breeding,n.generation, procreation, begetting, prolification; stirpiculture, eugenics;nurture,training.Associated words: dysgenesis, dysgenesic,hybrid, hybridization, thremmatology.breeding freely.prolific.Antonym: unprolific.breeze,n.zephyr; (Colloq.)disturbance,quarrel,tumult.breezy,a.airy,windy; (Colloq.)lively,spirited,animated,brisk.brew,v.foment,concoct,hatch,plot.bribe,n.hush-money, boodle (Slang).--v.suborn.bribery,n.subornation.bric-a-brac,n.virtu, knick-knacks.brick,n.adobe (unburnt and dried in the sun); malm-brick.bridal,a.nuptial, conjugal, hymeneal.bridge,n.trestlework, viaduct, culvert, pons, pontoonbridge, cantileverbridge.bridge,v.span.bridle,n.restraint,curb,check.--v.restrain,curb,check,control.brief,a.short-lived, ephemeral,transient, transitory; terse,concise. Seeshort.brief,n.breviary,epitome,summary; writ,precept, breve.briefness,n.brevity.brier,n.thorn, bramble.brigand,n.highwayman,bandit,outlaw,robber,footpad,freebooter.bright,a.luminous, gleaming,lustrous,radiant, resplendent, glistening,beaming, shimmering, phosphorescent, luciferous, luminiferous, argent, orient,dazzling,glowing,glittering, flashing, scintillating,sparkling, refulgent, effulgent,brilliant, vivid,glossy, fulgent, naif, lucent,glaring, garish, crystalline;intelligent, precocious,apt, acute,discerning,clever,smart,knowing;auspicious, propitious; illustrious,glorious.Antonyms:dull, lackluster,obscure,dim,opaque,murky, nebulous, dingy, tarnished, sullied.brighten,v.polish, burnish,furbish; illuminate, irradiate,cheer,rally, enliven, inspirit.brightness,n.brilliancy,splendor,luster, luminosity, resplendence,radiance, refulgence, effulgence, glow;aptness, precocity, acuteness,sharpness,discernment; vivacity,animation,liveliness.brilliancy,n.brightness, resplendence, refulgence, brilliance.brilliant,a.sparkling,glittering, scintillating,dazzling, gleaming, glistening, flashing;splendid,glorious,signal,eminent,striking.brim,n.rim,border,margin,edge,brink,bank, marge.brimstone,n.sulphur.bring,v.fetch.bring about.bring to pass,effect,accomplish, effectuate,achieve.bring back.return,restore,replace;revive, resuscitate.bring forward.introduce.bring to.resuscitate,revive, reanimate.bringing to.resuscitation,revivification.bring on.incur.bring to pass.accomplish, effectuate.bring up.nurse,rear,nurture,train.brink,n.edge,border, verge.brisk,a.lively,spirited,sprightly,spry,agile,rapid.British soldier.Tommy Atkins.brittle,a.frangible,crisp, friable.brittleness,n.frangibility.Antonym:tenacity.broad,a.wide; extensive, extended,vast, wide-reaching, comprehensive;liberal,tolerant,catholic;indelicate,gross,questionable.broadside,n.placard,poster.broil,v.grill.broiler,n.gridiron.broiling,a.scorching, torrid,grilling.broken,a.fractured, splintered, shattered, shivered;disconnected, discontinuous, interrupted; impaired, shattered;subdued, humbled,contrite,penitent, crushed,trained, subjugated, tractable; violated.Antonyms: inviolate, intact,whole.broken-hearted,a.disconsolate, inconsolable,comfortless.broker,a.agent,factor,middleman,go-between.brood,v.incubate, sit; meditate (morbidly).brook,n.rivulet, runlet,rill,creek, streamlet, runnel,run,burn.brook,v.tolerate, suffer,endure,bear.broom,n.besom; whisk (small broom).brothel,n.house ofprostitution,bawdy-house, brothelry.brother,n.Associated words: fratricidal, fraternize, fratricide,brotherhood, brothergerman, brother uterine.brotherhood,n.fraternity,fellowship.brotherly,a.fraternal.brow,n.forehead.brown,a.dusky, tawny, dun, swarthy.brown race.Malayan.brown study.abstraction, revery, musing, preoccupation.bruise,v.contuse, ecchymose.bruise,v.indent,deface,disfigure.bruise,n.contusion, ecchymosis.bruiser,n.(Colloq.) boxer, pugilist.bruit,n.report, towntalk,rumor,hearsay.