer, mark, mark of Cain, mark off, mark out, marking, masthead, mat burn, mold, mole, mordant, mottle, moxa, nature, nevus, nick, notch, number, odium, odor, onus, oxidate, oxidize, parch, particularity, patch, peculiarity, pencil, pepper, persuasion, phylum, physique, pillory, pillorying, plate, point, point champain, polka dot, portfire, potential cautery, price tag, prick, print, property, punch, punctuate, puncture, pyrolyze, quality, quirk, race, radium, reek, reflection, registered trademark, reprimand, reproach, riddle, running head, running title, savor, scald, scar, scarification, scarify, scorch, score, scoria, scotch, scratch, scratching, seal, seam, sear, second-degree burn, shape, sigil, signet, singe, singularity, slag, slubber, slur, smack, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, solder, somatotype, soot, sort, sparker, spatter, specialty, species, speck, speckle, spill, spirit, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, sticker, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, strain, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, stub, style, suchness, sullage, sully, sunburn, sunscald, swinge, system, tab, tag, taint, tally, tang, taper, tarnish, taste, tattoo, tattoo mark, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, the like of, the likes of, third-degree burn, tick, tick off, ticket, title page, tittle, token, tone, torch, torrefy, trace, trade name, trademark, trademark name, trait, tribe, trick, type, underline, underscore, variety, vein, vesicate, vilify, vulcanize, watermark, way, weld, windburn

brandish

• brandish, advertise, affect, air, betoken, blazon forth, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, dangle, demonstrate, develop, disclose, display, disport, divulge, dramatize, emblazon, embody, enact, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose, expose to view, express, flap, flash, flaunt, float, flourish, flutter, fly, give sign, give token, highlight, hold up, illuminate, incarnate, indicate, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean, parade, perform, present, produce, put forth, put forward, represent, reveal, roll out, set forth, shake, show, show forth, show off, sport, spotlight, swing, token, trot out, trumpet, trumpet forth, undulate, unfold, vaunt, wag, wave, wield, wigwag

brash

• brash, abrupt, aggressive, arrogant, audacious, bearish, beastly, biggety, bluff, blunt, bold, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, brusque, bumptious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, churlish, chutzpadik, cocksure, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, curt, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful, ebullient, effervescent, facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, gruff, harsh, hasty, headlong, high-spirited, hubristic, ill-advised, impertinent, impetuous, impolitic, improvident, imprudent, impudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, madcap, maladroit, malapert, nervy, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, precipitate, presuming, presumptuous, pushful, pushing, rash, reckless, regardless of consequences, rough, rude, sassy, saucy, self-asserting, self-assertive, severe, sharp, short, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, snippy, surly, tactless, temerarious, thoughtless, truculent, uncalled-for, unchary, undiplomatic, untactful, unwary, uppish, uppity, vivacious, wise-ass

brass

• brass, ADC, CO, Establishment, German band, OD, Philharmonic, VIP, aide, aide-de-camp, alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, arch, aristocracy, aureate, ballad horn, band, baritone, baron, barons, barrow, bass horn, big band, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, blunt, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, boodle, boundary stone, brashness, brass band, brass choir, brass hat, brass quintet, brass section, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses, brassy, brazen, brazen boldness, bread, brigadier, brigadier general, bronze, bronzy, bucks, bugle, bugle horn, bust, cabbage, cabinet, cadre, cairn, callithumpian band, captain, celebrity, cenotaph, chamber orchestra, cheek, chicken colonel, chief of staff, chips, chutzpah, clarion, colonel, column, combo, commandant, commander, commander in chief, commanding officer, commissioned officer, company officer, concert band, confidence, copper, coppery, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean, council, cream, cromlech, cross, crust, cup, cupreous, cuprous, cyclolith, desks, dignitary, dignity, dinero, directorate, directory, dixieland band, do-re-mi, dolmen, double-bell euphonium, dough, effrontery, elder, elite, ensemble, establishment, euphonium, exec, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, executive officer, face, father, ferrous, ferruginous, field marshal, field officer, figure, first lieutenant, five-star general, footstone, four-star general, gall, gamelan orchestra, gelt, general, general officer, generalissimo, gilt, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, governing board, governing body, grave, gravestone, grease, great man, green, green stuff, group, headstone, helicon, heroics, hoarstone, horn, hubris, hunting horn, important person, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, infrastructure, injudiciousness, inscription, insolence, interests, interlocking directorate, iron, ironlike, jack, jazz band, jemadar, jug band, junior officer, kale, key trumpet, lead, leaden, lieutenant, lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general, lion, lituus, lords of creation, lur, magnate, major, major general, man of mark, management, marechal, marker, marshal, mausoleum, mazuma, megalith, mellophone, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, mercurial, mercurous, military band, mogul, monolith, monument, moolah, mopus, mound, nabob, name, necrology, nerve, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, nobility, notability, notable, obelisk, obituary, officer, oil of palms, ointment, one-star general, oof, ooftish, ophicleide, orchestra, orchestral horn, orderly officer, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, overlapping, oversureness, overweeningness, panjandrum, person of renown, personage, personality, pewter, pewtery, pillar, pillar of society, plaque, pocket trumpet, post horn, power, power elite, power structure, presumption, prize, pyramid, quartet, quicksilver, quintet, ragtime band, rashness, reliquary, remembrance, rhino, ribbon, risaldar, rock-and-roll group, rocks, rostral column, rudeness, ruling circle, ruling circles, ruling class, sachem, sackbut, saxhorn, saxtuba, senior officer, serpent, sextet, shaft, shavetail, shekels, shrine, silver, silver-plated, silvery, simoleons, sirdar, skiffle band, slide trombone, sliphorn, somebody, something, sousaphone, spondulics, staff officer, steel, steel band, steely, steering committee, stela, stone, street band, string band, string choir, string orchestra, string quartet, strings, stupa, subahdar, subaltern, sublieutenant, sugar, swing band, symphony, symphony orchestra, tablet, temerariousness, temerity, tenor tuba, testimonial, the Old Man, the administration, the best, the best people, the brass, the executive, the great, the needful, the people upstairs, the top, three-star general, tin, tinny, tomb, tombstone, top brass, top people, tope, trio, tromba, trombone, trophy, trumpet, tuba, two-star general, tycoon, unchariness, unwariness, upper class, upper crust, valve trombone, valve trumpet, very important person, waits, wampum, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind quartet, woodwinds, worthy

brassiere

• brassiere, advocate, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, buttress, cane, carrier, cervix, corset, crook, crutch, falsies, foundation garment, fulcrum, girdle, guy, guywire, jock, jockstrap, mainstay, maintainer, mast, neck, prop, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rigging, shoulder, shroud, soutien-gorge, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, strengthener, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder, walking stick

brassy

• brassy, Titian, adust, affront, arrant, arrogant, auburn, audacious, aureate, aweless, barefaced, bay, bay-colored, bayard, beard, bell the cat, bite the bullet, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, boisterous, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brash, brass, brave, brawling, brazen, brazen out, brazenfaced, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, bronzy, brownish-red, bumptious, callous, calloused, case-hardened, castaneous, challenging, cheeky, chestnut, chestnut-brown, choked, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, cocky, colorful, confront, conscienceless, contemptuous, copper, copper-colored, coppery, cracked, croaking, croaky, crude, cupreous, cuprous, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, dissonant, dry, exhibitionistic, extravagant, face, face the music, face up, face up to, ferrous, ferruginous, flagrant, flamboyant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, florid, forward, foxy, fresh, front, garish, gaudy, gilt, glaring, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, gorgeous, grating, greatly daring, gruff, guttural, hard, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, harsh-sounding, heartless, henna, hoarse, hubristic, husky, immodest, impertinent, improvident, imprudent, impudent, incautious, indiscreet, indurated, injudicious, insolent, inured, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, lost to shame, loud, lurid, mafficking, mahogany, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, mercurial, mercurous, meretricious, metallic, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, noiseful, noisy, notorious, obdurate, obstreperous, obtrusive, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, pewter, pewtery, quicksilver, rackety, ragged, rash, raucid, raucous, reddish-brown, regardless of consequences, rip-roaring, roan, rough, roupy, rowdy, rubiginous, rude, rufous, run the gauntlet, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, saucy, screaming, seared, sensational, set at defiance, shameless, shrill, silver, silver-plated, silvery, speak out, speak up, spectacular, squawking, squawky, stand up to, steel, steely, stertorous, strangled, strepitant, strepitous, strident, sunburned, swaggering, tawdry, temerarious, terra-cotta, thick, throaty, tin, tinny, tumultuous, turbulent, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unchary, unembarrassed, unmodest, unwary, uproarious, vociferous, vulgar

bravado

• bravado, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, arrogance, audaciousness, audacity, balls, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bold front, boldness, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravura, brazenness, bullying, bumptiousness, bustle, cheekiness, cockiness, conceit, contempt, contemptuousness, daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, derring-do, despite, disdain, disregard, enterprise, fanfaronade, flurry, fluster, foolhardiness, front, fuss, gasconade, gasconism, hectoring, heroics, impertinence, impudence, insolence, intimidation, jactation, jactitation, machismo, overboldness, pertness, pretentiousness, rant, rodomontade, sauciness, self-assurance, side, splutter, sputter, swagger, swashbucklery, vanity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, venturesomeness, venturousness

brave

• brave, Achilles, Amazon, David, Hector, Roland, Samson, a man, abide, abide with, advantageous, affront, air serviceman, audacious, aweless, baffle, balk, banter, bear, bear with, beard, bell the cat, beneficial, bid defiance, bide, bite the bullet, blast, bold, bold-spirited, bravura, braw, brazen, brazen out, breast, bright, bring before, bring forward, bring up, brook, bulldog, call out, cannon fodder, challenge, chance, checkmate, chichi, chivalric, chivalrous, chutzpanik, circumvent, colorful, colory, confident, confound, confront, confront with, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, courageous, court destruction, cross, dare, daring, dash, dashing, dauntless, decorated hero, defeat, defiant, defy, defy danger, demigod, demigoddess, destroy, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, disrupt, double-dare, doughty, dressy, elude, encounter, endure, envisage, exhibitionistic, face, face out, face the music, face up, face up to, face with, favorable, favoring, fearless, fighting cock, fighting man, fine, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flummox, foil, food for powder, forget the odds, frilly, front, frothy, frustrate, gallant, gamble, game, gamecock, gay, glittering, good soldier, grand, greathearted, gritty, gutsy, halberdier, handsome, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, hardy, hazard, helpful, hero, heroic, heroine, herolike, hoplite, indomitable, intrepid, ironhearted, jaunty, jazzy, knightlike, knightly, knock the chocks, lay before, legionary, lion, lionhearted, lump, lump it, macho, man of courage, man-at-arms, manful, manly, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, meet squarely, mettlesome, military man, navy man, noble, nonplus, outdare, outface, paladin, perplex, persevere, pikeman, place before, play with fire, plucky, present to, propitious, put it to, put up with, rakish, resolute, rifle, rifleman, risk, ruin, run the chance, run the gauntlet, run the risk, sabotage, scotch, scream defiance, serviceman, set at defiance, set before, show fight, showy, smart, snazzy, soldier, soldierlike, soldierly, speak out, speak up, spearman, spectacular, spike, spirited, splashy, splendid, splurgy, spoil, sporty, spunky, stalwart, stand, stand for, stand up to, stare down, staunch, steadfast, stem, stick, stonewall, stout, stouthearted, stump, suffer, support, sustain, take a chance, take chances, take up with, tempt Providence, the brave, thwart, tiger, tolerate, toward, unafraid, unapprehensive, unblenching, undaunted, undismayed, unfearful, unfearing, unflinching, unfrightened, unshrinking, unswerving, unyielding, upset, useful, valiant, valiant knight, valorous, venture, venturesome, vivid, warrior, warrioress

bravery

• bravery, Dutch courage, Sunday best, boldness, braveness, chiffon, chivalrousness, chivalry, clinquant, conspicuous gallantry, courage, courageousness, daring, determination, doughtiness, fearlessness, festoons, finery, firmness, folderol, foofaraw, fortitude, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, full dress, fuss, gaiety, gallantness, gallantry, gallantry under fire, gaudery, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, greatheartedness, heroicalness, heroism, indomitability, intrepidity, intrepidness, knightliness, lionheartedness, machismo, manfulness, manhood, manliness, martial spirit, military spirit, paste, pinchbeck, pluck, pot-valor, prowess, regalia, resoluteness, resolution, soldierly quality, stalwartness, staunchness, stoutheartedness, stoutness, superfluity, tinsel, trappings, trickery, trumpery, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, virtue, war paint

bravura

• bravura, Daedalian, ability, address, adept, adeptness, adroit, adroitness, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, airmanship, alto, apt, aria, aria buffa, aria cantabile, aria da capo, aria da chiesa, aria di bravura, aria di coloratura, aria fugata, aria parlante, arietta, arioso, artfulness, artisanship, artistic, artistry, audaciousness, audacity, authoritative, balls, baritone, bass, bel canto, blazon, bravado, brave, braw, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliant, cantabile, capability, capacity, chichi, choral, choral singing, choric, clean, clever, cleverness, coloratura, command, competence, control, coordinated, coordination, crack, crackerjack, craft, craftsmanship, croon, crooning, cunning, cute, daedal, daring, dash, dashing, deft, deftness, demonstration, derring-do, dexterity, dexterous, dexterousness, dextrous, dextrousness, diplomacy, diplomatic, display, dramatic, dramatics, dressy, eclat, efficiency, enterprise, etalage, excellent, exhibition, exhibitionism, exhibitionistic, expert, expertise, facility, false front, falsetto, fancy, fanfaronade, figure, finesse, flair, flashing, flashy, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, folk singing, foolhardiness, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, glittering, good, goodish, grace, graceful, grip, handiness, handy, heroic, histrionics, horsemanship, hum, humming, hymnal, ingenious, ingeniousness, ingenuity, intonation, jaunty, jazzy, know-how, liturgical, lyric, lyricism, magisterial, manifestation, marksmanship, masterful, masterly, mastership, mastery, neat, no mean, operatic, operatic singing, overboldness, pageant, pageantry, parade, politic, practical ability, professional, proficiency, proficient, prowess, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, quick, quickness, quite some, rakish, readiness, ready, recitative, resource, resourceful, resourcefulness, sacred, savoir-faire, savvy, scat, scat singing, seamanship, sham, show, showing-off, showy, singing, skill, skillful, skillfulness, slick, snazzy, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, solo, some, song, soprano, spectacle, splash, splashy, splurge, splurgy, sporty, staginess, statesmanlike, style, stylish, tact, tactful, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tenor, the compleat, the complete, theatrics, timing, tonic sol-fa, treble, vaunt, venturesomeness, venturousness, virtuosity, virtuoso, vocal, vocal music, vocalization, warbling, well-done, wit, wizardry, workmanlike, workmanship, yodel, yodeling

braw

• braw, Junoesque, advantageous, agreeable, amply endowed, auspicious, becoming, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, bravura, bueno, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, capital, chic, chichi, classy, clothes-conscious, cogent, comely, commendable, cosmopolitan, curvaceous, curvy, dapper, daring, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, elegant, estimable, excellent, exhibitionistic, expedient, exquisite, fair, famous, favorable, fine, flashing, flashy, flaunting, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, genteel, glittering, goddess-like, good, good-looking, goodly, grand, healthy, helpful, jaunty, jazzy, kind, laudable, likely, lovely to behold, natty, neat, nice, nifty, nobby, noble, personable, pleasant, pleasing, pneumatic, posh, presentable, profitable, rakish, recherche, regal, ritzy, royal, shapely, sharp, showy, sightly, skillful, sleek, slender, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, sound, spiffy, splashy, splendid, splurgy, sporty, spruce, stacked, statuesque, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, well-built, well-dressed, well-favored, well-formed, well-groomed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

brawl

• brawl, Bedlam let loose, ado, affray, agitation, altercate, altercation, argument, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, ball, battle, battle royal, be noisy, bedlam, bicker, bickering, blast, blood feud, bluster, bobbery, bother, box, brannigan, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacophony, caterwaul, caucus, chaos, charivari, chirm, clamor, clangor, clap, clash, clatter, close, collide, colloquium, combat, come to blows, commission, committee, commotion, conclave, concourse, congregation, congress, contend, contention, contest, controversy, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, cut and thrust, dance, date, diet, differ, din, discord, disorder, dispute, disturbance, dogfight, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drunken brawl, duel, dust, dustup, ebullition, eisteddfod, embroilment, eruption, exchange blows, exchange of blows, fanaticism, fence, ferment, festivity, fete, feud, fight, fight a duel, fisticuffs, flap, flite, fliting, fomentation, foofaraw, forgathering, forum, fracas, fray, free-for-all, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gathering, get-together, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, hassle, have words, hell broke loose, helter-skelter, housewarming, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, imbroglio, incident, jangle, join issue, jostle, joust, knock-down-and-drag-out, levee, logomachy, loud noise, maffick, make a noise, make a racket, make an uproar, maul, meet, meeting, melee, mix it up, muss, noise, noise and shouting, open quarrel, outcry, pandemonium, panel, party, passion, pell-mell, plenum, polemic, pother, prom, quarrel, quorum, racket, rage, raise Cain, raise a clamor, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rally, rampage, rassle, rattle, reception, rendezvous, rhubarb, riot, roar, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, run a tilt, scramble, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, seance, session, set to, set-to, sharp words, shindig, shindy, shivaree, sit-in, sitting, skirmish, slanging match, snarl, soiree, spar, spat, squabble, stir, storminess, strife, symposium, synod, tempestuousness, thrust and parry, thunder, thunderclap, tiff, tilt, tintamarre, to-do, tourney, trouble, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, turnout, tussle, upheaval, uproar, upset, vendetta, wage war, war, whoop it up, wildness, words, wrangle, wrestle, zeal, zealousness

brawler

• brawler, agitator, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, bitter-ender, blade, bravo, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, defendant, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, duelist, enforcer, extremist, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, frondeur, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, intransigent, irreconcilable, jouster, knight, last-ditcher, litigant, malcontent, maverick, militant, mutineer, naysayer, negativist, nonconformist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, plaintiff, plug-ugly, protester, quarreler, rebel, resister, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, subversive, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, traitor, tussler, wrangler

brawling

• brawling, bawling, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, boanergean, boisterous, brassy, brazen, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, crying, loudmouthed, mafficking, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, rip-roaring, rowdy, scrappy, screaming, shouting, strepitant, strepitous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping

brawn

• brawn, all that lives, beef, beefiness, biosphere, biota, brawniness, ecosphere, elasticity, fiber, flesh, flora and fauna, heftiness, huskiness, involuntary muscle, living matter, living nature, might, muscle, muscles, muscularity, musculature, noosphere, organic matter, organic nature, organized matter, physique, plasm, power, robustness, sinew, sinewiness, sinews, strength, thew, thewiness, thews, tissue, tone, voluntary muscle

brawny

• brawny, able-bodied, adipose, athletic, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, broad-shouldered, bulky, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, husky, imposing, lusty, meaty, mighty, muscle-bound, muscular, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, powerful, pudgy, puffy, pursy, red-blooded, robust, roly-poly, rotund, sinewy, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, strong, swollen, thewy, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tough, tubby, vigorous, vital, well-built, well-fed, well-knit, well-set, well-set-up, wiry

bray

• bray, abrade, atomize, bark, bawl, bay, beat, beep, belch, bell, bellow, blare, blast, blat, blate, bleat, blow, blow the horn, blubber, boom, breathe, brecciate, buck, bugle, burr, buzz, cackle, call, caterwaul, caw, chant, chirp, chirr, clang, clangor, clank, clarion, clash, comminute, contriturate, coo, craunch, croak, crow, crumb, crumble, crump, crunch, crush, cry, disintegrate, drawl, exclaim, fanfare, flour, flourish of trumpets, flute, fragment, gasp, give tongue, give voice, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, groan, growl, grumble, grunt, hiss, honk, howl, jangle, jar, keen, levigate, lilt, low, mash, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, mill, moo, mumble, murmur, mutter, neigh, nicker, pant, peal, pestle, pipe, pound, powder, pule, pulverize, rasp, reduce to powder, roar, rumble, scranch, scrape, scratch, screak, scream, screech, scrunch, shard, shred, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, smash, snap, snarl, snore, snort, sob, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, squall, squash, squawk, squeak, squeal, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, thunder, toot, tootle, triturate, troat, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, twang, tweedle, ululate, wail, warble, whicker, whine, whinny, whisper, whistle, wind, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yowl

