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brush
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(n) contact with something dangerous or undesirable; "I had a brush with danger on my way to work"; "he tried to avoid any brushes with the police"

(n) the act of brushing your hair; "he gave his hair a quick brush"

(n) the act of brushing your teeth; "the dentist recommended two brushes a day"

(n) a minor short-term fight

(n) an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

(n) conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

(n) momentary contact

(n) a dense growth of bushes

(v) remove with or as if with a brush; "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections"

(v) touch lightly and briefly; "He brushed the wall lightly"

(v) rub with a brush, or as if with a brush; "Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket"

(v) clean with a brush; "She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet"

(v) cover by brushing; "brush the bread with melted butter"

(v) sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience"

borrow
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(v) get temporarily; "May I borrow your lawn mower?"

(v) take up and practice as one's own

battery
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(n) an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact

(n) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"

(n) a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series

(n) a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores

(n) a collection of related things intended for use together; "took a battery of achievement tests"

(n) a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher

(n) group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place

boom
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(n) any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring

(n) a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set

(n) a deep prolonged loud noise

(n) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line"

(n) a state of economic prosperity

(v) grow stronger; "The economy was booming"

(v) hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"

(v) make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of the song"

(v) make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall"

(v) be the case that thunder is being heard; "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed"

brilliant
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(s) full of light; shining intensely; "a brilliant star"; "brilliant chandeliers"

(s) having striking color; "bright greens"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"

(s) characterized by or attended with brilliance or grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony"

(s) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem"

(s) clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets"

(s) of surpassing excellence; "a brilliant performance"; "a superb actor"

bite
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(n) a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"

(n) the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

(n) a strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"

(n) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire"

(n) (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait; "after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite"

(n) a light informal meal

(n) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread"

(n) a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

(n) a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

(v) penetrate or cut, as with a knife; "The fork bit into the surface"

(v) deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday"

(v) to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; "Gunny invariably tried to bite her"

(v) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"

blade
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(n) the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge

(n) flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water

(n) the part of the skate that slides on the ice

(n) a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade

(n) a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)

(n) a cut of beef from the shoulder blade

(n) something long and thin resembling a blade of grass; "a blade of lint on his suit"

(n) a dashing young man; "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures"

(n) especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole

badly
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(r) (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill

(r) with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake"

(r) unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"

(r) in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them"

(r) without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly"; "I think he paints very badly"

(r) to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"

(r) very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"

(r) with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad"

(r) in a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room"

(r) evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is to act badly"

bombing
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(n) an attack by dropping bombs

(n) the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists

barrel
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(n) a cylindrical container that holds liquids

(n) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired

(n) any of various units of capacity; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons"

(n) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold

(n) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

(v) put in barrels

besides
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(r) making an additional point; anyway; "I don't want to go to a restaurant; besides, we can't afford it"; "she couldn't shelter behind him all the time and in any case he wasn't always with her"

(r) in addition; "he has a Mercedes, too"

briefly
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(r) for a short time; "she visited him briefly"; "was briefly associated with IBM"

(r) in a concise manner; in a few words; "the history is summed up concisely in this book"; "she replied briefly"; "briefly, we have a problem"; "to put it shortly"

buyer
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(n) a person who buys

bake
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(v) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the potatoes"

(v) heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer"

(v) prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake"

bench
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(n) a long seat for more than one person

(n) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic

(n) persons who administer justice

(n) the reserve players on a team; "our team has a strong bench"

(n) the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively

(n) a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)

(v) exhibit on a bench; "bench the poodles at the dog show"

(v) take out of a game; of players

boundary
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(n) the greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"

(n) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something

(n) a line determining the limits of an area

balance
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(n) a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity

(n) a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat

(n) an equivalent counterbalancing weight

(n) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane

(n) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin

(n) the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22

(n) (astrology) a person who is born while the sun in in Libra

(n) equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

(n) the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

(n) something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"

(n) equality of distribution

(n) a state of equilibrium

(v) hold or carry in equilibrium

(v) compute credits and debits of an account

(v) bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"

(v) be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot"

Bible
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(n) a book regarded as authoritative in its field

(n) the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"

bullet
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(n) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"

(n) a projectile that is fired from a gun

(n) a high-speed passenger train

blind
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(n) something that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

(n) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"

(n) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"

(n) people who have severe visual impairments; "he spent hours reading to the blind"

(v) make dim by comparison or conceal

(v) make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded"

(v) render unable to see

(s) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"

(s) not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"

(a) unable to see

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