--v.noise, abroad,report,tell,circulate.brush,n.brushwood;thicket,underbrush; grazing.brushwood,n.thicket,coppice,underbrush,brush.brutal,a.inhuman,cruel, fell,ruthless, truculent,unfeeling;beastly, bestial,brutish.brutality,n.inhumanity, cruelty, truculence.brute,n.beast;fiend,monster,ruffian, yahoo.brute,a.irrational.brutish,a.bestial,brutal,brute.bubonic plague.polyadenitis.buck,n.ram;beau,fop,blade,dandy.bud,v.pullulate, germinate, bourgeon.Buddha,n.Gautama Siddartha, Sakya Sinha.budding,n.gemmification, bourgeoning, gemmation.buffalo,n.bison; carabao (water buffalo).bugaboo,n.ogre,bugbear,bogy,fright, bullbeggar.bugbear,n.bugaboo, ogre,bogy,bête noire.build,v.erect, construct,raise.builder,n.architect;carpenter.building,n.erection, construction; edifice, structure,pile; architecture.businesslike,a.pragmatical.bulging,a.protuberant,convex, gibbous.bulgy,a.(Colloq.)bulging, gibbous,convex.bulk,n.mass,size, dimensions, magnitude, bulkiness;majority,mass.bulky,a.massive,ponderous,big.bull,n.Taurus; Minotaur; Apis.Associated words: tauriform, taurine, bovine, bellow.bulldoze,v.(Colloq.) intimidate, browbeat.bullfight,n.Associated words:arena, banderilla, banderillero, picadore.bullfighter,n.matador, toreador, tauridor, capeador, tauromachian.bullfighting,n.tauromachy.bullhead,n.(Colloq.) dolt,lout,lubber, dunderhead, beetlehead.bully,n.blusterer, swaggerer, roisterer,rowdy,rough.bully,a.(Slang)jolly,jovial;fine,excellent,good.bully,v.browbeat, overbear, swagger,bluster, intimidate.bullying,a.hectoring,swaggering,blustering.bulwark,n.rampart,fortification;defense, palladium,shield.bump,v.jolt,jounce, thump.bump,n.protuberance, prominence,lump, nodule,swelling.bumpkin,n.lout,boor, clodpoll,yokel, yahoo,hind.bumptious,a.(Colloq.)self-conceited,obtrusive,pushing.bunch,n.cluster,tuft,knot, tussock; raceme, racemation; protuberance,lump, nodule,hunch,bump;lot,collection,group, assortment,set.bundle,n.parcel,package, bale,pack, budget, packet.bung,n.stopper, tampoon,spigot, stopple;bunghole,vent.bunghole,n.bung,vent, vent-hole.bungling,a.unskillful, maladroit,inexpert,clumsy,inapt.bunker,n.bin,receptacle,crib.bunko,v.cheat,swindle, victimize.burden,n.load,cargo; incubus, encumbrance,weight,impediment,trial,oppression;chorus,refrain.burden,v.encumber,load, surcharge,oppress.burial,n.interment, inhumation, sepulture, entombment.Antonyms: disinterment,exhumation.burlesque,n.travesty,farce.burn,v.scorch, scald,singe, char,sear, cauterize,brand, consume, incinerate;cremate,incremate.burn,n.ambustion.burnable,a.combustible,inflammable.Antonyms: incombustible, asbestic.burning,n.combustion, cineration, incineration; cauterization, cautery; pyrography; arson; incendiarism; smoldering.burning,n.cremation,incremation.Associated words: cremator, crematory, crematorium.bury,n.inter, inhume, entomb, sepulcher;hide,secrete, conceal, cache.Antonyms: disinter,exhume.burying-ground,n.cemetery.bush,n.shrub;thicket,jungle, underwood, boscage.bushwhacker,n.bushranger, guerrilla.business,n.vocation,calling, pursuit,craft,trade,occupation,profession; avocation; traffic,trade,commerce,enterprise,industry,barter;duty,function,work,place; affair,concern,matter.Associated words:commercial,mercantile, technical, technicality, technology.bustle,n.stir,agitation,tumult,ado,pother,commotion;bishop, tournure, pannier.busy,a.occupied,engaged, employed, engrossed;diligent,industrious, sedulous,active;intrusive,officious,meddlesome.butcher,v.slaughter.butter,n.Associated words: butyric, butyrin, butyrometer, butyrate, dairy, creamery, churn, butterine, capric, caprylic, caproic acid, butyraceous.butterflies,n. pl.Lepidoptera.Associated words: lepidopterist, lepidopteral, lepidopterous, caterpillar,larva.buttock,n.rump,fundament,breech; glutæus (muscle).buttress,n.support,stay,prop.buy,v.purchase.buyer,n.purchaser.buying,n.purchase.buzz,n.hum,murmur, bombinate;whiz.buzz,v.hum, bombinate.by degrees.gradually.bystander,n.spectator,onlooker,witness.by turns.alternately, insuccession.
breeding,n.generation, procreation, begetting, prolification; stirpiculture, eugenics;nurture,training.Associated words: dysgenesis, dysgenesic,hybrid, hybridization, thremmatology.