brazen out

• brazen out, affront, bear up, beard, bell the cat, bite the bullet, brave, brazen, come up fighting, confront, face, face down, face out, face the music, face up, face up to, front, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hold fast, hold on, hold out, hold up, live through it, live with it, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, never say die, not give up, outbrave, outbrazen, outdare, outface, outlook, outstare, run the gauntlet, set at defiance, speak out, speak up, stand up, stand up to, stare down, stay it out, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to it, stick with it, tough it out

brazen

• brazen, Titian, adust, affront, arrant, arrogant, auburn, audacious, aureate, aweless, barefaced, bay, bay-colored, bayard, beard, bell the cat, bite the bullet, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, boisterous, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brash, brass, brassy, brave, brawling, brazen out, brazenfaced, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, bronzy, brownish-red, bumptious, callous, calloused, candid, case-hardened, castaneous, challenging, cheeky, chestnut, chestnut-brown, chintzy, choked, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, cocky, colorful, confront, conscienceless, contemptuous, contumelious, copper, copper-colored, coppery, cracked, croaking, croaky, crude, cupreous, cuprous, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, dry, exhibitionistic, extravagant, face, face the music, face up, face up to, ferrous, ferruginous, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forward, foxy, fresh, front, garish, gaudy, gilt, glaring, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, gorgeous, greatly daring, gruff, guttural, hard, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, harsh-sounding, heartless, henna, hoarse, hubristic, husky, immodest, impertinent, improvident, imprudent, impudent, incautious, indiscreet, indurated, injudicious, insolent, inured, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, lost to shame, loud, lurid, mafficking, mahogany, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, mercurial, mercurous, meretricious, metallic, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, noiseful, noisy, notorious, obdurate, obstreperous, obtrusive, open, outspoken, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, pewter, pewtery, procacious, quicksilver, rackety, ragged, rash, raucid, raucous, reddish-brown, regardless of consequences, rip-roaring, roan, rough, roupy, rowdy, rubiginous, rude, rufous, run the gauntlet, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, sassy, saucy, screaming, seared, sensational, set at defiance, shameless, silver, silver-plated, silvery, speak out, speak up, spectacular, squawking, squawky, stand up to, steel, steely, stertorous, strangled, strepitant, strepitous, sunburned, swaggering, tawdry, temerarious, terra-cotta, thick, throaty, tin, tinny, tinsel, tumultuous, turbulent, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unchary, unembarrassed, unmodest, unwary, uproarious, vociferous, vulgar

breach of promise

• breach of promise, Punic faith, bad faith, barratry, breach, breach of contract, breach of faith, breach of privilege, breach of trust, breaking, contravention, dereliction, disaffection, disloyalty, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, fickleness, inconstancy, infidelity, infraction, infringement, mala fides, offense, recreancy, transgression, trespass, trothlessness, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unloyalty, unsteadfastness, untrueness, violation

breach

• breach, abysm, abyss, alienation, arroyo, atrocity, bad faith, bore, box canyon, breach of contract, breach of faith, breach of friendship, breach of privilege, breach of promise, breach of trust, break, break in, break into, break open, break through, breakage, breaking, burst, burst in, bust, bust in, caesura, canyon, cave in, cavity, cessation, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, cleavage, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, contravene, contravention, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crime, crime against humanity, cut, cut apart, cwm, deadly sin, defile, delinquency, dell, dereliction, difference, dike, disaffection, discontinuity, discord, disfavor, disharmony, disobedience, disregard, disrupt, disruption, dissension, disunion, disunity, ditch, divergence, dividedness, division, donga, draw, enormity, error, estrangement, evil, excavation, exfoliate, failure, falling-out, fault, felony, fissure, flaw, flume, force open, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, genocide, gorge, groove, guilty act, gulch, gulf, gully, heavy sin, hiatus, hole, impropriety, incise, incision, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infract, infraction, infringe, infringement, iniquity, injury, injustice, interim, intermission, interruption, interval, invade, joint, kloof, lacuna, lapse, leak, letup, lull, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, moat, mortal sin, neglect, nonfeasance, nonobservance, notch, nullah, offend, offense, omission, open, open fire, open rupture, open up, opening, outrage, pass, passage, pause, peccadillo, peccancy, penetrate, prize open, quarrel, ravine, recall of ambassadors, rent, rift, rime, rip, rive, rupture, scale, schism, scissure, seam, secession, separation, severance, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slash, slice, slip, slit, slot, snap, splinter, split, split open, stove in, strife, suspension, tear, tear open, tort, transgress, transgression, trench, trespass, trip, unutterable sin, valley, variance, venial sin, violation, void, wadi, withdrawal, wrong

bread

• bread, Communion, Eucharist, French bread, Holy Communion, Host, Irish soda bread, Italian bread, Last Supper, Sacrament Sunday, TLC, alimentation, alimony, altar bread, black bread, blunt, board, boodle, brass, bread and butter, bread and wine, bread stick, bread stuff, brown bread, bucks, cabbage, care, cash, cheer, chips, chow, coin, comestibles, consecrated bread, consecrated elements, consubstantiation, cracked-wheat bread, creature comfort, crust, cuisine, daily bread, dark bread, dinero, dough, eatables, eats, economic support, edibles, elements, endowment, fare, fast food, feast, feed, food, food and drink, foodstuff, garlic bread, gelt, gilt, graham bread, grease, green, green stuff, greenbacks, grub, health food, impanation, ingesta, intinction, jack, junk food, kale, keep, kitchen stuff, livelihood, living, loaf, loaf of bread, maintenance, manna, matzo, matzoth, mazuma, meat, moolah, mopus, mothering, nourishment, nurture, nut bread, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, pain, pita, price support, provender, provision, provisions, pumpernickel, raisin bread, real presence, rhino, rocks, rye bread, salt-rising bread, shekels, simoleons, sourbread, sourdough bread, spondulics, spread, staff of life, subpanation, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, sugar, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, table, tack, tender loving care, the Holy Sacrament, the Sacrament, the needful, tin, toast, tommy, transubstantiation, tucker, unleavened bread, upkeep, viands, victuals, vittles, wafer, wampum, white bread, whole wheat bread

breadth

• breadth, acreage, amount, amplitude, area, beam, bigness, body, broad gauge, broad-mindedness, broadness, bulk, caliber, catholicity, compass, comprehensiveness, continuum, cosmopolitanism, coverage, degree, depth, detail, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenicity, ecumenism, emptiness, empty space, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, field, fullness, galactic space, gamut, gauge, girth, greatness, height, infinite space, interstellar space, large-mindedness, largeness, latitude, length, liberality, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, noninsularity, nothingness, orbit, outer space, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, scale, scope, size, space, spacious mind, span, spatial extension, sphere, spread, stretch, superficial extension, surface, sweep, thickness, tract, unbigotedness, unhideboundness, unparochialism, unprovincialism, void, volume, wide-mindedness, wideness, width

breadwinner

• breadwinner, blue-collar worker, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler, navvy, office temporary, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman

breadwinning

• breadwinning, advantageous, banausic, businesslike, commercial, fat, gainful, lucrative, materialistic, moneymaking, paying, practical, productive, profitable, prosaic, realistic, remunerative, utilitarian, well-paying, workaday, workday, working, worthwhile

break away

• break away, apostacize, apostatize, bail out, betray, bolt, break jail, break loose, change sides, cut loose, defect, desert, escape, escape prison, evade, fall away, fall off, flee, fly the coop, get away, get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, go over, jump, let down, make a getaway, pull out, rat, run out on, secede, sell out, skip, slip the collar, switch, switch over, turn cloak

break down

• break down, afflict, aggrieve, alphabetize, analyze, anatomize, anguish, arrange, assay, assort, bawl, beat down, bend, blow, blow down, blubber, boohoo, break, break up, bring down, bring low, bring to tears, bring to terms, bulldoze, burn down, burn out, burst into tears, cast down, catalog, categorize, cave in, chop down, class, classify, codify, collapse, come to naught, come to nothing, conk out, conquer, crack up, crumble, crush, cry, cut down, cut up, decompose, desolate, digest, disintegrate, dissect, dissolve in tears, divide, draw tears, droop, drop, drop a tear, embitter, faint, fall down, fall flat, fall in, fall through, fatigue, fell, file, fizzle out, flag, flatten, founder, gasp, get bogged down, get hung up, get mired, get tired, give out, go haywire, go kaput, go wrong, grade, greet, grieve, group, grow weary, humble, humiliate, index, inundate, jade, knock down, knock over, level, list, master, molder, mow down, oppress, order, overmaster, overwhelm, pack up, pant, peg out, peter out, pigeonhole, place, play out, poop out, prostrate, puff, puff and blow, pull down, putrefy, quell, range, rank, rase, rate, raze, reduce, reduce to elements, resolve, rot, run down, run out, segment, separate, shed tears, sink, smash, snivel, sob, sorrow, sort, spoil, steamroller, subdivide, subdue, succumb, suppress, sway, tabulate, taint, take down, tear down, throw down, tire, topple, topple down, topple over, torment, totter, trample underfoot, tread underfoot, turn, type, tyrannize, unman, weary, weep, wheeze, whimper, wilt

break even

• break even, amount to, balance, come to, come up to, correspond, ditto, draw, equal, even, even off, keep pace with, knot, match, match up with, measure up to, parallel, reach, rival, run abreast, run to, stack up with, tie, touch

break forth

• break forth, appear, arise, bail out, be revealed, become known, bob up, break cover, burst forth, come, come forth, come out, come to light, debouch, disembogue, effuse, emanate, emerge, erupt, extrude, flare up, flash, get out, gleam, irrupt, issue, issue forth, jump out, leak out, manifest itself, out, pop up, protrude, sally, sally forth, show its colors, show its face, spring up, stand revealed, start up, surface, transpire

break ground

• break ground, break the ice, cast away, cast loose, cast off, cat the anchor, create, drop the mooring, head, head up, initiate, invent, lead, lead off, lead the way, loose for sea, originate, pioneer, precede, stand first, take the initiative, take the lead, take the plunge, unmoor, up-anchor, weigh anchor

break in

• break in, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, admit, apprentice, barge in, be admitted, breach, break, break in upon, break into, break open, break through, break to harness, breaking and entering, breed, breeze in, bring up, burglarizing, burglary, burst in, bust, bust in, butt in, case harden, cave in, charge in, chime in, chip in, come barging in, come between, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, condition, confirm, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, cultivate, cut in, develop, discipline, domesticate, domesticize, drill, drop in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, enter, entrench, establish, exercise, familiarize, fetch up, fit, fix, foist in, force open, form, foster, gain admittance, gentle, get going, get in, get in there, get off, get squared away, get under way, go in, go into, groom, habituate, harden, have an entree, have an in, hop in, horn in, house-train, housebreak, housebreaking, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, improve, infiltrate, infringe, insert, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, interrupt, intervene, intrude, inure, invade, irrupt, jam in, jump in, lick into shape, look in, make a beginning, make a move, naturalize, nurse, nurture, obtrude, orient, orientate, pack in, pop in, practice, prepare, press in, prize open, push in, put in, put in tune, put on, put to school, put upon, raise, ready, rear, rehearse, rupture, rush in, safeblowing, safebreaking, safecracking, season, send to school, set a course, set foot in, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, split open, squeeze in, start up, steal in, step in, storm in, stove in, take in, take in hand, tame, tear open, throng in, thrust in, train, trench, trespass, unlawful entry, visit, warm up, wedge in, wont, work in, worm in

break loose

• break loose, bail out, break away, break jail, break out, clear, cut loose, disembarrass, disembroil, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, dislodge, escape, escape prison, evade, extricate, flee, fly the coop, free, get away, get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, jump, make a getaway, release, skip, slip the collar, tear loose, unknot, unravel, unsnarl, untangle

break of day

• break of day, aurora, brightening, chanticleer, cocklight, crack of dawn, dawn, dawning, day-peep, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, first brightening, light, peep of day, prime, sunrise, sunup, vestibule of Day

break off

• break off, agree to disagree, be at cross-purposes, break, clash, collide, conflict, contradict, counter, cut off, differ, disaccord, disagree, disarrange, discontinue, disjoin, dissent, intermit, interrupt, jangle, jar, jostle, mismatch, mismate, negate, object, snap the thread, suspend, take a break, vary

break out

• break out, OD, arise, be born, be brought down, be felled, be struck down, be traumatized, become, belch, blow open, blow out, break loose, break through, burst forth, burst out, catch, catch cold, clear, collapse, come down with, come forth, come out, come to be, contract, crop up, cut loose, debouch, discharge, disembarrass, disembroil, disengage, disentangle, disgorge, disinvolve, dislodge, eject, emerge, eruct, erupt, exit, explode, extricate, fever, find vent, free, get, get out, get to be, go into shock, have origin, hurl forth, irrupt, issue, issue forth, leak out, ooze out, originate, overdose, release, rise, run a temperature, run out, sicken, spew, spout, spring up, take, take birth, take ill, take rise, tear loose, unknot, unravel, unsnarl, untangle, vomit

break the ice

• break the ice, approach, blaze the trail, break ground, clear the way, court, create, cultivate, cultivate the soil, go in advance, head, head up, initiate, invent, lay the foundation, lay the groundwork, lead, lead off, lead the way, make advances, make up to, open the way, originate, pave the way, pay addresses to, pay court to, pioneer, play up to, precede, prepare the way, run after, shine up to, sow the seed, stand first, suck up to, take the initiative, take the lead, take the plunge

break the law

• break the law, breach the law, care naught for, circumvent the law, commit a crime, contravene, defy, disobey, disobey the law, disregard, disregard the law, flout, go counter to, ignore, infract, infringe, not conform, not heed, not keep, not listen, not mind, not observe, refuse to cooperate, scoff at, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, transgress, trespass, violate, violate the law

break the news

• break the news, air, announce, break it to, breathe, bring word, come out with, confide, confide to, divulgate, divulge, evulgate, give a report, give out, give tidings of, give vent to, inform, let get around, let in on, let out, make known, out with, publish, rehearse, relate, report, reveal, rumor, tell, utter, vent, ventilate, write up

break through

• break through, achieve success, advance, arrive, be a success, breach, break in, break into, break open, break out, burst in, bust in, cave in, come forth, come on, come out, come through, cut a swath, debouch, emerge, erupt, exit, find vent, force open, get ahead, get on, get there, go far, go places, have it made, issue, issue forth, leak out, make a breakthrough, make a success, make good, make headway, make it, make the scene, ooze out, prize open, progress, rise, run out, rupture, split open, stove in, tear open

break up

• break up, ablate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, amuse, analyze, anatomize, assay, atomize, be in stitches, beguile, better, bite the dust, break, break down, break into pieces, break open, break to pieces, burst, burst into laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cackle, canker, change, chortle, chuckle, come apart, come to dust, come unstuck, consume, convert, convulse, corrode, corrupt, crack, crack up, crash, crow, crumble, crumble into dust, crumble to dust, crunch, crush, cut to pieces, deactivate, debrief, decay, decompose, deform, delight, demob, demobilize, demolish, denature, detach, differ, differentiate, diffuse, disband, discharge, disintegrate, disjoin, disjoint, dismiss, disorganize, dispel, disperse, disrupt, dissect, dissent, dissever, dissolve, disunify, disunite, divaricate, diverge, diversify, divert, divide, effloresce, enliven, entertain, erode, exhilarate, fall, fall into decay, fall to dust, fall to pieces, fester, fission, fissure, fit, fracture, fracture one, fragment, gangrene, giggle, give away, give way, go bad, go into convulsions, go separate ways, go to pieces, grain, granulate, grind, guffaw, ha-ha, hee-haw, hee-hee, ho-ho, horselaugh, improve, kill, knock dead, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, let go, loosen up, make mincemeat of, meliorate, mildew, mince, mitigate, modify, modulate, mold, molder, mortify, muster out, mutate, nearly die laughing, necrose, overthrow, part, part company, powder, pulverize, putrefy, putresce, qualify, raise a laugh, raise a smile, rankle, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, recreate, redesign, reduce, reduce to elements, refit, reform, refresh, regale, relax, release, relieve, remake, renew, reshape, resolve, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, roar, roar with laughter, rot, rupture, scatter, segment, separate, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shatter, shift the scene, shiver, shout, shriek, shuffle the cards, slay, smash, smash up, snap, snicker, snigger, snort, solace, sphacelate, splinter, split, split up, split with laughter, spoil, spring a leak, squash, squish, start, subdivide, subvert, sunder, suppurate, tee-hee, tickle, titillate, titter, topple, tumble, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, variate, variegate, vary, waste away, wear away, work a change, worsen, wow, yuk-yuk

break

• break, abeyance, about ship, about-face, abrade, abrasion, abscond, abysm, abyss, accidentality, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodation, accustom, actuarial calculation, adapt, adaptation, adjust, adjustment, adventitiousness, agree to disagree, alienation, alter, alteration, ameliorate, amelioration, announce, apostasy, appear, apprentice, arrearage, arroyo, back and fill, bankrupt, bark, be at cross-purposes, be changed, be converted into, be poised, be renewed, be ruined, bear away, bear market, bear off, bear to starboard, bearish market, beat, beat about, beat down, become insolvent, become public, bed, bed down, befall, begin, bend, betide, betterment, billow, blemish, blessing, bloody, blooper, blow, boner, boo-boo, boot, bottom out, bounce, box canyon, box off, breach, breach of friendship, break, break away, break down, break forth, break ground, break in, break of, break off, break open, break out, break the ice, break through, break to harness, break up, break with, breakage, breakout, breath, breathe, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, breed, bridle, brighten, bring about, bring low, bring round, bring to terms, bring up, broken circuit, browbeat, brush, bulldoze, bully, bump, bunk, burglarize, burgle, burn, burn off, burst, burst forth, burst in, bust, buzz about, caesura, call a break, call time, can, cant, cant round, canyon, case harden, cashier, cast, cast about, castrate, casualness, cave, cave in, cavity, cease, cease-fire, cessation, chafe, chance, change, change course, change of heart, change the heading, changeableness, chap, chasm, cheapen, cheapening, check, checker, chimney, chink, chip, chop, chop and change, cigarette break, cipher, circuit, circuital field, circulate, clamp down on, clash, claw, cleavage, cleave, cleft, cleuch, closed circuit, clough, cocktail hour, coerce, coffee break, col, collapse, collide, comb, come about, come apart, come around, come forth, come off, come out, come round, come unstuck, commence, comminute, communicate, compel, complete circuit, concussion, condition, confirm, conflict, confound, confute, conk out, conquer, constructive change, continuity, contradict, contravene, controvert, conversion, convey, coulee, couloir, counter, cow, crack, crackle, cranny, crash, craze, crevasse, crevice, cripple, crumble, crumple, crush, cryptanalyze, cultivate, cure, curry, currycomb, cut, cut apart, cut off, cut prices, cwm, dash, daunt, dawn, day off, dead circuit, debilitate, decamp, decipher, declare a recess, decline, declining market, decompose, deconsecrate, decrypt, defalcation, defeat, defect, defection, deficiency, deficit, defile, deflate, deflation, defrock, defy, degenerate, degeneration, degenerative change, degrade, deliverance, delivery, dell, dement, demerit, demolish, demoralize, demote, depart, depart from, deplume, depose, depreciate, depreciation, deprive, despotize, destiny, destroy, detach, deteriorate, deterioration, dethrone, devaluate, devaluation, develop, deviate, deviation, differ, difference, dike, disaccord, disaccustom, disaffection, disagree, disarrange, disavow, disband, disbar, discipline, disclose, disconfirm, discontinuation, discontinue, discontinuity, discourage, discrown, disemploy, disengage, disenthrone, disfavor, disgrade, disintegrate, disjoin, dismiss, disobey, disperse, displace, displume, disregard, disrupt, disruption, dissent, dissolve, disturb, disunion, disunity, ditch, dive, diverge, divergence, diversification, diversify, diversion, diversity, divide, dividedness, division, divulge, do violence to, domesticate, domesticize, domineer, domineer over, donga, double a point, downgrade, downtime, draw, drench, drill, droop, drop, drum out, ease up, ebb and flow, educate, emerge, emergence, end, enforced respite, enslave, erupt, escape, escapism, establish, estrangement, evasion, evert, excavation, excommunicate, exercise, exfoliate, exhaust, expel, explode, extrication, fade, fail, faint, fall, fall in price, fall out, fall to pieces, falling-out, familiarize, fate, fault, faux, feed, fell, fetch about, fetch up, find vent, fire, fissure, fit, fitting, fix, fizzle out, flag, flash burn, flatten, flaw, flee, flight, flip-flop, flop, flout, fluke, flukiness, flume, fly, fly about, fodder, foil, fold, fold up, form, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, foster, found, fracture, fragment, fray, frazzle, freeing, fret, frustrate, furlough, furrow, gaffe, gall, galvanic circuit, gamble, gap, gape, gash, gentle, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get around, get exposure, get through, getaway, give away, give out, give the ax, give the gate, give up, give way, go, go about, go bankrupt, go broke, go downhill, go forth, go into receivership, go soft, go the rounds, go to pieces, go to pot, go to ruin, go under, go up, good fortune, good luck, gorge, gradual change, grind, grind down, groom, groove, grow bright, grow light, gulch, gulf, gully, gybe, habituate, half time, half-time intermission, halt, handle, hap, happenstance, happy chance, happy hour, harden, harness, haul around, have currency, heave, heave round, heedless hap, henpeck, hesitation, hiatus, hit the skids, hitch, hole, holiday, hot circuit, house-train, housebreak, how they fall, humble, humiliate, hurt, ignore, impart, impoverish, impropriety, improve, improvement, inaugurate, incise, incision, indecorum, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, infract, infringe, initiate, injure, injury, innovate, interfere, interim, interject, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermit, intermittence, interpose, interregnum, interrupt, interruption, interval, intervene, intimidate, intrude, inure, irregularity, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jangle, jar, jew down, jibe, jibe all standing, joint, jostle, keep down, keep under, kick, kick upstairs, kloof, knock off, lacerate, laceration, lack, lacuna, languish, lapse, lateral circuit, law of averages, lay off, layoff, leak, leakage, leave, leg, lesion, let go, let out, letup, liberation, lick into shape, lift, light, lighten, liquidate, litter, live circuit, look-in, loop, lord it over, lot, lower, lowering, luck, lucky break, lucky strike, lull, magnetic circuit, maim, make mincemeat of, make public, make redundant, manage, mark down, markdown, master, maul, meliorate, melioration, microcircuit, milk, mismatch, mismate, miss stays, missing link, mitigate, mitigation, moat, modification, modulate, modulation, moira, mortal wound, multiple circuit, multiple series, mutate, mutilate, mutilation, naturalize, need, negate, nose dive, nose-dive, notch, nullah, nurse, nurture, object, occasion, occur, off market, off-time, offend, omission, open, open rupture, opening, opportunity, oppress, orient, orientate, oust, out, outage, outlet, overawe, overbear, overcome, overmaster, override, overthrow, overwhelm, pare, parenthesis, pass, pass on, passage, path, pauper, pauperize, pause, peak, peg out, penetrate, pension, pension off, peter out, pierce, pine, plateau, plummet, plummeting, plunge, ply, point of repose, poop out, popple, practice, prepare, press heavy on, price cut, price fall, price reduction, principle of indeterminacy, printed circuit, prisonbreak, probability, problematicness, prostrate, puncture, purge, put about, put back, put down, put in tune, put to school, puzzle out, qualification, quell, quiet spell, radical change, raise, random sample, ravine, re-creation, read out of, ready, realignment, rear, rebut, recall of ambassadors, recess, redesign, reduce, reduction, reform, reformation, refute, rehearse, relax, release, relief, remaking, remission, remove, remove from office, rend, renewal, renounce, rent, replace, repress, repudiate, rescue, reshaping, resolve, respite, rest, resting point, restructuring, retire, retreating market, reveal, reversal, revival, revive, revivification, revolution, riddance, ride down, ride over, ride roughshod over, rift, rime, rip, rise, rise and fall, risk, rive, rob, roll, round a point, rub down, ruin, run, run of luck, rupture, sack, saddle, sag, sagging market, savage, scald, scale, scape, scatter, scend, schism, scissure, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, scuttle, seam, season, second-degree burn, see the light, send, send to school, separate forcibly, separation, serendipity, series multiple, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, set up, setting-free, sever, shard, shatter, shave, sheer, shift, shiver, short, short circuit, shortage, shot, show, shut down, sink, skin, slash, slew, slice, slit, slot, slump, smash, snap, snap the thread, soft market, solecism, sore, spell, splinter, split, sprain, spread, spread about, spread like wildfire, spring a leak, squeak, stab, stab wound, stand-down, start, statistical probability, stay, stick, stop, stop for breath, strain, streak of luck, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, stroke of luck, subdue, subjugate, sudden change, superannuate, suppress, surcease, surge, surplus, suspend, suspension, swell, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, switch, tack, take a break, take a recess, take a rest, take a turn, take five, take in hand, take ten, take the plunge, take time out, tame, tea break, tear, tell, ten, tend, terrorize, the breaks, theory of probability, third-degree burn, throw about, time, time off, time out, toss, total change, train, trample down, trample on, trample underfoot, trample upon, transgress, transition, transmit, transpire, trauma, traumatize, tread down, tread underfoot, tread upon, trench, trespass, trim, truce, turn, turn aside, turn back, turn into, turn off, turn out, turn over, turn the corner, turnabout, tyrannize, tyrannize over, ullage, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unchurch, undergo a change, undermine, undulate, unevenness, unfold, unfrock, unman, unravel, unriddle, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone, upheaval, vacation, valley, vanquish, variation, variety, vary, vector field, veer, vent, violate, violent change, void, wadi, walk all over, walk over, want, wantage, warp, water, wave, weaken, wean, wear, wear away, wear out, wear ship, wear thin, weary, weigh heavy on, whatever comes, wilt, wind, wont, worsen, worsening, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, yaw, yield, yoke

breakable

• breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, effeminate, fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light, lightweight, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, puny, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wispy, womanish

breakage

• breakage, abatement, agio, allowance, bank discount, bankruptcy, breach, break, breakdown, burst, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, chip, cleft, collapse, concession, crack, crack-up, crippling, cut, damage, deduction, depreciation, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, discount, disrepair, drawback, encroachment, fissure, fracture, gap, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, kickback, loss, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mutilation, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, rent, rift, rip, rollback, ruination, ruinousness, rupture, sabotage, salvage, scale, scathe, setoff, sickening, slash, slice, slit, splinter, split, spoiling, tare, tear, time discount, trade discount, tret, underselling, weakening, write-off

breakaway

• breakaway, Bohemian, abjuratory, alienated, antagonistic, antiestablishment, antipathetic, apostasy, at odds with, at variance with, backsliding, beat, betrayal, bolt, clashing, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counter-culture, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, crotchety, defection, dereliction, deserter, desertion, differing, disagreeing, disloyalty, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, extreme, extremistic, factious, faithlessness, far out, free and easy, fringy, going over, heretical, heterodox, hippie, hostile, in opposition, informal, inimical, insurgent, insurrectionary, kinky, maverick, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutineering, mutinous, nonconforming, nonconformist, not cricket, not done, not kosher, offbeat, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, original, perverse, rare, ratting, reactionary, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recherche, recidivation, recidivism, recreancy, recusant, renitent, renunciative, renunciatory, repudiative, repudiatory, repugnant, resistant, revocatory, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, schism, schismatic, secession, secessionist, sectarian, sectary, seditionary, seditious, separatist, subversive, sui generis, traitorous, treason, treasonable, turbulent, turning traitor, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, underground, undreamed-of, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfashionable, unheard-of, unique, unordinary, unorthodox, unthought-of, unusual, unwonted, walkout, way out

breakdown

• breakdown, analysis, analyzation, anatomizing, anatomy, assay, assaying, bankruptcy, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, breakage, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, circulatory collapse, classification, clean slate, clean sweep, collapse, comedown, computer revolution, convulsion, counterrevolution, crack-up, crackup, crash, crippling, cropper, damage, debacle, decomposition, deflation, destruction, detailing, detriment, diaeresis, dilapidation, disablement, disaster, disrepair, dissection, distillation, division, docimasy, downfall, draining, encroachment, exhaustedness, exhaustion, failure, fall, foundering, fractionation, gravimetric analysis, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, itemization, loss, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mutilation, nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, nose dive, overthrow, overturn, palace revolution, pratfall, prostration, proximate analysis, quantitative analysis, radical change, reduction to elements, resolution, review, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, revulsion, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, run-down, sabotage, scathe, segmentation, semimicroanalysis, separation, shipwreck, sickening, smash, smashup, spasm, spoiling, striking alteration, stumble, subdivision, subversion, sweeping change, tabula rasa, tailspin, technological revolution, total change, total loss, transilience, tumble, upset, violent change, washout, weakening, wrack, wreck

breaker

• breaker, analyzer, billow, bore, breakers, breeder, broncobuster, buckaroo, cattleman, centrifuge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, collar, comb, comber, cow keeper, cowman, cutter, dairy farmer, dairyman, dirty water, eagre, equerry, farrier, foam, froth, gravity wave, grazier, groom, ground swell, head, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, horseshoer, hostler, lather, lift, lop, meringue, mousse, offscum, peak, popple, puff, rancher, ranchero, ranchman, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, scend, scud, scum, sea, sea foam, send, separator, sheepman, sieve, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume, stableboy, stableman, stinging, stock raiser, stockbreeder, stockkeeper, stockman, stripper, suds, surf, surge, swell, tamer, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, trainer, trough, tsunami, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, white water, whitecaps

breakfast

• breakfast, TV dinner, alfresco meal, barbecue, brunch, buffet supper, clambake, coffee break, cookout, diner, dinner, elevenses, fish fry, high tea, hot luncheon, lunch, luncheon, mash, meat breakfast, petit dejeuner, picnic, supper, tea, tea break, teatime, tiffin, wiener roast, wienie roast

breaking point

• breaking point, bloat, bloating, distension, extreme tension, inflation, overdistension, overdrawing, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, snapping point, strain, straining, stretch, stretching, swelling, tension

breakneck

• breakneck, abrupt, accident-prone, agile, bluff, bold, breathless, careless, dangerous, daredevil, dashing, desperate, devil-may-care, double-quick, eagle-winged, excessive, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, flying, furious, galloping, hair-trigger, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hell for leather, hotheaded, hurried, hustling, impetuous, impulsive, light of heel, light-footed, lively, mad, mercurial, nimble, nimble-footed, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, panting, plunging, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, rash, reckless, running, sharp, sheer, slap-bang, slapdash, snappy, spanking, speedy, steep, sudden, swift, vertical, wanton, wild, winged

breakout

• breakout, break, deliverance, delivery, emergence, escape, escapism, evasion, extrication, flight, freeing, getaway, issuance, issue, jailbreak, lam, leak, leakage, liberation, outlet, prisonbreak, release, rescue, riddance, scape, setting-free, slip, vent

breaks

• breaks, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, blessing, break, casualness, chance, destiny, fate, felicity, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortunateness, fortune, gamble, good fortune, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance, happy fortune, heedless hap, how they fall, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, law of averages, lot, luck, luckiness, moira, opportunity, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, risk, run of luck, serendipity, smiles of fortune, statistical probability, the breaks, theory of probability, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, whatever comes

breakthrough

• breakthrough, aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious attack, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, avant-propos, banzai attack, blitz, blitzkrieg, boost, charge, coinage, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crippling attack, dead set at, descent on, discovery, diversion, diversionary attack, drive, exordium, flank attack, foreword, front matter, frontal attack, frontispiece, gas attack, head-on attack, hike, increase, infiltration, innovation, introduction, invention, leap, lightning attack, lightning war, mass attack, megadeath, mugging, neologism, new phase, novelty, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overkill, overture, panzer warfare, postulate, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, presupposition, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, protasis, push, run against, run at, rush, sally, shock tactics, sortie, strike, unprovoked assault, upgrade, verse, voluntary, wax

breakup

• breakup, ablation, analysis, analyzation, anatomizing, anatomy, apoplexy, assay, assaying, atomization, biodegradability, biodegradation, bloodbath, bloodless revolution, blue ruin, bouleversement, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, carnage, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, clean slate, clean sweep, climax, collapse, computer revolution, consumption, convulsion, corrosion, corruption, counterrevolution, crack-up, crash, crumbling, damnation, deactivation, debacle, decay, decimation, decomposition, degradability, degradation, demobilization, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, detachment, devastation, diaspora, diastrophism, diffusion, dilapidation, disaster, disbandment, disintegration, disjunction, dismissal, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disruption, dissection, dissolution, division, docimasy, erosion, exfoliation, fit, fragmentation, gravimetric analysis, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, incoherence, mildew, mold, overthrow, overturn, oxidation, oxidization, palace revolution, paroxysm, parting, perdition, proximate analysis, quake, quantitative analysis, radical change, ravage, ravages of time, reduction to elements, release, resolution, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, revulsion, ruin, ruination, rust, scaling, scattering, segmentation, semimicroanalysis, separation, shambles, shattering, shipwreck, slaughter, smash, smashup, spasm, split-up, spoilage, spoliation, striking alteration, stroke, subdivision, subversion, sweeping change, tabula rasa, technological revolution, temblor, tidal wave, total change, total loss, transilience, tsunami, undoing, upheaval, upset, vandalism, violent change, washout, waste, wear, wear and tear, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

breakwater

• breakwater, abutment, anchorage, anchorage ground, arc-boutant, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, basin, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berth, bill, boom, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, cape, chersonese, cofferdam, coral reef, dam, defense, delta, dike, ditch, dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, earthwork, embankment, fence, flying buttress, foreland, gate, gravity dam, groin, hanging buttress, harbor, harborage, haven, head, headland, hook, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, leaping weir, levee, logjam, marina, milldam, moat, mole, moorings, mound, mull, naze, ness, parapet, peninsula, pier, pier buttress, point, port, portcullis, promontory, protected anchorage, quay, rampart, reef, retaining wall, road, roadblock, roads, roadstead, rock-fill dam, sandspit, seaport, seawall, shipyard, shoulder, shutter dam, slip, spit, spur, stone wall, tongue, wall, weir, wharf, wicket dam, work

breast

• breast, Chateaubriand, affront, antagonize, bag, ballocks, balls, basket, battle, beard, beat against, beat up against, being, blade roast, bones, boob, boobs, bosom, brave, breast the wave, breasts, bring before, bring forward, bring up, brisket, buck, buffet, buffet the waves, bust, center of life, cervix, challenge, chest, chicken foot, chuck, chuck roast, clitoris, clod, close with, cod, cods, cold cuts, combat, compete with, confront, confront with, contend against, contest, core, crop, cullions, dare, dark meat, defy, drumstick, dug, encounter, envisage, esoteric reality, esprit, face, face with, family jewels, female organs, fight, fight against, filet mignon, flank, front, genitalia, genitals, giblets, gonads, grapple with, guts, heart, heart of hearts, heartstrings, inmost heart, inmost soul, inner man, inner nature, innermost being, inside, join battle with, knocker, knockers, knuckle, labia, labia majora, labia minora, labor against, lay before, leg, lingam, lips, loin, male organs, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mamma, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, meat, meet, meet squarely, militate against, neck, nenes, nerve center, nipple, nuts, nymphae, offer resistance, ovary, oyster, pap, papilla, penis, phallus, pigeon breast, place before, plate, plate piece, pot roast, present to, private parts, privates, privy parts, pubic hair, pudenda, put it to, quick, rack, reluct, reluctate, reproductive organs, rib roast, ribs, rival, roast, rocks, rolled roast, round, rump, rump roast, saddle, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, secret heart, secret places, set before, sex organs, shank, short ribs, shoulder, shoulder clod, sirloin, soul, spermary, spirit, stem, stem the tide, strive against, struggle against, take on, teat, tenderloin, testes, testicles, thigh, thorax, tit, tits, titties, titty, true being, true inwardness, turkey foot, udder, uterus, vagina, vie with, viscera, vital principle, vitals, vulva, white meat, wing, wishbone, womb, yoni

breastwork

• breastwork, abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, gravity dam, groin, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, seawall, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

breath

• breath, Aqua-Lung, a breath, afterdamp, amaze, anima, anima humana, animating force, aroma, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, astonish, astound, atman, ba, bated breath, bathmism, beating heart, biological clock, biorhythm, bit, blackdamp, blood, blow, break, breath of air, breath of life, breather, breathing, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, breathy voice, breeze, broken wind, brush, buddhi, capful of wind, caress, chokedamp, cigarette break, cloud, cocktail hour, coffee break, contact, cough, coup, crack, cutaneous sense, damp, dash, dazzle, definite odor, detectable odor, divine breath, divine spark, downtime, effluvium, ego, elan vital, emanation, enforced respite, essence, essence of life, exhalation, expiration, exsufflation, feel, feeling, fetid air, fingertip caress, firedamp, flash, flatus, flavor, flick, fluid, force of life, fragrance, fume, gasp, glance, graze, growth force, gulp, gust, hack, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, halt, hand-mindedness, happy hour, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, hiccup, hint, impulse of life, indication, inhalation, inhalator, inner man, inspiration, inspiriting force, instant, insufflation, interlude, intermission, iron lung, jiff, jiffy, jiva, jivatma, khu, kiss, lambency, lap, letup, lick, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, light touch, little, little bit, little voice, little while, living force, low voice, lull, malaria, manes, mephitis, miasma, microsecond, millisecond, mind, minute, moment, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mutter, muttering, nephesh, no time, odor, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pair of winks, pant, pause, pneuma, prana, psyche, puff, puff of air, puff of smoke, puff of wind, purusha, recess, redolence, reek, respiration, respite, rest, ruach, rub, savor, scent, scuba, seat of life, sec, second, sense of touch, shade, shadow, shake, shock, short spell, short time, sigh, small space, smell, smoke, smudge, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, soft voice, soul, soupcon, span, spark of life, spell, spirit, spiritual being, spiritus, split second, spoor, spurt, stage whisper, stagger, startle, stay, steam, stench, sternutation, stertor, still small voice, stir, stir of air, stirring, streak, stroke, subtle odor, suggestion, surcease, surprise, suspension, suspicion, suspiration, susurration, susurrus, tactile sense, taction, tap, tea break, ten, tentative poke, the self, tick, time out, touch, trace, trail, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, underbreath, undertone, vapor, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit, volatile, waft, water vapor, wheeze, whiff, whiffet, whisper, whispering, wind, wink, zephyr