breeding freely.prolific.Antonym: unprolific.
breeze,n.zephyr; (Colloq.)disturbance,quarrel,tumult.
breezy,a.airy,windy; (Colloq.)lively,spirited,animated,brisk.
brew,v.foment,concoct,hatch,plot.
bribe,n.hush-money, boodle (Slang).--v.suborn.
bribery,n.subornation.
bric-a-brac,n.virtu, knick-knacks.
brick,n.adobe (unburnt and dried in the sun); malm-brick.
bridal,a.nuptial, conjugal, hymeneal.
bridge,n.trestlework, viaduct, culvert, pons, pontoonbridge, cantileverbridge.
bridge,v.span.
bridle,n.restraint,curb,check.--v.restrain,curb,check,control.
brief,a.short-lived, ephemeral,transient, transitory; terse,concise. Seeshort.
brief,n.breviary,epitome,summary; writ,precept, breve.
briefness,n.brevity.
brier,n.thorn, bramble.
brigand,n.highwayman,bandit,outlaw,robber,footpad,freebooter.
bright,a.luminous, gleaming,lustrous,radiant, resplendent, glistening,beaming, shimmering, phosphorescent, luciferous, luminiferous, argent, orient,dazzling,glowing,glittering, flashing, scintillating,sparkling, refulgent, effulgent,brilliant, vivid,glossy, fulgent, naif, lucent,glaring, garish, crystalline;intelligent, precocious,apt, acute,discerning,clever,smart,knowing;auspicious, propitious; illustrious,glorious.Antonyms:dull, lackluster,obscure,dim,opaque,murky, nebulous, dingy, tarnished, sullied.
brighten,v.polish, burnish,furbish; illuminate, irradiate,cheer,rally, enliven, inspirit.
brightness,n.brilliancy,splendor,luster, luminosity, resplendence,radiance, refulgence, effulgence, glow;aptness, precocity, acuteness,sharpness,discernment; vivacity,animation,liveliness.
brilliancy,n.brightness, resplendence, refulgence, brilliance.
brilliant,a.sparkling,glittering, scintillating,dazzling, gleaming, glistening, flashing;splendid,glorious,signal,eminent,striking.
brim,n.rim,border,margin,edge,brink,bank, marge.
brimstone,n.sulphur.
bring,v.fetch.
bring about.bring to pass,effect,accomplish, effectuate,achieve.
bring back.return,restore,replace;revive, resuscitate.
bring forward.introduce.
bring to.resuscitate,revive, reanimate.
bringing to.resuscitation,revivification.
bring on.incur.
bring to pass.accomplish, effectuate.
bring up.nurse,rear,nurture,train.
brink,n.edge,border, verge.
brisk,a.lively,spirited,sprightly,spry,agile,rapid.
British soldier.Tommy Atkins.
brittle,a.frangible,crisp, friable.
brittleness,n.frangibility.Antonym:tenacity.
broad,a.wide; extensive, extended,vast, wide-reaching, comprehensive;liberal,tolerant,catholic;indelicate,gross,questionable.
broadside,n.placard,poster.
broil,v.grill.
broiler,n.gridiron.
broiling,a.scorching, torrid,grilling.
broken,a.fractured, splintered, shattered, shivered;disconnected, discontinuous, interrupted; impaired, shattered;subdued, humbled,contrite,penitent, crushed,trained, subjugated, tractable; violated.Antonyms: inviolate, intact,whole.
broken-hearted,a.disconsolate, inconsolable,comfortless.
broker,a.agent,factor,middleman,go-between.
brood,v.incubate, sit; meditate (morbidly).
brook,n.rivulet, runlet,rill,creek, streamlet, runnel,run,burn.
brook,v.tolerate, suffer,endure,bear.
broom,n.besom; whisk (small broom).
brothel,n.house ofprostitution,bawdy-house, brothelry.
brother,n.Associated words: fratricidal, fraternize, fratricide,brotherhood, brothergerman, brother uterine.
brotherhood,n.fraternity,fellowship.
brotherly,a.fraternal.
brow,n.forehead.
brown,a.dusky, tawny, dun, swarthy.
brown race.Malayan.
brown study.abstraction, revery, musing, preoccupation.
bruise,v.contuse, ecchymose.
bruise,v.indent,deface,disfigure.
bruise,n.contusion, ecchymosis.
bruiser,n.(Colloq.) boxer, pugilist.
bruit,n.report, towntalk,rumor,hearsay.--v.noise, abroad,report,tell,circulate.
brush,n.brushwood;thicket,underbrush; grazing.
brushwood,n.thicket,coppice,underbrush,brush.
brutal,a.inhuman,cruel, fell,ruthless, truculent,unfeeling;beastly, bestial,brutish.
brutality,n.inhumanity, cruelty, truculence.
brute,n.beast;fiend,monster,ruffian, yahoo.
brute,a.irrational.
brutish,a.bestial,brutal,brute.
bubonic plague.polyadenitis.
buck,n.ram;beau,fop,blade,dandy.
bud,v.pullulate, germinate, bourgeon.