breathe

• breathe, He, affect, air, alert, approve, argue, articulate, aspirate, attest, bark, bawl, be, be alive, be animate, be aromatic, be construed as, be extant, be found, be in existence, be met with, be present, be redolent of, be the case, be there, bellow, bespeak, besprinkle, betoken, blare, blat, blow, blubber, boom, brandish, bray, break, break it to, break the news, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, brew, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, buzz, cackle, chant, chime, chirp, chorus, color, come out with, communicate, confide, confide to, connote, convey, coo, cough, crow, dangle, decoct, deliver, demonstrate, denote, develop, disclose, display, divulgate, divulge, dramatize, draw breath, draw in, drawl, dredge, dye, embody, emit, emit a smell, enact, entincture, entrust with information, enunciate, evidence, evince, evulgate, exclaim, exhale, exhaust, exhibit, exist, expel, expire, expose to view, express, fetch breath, flaunt, flavor, fling off, flourish, flute, formulate, furnish evidence, gasp, give, give confidential information, give expression, give indication of, give out, give out with, give sign, give token, give tongue, give utterance, give vent to, give voice, go to show, growl, grunt, gulp, hack, happen to be, have being, have life, have place, hiccup, highlight, hint at, hiss, hold, huff, illuminate, illustrate, imbrue, imbue, impart, imply, import, impregnate, incarnate, indicate, infiltrate, infuse, inhale, inspire, instill, involve, keen, knock off, lay off, leaven, let get around, let in on, let next to, let out, lie by, lilt, lip, live, live and breathe, maffle, make clear, make known, make plain, manifest, mark, materialize, mean, mention privately, move, mumble, murmur, mussitate, mutter, nose, obtain, occur, out with, pant, parade, pause, penetrate, perform, permeate, pervade, phonate, phrase, pipe, point to, pour forth, present, prevail, produce, pronounce, publish, puff, put forth, put hep, put in words, put next to, raise, recess, reek, refer to, represent, respire, reveal, roar, roll out, rumble, saturate, say, scent, scream, screech, season, set forth, show, show forth, show signs of, shriek, sibilate, sigh, signalize, signify, sing, slurp, smell, smell of, snap, snarl, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuff in, snuffle, sob, sound, speak, speak for itself, speak volumes, spell, spotlight, squall, squawk, squeal, stand, stand for, steep, stink, stop for breath, subsist, suck, suck in, suckle, suffuse, suggest, susurrate, symbolize, symptomatize, take a break, take a recess, take a rest, take aside, take five, take ten, take time out, tell, tell confidentially, temper, tend to show, throw off, thunder, tincture, tinge, tip, tip off, token, transfuse, trot out, trumpet, twang, unfold, utter, vent, ventilate, verbalize, vocalize, voice, wail, walk the earth, warble, wave, wheeze, whiff, whine, whisper, word, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yield an odor

breather

• breather, athletics, blow, break, breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, calisthenics, cigarette break, cocktail hour, coffee break, constitutional, daily dozen, downtime, drill, enforced respite, exercise, exercising, gymnastic exercises, gymnastics, halt, happy hour, interlude, intermission, isometrics, letup, lull, pause, physical education, physical jerks, practice, recess, respite, rest, setting-up exercises, spell, stay, stretch, surcease, suspension, tea break, ten, time out, workout, yoga

breathless

• breathless, ablaze, abrupt, afire, agape, aghast, agog, airless, alacritous, all agog, amazed, anaudic, animated, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, aphasic, aphonic, ardent, asleep, asleep in Jesus, astonished, astounded, at gaze, at rest, athirst, avid, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bereft of life, bewildered, bewitched, boiling over, breakneck, breezeless, burning, bursting to, called home, captivated, carrion, chafing, close, confounded, cordial, croaked, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, defunct, delirious, demised, departed, departed this life, desirous, destitute of life, done for, drunk, dumb, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, eager, edgy, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, enthusiastic, entranced, exanimate, excited, exhausted, exuberant, fallen, fascinated, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, finished, flabbergasted, flaming, flushed, food for worms, forward, fretful, fretting, full of life, gaping, gasping, gauping, gazing, glowing, gone, gone to glory, gone west, hasty, headlong, hearty, heated, hopped-up, hot, hypnotized, ill-ventilated, impassioned, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, in awe, in awe of, in suspense, inanimate, inarticulate, intense, intoxicated, keen, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, lively, lost in wonder, martyred, marveling, mesmerized, mum, mute, no more, on edge, on fire, open-eyed, openmouthed, oppressive, out of breath, overwhelmed, panting, passed on, passionate, popeyed, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, prompt, puffed, puffing, pushing up daisies, puzzled, quick, rapt in wonder, raring to, rash, ready, ready and willing, red-hot, released, reposing, resting easy, restive, restless, sainted, short-breathed, short-winded, sleeping, smitten with death, speechless, spellbound, spent, spirited, squirming, squirmy, staggered, staring, steaming, steamy, stifling, still, stillborn, stricken dumb, stuffy, stupefied, sudden, suffocating, sultry, surprised, taken away, taken off, thirsty, thunderstruck, tired out, tongue-tied, tongueless, under a charm, uneasy, unpatient, unquiet, unrestrained, unvented, unventilated, vigorous, vital, vivacious, vivid, voiceless, warm, wheezing, wide-eyed, winded, windless, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wonder-struck, wondering, wordless, worn out, zealous, zestful

breathtaking

• breathtaking, agitating, amazing, astonishing, astounding, charged, cliff-hanging, confounding, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, exciting, exhilarating, eye-opening, galvanic, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, inflammatory, intoxicating, jarring, jolting, maddening, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, moving, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking, ravishing, soul-stirring, spectacular, spirit-stirring, staggering, startling, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, stunning, surprising, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, unsettling, upsetting

breathy

• breathy, blurred, choked, choking, croaking, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, guttural, harsh, hawking, hoarse, inarticulate, indistinct, lisping, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, quavering, shaking, shaky, snuffling, stifled, strangled, thick, throaty, tremulous, twangy, velar

breccia

• breccia, aa, abyssal rock, agglomerate, agglomeration, basalt, bedrock, block lava, brash, bunch, clot, cluster, concrete, concretion, conglomerate, conglomeration, crag, debris, detritus, druid stone, festooned pahoehoe, gneiss, grain, granite, granule, granulet, gravel, grit, igneous rock, lava, limestone, living rock, magma, mantlerock, mass, metamorphic rock, monolith, pahoehoe, pillow lava, porphyry, pudding stone, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sand, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, shingle, stone, talus, tufa, tuff

breech

• breech, afterpart, afterpiece, back, back door, back seat, back side, backside, bed, bedrock, behind, belly, bottom, bottom side, buttocks, derriere, downside, fanny, fundament, hardpan, heel, hind end, hind part, hindhead, lower side, lowest layer, lowest level, nether side, nethermost level, occiput, posterior, postern, rear, rear end, rearward, reverse, rock bottom, rump, stern, substratum, tail, tail end, tailpiece, underbelly, underlayer, underneath, underside

breeching

• breeching, back band, backstrap, bearing rein, bellyband, bit, blinders, blinds, bridle, caparison, cavesson, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, cinch, collar, crownband, crupper, curb, gag swivel, girth, hackamore, halter, hames, hametugs, harness, headgear, headstall, hip straps, jaquima, jerk line, lines, martingale, noseband, pole strap, reins, ribbons, saddle, shaft tug, side check, snaffle, surcingle, tack, tackle, trappings, tug, winker braces, yoke

breed

• breed, accrue, accumulate, advance, affiliation, animal kingdom, apparentation, appear, appreciate, apprentice, arise, author, balloon, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child, bear, beget, birth, bloat, blood, bloodline, boom, branch, brand, break, break in, breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up, broaden, brood, call into being, carry, carry young, cast, cause, character, children, clan, class, coin, color, common ancestry, conceive, concoct, condition, consanguinity, contrive, cook up, copulate, cover, create, crescendo, crossbreed, cultivate, culture, deme, denomination, derivation, descendants, descent, description, design, designation, develop, devise, direct line, discipline, discover, distaff side, do, dream up, drill, effect, effectuate, engender, establish, evolve, exercise, extraction, fabricate, family, farm, father, fatten, feather, feed, female line, fetch up, filiation, fit, folk, form, foster, found, frame, fruit, gain, gain strength, generate, genre, gens, genus, gestate, get, get ahead, get up, give being to, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, go up, grain, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, groom, grow, hatch, heirs, hostages to fortune, house, house-train, housebreak, ilk, improve, improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, increase, incubate, induce, inheritors, institute, intensify, invent, issue, keep, kidney, kids, kin, kind, label, lick into shape, line, line of descent, lineage, little ones, lot, make, make do with, make love, make up, male line, manner, mark, matriclan, mature, mint, mold, mother, mount, multiply, muster up, nation, nature, new generation, number, nurse, nurture, occasion, offspring, order, originate, outbreed, patriclan, people, persuasion, phratry, phyle, phylum, plan, plant kingdom, posterity, practice, prepare, procreate, produce, progenerate, progeny, proliferate, propagate, put in tune, put to school, race, raise, ranch, ready, realize, rear, rehearse, reproduce, reproduce in kind, rise, rising generation, run, run up, seed, send to school, sept, set, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shape, shoot up, side, sire, sit, snowball, sons, sort, spawn, spear side, species, spindle side, spread, stamp, stem, stirps, stock, strain, strengthen, strike out, stripe, style, succession, swell, sword side, take in hand, the like of, the likes of, think out, think up, totem, train, treasures, tribe, type, variety, wax, widen, work, work up, younglings, youngsters

breeder

• breeder, atomic pile, breaker, breeder reactor, bricks, broncobuster, buckaroo, cattleman, chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, cow keeper, cowman, dairy farmer, dairyman, equerry, farrier, fast pile, furnace, grazier, groom, heterogeneous reactor, homogeneous reactor, horseshoer, hostler, intermediate pile, lattice, neutron factory, nuclear furnace, pile, plutonium reactor, power reactor, power-breeder reactor, radioactive waste, rancher, ranchero, ranchman, reactor, reactor pile, rods, sheepman, slow pile, stableboy, stableman, stellarator, stock raiser, stockbreeder, stockkeeper, stockman, tamer, trainer, uranium reactor

breeding

• breeding, alpha decay, animal husbandry, animal rearing, apprenticeship, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, basic training, bee culture, beekeeping, begetting, beta decay, bombardment, breaking, bullet, cattle-ranching, chain reaction, chicken-farming, civility, cleavage, conditioning, courtesy, crossbreeding, cultivation, culture, dairy-farming, development, discipline, disintegration series, dissociation, dissogeny, dressage, drill, drilling, elegance, endogamy, engenderment, exchange reaction, exercise, fetching-up, fission, fission reaction, fostering, gamma decay, generation, genteelness, gentility, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, gnotobiotics, good behavior, good breeding, good manners, grace, grazing, grooming, herding, horse training, horsemanship, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, inbreeding, ionization, ladylikeness, linebreeding, manual training, military training, mink-ranching, multiplication, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, outbreeding, photodisintegration, pig-keeping, polish, politeness, politesse, practice, preparation, procreation, proliferation, propagation, proton gun, proton reaction, raising, readying, rearing, refinement, rehearsal, reversible reaction, sheepherding, sloyd, splitting the atom, stimulation, stock raising, stockbreeding, target, thermonuclear reaction, thremmatology, training, upbringing, vocational education, vocational training, xenogamy, zootechnics, zootechny

breeze in

• breeze in, admit, barge in, be admitted, break in, burst in, bust in, come barging in, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, drop in, edge in, enter, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, have it easy, have it soft, hop in, insert, intrude, irrupt, jam in, jump in, look in, pack in, pop in, press in, push in, put in, set foot in, slip in, squeeze in, step in, take in, thrust in, visit, wedge in, win easily, win hands down, work in

breeze

• breeze, air, ball the jack, barrel, blast, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, blubber, bluster, boom, bowl along, breath, breeze along, breeze up, brew, brush, butter, carry by storm, cinch, clay, clip, come up, cooling breeze, cushion, cut along, dough, down, draught, easy target, easy thing, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers, fleece, fleet, flit, floss, flue, fluff, fly, fly low, foam, foot, freshen, gale, gather, gentle wind, go fast, gust, highball, huff, kapok, lead-pipe cinch, light air, light breeze, light wind, make knots, moderate breeze, nip, nothing, ocean breeze, onshore breeze, outstrip the wind, picnic, pie, piece of cake, pillow, pipe, pipe up, plush, pour it on, pudding, puff, pushover, putty, rage, rip, romp home, rubber, satin, scorch, sea breeze, set in, setup, silk, sinecure, sitting duck, sizzle, skim, slide, slip, snap, softblowing wind, speed, squall, storm, storm along, swansdown, sweep, take by storm, tear, tear along, thistledown, thunder along, velvet, waft, walk off with, walk over, waltz, waltz off with, wax, whiff, whiffle, whisk, whiz, win going away, win hands down, wind, wool, zephyr, zing, zip, zoom

breezy

• breezy, active, activist, activistic, aeolian, aerial, aeriform, aery, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco, alive, animated, atmospheric, blasty, blithesome, blowy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boreal, bouncing, bouncy, brisk, bubbly, buoyant, carefree, casual, cheerful, cheery, chipper, common, corky, debonair, degage, drafty, draughty, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, ethereal, exposed, favonian, flawy, free and easy, fresh, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gusty, informal, jaunty, light, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, live, lively, low-pressure, mercurial, militant, open-air, peppy, perky, pert, pneumatic, puffy, quicksilver, relaxed, resilient, roomy, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, sprightly, spry, squally, tropospheric, unconstrained, unfussy, vivacious, windy, zingy

brethren

• brethren, assembly, aunt, auntie, blood brother, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, churchgoers, class, congregation, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, father, first cousin, flock, fold, foster brother, frater, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, kid brother, laity, laymen, minyan, mother, nephew, niece, nonclerics, nonordained persons, nuncle, nunks, nunky, parish, parishioners, people, second cousin, seculars, sheep, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, society, son, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother

brevet

• brevet, agency, agentship, appointment, assignment, authority, authorization, bull, care, charge, charter, commission, commissioning, commitment, concession, consignment, cure, declaration, decree, decree-law, decreement, decretal, decretum, delegated authority, delegation, deputation, devolution, devolvement, dictum, diktat, diploma, edict, edictum, embassy, empowerment, entrusting, entrustment, errand, executorship, exequatur, factorship, fiat, franchise, full power, grant, ipse dixit, jurisdiction, law, legation, letters patent, liberty, license, lieutenancy, mandate, mission, office, ordinance, ordonnance, patent, plenipotentiary power, power of attorney, power to act, proclamation, procuration, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proxy, purview, regency, regentship, rescript, responsibility, royal grant, rule, ruling, senatus consult, senatus consultum, task, trust, trusteeship, ukase, vicarious authority, warrant

brevity

• brevity, brachylogy, briefness, brusqueness, compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, concision, crispness, curtness, dumbness, economy, economy of words, instantaneousness, laconicalness, laconicism, laconism, littleness, lowness, muteness, obmutescence, pauciloquy, pithiness, pointedness, quietness, quietude, reserve, sententiousness, short time, shortness, silence, sparingness of words, speechlessness, succinctness, summariness, swiftness, taciturnity, terseness, transience, unloquaciousness, untalkativeness, wordlessness

brew

• brew, John Barleycorn, Pilsner, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, ale, angle, approach, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, await, bake, barbecue, baste, bathe, be imminent, be in store, beer, begin, besprinkle, beverage, bitters, blanch, blast, blossom, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, bluster, bock beer, boil, bootleg, booze, braise, breathe, breeze, breeze up, bring about, broil, brown, burgeon, cabal, cause, coddle, collude, color, combination, come on, come up, complot, compose, composition, compound, concoct, concoction, confection, confront, connive, conspire, contrive, cook, cook up, countermine, counterplot, curry, decoct, decoction, decoctum, develop, devil, devise, distill, do, do to perfection, douche, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, dredge, drench, drink, drouk, dye, engineer, entincture, face, ferment, finagle, finesse, fire, fix up, flavor, flourish, flush, form, forthcome, frame, frame up, freshen, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, gather, germinate, get up, go on, griddle, grill, grog, grow, grow up, half-and-half, hang over, hard liquor, hash, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, heat, hodgepodge, hover, huff, hypertrophy, imbrue, imbue, impend, impregnate, increase, inebriant, infiltrate, infuse, inject, instill, intoxicant, intoxicating liquor, intrigue, jumble, lager beer, lave, lay a plot, leach, leaven, lie over, light beer, liquor, little brown jug, lixiviate, loom, lower, macerate, machinate, make, make up, malt liquor, maneuver, mature, mead, medley, melange, menace, mishmash, mix, mixture, moonlight, moonshine, mushroom, near, near beer, operate, outgrow, oven-bake, overdevelop, overgrow, overhang, overtop, pan, pan-broil, parboil, pastiche, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, pipe up, plan, plot, poach, porter, potable, potation, potpourri, prepare, prepare food, procreate, produce, puff, pullulate, pulque, punch bowl, put together, rage, reproduce, rig, rinse, roast, rum, sake, salad, saturate, saute, scallop, scheme, schnapps, sear, season, seethe, set in, shirr, shoot up, simmer, soak, social lubricant, sodden, sop, souse, spirits, spring up, sprout, sprout up, squall, start, steam, steep, stew, stir-fry, storm, stout, strong drink, strong waters, suffuse, tea, temper, the Demon Rum, the bottle, the cup, the flowing bowl, the luscious liquor, the ruddy cup, threaten, thrive, tincture, tinge, toast, tower, toxicant, transfuse, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, waft, wangle, wash, water of life, waterlog, wax, whiff, whiffle

brewery

• brewery, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, bottling works, brickyard, cannery, creamery, dairy, defense plant, distiller, distillery, dockyard, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, flour mill, industrial park, industrial zone, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mill, mint, munitions plant, oil refinery, packing house, plant, pottery, power plant, production line, push-button plant, refinery, sawmill, shipyard, still, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tannery, wine press, winery, yard, yards

brewing

• brewing, about to be, already in sight, approaching, at hand, baking, barbecuing, basting, boiling, braising, broil, broiling, catering, close, close at hand, coming, cookery, cooking, cuisine, culinary science, domestic science, drench, drenching, ducking, dunking, forthcoming, frying, future, gathering, going on, going to happen, grilling, home economics, imbruement, imbuement, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, impregnation, in danger imminent, in embryo, in hand, in preparation, in process, in production, in progress, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the oven, in the wind, in the works, in view, infiltration, infusion, injection, instant, leaching, lixiviation, looming, lowering, lurking, maceration, menacing, near, near at hand, nearing, nutrition, on stream, on the anvil, on the fire, on the horizon, on the way, overhanging, pan-broiling, percolation, permeation, poaching, preparing, pulping, roasting, saturation, sauteing, searing, seething, shirring, simmering, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse, sousing, steeping, stewing, that will be, threatening, to come, toasting, under construction, under revision, under way, upcoming, waiting

briar

• briar, adherent, adhesive, barnacle, bramble, brier, brier bush, bristle, bulldog, burr, bush, cactus, catchweed, cement, cleavers, decal, decalcomania, glue, goose grass, gunk, leech, limpet, molasses, mucilage, needle, nettle, paste, pine needle, plaster, prickle, quill, remora, scrub, shrub, shrubbery, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, sticker, syrup, thistle, thorn, yucca

bribe

• bribe, Trinkgeld, approach, bait, bonus, boodle, bounty, bribe money, buy, buy off, carrot, consideration, corrupt, donative, double time, encouragement, fee, fillip, fix, get at, get to, graft, gratification, gratuity, gravy, grease, grease the palm, have, honorarium, hush money, incentive, incentive pay, incitement, inducement, instigate, interest, invitation, kickback, lagniappe, largess, liberality, lubricate, lure, oil, palm oil, pay off, payment, payoff, payola, percentage, perks, perquisite, persuasive, pourboire, premium, profit, protection, provocation, purchase, reach, reward, salve, soften up, something extra, sop, sportula, square, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, suborn, sweeten, sweetener, sweetening, take care of, tamper with, tickle the palm, tip, whet

bric-a-brac

• bric-a-brac, art object, bauble, bibelot, brainchild, chaff, chicken feed, chickenshit, classic, composition, creation, design, details, fribble, froth, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, gimcrackery, grotesque, kickshaw, kitsch, knack, knickknack, knickknackery, master, masterpiece, masterwork, minutiae, mobile, museum piece, nude, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, peanuts, piece, piece of virtu, rubbish, small beer, small change, stabile, statue, still life, study, toy, trash, trifles, trinket, trivia, trumpery, virtu, whim-wham, work, work of art

brick

• brick, Tarmac, Tarvia, adamant, adobe, ashlar, asphalt, biscuit, bisque, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, block, board, bone, bowl, bricks and mortar, buddy, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, chum, chunk, clapboard, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, comrade, concrete, covering materials, crackerjack, crock, crockery, cube, curb, curbing, curbstone, diamond, doll, edgestone, enamelware, face, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagging, flagstone, flint, flooring, friend, glass, glaze, good Joe, good egg, good guy, granite, gravel, heart of oak, hunk, iron, jug, kerb, kerbstone, lath, lath and plaster, likely lad, macadam, marble, masonry, mortar, nails, nice guy, no slouch, oak, pal, paper, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, plank, plasters, porcelain, pot, pottery, prestressed concrete, pussycat, refractory, revet, road metal, rock, roofage, roofing, shake, sheathe, shingle, siding, slab, slate, steel, stone, stout fellow, tarmacadam, thatch, tile, tiling, trump, urn, vase, veneer, wall in, wall up, walling, wallpaper, washboard, weatherboard

brickbat

• brickbat, Irish confetti, affront, aspersion, atrocity, bola, bolt, boomerang, contempt, contumely, countermissile, cut, despite, dump, enormity, flout, flouting, gibe, humiliation, indignity, injury, insult, jeer, jeering, missile, mock, mockery, offense, outrage, projectile, put-down, rock, rocket, scoff, scurrility, stone, taunt, throw stick, throwing-stick, torpedo, uncomplimentary remark, waddy

bridge

• bridge, A string, Amati, Bifrost, Boston, Cremona, D string, E string, Earl of Coventry, G string, L, Pit, Polish bank, R, Russian bank, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, Texas tower, accouple, accumulate, acting area, agglutinate, all fours, alveolar ridge, amass, anacrusis, apron, apron stage, arch over, articulate, assemble, associate, baccarat, backstage, band, band shell, bandstand, banker, bascule bridge, bass, bass passage, bass viol, bateau bridge, beacon, belvedere, bestraddle, bestride, blackjack, bleachers, bluff, board, bond, bourdon, bow, bracket, brag, bridge over, bridgework, bull fiddle, burden, cadence, canasta, cantilever bridge, casino, catwalk, cello, cement, chain, chorus, clap together, coda, collect, combine, commerce, commit, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, connection, connections, conning tower, contrabass, contract, contract bridge, copulate, coulisse, couple, cover, cribbage, crowd, dental bridge, dentition, denture, development, division, dock, double bass, drawbridge, dressing room, ecarte, embrace, encompass, euchre, exposition, extend over, false teeth, faro, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, figure, fingerboard, five hundred, flies, flinch, floating bridge, fly floor, fly gallery, flyover, folderol, footbridge, forestage, fright, frog, gallery, gangboard, gangplank, gangway, gather, gazebo, gin, gin rummy, glue, go over, goat, grandstand, greenroom, grid, gridiron, gums, hang over, harmonic close, hearts, imbricate, include, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, ivories, join, jut, keno, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin, knot, lansquenet, lap, lap over, lay together, league, lie over, lift bridge, lightboard, lighthouse, link, loo, lookout, loophole, lottery, lotto, lump together, marry, marshal, mass, matrimony, measure, merge, mobilize, monte, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, napoleon, observation post, observatory, old maid, ombre, orchestra, orchestra pit, ornament, outlook, overarch, overbridge, overcrossing, overhang, overlap, overlie, overlook, overpass, override, pair, part, pass over, passage, patience, peanut gallery, peephole, penny ante, performing area, period, periodontal tissue, pharos, phrase, picquet, piece together, pit, plate, poker, pontoon bridge, proscenium, proscenium stage, put together, put-and-take, quadrille, refrain, resolution, response, reverse, ringside, ringside seat, ritornello, roll into one, rope bridge, rouge et noir, rum, rummy, scroll, section, set of teeth, seven-up, shell, shingle, sighthole, skat, snipsnapsnorum, solder, solitaire, soundboard, span, speculation, splice, stage, stage left, stage right, stanza, statement, stepping-stone, stepstone, stick together, straight poker, strain, string, stud poker, suspension bridge, swing bridge, switchboard, tailpiece, take in, tape, teeth, tenor violin, the boards, thirty-one, tie, toll bridge, top gallery, tower, traverse, tuning peg, tutti, tutti passage, twenty-one, unify, unite, uppers and lowers, variation, verse, viaduct, vingt-et-un, viola, violin, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta, watchtower, weld, whist, wings, yoke

bridgehead

• bridgehead, acropolis, advance guard, airhead, avant-garde, bastion, battle line, beachhead, blockhouse, bunker, castle, citadel, donjon, farthest outpost, fasthold, fastness, first line, forefront, fort, fortress, front, front line, front rank, front-runner, garrison, garrison house, hold, keep, line, martello, martello tower, mote, motte, outguard, outpost, peel, peel tower, pillbox, pioneer, point, post, precursor, railhead, rath, safehold, scout, spearhead, strong point, stronghold, tower, tower of strength, van, vanguard, ward

bridle

• bridle, Oregon boat, anchor, anger, arrest, back band, backstrap, bearing rein, bed, bed down, bellyband, bilbo, bind, bit, blinders, blinds, boil over, bond, bonds, break, breeching, bridle up, bristle, bristle up, brush, camisole, caparison, cavesson, chain, chains, check, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, cinch, collar, condescend, constrain, contain, control, cool, cool off, crownband, crupper, cuffs, curb, curry, currycomb, curtail, deal with, decelerate, dompt, drench, enchain, enjoin, entrammel, fasten, feed, fetter, flip out, fodder, gag, gag swivel, gentle, get mad, get sore, girth, govern, groom, guard, gyve, gyves, hackamore, halter, hames, hametugs, hamper, handcuff, handcuffs, handle, harness, headgear, headstall, hinder, hip straps, hitch, hitch up, hobble, hobbles, hog-tie, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold down, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold up, hook up, hopple, hopples, inhibit, irons, jaquima, jerk line, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, lash, lay under restraint, leading strings, leash, lines, litter, make fast, manacle, manage, martingale, milk, mince, mince it, moor, muzzle, noseband, patronize, peg down, picket, pillory, pin down, pinion, pole strap, prink, prohibit, pull, pull in, put in irons, reach boiling point, rein, rein in, reins, repress, restrain, restraint, restraints, retard, retrench, ribbons, rope, rub down, rule, saddle, secure, see red, set back, shackle, shaft tug, side check, simper, slow down, smirk, snaffle, snub, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straiten, straitjacket, stranglehold, strap, suppress, surcingle, tack, tackle, tame, tend, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, toss the head, train, trammel, trammels, trappings, treat, tug, water, winker braces, withhold, yoke

brief

• brief, Spartan, abbreviated, abbreviation, abbreviature, abrege, abridge, abridged, abridgment, abrupt, abstract, account, account rendered, accounting, acquaint, acta, advertise, advertise of, advise, advocate, airmanship, annual, aposiopestic, apprise, bespeak, block in, block out, blunt, book, breviary, briefing, briefly, bring word, brisk, brusque, bulletin, capsule, capsulize, census report, chalk out, clipped, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, coach, cometary, communicate, compact, compend, compendious, compendium, compressed, concise, concisely, condensation, condense, condensed, condensed version, confer, conspectus, consult with, contracted, counsel, crisp, crusty, curt, curtailed, curtal, curtate, cut, debrief, decurtate, delineate, digest, direct, disclose, docked, draft, dumb, economical of words, election returns, elliptic, employ, engage, enlighten, ephemeral, epigrammatic, epitome, evanescent, explain, extract, familiarize, fill in, flashing, fleet, fleeting, flickering, flight plan, flying lessons, fugitive, give a briefing, give directions, give notice, give the facts, give word, gnomic, gruff, guide, head, hire, in brief, in sum, in summary, indisposed to talk, inform, instantaneous, instruct, kibitz, laconic, leave word, let know, line, little, low, meddle, mention to, meteoric, minutes, momentary, mum, mute, notify, nutshell, outline, overview, pandect, passing, pilot training, pilotship, pithy, pointed, precis, preengage, prescribe, proceedings, propose, pruned, quick, quiet, recommend, recruit, report, reserve, reserved, resume, retain, returns, review, rough, rough in, rough out, rubric, run down, run through, rundown, send word, sententious, serve notice, short, short and sweet, short-lived, short-term, short-termed, shorten, shortened, shortened version, sign on, sign up, sign up for, silent, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, snug, sparing of words, speak, speechless, speedy, statement, submit, succinct, succinctly, suggest, summarize, summary, survey, swift, syllabus, synopsis, synopsize, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, take into employment, take on, tally, tell, temporary, terse, the record, thumbnail sketch, tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, topical outline, trace, transactions, transient, transitory, truncated, unloquacious, untalkative, verse, washout, word-bound, wordless, yearbook

briefed

• briefed, abreast of, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, au courant, booted and spurred, coached, cocked, educated, enlightened, equipped, familiarized, good and ready, groomed, in arms, in battle array, in readiness, in the saddle, informed, instructed, loaded, loaded for bear, mature, mobilized, on the mark, planned, posted, prearranged, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, primed, provided, psyched up, ready, ready for anything, ripe, schooled, set, taught, trained, up in arms, up on, up-to-date, versed, vigilant, well-prepared, well-versed

briefing

• briefing, account, acquaintance, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, airmanship, announcement, appointment, arrangement, basic training, bespeaking, blue book, booking, brief, bulletin, caution, caveat, clearing the decks, communication, communique, consultation, council, counsel, data, datum, direction, directions, directory, dispatch, employment, engagement, enlightenment, equipment, evidence, exhortation, expostulation, facts, factual information, familiarization, final instructions, fixing, flight plan, flying lessons, foundation, gen, general information, groundwork, guidance, guidebook, handout, hard information, hiring, hortation, idea, incidental information, info, information, instruction, instructions, intelligence, knowledge, light, makeready, making ready, manufacture, mention, message, mobilization, monition, notice, notification, opinion, orders, parley, pilot training, pilotship, planning, prearrangement, preengagement, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, presentation, pretreatment, processing, promotional material, proof, propaedeutic, proposal, provision, publication, publicity, readying, recommendation, release, remonstrance, report, reservation, retainment, rundown, sidelight, spadework, statement, suggestion, taking on, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, thought, training, transmission, treatment, trial, tryout, warm-up, warning, washout, white book, white paper, word

briefly

• briefly, accurately, aphoristically, bluntly, brusquely, compendiously, concisely, crisply, curtly, economically, exactly, fleetingly, flickeringly, flittingly, for a moment, hastily, hurriedly, in a capsule, in a nutshell, in an instant, in brief, in brief compass, in short, laconically, momentarily, pithily, pointedly, precisely, quickly, sententiously, shortly, sparely, succinctly, summarily, swiftly, synoptically, tersely, transiently

brier

• brier, adherent, adhesive, barnacle, bramble, brier bush, bristle, bulldog, burr, bush, cactus, catchweed, cement, cleavers, decal, decalcomania, glue, goose grass, gunk, leech, limpet, molasses, mucilage, needle, nettle, paste, pine needle, plaster, prickle, quill, remora, scrub, shrub, shrubbery, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, sticker, syrup, thistle, thorn, yucca

brig

• brig, POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, calaboose, can, cell, clink, concentration camp, condemned cell, cooler, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, guardroom, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school

brigade

• brigade, KP, age group, army, army group, band, battalion, battery, battle group, bevy, body, bunch, cabal, cadre, cast, clique, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, faction, field army, field train, file, fleet, flying column, gang, garrison, group, grouping, groupment, in-group, junta, kitchen police, legion, maniple, mob, movement, organization, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx, platoon, posse, rank, regiment, salon, section, set, squad, squadron, stable, string, tactical unit, task force, team, train, tribe, troop, troupe, unit, wing

brigadier

• brigadier, ADC, CO, OD, aide, aide-de-camp, brigadier general, captain, chicken colonel, chief of staff, colonel, commandant, commander, commander in chief, commanding officer, commissioned officer, company officer, exec, executive officer, field marshal, field officer, first lieutenant, five-star general, four-star general, general, general officer, generalissimo, jemadar, junior officer, lieutenant, lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general, major, major general, marechal, marshal, officer, one-star general, orderly officer, risaldar, senior officer, shavetail, sirdar, staff officer, subahdar, subaltern, sublieutenant, the Old Man, the brass, three-star general, top brass, two-star general

bright

• bright, Leibnizian, Saturnian, adroit, advanced, agile, aglow, alert, alight, alive, animate, animated, apt, astute, attentive, auspicious, awake, balmy, beaming, bedazzling, benign, benignant, blazing, bleached, blinding, blithe, blithesome, blooming, brainy, brave, bright and shining, bright and sunny, bright-hued, brilliant, burning, burnished, cant, charismatic, cheerful, cheery, chiliastic, clean, cleanly, clear, clever, cloudless, colorful, colory, conceptive, conceptual, coruscating, couleur de rose, dainty, dazzling, deep-colored, devastating, dexter, dexterous, dirt-free, discursive, distinguished, divine, docile, educable, effulgent, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, exotic, exuberant, facile, fair, fastidious, favorable, favoring, flamboyant, flaming, flashing, fluorescent, flushed, formable, fortunate, fresh, fulgent, fulgid, full of promise, garish, gay, gay-colored, genial, gifted, glad, gladsome, glamorous, glaring, glary, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glorious, glossy, glowing, golden, good, gorgeous, halcyon, happy, harmless, heavenly, high, high-colored, hopeful, ideational, illuminated, illustrious, immaculate, impressionable, in good spirits, in high spirits, incandescent, ingenious, instructable, intellectual, intelligent, intense, inviolate, irrepressible, keen, keen-witted, killing, knowing, kosher, lambent, laughing, light, lighted, lively, lucent, lucid, lucky, luminous, lustrous, magic, magnificent, malleable, mild, millenarian, millennialistic, mint, moldable, motivated, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, noetic, nonpolluted, not born yesterday, not so dumb, numinous, of cleanly habits, of good cheer, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, optimistic, outstanding, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, plastic, pleasant, pliable, polished, precocious, pristine, promising, prompt, propitious, prosperous, pure, qui vive, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted, radiant, rational, raving, ravishing, ready, reasonable, receptive, refulgent, resplendent, riant, rich, rich-colored, ripe for instruction, ritually pure, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sane, sanguine, sanguineous, scatheless, schoolable, scintillating, sensible, sharp, sharp-witted, shimmering, shining, shiny, sleepless, smart, smiling, smut-free, smutless, sophic, sparkling, spirited, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, spotless, sprightly, stainless, steel-trap, strong-minded, stunning, sublime, sunny, sunshiny, susceptible, sweet, tahar, talented, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, trainable, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblinking, unblotted, unbroken, unbruised, unclouded, undamaged, undefaced, undefiled, undeformed, undemolished, understanding, undestroyed, undimmed, unfaded, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unmuddied, unnodding, unpolluted, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unsleeping, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, untorn, untouched, unwinking, unwithered, unworn, upbeat, utopian, virgin, vivacious, vivid, wakeful, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, wide-awake, willing, winsome, witty

brighten

• brighten, animate, beacon, boost, break, brighten up, buoy up, burnish, cheer, cheer up, dawn, encourage, enlighten, enliven, exhilarate, flood with light, floodlight, gild, gild the lily, give a lift, gladden, grow bright, grow light, hearten, highlight, illume, illuminate, illumine, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, irradiate, light, light up, lighten, liven, luminate, overshine, perk up, pick up, polish, rejoice, rejoice the heart, relume, relumine, shed light upon, shine, shine upon, spotlight, sweeten, throw light upon, vitalize

brightness

• brightness, Munsell chroma, Technicolor, acuity, acuteness, adroitness, agility, alertness, aptitude, aptness, attention, attentiveness, auspiciousness, beneficence, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, blare, blaze, blazing light, blinding light, blitheness, blithesomeness, braininess, bright color, bright light, bright side, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliant light, burst of light, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, cheery vein, chroma, chromatic color, chromaticity, clear thinking, cleverness, color, color quality, colorfulness, colorimetric quality, cool color, dazzling light, dexterity, docility, educability, effulgence, esprit, eupeptic mien, facility, fair weather, favorableness, flair, flamboyance, flood of light, fortunateness, fulgor, gaiety, geniality, genius, giftedness, gifts, gladness, gladsomeness, glamour, glare, glaring light, gloriousness, glory, good auspices, good cheer, good omen, gorgeousness, happiness, heavenliness, hopefulness, hue, impressionability, intelligence, intensity, keen-wittedness, keenness, lightness, luckiness, luster, malleability, mental alertness, mercurial mind, moldability, motivation, native cleverness, neutral color, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, nous, optimism, plasticity, pleasantness, pliability, promptitude, promptness, propitiousness, prosperousness, punctuality, pure color, purity, quick parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, radiance, radiancy, radiant splendor, ravishingness, readiness, ready wit, receptivity, refulgence, refulgency, resplendence, resplendency, richness, rosy expectation, sanguine humor, sanguineness, saturation, savvy, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, sleeplessness, smartness, smarts, splendidness, splendor, splendorousness, splendrousness, sprightly wit, streaming light, sublimity, sunniness, sunny side, susceptibility, talent, teachability, teachableness, tint, tone, trainableness, value, vividness, wakefulness, warm color, willingness, winsomeness

brilliance

• brilliance, Babylonian splendor, Technicolor, ability, acuity, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, aptitude, aptness, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, aura, blare, blaze, blaze of glory, blazing light, blinding light, braininess, bravura, bright color, bright light, brightness, brilliancy, brilliant light, burst of light, capability, capacity, charisma, clear thinking, cleverness, color, colorfulness, command, competence, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, dazzle, dazzling light, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, efficiency, effulgence, elaborateness, elegance, envelope, esprit, expertise, facetiousness, facility, finesse, flair, flamboyance, flood of light, fulgor, funniness, gaiety, genius, giftedness, gifts, glamour, glare, glaring light, glitter, gloriousness, glory, gorgeousness, grace, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, grip, halo, handiness, heavenliness, horsemanship, humorousness, illustriousness, imposingness, impressiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, intellect, intelligence, intensity, jocoseness, jocularity, joking, joshing, keen-wittedness, keenness, know-how, lavishness, light, luster, luxuriousness, luxury, magic, magnificence, majesty, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mental alertness, mercurial mind, mystique, native cleverness, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, nimbus, nobility, nous, numinousness, pleasantry, plushness, poshness, practical ability, precocity, proficiency, proudness, prowess, pungency, pure color, quick parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, radiance, radiancy, radiant splendor, ravishingness, readiness, ready wit, refulgence, refulgency, resource, resourcefulness, resplendence, resplendency, richness, ritziness, sagacity, saltiness, saturation, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, skill, skillfulness, smartness, smarts, sparkle, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, splendorousness, splendrousness, sprightly wit, state, stateliness, streaming light, style, sublimity, sumptuousness, tact, tactfulness, talent, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, timing, virtuosity, vividness, wit, wittiness, wizardry, workmanship

brilliant

• brilliant, Attic, Daedalian, able, accomplished, adept, adroit, apt, artistic, authoritative, beaming, beautiful, bedazzling, biting, blinding, blooming, brainy, bravura, bright, bright and shining, bright-hued, brim, brink, burning, celebrated, charismatic, clean, clever, colorful, colory, competent, coordinated, coruscating, crack, crackerjack, creative, cunning, cute, daedal, dazzling, deep-colored, deft, devastating, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discerning, distinguished, divine, droll, edge, effulgent, eminent, enlightened, erudite, excellent, exceptional, exotic, expert, facetious, famous, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, fringe, fulgent, fulgid, funny, garish, gay, gay-colored, gifted, glamorous, glaring, glary, glittering, glorious, glowing, good, goodish, gorgeous, graceful, handy, heavenly, hem, high-colored, humorous, humorsome, illustrious, imaginative, incandescent, ingenious, intelligent, intense, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, killing, knowing, knowledgeable, lambent, learned, lucent, luminous, lustrous, magic, magisterial, magnificent, margin, masterful, masterly, mordant, neat, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, no mean, not born yesterday, noted, numinous, outstanding, perimeter, periphery, pointed, politic, professional, proficient, prominent, pungent, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted, quite some, radiant, rapier-like, raving, ravishing, ready, refulgent, remarkable, renowned, resourceful, resplendent, rich, rich-colored, sage, salt, salty, scintillating, sharp, sharp-witted, shining, skillful, skirt, slick, smart, some, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, sprightly, statesmanlike, steel-trap, striking, stunning, stylish, sublime, superb, tactful, talented, the compleat, the complete, twinkling, verge, virtuoso, vivid, well-done, whimsical, wise, witty, workmanlike

brim

• brim, bank, board, border, bordure, brink, brow, coast, edge, featheredge, flange, frame, fringe, hem, labellum, labium, labrum, ledge, limb, limbus, lip, list, marge, margin, overflow, ragged edge, rim, selvage, shore, side, sideline, skirt, verge

brimming

• brimming, SRO, awash, brimful, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, congested, cram-full, crammed, crowded, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, jam-packed, jammed, loaded, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, ready to burst, replete, round, satiated, saturated, soaked, standing room only, stuffed, surfeited, swelling, swollen, teeming, topful

brindle

• brindle, banded, barred, brinded, brindled, listed, marbled, marbleized, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigate, strigose, striolate, striped, stripy, tabby, veined, watered

bring about

• bring about, about ship, accomplish, achieve, act, author, back and fill, be productive, bear, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, beget, box off, break, breed, bring forth, bring into being, bring off, bring round, bring to effect, bring to fruition, bring to pass, call forth, call up, cant, cant round, carry into execution, carry off, carry out, carry through, cast, cast about, cause, change course, change the heading, come about, come through with, commit, conceive, create, do, do to, double a point, effect, effectuate, elicit, engender, engineer, establish, evoke, execute, father, fetch about, found, generate, gestate, get through, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, go about, go and do, gybe, heave round, implement, inaugurate, industrialize, inflict, inspire, institute, jibe, jibe all standing, make, mass-produce, miss stays, muster up, occasion, originate, overproduce, pay, perform, perpetrate, ply, produce, prompt, provoke, pull off, put about, put across, put back, put over, put through, realize, render, round a point, set afloat, set on foot, set up, sheer, shift, sire, slew, summon up, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, tack, take and do, throw about, turn, turn back, up and do, veer, volume-produce, wear, wear ship, wind, work, wreak, yaw

bring back

• bring back, bring, bring to, bring to mind, call back, call for, call to mind, call up, chase after, conjure up, evoke, extradite, fetch, fetch and carry, get, give back, go after, go and get, go back, go back over, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, hark back, look back, mind, obtain, pick up, procure, put back, reanimate, recall, recall to life, recall to mind, recapture, recharge, recollect, recommit, recruit, reevoke, reflect, refresh, regenerate, reheat the ashes, reinspire, rejuvenate, rekindle, relight, remand, remember, remit, renew, repatriate, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, retrace, retrieve, retrospect, return, review, review in retrospect, revitalize, revive, revivify, rewarm, run after, secure, see in retrospect, send back, shag, stir the embers, summon up, take back, think back, think of, use hindsight, warm over, warm up

bring before

• bring before, advance, affront, brave, breast, bring forward, bring up, broach, challenge, commend to attention, confront, confront with, dare, defy, encounter, envisage, face, face with, front, introduce, launch, lay before, make a motion, meet, meet squarely, moot, move, offer a resolution, open up, place before, pose, postulate, prefer, present to, propose, proposition, propound, put forth, put forward, put it to, recommend, set before, set forth, start, stem, submit, suggest

bring charges

• bring charges, accuse, allege, arraign, article, book, bring accusation, bring to book, charge, cite, complain, denounce, denunciate, fasten on, fasten upon, finger, hang something on, impeach, imply, impute, indict, inform against, inform on, insinuate, lay charges, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, pin on, prefer charges, press charges, put on report, report, reproach, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, twit

bring down

• bring down, abase, abash, acquire, be responsible for, beat down, belittle, blow down, blow over, blow to pieces, blow up, bowl down, bowl over, brain, break down, bring into discredit, bring low, bring on, bring upon, bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, burn to death, cast down, chop down, contract, crush, cry down, cut down, cut to pieces, dash down, deal a deathblow, debase, deck, decry, degrade, demean, depreciate, derogate from, detract from, diminish, disapprove of, discredit, disgrace, disintegrate, disparage, down, drop, dump, dump on, fall in with, fall into, fell, fetch down, flatten, floor, frag, gain, get, give the quietus, ground, gun down, hew down, hold in contempt, incinerate, incur, invite, jugulate, knock, knock down, knock over, lapidate, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, lower, make little of, minimize, mow down, pistol, poleax, precipitate, prostrate, pull down, put down, rase, raze, reduce, reflect discredit upon, riddle, run, run down, send headlong, set down, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, silence, slight, smash, speak ill of, spread-eagle, stab to death, steamroller, stone, stone to death, strike dead, submit to indignity, supinate, take down, tear down, throw, throw down, topple, trip, trip up, tumble, vaporize, welcome, whack down

bring forth

• bring forth, affect, arouse, author, bear, bear fruit, beget, betoken, birth, born, brandish, breathe, breed, bring about, bring forward, bring into being, bring into view, bring out, bring to effect, bring to light, bring to notice, bring to pass, call forth, call into being, call out, call up, cause, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, create, dangle, deduce, deliver, demonstrate, derive, design, develop, devise, disclose, discover, display, divulge, do, drag out, dramatize, draw forth, draw out, dream up, educe, effect, effectuate, elicit, embody, enact, engender, establish, evidence, evince, evoke, evolve, exhibit, expose to view, express, fabricate, father, flaunt, flourish, found, frame, fructify, fruit, furnish, generate, gestate, get from, get out of, give being to, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, give sign, give token, hatch, highlight, illuminate, improvise, inaugurate, incarnate, indicate, induce, institute, invent, make, make clear, make do with, make plain, make up, manifest, materialize, mature, mean, mint, obtain, occasion, originate, parade, perform, plan, present, procreate, procure, produce, realize, represent, reveal, roll out, rouse, secure, set afloat, set forth, set on foot, set up, show, show forth, sire, spawn, spotlight, stimulate, strike out, summon forth, summon up, think out, think up, token, trot out, unfold, wangle, wangle out of, wave, winkle out, work, worm out, worm out of, yield

bring forward

• bring forward, acculturate, adduce, advance, affect, affront, allege, ameliorate, amend, array, betoken, better, boost, brandish, brave, breast, breathe, bring before, bring forth, bring into view, bring on, bring out, bring to bear, bring to notice, bring up, broach, call to witness, challenge, civilize, commend to attention, confront, confront with, dangle, dare, defy, demonstrate, deploy, develop, disclose, display, divulge, dramatize, edify, educate, elevate, embody, emend, enact, encounter, enhance, enlighten, enrich, envisage, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose to view, express, face, face with, fatten, favor, flaunt, flourish, forward, foster, front, give sign, give token, go straight, highlight, illuminate, improve, improve upon, incarnate, indicate, introduce, lard, launch, lay before, lift, make a motion, make an improvement, make clear, make plain, manifest, marshal, materialize, mean, meet, meet squarely, meliorate, mend, moot, move, nurture, offer, offer a resolution, open up, parade, perform, place before, plead, pose, postulate, prefer, present, present to, produce, promote, propose, proposition, propound, put forth, put forward, put it to, raise, rally, recommend, refine upon, reform, represent, reveal, roll out, set before, set forth, show, show forth, socialize, spotlight, start, stem, straighten out, submit, suggest, swear in, take oath, testify, token, transfigure, transform, trot out, unfold, upgrade, uplift, wave

bring home to

• bring home to, account for, accredit with, accrete to, accuse of, acknowledge, afford proof of, anathematize, apply to, ascertain, ascribe to, assign to, assure, attach to, attaint, attribute to, be convincing, blacklist, blame, blame for, blame on, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, carry conviction, censure, charge on, charge to, charge with, cinch, clinch, condemn, confess, connect with, convert, convict, convince, credit with, damn, demonstrate, denounce, denunciate, determine, doom, drive home to, engrave, engrave on, establish, etch, excommunicate, fasten upon, father upon, find guilty, fix, fix on, fix upon, follow, follow from, hang on, have a case, hold good, hold water, impress upon, impute to, inspire belief, lay to, lead to believe, make good, make it felt, make out, nail down, pass sentence on, penalize, persuade, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, point to, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, prove, prove to be, prove true, refer to, remove all doubt, saddle on, saddle with, satisfy, sell, sell one on, sentence, set at rest, set down to, settle, settle the matter, settle upon, show, stamp, stamp on, talk over, task with, win over

bring in

• bring in, acquire, afford, amount to, bring, come to, come up to, cost, crop, crop herbs, cut, dig, drag down, draw down, fetch, gain, gather, gather in, get, glean, grabble, gross, harvest, hay, import, introduce, knock down, make, mount up to, mow, net, nut, pay, pay off, pick, pluck, reap, reap and carry, return, run into, run to, sell for, set one back, total up to, win, yield

bring off

• bring off, accomplish, achieve, bring about, bring through, bring to effect, bring to pass, carry into effect, carry into execution, carry off, carry out, carry through, come through, come through with, commit, compass, crown with success, do, do the trick, do to, effect, effectuate, fulfill, get by, get through, go and do, go through, implement, inflict, make, pay, perpetrate, produce, pull off, put across, put in practice, put into effect, put into practice, put over, put through, realize, render, take and do, translate into action, turn the trick, up and do, work out, wreak

bring on

• bring on, acquire, adduce, advance, allege, array, be responsible for, bring, bring down, bring forward, bring to bear, bring upon, call forth, contract, contrive, deploy, draw down, draw on, effect, elicit, evoke, fall in with, fall into, gain, get, incur, induce, inspire, instigate, invite, lead, marshal, motivate, obtain, offer, plead, present, procure, produce, provoke, rally, run, superinduce, welcome

bring out

• bring out, affect, arouse, betoken, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring to light, bring to notice, call forth, call out, call up, chime in, come out with, dangle, declare, deduce, deliver, demonstrate, derive, develop, disclose, display, divulge, drag out, dramatize, draw forth, draw out, educe, elicit, embody, emit, enact, engrave, evidence, evince, evoke, exhibit, expose to view, express, flaunt, flourish, get from, get off, get out, get out of, give forth, give sign, give token, hectograph, highlight, illuminate, impress, imprint, incarnate, indicate, induce, issue, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean, mimeograph, multigraph, obtain, overprint, parade, perform, present, print, procure, produce, proof, prove, publish, pull, pull a proof, put forth, put out, put to bed, put to press, reissue, represent, reprint, reveal, roll out, rouse, run, run off, secure, send forth, set forth, show, show forth, spotlight, stamp, state, stimulate, strike, summon forth, summon up, tell, throw out, token, trot out, unfold, utter, wangle, wangle out of, wave, winkle out, worm out, worm out of

bring round

• bring round, about ship, argue into, assure, back and fill, be convincing, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, box off, break, bring about, bring around, bring home to, bring over, bring to reason, cant, cant round, captivate, carry conviction, cast, cast about, change course, change the heading, charm, come about, con, convert, convict, convince, cure, double a point, draw over, drive home to, fetch about, gain, gain over, go about, gybe, heal, heave round, hook, hook in, inspire belief, jibe, jibe all standing, lead to believe, miss stays, outtalk, persuade, ply, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, pull round, put about, put back, recure, remedy, restore to health, round a point, satisfy, sell, sell one on, sheer, shift, slew, sway, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, tack, talk into, talk over, throw about, turn, turn back, veer, wangle, wangle into, wear, wear down, wear ship, win, win over, wind, work a cure, yaw

bring to light

• bring to light, arouse, bare, break the seal, bring forth, bring out, call forth, call out, call up, deduce, derive, develop, dig up, disclose, discover, disinter, dismask, drag out, draw forth, draw out, draw the veil, educe, elicit, evoke, excavate, exhume, expose, ferret out, fish up, get from, get out of, impart, induce, lay bare, lay open, let daylight in, let out, manifest, obtain, open, open up, procure, raise the curtain, reveal, root up, rouse, secure, show, show up, stimulate, strip bare, summon forth, summon up, turn up, uncloak, uncover, undrape, unearth, unfold, unfurl, unkennel, unmask, unpack, unroll, unscreen, unsheathe, unshroud, unveil, unwrap, wangle, wangle out of, winkle out, worm out, worm out of

bring to mind

• bring to mind, allegorize, allude to, ape, appear like, approach, approximate, assume, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bring back, call back, call to mind, call up, come close, come near, compare with, conjure up, connote, copy, correspond, counterfeit, entail, evoke, favor, follow, go back, go back over, hark back, hint, imitate, implicate, imply, import, infer, insinuate, intimate, involve, look back, look like, match, mean, mean to say, mimic, mind, mirror, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, parallel, partake of, point indirectly to, presume, presuppose, recall, recall to mind, recapture, recollect, reevoke, reflect, remember, remind one of, resemble, retrace, retrospect, review, review in retrospect, revive, savor of, see in retrospect, seem like, simulate, smack of, sound like, stack up with, suggest, summon up, suppose, take after, take for granted, think back, think of, use hindsight

bring to pass

• bring to pass, accomplish, achieve, author, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring off, bring to effect, carry into execution, carry off, carry out, carry through, cause, come through with, commit, conceive, create, do, do to, effect, effectuate, engender, establish, father, found, generate, gestate, get through, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, go and do, implement, inaugurate, inflict, institute, make, occasion, originate, pay, perpetrate, produce, pull off, put across, put over, put through, realize, render, set afloat, set on foot, set up, sire, take and do, up and do, work, wreak

bring to

• bring to, arrest, assimilate to, become, block, brake, bring back, bring up short, call back, change, change into, change over, check, checkmate, convert, cut short, dam, deadlock, do over, draw rein, freeze, halt, haul, haul off, haul the wind, haul to, haul up, head to windward, heave to, make, make over, naturalize, pull up, put paid to, reanimate, recall to life, recharge, reconvert, recruit, reduce to, refresh, regenerate, reheat the ashes, reinspire, rejuvenate, rekindle, relight, render, renew, resolve into, resurrect, resuscitate, reverse, revitalize, revive, revivify, rewarm, sail to windward, shift, stalemate, stall, stay, stem, stem the tide, stir the embers, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, switch, switch over, transform, turn back, turn into, uphelm, warm over, warm up, weather

bring up

• bring up, advance, advert, affront, allude, apprentice, barf, be seasick, be sick, brave, break, break in, breast, breed, bring before, bring forward, bring up short, broach, cast, cease fire, challenge, christen, chuck up, come up short, commend to attention, condition, confront, confront with, cultivate, dare, defy, develop, discipline, disgorge, draw up, drill, educate, egest, encounter, envisage, establish, exercise, face, face with, feed, feed the fish, fetch up, fit, float, form, foster, found, front, gag, groom, halt, hang fire, haul up, heave, heave the gorge, house-train, housebreak, improve, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, institute, introduce, keck, launch, lay before, lick into shape, lift up, make a motion, meet, meet squarely, moot, move, nourish, nurse, nurture, offer a resolution, open up, place before, point out, pose, postulate, practice, prefer, prepare, present to, propose, proposition, propound, provide for, puke, pull up, put forth, put forward, put in tune, put it to, put to school, raise, ready, rear, recommend, regurgitate, rehearse, reject, retch, ring in, send to school, set agoing, set before, set forth, set on foot, set up, sick up, spew, stall, start, start going, start up, stem, stick, stop, stop dead, stop short, submit, suggest, take in hand, throw up, train, turn on, upchuck, usher in, ventilate, vomit

bring

• bring, accompany, accomplish, achieve, advance, affect, afford, allure, amount to, assume, attend, attract, be sold, bear, breed, bring about, bring around, bring back, bring down, bring forth, bring in, bring off, bring on, bring out, bring round, bring to, bring up, bring upon, broach, call for, call forth, care for, carry, carry off, carry out, cause, chaperon, chase after, come to, come up to, companion, comprise, conduct, consort with, contain, contribute to, contrive, convey, convince, convoy, cost, create, cut back, cut down, decide, deliver, depose, determine, dethrone, develop, diminish, discuss, disgorge, display, dispose, do, do to, draw, draw down, draw on, earn, educate, effect, elevate, elicit, emphasize, engage, engender, enlist, entail, escort, evoke, feature, fetch, fetch and carry, focus on, get, get to do, give birth to, give rise to, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, illuminate, implicate, imply, incline, induce, inflict, influence, inspire, instigate, institute, interest in, introduce, invite, invoke, involve, issue, lead, lead to, lessen, look after, lure, make known, make public, mention, motivate, mount up to, move, nurture, obtain, occasion, offer, oust, overthrow, overturn, pen up, perform, persuade, pick up, present, presume, presuppose, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, publish, pull off, put on, put out, put over, raise, realize, rear, recall, reduce, regurgitate, release, report, require, restore, resuscitate, retrieve, return, revive, run after, run into, run to, secure, sell, sell for, set forth, set off, set one back, shag, stage, submit, subsume, succeed, succeed in, superinduce, sway, take, take in, talk about, teach, tempt, throw up, topple, total up to, touch on, train, tutor, unseat, visit upon, vomit, win over, wreak, yield

brink

• brink, bank, board, border, bordure, brim, brow, coast, edge, featheredge, flange, frame, fringe, hem, labellum, labium, labrum, ledge, limb, limbus, lip, list, marge, margin, perimeter, periphery, point, ragged edge, rim, selvage, shore, side, sideline, skirt, threshold, verge

brinkmanship

• brinkmanship, Eisenhower Doctrine, Monroe Doctrine, Nixon Doctrine, Truman Doctrine, adventurousness, appeasement, audaciousness, audacity, balance of power, boldness, coexistence, colonialism, compromise, containment, courage fou, courting disaster, daredevilry, daredeviltry, daring, detente, deterrence, diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatics, dollar diplomacy, dollar imperialism, expansionism, fire-eating, flirting with death, foolhardiness, foreign affairs, foreign policy, forwardness, going for broke, good-neighbor policy, harebrainedness, imperialism, internationalism, isolationism, manifest destiny, militarism, nationalism, neocolonialism, neutralism, nonresistance, open door, open-door policy, peace offensive, peaceful coexistence, playing with fire, preparedness, presumption, presumptuousness, shirt-sleeve diplomacy, shuttle diplomacy, spheres of influence, the big stick, tough policy, world politics

brio

• brio, activity, animation, ardor, briskness, dash, elan, enthusiasm, esprit, glow, gusto, impetuosity, impetus, joie de vivre, life, liveliness, lustiness, mettle, oomph, perkiness, pertness, robustness, spirit, spiritedness, verve, vim, vivacity, warmth, zest, zestfulness, zing

brisk

• brisk, Siberian, active, activist, activistic, acute, adroit, aeolian, aggressive, airish, airy, algid, alive, animated, arctic, astringent, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blasty, bleak, blowy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boreal, bouncing, bouncy, bracing, breezy, brief, brumal, bubbly, burning, busy, caustic, cheering, chill, chilly, chipper, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cometary, cool, cordial, crisp, crispy, curried, cutting, drafty, dynamic, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, energizing, enterprising, enthusiastic, exhilarating, favonian, flashing, flawy, fleet, flickering, forceful, forcible, freezing, freezing cold, fresh, frigid, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gelid, glacial, go-go, gusty, hearty, hibernal, hiemal, high-seasoned, hot, hot as pepper, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, impetuous, incisive, inclement, intense, invigorating, keen, kinetic, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, meteoric, mettlesome, militant, nimble, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, peppery, peppy, perky, pert, piercing, pinching, puffy, quick, quicksilver, racy, raw, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, rigorous, robust, rousing, seasoned, severe, sharp, short, short and sweet, short-term, short-termed, sleety, slushy, smacking, snappy, spanking, speedy, spiced, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, squally, stabbing, steady, stimulating, stinging, stone-cold, strenuous, strong, subzero, supercooled, swift, take-charge, take-over, tangy, tonic, trenchant, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, volant, windy, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, with a kick, zestful, zesty, zingy, zippy

bristle with

• bristle with, abound, abound with, be alive with, burst with, clutter, crawl with, creep with, crowd, exuberate, flow, gush, jam, multiply, overflow, overflow with, pack, pour, proliferate, pullulate with, rain, run over, shower, stream, swarm with, teem, teem with, throng with

bristle

• bristle, Vandyke, acuminate, aggravate, anger, annoy, arise, arouse, badger, bait, barb, barbel, be alive, be at, be keen, beard, beaver, bedevil, beset, bite, blow up, boil, boil over, bother, bramble, bridle, bridle up, brier, bristle up, bristle with, bristles, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn, burn up, burr, cactus, capillament, catchweed, chafe, chivy, cilium, cleavers, coat, cock up, corrugate, crawl, crinkle, crumple, cut, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, down, embitter, exasperate, exercise, fash, flare up, fleece, flip out, fret, fume, fur, get, get mad, get sore, get up, goatee, goose grass, gripe, hair, harass, harry, have an edge, heckle, hector, horripilate, horsehair, hound, huff, imperial, incense, inflame, irk, irritate, jump up, mane, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, peach fuzz, peeve, pelt, persecute, pester, pick on, pile, pine needle, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, prick, prickle, provoke, pubescence, pubic hair, quill, rage, ramp, rankle, reach boiling point, rear, rear up, ride, rile, rise, rise up, roil, ruffle, rumple, see red, seethe, set on edge, set up, seta, setula, setule, shag, side whiskers, sit bolt upright, sit up, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, stand up, stick, stick up, sticker, sting, stir the blood, stir up, striga, stubble, swarm, tease, teem, thistle, thorn, torment, try the patience, tuft, tweak the nose, upheave, uprear, uprise, vex, whisker, whiskers, wool, work up, worry, wrinkle, yucca

bristling

• bristling, alive with, barbellate, bristled, bristly, bursting, close, compact, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, firm, full, glochidiate, hairy, hirsute, hispid, in profusion, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, overflowing, packed, populous, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, rife, serried, setaceous, setose, setous, solid, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging

bristly

• bristly, acanaceous, aculeolate, barbellate, brambly, briery, bristled, bristling, bushy, cirrose, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, muricate, pilose, pricking, prickly, pricky, pubescent, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shaggy, stinging, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, thistly, thorny, unshorn, woolly

brittle

• brittle, atrophied, breakable, brittle as glass, capricious, changeable, cheap-jack, cobwebby, corruptible, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crump, crushable, dainty, deciduous, delicate, delicately weak, desiccated, dried-up, dying, effeminate, emaciated, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fissile, fleeting, flimsy, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, fugacious, fugitive, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insecure, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light, lightweight, momentary, mortal, mutable, namby-pamby, nondurable, nonpermanent, papery, parchmenty, passing, pasteboardy, perishable, puny, scissile, sensitive, sere, shatterable, shattery, shivery, short-lived, shriveled, shrunken, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, unsubstantial, volatile, vulnerable, wasted, weak, wilted, wispy, withered, wizened, womanish, wrinkled

broach

• broach, advance, air, auger, bite, bleed, blue, bore, bring before, bring forward, bring in, bring up, chink, christen, cleave, clip, commend to attention, countersink, crack, crevasse, cut, cut open, decant, dispart, display, divaricate, divide, divulge, draft, draft off, drain, draw, draw from, draw off, drill, empierce, empty, establish, exhaust, expansive, extended, fissure, fix, float, fly open, found, give out, gore, gouge, gouge out, hint at, hole, honeycomb, impale, inaugurate, incise, induct, initiate, install, institute, interject, interpose, introduce, lance, launch, lay before, lay open, let, let blood, let out, lift up, make a motion, make known, make public, mention, milk, moot, move, needle, off-color, offer a resolution, ope, open, open up, part, penetrate, perforate, phlebotomize, pierce, pin, pink, pipette, pose, postulate, prefer, prick, propose, proposition, propound, pump, pump out, punch, puncture, purple, put forth, put forward, put it to, put out, racy, raise, ream, ream out, recommend, rent, riddle, rift, ring in, rip, risque, rive, run through, salty, scopic, separate, set agoing, set before, set forth, set on foot, set up, shady, siphon off, skewer, slit, spear, spicy, spike, spit, split, spread, spread out, spring open, stab, start, start going, start up, stick, submit, suck, suck out, suggest, suggestive, swing open, talk about, tap, tear, tear open, throw open, touch on, touch upon, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, turn on, usher in, venesect, ventilate, wicked, wide

broad minded

• broad minded, advanced, broad, broad-gauged, catholic, cosmopolitan, deep, ecumenical, ecumenistic, freethinking, knowing, latitudinarian, learned, liberal, libertarian, libertine, noninsular, open-minded, profound, progressive, radical, sage, sapient, spacious of mind, tolerant, unbigoted, unfanatical, unhidebound, unparochial, unprovincial, wide, wide-minded, wise, wise as Solomon

broad shouldered

• broad shouldered, able-bodied, athletic, brawny, burly, hairychested, he-mannish, macho, muscle-bound, muscular, potent, sinewy, thewy, thickset, ultramasculine, virile, viripotent, well-built, well-knit, well-set, well-set-up, wiry

broad

• broad, Jane, Jezebel, abstract, accented, aleatoric, aleatory, alveolar, amorphous, ample, amplitudinous, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, approximate, articulated, artless, assimilated, babe, baby, back, bad woman, baggage, barytone, biddy, bilabial, bimbo, bird, bitch, bland, blobby, blue, bluff, blunt, blurred, blurry, bright, broad-based, broad-gauged, broad-minded, broad-shouldered, brusque, burlesque, cacuminal, candid, capacious, catholic, central, cerebral, chance, chancy, chaotic, checked, chick, chippy, clear, clitoromaniac, close, coarse, cocotte, collective, colleen, comic, comical, commodious, comprehensive, confused, consonant, consonantal, continuant, cookie, copious, cosmopolitan, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, deep, demoiselle, dental, diffuse, direct, dirty, disordered, dissimilated, doll, dorsal, downright, drab, earthy, easy lay, easy woman, ecumenical, ecumenistic, emphatic, evident, expansive, explicit, extended, extending, extensive, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, farcical, featureless, filly, filthy, flat, floozy, foggy, forthright, frail, frail sister, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, front, full, fuzzy, gal, general, generalized, generic, generous, genuine, girl, girlie, glide, glossal, glottal, grisette, gross, gutter, guttural, hard, harridan, hazy, heart-to-heart, heavy, heifer, hen, high, hit-or-miss, hoyden, hussy, hysteromaniac, ill-defined, imprecise, improper, inaccurate, inchoate, inclusive, incoherent, indecent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indelicate, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inelegant, inexact, infinite, ingenuous, intonated, jade, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, large, large-scale, lascivious, lass, lassie, lateral, latitudinarian, lax, lewd, liberal, light, lingual, liquid, little missy, loose, loose woman, low, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, main, mid, minx, miss, missy, mock-heroic, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nebulous, neutral, noninsular, nonspecific, number, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, obscene, obscure, obvious, occlusive, off color, open, openhearted, orderless, outspoken, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pickup, piece, pitch, pitched, plain, plain-spoken, pornographic, posttonic, pronounced, quean, random, rank, raw, retroflex, romp, roomy, rough, round, rounded, rude, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, semivowel, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, sincere, skirt, slapstick, slip, slut, soft, sonant, spacious, spacious of mind, spread out, spreading, stochastic, stopped, straight, straight-out, straightforward, stressed, strong, strumpet, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, surd, sweeping, syllabic, tart, teenybopper, tense, thick, throaty, titillating, tolerant, tomato, tomboy, tonal, tonic, tragicomic, transparent, trollop, trull, twangy, unaccented, unbigoted, uncharacterized, unchecked, unclear, unconcealed, unconstrained, uncouth, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undifferentiated, undisguised, unequivocal, unfanatical, ungentlemanly, unguarded, unhidebound, unladylike, unparochial, unplain, unprovincial, unrefined, unreserved, unrestrained, unrounded, unshaded, unspecific, unspecified, unstressed, unsubtle, uteromaniac, vague, vast, veiled, velar, virgin, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, voluminous, vowel, vowellike, vulgar, wanton, weak, wench, wholesale, whore, wide, wide-banked, wide-bottomed, wide-branched, wide-breasted, wide-brimmed, wide-eared, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-faced, wide-framed, wide-hipped, wide-leaved, wide-lipped, wide-minded, wide-nosed, wide-petaled, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-rimmed, wide-roving, wide-set, wide-spaced, wide-spanned, wide-streeted, wide-stretching, wide-tracked, wide-wayed, wide-winged, widespread, woman, young creature, young thing

broadcast

• broadcast, accessible, advertise, advertisement, affirmed, air, airing, announce, announced, announcement, annunciate, attenuation, bandying, beam, bed, bestrew, blazon, book, broadcasting, brought to notice, bruit about, bruiting, bruiting about, canned show, circulated, circulation, circumfuse, circumfusion, commercial, commercial program, common knowledge, common property, communicate, convey, current, deal out, declared, dibble, diffract, diffraction, diffuse, diffused, diffusion, dilution, discrete, dispensation, dispense, dispersal, disperse, dispersed, dispersion, display, dispread, disseminate, disseminated, dissemination, dissipated, dissipation, distribute, distributed, distribution, diverge, divergence, drill, electrical transcription, evaporation, evulgation, expansion, fan out, forest, fragmentation, get across, get over, give, give word, hand on, impart, implant, in circulation, in print, inseminate, insemination, issuance, issue, leave word, made public, make known, network show, newscast, open, overscatter, oversow, overspread, pass, pass along, pass on, peppering, periodical, plant, planting, pot, printing, proclaim, proclaimed, proclamation, promulgate, promulgation, pronouncement, pronunciamento, propagate, propagated, propagation, public, publication, publish, published, publishing, put in, radiate, radiation, radio, radio fare, radiobroadcast, rebroadcast, reforest, reforestation, relay, render, report, reported, rerun, reset, resetting, retail, retimber, retimbering, scatter, scatter seed, scattered, scattering, scatterment, seed, seed down, seeding, seminate, semination, send, send word, serial, set, setting, share, share with, shortwave, shotgun pattern, show, sign off, sign on, signal, soap opera, sound effects, sow, sow broadcast, sowing, sparse, spattering, splay, sporadic, sportscast, spread, spread out, spreading, spreading abroad, sprinkling, stated, straggling, straggly, straw, strew, strewing, strewn, strown, sustainer, taped program, telecast, telecasting, televise, televised, tell, transfer, transmission, transmit, transplant, transplantation, utter, ventilation, volatilization, widespread, wireless

broadcasting

• broadcasting, FCC, FM broadcasting, Federal Communications Commission, airing, attenuation, bandying, book, broadcast, bruiting, bruiting about, circulation, circumfusion, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, display, dissemination, dissipation, distribution, divergence, evaporation, evulgation, expansion, fade-out, fragmentation, insemination, issuance, issue, mixing, peppering, periodical, planting, printing, promulgation, propagation, publication, publishing, radiation, radiobroadcasting, reforestation, resetting, retimbering, scattering, scatterment, seeding, semination, setting, shotgun pattern, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, sprinkling, standard broadcasting, strewing, telecasting, tone control, transmission, transplantation, ventilation, vestigial transmission, volatilization, volume control

broaden

• broaden, accrue, accumulate, add to, advance, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, balloon, bloat, blow up, boom, boost, breed, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, crescendo, deal in generalities, deepen, develop, dilate, distend, ecumenicize, enlarge, exalt, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, gain, gain strength, generalize, get ahead, globalize, go up, greaten, grow, hike, hike up, huff, increase, inflate, intensify, jack up, jump up, lengthen, magnify, make a generalization, maximize, mount, multiply, open, outspread, outstretch, parlay, proliferate, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, rise, run up, shoot up, snowball, spread, spread out, strengthen, stretch, sufflate, swell, thicken, tumefy, universalize, up, wax, widen

broadly

• broadly, abroad, absurdly, all in all, all joking aside, all things considered, altogether, amusingly, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, at large, bizarrely, bluffly, bluntly, broadly speaking, brusquely, by and large, candidly, chiefly, comically, commonly, directly, distantly and broadly, drolly, eccentrically, extensively, far and near, far and wide, farcically, frankly, funnily, generally, generally speaking, genuinely, humorously, in all conscience, in all seriousness, in general, in plain English, in plain words, incongruously, indecisively, indefinably, indefinitely, indeterminably, indistinctly, infinitely, laughably, mainly, mostly, normally, obscurely, on all sides, on balance, on every side, on the whole, openheartedly, openly, ordinarily, outspokenly, overall, plain-spokenly, plainly, predominantly, prevailingly, quaintly, ridiculously, right and left, roughly, roughly speaking, roundly, routinely, sincerely, speaking generally, straightforwardly, unconstrainedly, unreservedly, unrestrainedly, usually, vaguely, vastly, whimsically, wide, widely, with no nonsense, wittily

broadside

• broadside, antiaircraft barrage, aside, askance, askant, asquint, bank, barrage, beam, bombardment, border, box barrage, breadthwise, broad side foremost, broadside on, broadways, broadwise, burst, cannonade, cannonry, cheek, chop, coast, crabwise, creeping barrage, depthwise, drumfire, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, emergency barrage, enfilade, flank, fusillade, glancingly, hail, hand, handedness, haunch, hip, jowl, laterad, laterality, laterally, many-sidedness, mortar barrage, multilaterality, normal barrage, on its side, on the beam, planking, profile, quarter, right and left, salvo, shore, shower, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, siding, sidling, spray, standing barrage, storm, temple, through, unilaterality, volley, widthways, widthwise

Broadway

• Broadway, burlesque, carnival, circus, drama, entertainment industry, legit, legitimate stage, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, playland, repertory drama, show biz, show business, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stock, strawhat, strawhat circuit, summer stock, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, variety, vaudeville

broil

• broil, ado, affray, agitation, altercate, altercation, argument, bake, baking, barbecue, barbecuing, baste, basting, battle, be in heat, bicker, blanch, blaze, blood feud, bloom, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, box, braise, braising, brawl, brew, brewing, broiling, brouhaha, brown, burn, cacophony, casserole, catering, chaos, choke, clash, close, coddle, collide, combat, combust, come to blows, commotion, contend, contention, contest, controversy, cook, cookery, cooking, course, cover, cuisine, culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, culinary science, curry, cut and thrust, devil, differ, dish, dispute, disturbance, do, do to perfection, domestic science, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, duel, dustup, ebullition, embroilment, entree, exchange blows, fanaticism, fence, ferment, feud, fight, fight a duel, fire, flame, flame up, flap, flare, flare up, flicker, flite, fliting, flush, fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, fray, free-for-all, frenzy, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, frying, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gasp, give and take, give satisfaction, glow, grapple, grapple with, griddle, grill, grilling, hassle, have words, heat, helter-skelter, home economics, hubbub, imbroglio, incandesce, join issue, jostle, joust, knock-down-and-drag-out, logomachy, main dish, melee, melt, mix it up, nutrition, open quarrel, oven-bake, pan, pan-broil, pan-broiling, pandemonium, pant, parboil, parch, passion, pell-mell, poach, poaching, polemic, pother, prepare, prepare food, quarrel, racket, radiate heat, rage, rampage, rassle, riot, roast, roasting, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, run a tilt, saute, sauteing, scald, scallop, scorch, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, sear, searing, seethe, set to, sharp words, shimmer with heat, shindy, shirr, shirring, side dish, simmer, simmering, skirmish, slanging match, smolder, smother, snarl, spar, spark, spat, squabble, steam, steeping, stew, stewing, stifle, stir, stir-fry, storminess, strife, strive, struggle, suffocate, sweat, swelter, tempestuousness, thrust and parry, tiff, tilt, to-do, toast, toasting, tourney, trouble, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, tussle, uproar, upset, vendetta, wage war, war, wildness, words, wrangle, wrestle, zeal, zealousness

broiler

• broiler, Bantam, Cornish hen, Dutch oven, alcohol stove, baker, banty, barbecue, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, boiler, brooder, broody hen, caille, camp stove, canard, caneton, capon, chafer, chafing dish, chanticleer, chapon, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, cook stove, dindon, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, faisan, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, grill, griller, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hen, hen turkey, hot day, infrared cooker, oie, pans, partlet, partridge, percolator, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, pullet, quail, roaster, rooster, samovar, scorcher, setting hen, sizzler, spring chicken, squab, stewing chicken, stove, summer day, toaster, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, volaille, wild duck

broke

• broke, bankrupt, beat, beggared, broken, busted, dead, destitute, down-and-out, failed, flat, flat broke, hard up, impoverished, in receivership, indigent, insolvent, needy, on the rocks, on the skids, oofless, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, ruined, short, stone-broke, stony, strapped, up against it

broken down

• broken down, battered, beat-up, beaten up, brokenhearted, crushed, cut up, decrepit, derelict, desolated, dilapidated, dingy, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, in ruins, inundated, overcome, overwhelmed, ramshackle, ruined, ruinous, run-down, seedy, slummy, stricken, tacky, tattered, threadbare, tottery, tumbledown, undone

broken heart

• broken heart, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, bitterness, bleeding heart, brokenheartedness, crushing, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, extremity, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartbrokenness, heartsickness, heartsoreness, heavy heart, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, prostration, sadness, suicidal despair, woe, wretchedness

broken off

• broken off, broken, chopped-off, choppy, decousu, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, episodic, fitful, herky-jerky, incoherent, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, parenthetic, patchy, scrappy, snatchy, spasmodic, spotty, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive

broken

• broken, aggravated, aloof, ausgespielt, bankrupt, beaten, blasted, blighted, broke, broken off, broken-down, brought low, bumpy, burned, burst, busted, capricious, careening, catchy, chastened, checked, chipped, chopped-off, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, conditioned, conquered, corrugated, cracked, crazed, cross-grained, crushed, cut, damaged, debilitated, decousu, defeated, defied, dejected, demoralized, desolated, destitute, destroyed, desultory, detached, deteriorated, devastated, deviative, disciplined, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discouraged, discrete, disintegrated, disjointed, disjunctive, disobeyed, dispirited, disregarded, disturbed, docile, domesticated, done for, done in, dovelike, down-and-out, eccentric, embittered, enfeebled, episodic, erratic, exacerbated, failed, fallen, felled, finished, fitful, flattened, flickering, fluctuating, fractured, fragmentary, fragmented, gapped, gentle, gone to pot, grainy, granulated, guttering, halting, harmed, haywire, herky-jerky, heteroclite, homespun, horripilant, housebroke, housebroken, humble, humbled, humiliated, hurt, ignored, immethodical, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in disrepair, in pieces, in receivership, in ruins, in shards, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, inequal, infringed, injured, inoperative, insolvent, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted, irregular, irremediable, irritated, jagged, jerky, jolty, kaput, lacerated, lamblike, licked, linsey-woolsey, lurching, made to grovel, mangled, mastered, meek, mild, mutilated, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, obedient, on the blink, on the fritz, on the rocks, open, out of commission, out of condition, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of repair, out of tune, out of whack, overthrown, pacific, parenthetic, patchy, peaceable, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, pulverized, put down, quelled, quiet, rambling, rank, ravaged, reduced, rent, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, ruined, ruinous, ruptured, rutted, rutty, scalded, scorched, scrappy, shagged, shaggy, shattered, shivered, slashed, slit, smashed, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, splintered, split, spoiled, sporadic, spotty, sprung, staggering, subdued, subjugated, suppressed, suspended, tame, tamed, tenuous, textured, the worse for, torn, trained, transgressed, unadhesive, uncertain, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconnected, undone, unequal, uneven, unjoined, unkempt, unlevel, unmethodical, unmetrical, unpolished, unrefined, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsmooth, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic, untenacious, ununiform, vanquished, variable, veering, violated, wandering, wasted, wavering, weakened, wimpled, wobbling, wobbly, worse, worse off, worsened, wrecked

broken-hearted

• broken-hearted, cheerless, crushed, dejected, depressed, devastated, disconsolate, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, heartsick, inconsolable, melancholy, miserable, morose, overwhelmed, sad, sorrowful, upset, woebegone, woeful, wretched

broker

• broker, Realtor, Wall Streeter, agent, arbitrator, bill broker, bond crowd, cambist, connection, contact, cotton broker, curb broker, dealer, diamond broker, discount broker, distributor, estate agent, floor broker, floor trader, floorman, furniture broker, go-between, grain broker, hotel broker, insurance broker, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, interpleader, jobber, land broker, liaison, link, mediary, mediator, medium, middleman, money broker, money changer, mortgage broker, negotiant, negotiator, note broker, odd-lot dealer, pawnbroker, pit man, real estate agent, real estate broker, registered representative, sharebroker, ship broker, specialist, stock dealer, stock-exchange broker, stockbroker, stockjobber, tie, two-dollar broker, wholesaler

brokerage

• brokerage, admission, admission fee, agency, anchorage, barter, bartering, boiler room, brokerage house, brokerage office, bucket shop, buying and selling, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, cover charge, dealing, demand, dockage, doing business, dues, entrance fee, exaction, exactment, exchange, fare, fee, give-and-take, hire, horse trading, interchange, jobbing, legal bucketing, license fee, merchandising, pilotage, portage, retailing, salvage, scot, scot and lot, shot, stockbrokerage, stockbroking, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, storage, swapping, toll, towage, trade, trading, trafficking, wharfage, wheeling and dealing, wholesaling

bromide

• bromide, abstraction, banality, chestnut, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, familiar tune, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, hackneyed expression, hackneyed saying, lieu commun, locus communis, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, reiteration, retold story, rubber stamp, shibboleth, stereotyped saying, sweeping statement, tag, tired cliche, trite saying, triticism, truism, twice-told tale

bronchitis

• bronchitis, Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, adrenitis, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, appendicitis, arteritis, arthritis deformans, arthritis fungosa, arthritis pauperum, asbestosis, asthma, atrophic arthritis, atrophic inflammation, atypical pneumonia, bituminosis, black lung, blennorrhagic arthritis, brain fever, bronchial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, bronchopneumonia, bunion, bursitis, capillaritis, carditis, catarrh, catarrhal inflammation, cerebellitis, cerebral meningitis, cerebritis, cerebrospinal meningitis, chalicosis, chronic bronchitis, chronic infectious arthritis, chronic inflammation, cirrhotic inflammation, climactic arthritis, clitoritis, cold, colitis, collagen disease, collapsed lung, common cold, coniosis, conjunctivitis, coryza, croup, croupous pneumonia, cystitis, degenerative arthritis, diffuse inflammation, double pneumonia, dry pleurisy, emphysema, empyema, encephalitis, endocarditis, enteritis, epidemic pleurodynia, equine encephalomyelitis, exudative inflammation, fibrinous pneumonia, fibroid inflammation, flu, focal inflammation, gastritis, gingivitis, glossitis, gonococcal arthritis, gonorrheal arthritis, gonorrheal rheumatism, gout, gouty arthritis, grippe, hay fever, hemophilic arthritis, hepatitis, hyperplastic inflammation, hypertrophic arthritis, hypertrophic inflammation, infectional arthritis, infectious hepatitis, inflammation, influenza, irritable bowel syndrome, la grippe, laryngitis, lipoid pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, lumbago, lumbar rheumatism, lung cancer, lung fever, mastoiditis, meningitis, menopausal arthritis, metastatic inflammation, metritis, milk leg, mucous colitis, mumps meningitis, myelitis, necrotic inflammation, nephritis, neuritis, obliterative inflammation, ophthalitis, ophthalmia, orchitis, osseous rheumatism, osteitis, osteoarthritis, osteomyelitis, otitis, ovaritis, paradental pyorrhea, penitis, pericarditis, periodontitis, peritonitis, pharyngitis, phlebitis, pleurisy, pleuritis, pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, pneumonic fever, pneumothorax, podagra, proliferative arthritis, prostatitis, pyonephritis, pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, quinsy, reactive inflammation, rheum, rheumatism, rheumatiz, rheumatoid arthritis, rhinitis, sclerosing inflammation, seroplastic inflammation, serous inflammation, serum hepatitis, siderosis, silicosis, simple inflammation, sinusitis, sore throat, spastic colon, specific inflammation, subacute rheumatism, suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, swine flu, syphilitic arthritis, tennis elbow, testitis, the sniffles, the snuffles, thrombophlebitis, tonsilitis, torticollis, toxic inflammation, traumatic inflammation, tuberculous arthritis, tuberculous rheumatism, ulcerative colitis, uratic arthritis, ureteritis, urethral arthritis, urethritis, uteritis, vaginitis, vertebral arthritis, virus pneumonia, visceral rheumatism, vulvitis, wet pleurisy, whooping cough, wryneck

broncobuster

• broncobuster, breaker, breeder, buckaroo, caballero, cattleman, cavalier, cavalryman, chevalier, circus rider, cow keeper, cowboy, cowgirl, cowman, cowpuncher, dairy farmer, dairyman, equerry, equestrian, equestrienne, farrier, gaucho, grazier, groom, horse soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horseshoer, horsewoman, hostler, jockey, knight, mounted policeman, postboy, postilion, puncher, rancher, ranchero, ranchman, rider, roughrider, sheepman, stableboy, stableman, steeplechaser, stock raiser, stockbreeder, stockkeeper, stockman, tamer, trainer, trick rider, vaquero

bronze

• bronze, Titian, adust, auburn, aureate, bay, bay-colored, bayard, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze-colored, bronzed, bronzy, brown, brownish-red, burn, cast, castaneous, chestnut, chestnut-brown, copper, copper-colored, coppery, cupreous, cuprous, embrown, ferrous, ferruginous, foxy, gilt, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, henna, infuscate, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, mahogany, marble, mercurial, mercurous, mobile, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, pewter, pewtery, quicksilver, reddish-brown, roan, rubiginous, rufous, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, sculpture, silver, silver-plated, silvery, stabile, statue, steel, steely, sunburn, sunburned, suntan, tan, terra cotta, terra-cotta, tin, tinny

brooch

• brooch, anklet, armlet, bangle, beads, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, broach, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, circle, clasp, clip, coronet, crown, diadem, earring, fastening, fob, gem, jewel, locket, necklace, nose ring, pin, precious stone, rhinestone, ring, stickpin, stone, tiara, torque, wampum, wristband, wristlet

brood mare

• brood mare, Houyhnhnm, Partlet, biddy, bitch, bossy, charger, colt, courser, cow, critter, dobbin, doe, entire, entire horse, equine, ewe, ewe lamb, filly, foal, gelding, guinea hen, gyp, heifer, hen, hind, horse, jenny, lioness, mare, mount, nag, nanny, nanny goat, peahen, prancer, roe, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, slut, sow, stallion, steed, stud, studhorse, tarpan, tigress, top horse, vixen, war-horse, wild horse

brood over

• brood over, ache, agonize, bear in mind, bleed, breathe vengeance, cherish, chew over, con over, deliberate over, deliberate upon, digest, dwell on, dwell upon, fan the embers, fret, grieve, harbor revenge, have in mind, hold in mind, keep, keep in memory, keep in mind, keep in view, meditate upon, mope, mourn, mull over, muse on, muse over, pine, pine away, ponder over, reflect over, retain, revolve, ruminate over, run over, sorrow, take on, think over, treasure, turn over

brood

• brood, agonize, animal kingdom, be abstracted, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child, blood, breed, carry, carry young, chew the cud, children, clan, class, clock, clutch, consider, contemplate, cover, debate, deliberate, deme, descendants, descent, despair, despond, digest, family, farrow, folk, folks, fret, fruit, fry, gens, gestate, get, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, hatch, hearth, heirs, homefolks, hostages to fortune, house, household, incubate, inheritors, introspect, issue, kids, kind, line, lineage, litter, little ones, matriclan, meditate, menage, mope, muse, muse on, muse over, nation, nest, new generation, offspring, order, patriclan, people, perpend, phratry, phyle, pine, plant kingdom, play around with, play with, ponder, ponder over, posterity, pout, progeniture, progeny, race, reflect, rising generation, ruminate, ruminate over, seed, sept, set, sit, sons, spat, spawn, species, speculate, stem, stirps, stock, strain, study, succession, sulk, totem, toy with, treasures, tribe, weigh, worry, young, younglings, youngsters

brooder

• brooder, Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, birthplace, breeding place, broiler, broody hen, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicken house, chicky, cock, cockerel, coop, cradle, depressive, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, forcing bed, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gloomy Gus, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hatchery, hen, hen turkey, hencote, henhouse, hennery, hotbed, incubator, melancholiac, melancholic, mope, nest, nidus, nursery, partlet, poulard, poult, poultry, pullet, roaster, rookery, rooster, setting hen, sourpuss, spring chicken, stewing chicken, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock

brook

• brook, abide, abide with, accept, adolescent stream, allow, arroyo, be big, be content with, be easy with, bear, bear with, beck, bide, blink at, bourn, braided stream, branch, brave, brooklet, burn, channel, condone, connive at, countenance, creek, crick, disregard, endure, flowing stream, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gill, go, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, have, hear of, ignore, indulge, judge not, kill, lazy stream, lean over backwards, listen to reason, live with, lump, lump it, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, not write off, overlook, persevere, put up with, race, racing stream, rill, river, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, see both sides, sike, spill stream, stand, stand for, stick, stomach, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, suffer, support, suspend judgment, sustain, swallow, take, take up with, tolerate, view with indulgence, wadi, watercourse, waterway, wink at

broom

• broom, autoclave, brush, carpet sweeper, comb, currycomb, dishcloth, dishwasher, doormat, duster, dustpan, facecloth, hackle, hairbrush, handkerchief, holystone, hose, mop, napkin, pumice stone, rake, scraper, scrub brush, scrubber, serviette, sponge, sudarium, swab, toothbrush, toothpick, towel, vacuum cleaner, washboard, washer, washing machine, whisk, wisp, wringer

broth

• broth, bisque, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, burgoo, chicken soup, chowder, clam chowder, clear soup, consomme, decoction, egg drop soup, fish soup, gazpacho, gravy soup, gumbo, julienne, matzo ball soup, minestrone, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, mulligatawny, oxtail soup, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, puree, soup, stock, thick soup, thin soup, tomato soup, turtle soup, vegetable soup, vichyssoise, won ton soup

brothel

• brothel, Babylon, Gomorrah, Sodom, bagnio, bawdy house, bawdyhouse, bordello, cathouse, clip joint, crib, den, den of iniquity, den of thieves, den of vice, disorderly house, dive, dump, fancy house, fleshpots, gyp joint, harem, hellhole, hole, house of assignation, house of joy, house of prostitution, joint, lair, panel den, panel house, red-light district, seraglio, sink, sink of corruption, sink of iniquity, sporting house, stew, stews, tenderloin, whorehouse

brother

• brother, Greek, abbacomes, abbot, acquaintance, adjunct, advocate, affiliate, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogue, ascetic, associate, aunt, auntie, backer, beadsman, bedfellow, belonger, best friend, blood brother, bosom friend, brethren, brother-in-arms, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, caloyer, card-carrier, card-carrying member, cardholder, casual acquaintance, catechumen, celibate, cenobite, charter member, chum, church member, churchman, churchwoman, close acquaintance, close copy, close friend, close match, clubber, clubman, clubwoman, coadjutor, cognate, cohort, colleague, committeeman, communicant, companion, compatriot, compeer, complement, comrade, confederate, confidant, confidante, confrere, congenator, congener, consociate, consort, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, conventual, conventual prior, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterpart, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, crony, daughter, dues-paying member, enlistee, enrollee, equivalent, familiar, father, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellow member, fellowman, first cousin, foster brother, frater, fraternity man, friar, friend, grand prior, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, guildsman, half brother, hermit, hieromonach, honorary member, image, initiate, inseparable friend, insider, intimate, joiner, kid brother, kin, kindred spirit, kinsman, laic, lay abbot, lay brother, lay sister, layman, laywoman, life member, like, likeness, lover, mate, member, mendicant, monastic, monk, mother, near duplicate, neighbor, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, obverse, one of us, other self, pal, palmer, parallel, parishioner, partisan, pendant, pickup, picture, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, pledge, prior, reciprocal, relation, relative, religieux, religious, repository, second cousin, second self, secular, sibling, similitude, simulacrum, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, socius, son, sorority girl, sorority woman, soul mate, stepbrother, stepsister, stylite, such, suchlike, supporter, sympathizer, tally, the like of, the likes of, twin, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother, well-wisher

brotherhood

• brotherhood, affectionateness, affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, association, benignancy, benignity, blood, blood relationship, boon companionship, brotherliness, brothership, camaraderie, chumship, circle, clique, club, cognation, colleagueship, common ancestry, common descent, community, community of interest, companionship, compassion, comradeship, confraternity, confrerie, connection, consanguinity, consortship, country club, cousinhood, cousinship, enation, esprit de corps, fatherhood, feeling of kinship, fellow feeling, fellowship, filiation, fraternal feeling, fraternal order, fraternalism, fraternity, freemasonry, friendship, goodness, goodness of heart, graciousness, guild, heart of gold, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly disposition, kindness, kindred, kinship, league, loving kindness, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, niceness, order, organization, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, secret society, set, sibship, sisterhood, sisterliness, sistership, society, sodality, softheartedness, sorority, soul of kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness, ties of blood, union, warmheartedness, warmth, warmth of heart

brotherly love

• brotherly love, Amor, BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, accord, accordance, admiration, adoration, affection, affinity, agape, agreement, altruism, amity, ardency, ardor, attachment, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, bigheartedness, bodily love, bonds of harmony, caritas, cement of friendship, charitableness, charity, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, concord, concordance, congeniality, conjugal love, correspondence, desire, devotion, do-goodism, empathy, esprit, esprit de corps, faithful love, fancy, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, fervor, flame, flower power, fondness, free love, free-lovism, frictionlessness, generosity, giving, good vibes, good vibrations, goodwill, grace, greatheartedness, happy family, harmony, heart, hero worship, humanitarianism, identity, idolatry, idolism, idolization, kinship, largeheartedness, lasciviousness, libido, like, like-mindedness, liking, love, love of mankind, lovemaking, married love, mutuality, oneness, passion, peace, philanthropism, philanthropy, physical love, popular regard, popularity, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, sharing, shine, solidarity, spiritual love, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, understanding, union, unison, unity, utilitarianism, uxoriousness, weakness, welfarism, well-disposedness, worship, yearning

brotherly

• brotherly, Christian, Christlike, Christly, affectionate, agreeable, amiable, amicable, benign, benignant, compassionate, congenial, cordial, decent, devoted, favorable, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, good, gracious, harmonious, human, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, loving, loyal, neighborlike, neighborly, nice, peaceable, pleasant, simpatico, sisterly, sociable, softhearted, sympathetic, sympathique, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, unhostile, warm, warmhearted, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant

brouhaha

• brouhaha, Bedlam let loose, ado, agitation, babel, bedlam, blast, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, brawl, broil, bustle, cacophony, chaos, charivari, chirm, churn, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, coil, commotion, conturbation, din, discomposure, discord, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drunken brawl, dustup, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, excitement, fanaticism, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, hassle, hell broke loose, helter-skelter, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurrah, hurry, hurry-scurry, inquietude, jangle, jitters, jumpiness, loud noise, maelstrom, malaise, melee, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, noise, noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium, passion, pell-mell, perturbation, pother, racket, rage, rampage, rattle, restlessness, rhubarb, riot, roar, roil, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, rout, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumble, rumpus, scramble, seethe, seething, shindy, shivaree, stir, storminess, swirl, swirling, tempestuousness, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, vortex, whirl, wildness, yeastiness, zeal, zealousness

brow

• brow, acme, air, apex, apogee, bank, bean, bearing, board, border, bordure, brim, brink, cap, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, cilia, climax, cloud nine, coast, color, complexion, countenance, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, demeanor, dome, edge, extreme limit, extremity, face, facial appearance, favor, featheredge, feature, features, flange, forehead, frame, fringe, front, garb, guise, head, headpiece, heaven, heavens, height, hem, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, labellum, labium, labrum, ledge, limb, limbus, limit, lineaments, lines, lip, list, looks, marge, margin, maximum, meridian, mien, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noddle, noggin, noodle, noon, pate, peak, physiognomy, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, poll, port, posture, presence, ragged edge, ridge, rim, sconce, selvage, seventh heaven, shore, side, sideline, skirt, sky, spire, stance, summit, tip, tip-top, top, traits, turn, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, verge, vertex, very top, visage, zenith

browbeat

• browbeat, badger, beat down, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, bounce, break, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, castrate, clamp down on, coerce, compel, cow, daunt, demoralize, despotize, discourage, dominate, domineer, domineer over, dragoon, enslave, frighten, grind, grind down, harass, hassle, hector, henpeck, huff, intimidate, keep down, keep under, lord it over, nag, oppress, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, press heavy on, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, subjugate, suppress, systematically terrorize, terrorize, threaten, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, walk all over, walk over, weigh heavy on

brown nose

• brown nose, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlick, bootlicker, brownie, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe, fawner, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, helot, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, stooge, suck, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, yes-man

brown study

• brown study, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, bad dream, bemusement, castle-building, close study, concentration, contemplativeness, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, deep thought, depth of thought, dream, dreaming, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, incubus, melancholy, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, nightmare, pensiveness, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, profound thought, reflectiveness, reverie, speculativeness, stargazing, study, thoughtfulness, trance, vision, wistfulness, woolgathering

brown

• brown, Argos brown, Bordeaux, Cologne brown, Mexican red, Roman umber, Saint Benoit, Turkey umber, acorn, alesan, alizarin brown, anthracene brown, anthragallol, antique brown, antique gold, autumn leaf, bake, barbecue, baste, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, beige, biscuit, bister, black, black out, blacken, blanch, block the light, blot out, boil, bone brown, bracken, braise, brew, broil, bronze, brown race, browning, brownish, brownish-yellow, brownness, brunet, bunny brown, burn, burnt almond, cafe noir, cast a shadow, chocolate, cinnamon, cloud, cloud over, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coconut, coddle, coffee, coffee-brown, cook, curry, darken, darken over, dead leaf, devil, dim, dim out, do, do to perfection, doeskin, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, eclipse, ecru, embrown, encloud, encompass with shadow, fawn, fawn-colored, fire, foliage brown, fox, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fuscous, gloom, grege, griddle, grill, hazel, heat, infuscate, infuscation, khaki, leather, lurid, maple sugar, mummy, murk, negro, nut-brown, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, olive brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, oriole, otter brown, oven-bake, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pan, pan-broil, parboil, partridge, philamot, poach, prepare, prepare food, raw sienna, raw umber, resorcin dark brown, roast, rust, saute, scallop, seal, seal-brown, sear, sepia, shade, shadow, shirr, simmer, snuff-colored, somber, sorrel, steam, stew, stir-fry, sunburn, suntan, tan, taupe, tawny, tenne, terra sienna, terra umbra, toast, toast-brown, topaz, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, yellowish-brown

browned off

• browned off, aggravated, angered, angry, annoyed, bothered, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, cross, disturbed, exasperated, galled, griped, incensed, indignant, irate, ireful, irked, irritated, livid, mad, miffed, nettled, peeved, piqued, pissed, pissed-off, provoked, resentful, riled, riled up, roiled, ruffled, sore, ticked off, troubled, vexed, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up

brownie

• brownie, Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Lilliputian, Mab, Oberon, Titania, Tom Thumb, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, banshee, biscuit, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, clawback, cluricaune, cookie, courtier, creature, cringer, date bar, dupe, dwarf, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fawner, fay, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, fruit bar, ginger snap, gingerbread man, gnome, goblin, gremlin, groveler, handshaker, helot, hob, homunculus, imp, instrument, jackal, kobold, kowtower, lackey, ladyfinger, led captain, leprechaun, lickspit, lickspittle, macaroon, manikin, mealymouth, midge, midget, minion, ouphe, peewee, peon, peri, pip-squeak, pixie, pooka, puca, puppet, pwca, pygmy, runt, serf, shortbread, shrimp, slave, spaniel, sprite, stooge, suck, sugar cookie, sycophant, sylph, sylphid, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, wart, yes-man