Buddha,n.Gautama Siddartha, Sakya Sinha.
budding,n.gemmification, bourgeoning, gemmation.
buffalo,n.bison; carabao (water buffalo).
bugaboo,n.ogre,bugbear,bogy,fright, bullbeggar.
bugbear,n.bugaboo, ogre,bogy,bête noire.
build,v.erect, construct,raise.
builder,n.architect;carpenter.
building,n.erection, construction; edifice, structure,pile; architecture.
businesslike,a.pragmatical.
bulging,a.protuberant,convex, gibbous.
bulgy,a.(Colloq.)bulging, gibbous,convex.
bulk,n.mass,size, dimensions, magnitude, bulkiness;majority,mass.
bulky,a.massive,ponderous,big.
bull,n.Taurus; Minotaur; Apis.Associated words: tauriform, taurine, bovine, bellow.
bulldoze,v.(Colloq.) intimidate, browbeat.
bullfight,n.Associated words:arena, banderilla, banderillero, picadore.
bullfighter,n.matador, toreador, tauridor, capeador, tauromachian.
bullfighting,n.tauromachy.
bullhead,n.(Colloq.) dolt,lout,lubber, dunderhead, beetlehead.
bully,n.blusterer, swaggerer, roisterer,rowdy,rough.
bully,a.(Slang)jolly,jovial;fine,excellent,good.
bully,v.browbeat, overbear, swagger,bluster, intimidate.
bullying,a.hectoring,swaggering,blustering.
bulwark,n.rampart,fortification;defense, palladium,shield.
bump,v.jolt,jounce, thump.
bump,n.protuberance, prominence,lump, nodule,swelling.
bumpkin,n.lout,boor, clodpoll,yokel, yahoo,hind.
bumptious,a.(Colloq.)self-conceited,obtrusive,pushing.
bunch,n.cluster,tuft,knot, tussock; raceme, racemation; protuberance,lump, nodule,hunch,bump;lot,collection,group, assortment,set.
bundle,n.parcel,package, bale,pack, budget, packet.
bung,n.stopper, tampoon,spigot, stopple;bunghole,vent.
bunghole,n.bung,vent, vent-hole.
bungling,a.unskillful, maladroit,inexpert,clumsy,inapt.
bunker,n.bin,receptacle,crib.
bunko,v.cheat,swindle, victimize.
burden,n.load,cargo; incubus, encumbrance,weight,impediment,trial,oppression;chorus,refrain.
burden,v.encumber,load, surcharge,oppress.
burial,n.interment, inhumation, sepulture, entombment.Antonyms: disinterment,exhumation.
burlesque,n.travesty,farce.
burn,v.scorch, scald,singe, char,sear, cauterize,brand, consume, incinerate;cremate,incremate.
burn,n.ambustion.
burnable,a.combustible,inflammable.Antonyms: incombustible, asbestic.
burning,n.combustion, cineration, incineration; cauterization, cautery; pyrography; arson; incendiarism; smoldering.
burning,n.cremation,incremation.Associated words: cremator, crematory, crematorium.
bury,n.inter, inhume, entomb, sepulcher;hide,secrete, conceal, cache.Antonyms: disinter,exhume.
burying-ground,n.cemetery.
bush,n.shrub;thicket,jungle, underwood, boscage.
bushwhacker,n.bushranger, guerrilla.
business,n.vocation,calling, pursuit,craft,trade,occupation,profession; avocation; traffic,trade,commerce,enterprise,industry,barter;duty,function,work,place; affair,concern,matter.Associated words:commercial,mercantile, technical, technicality, technology.
bustle,n.stir,agitation,tumult,ado,pother,commotion;bishop, tournure, pannier.
busy,a.occupied,engaged, employed, engrossed;diligent,industrious, sedulous,active;intrusive,officious,meddlesome.
butcher,v.slaughter.
butter,n.Associated words: butyric, butyrin, butyrometer, butyrate, dairy, creamery, churn, butterine, capric, caprylic, caproic acid, butyraceous.
butterflies,n. pl.Lepidoptera.Associated words: lepidopterist, lepidopteral, lepidopterous, caterpillar,larva.
buttock,n.rump,fundament,breech; glutæus (muscle).
buttress,n.support,stay,prop.
buy,v.purchase.
buyer,n.purchaser.
buying,n.purchase.
buzz,n.hum,murmur, bombinate;whiz.
buzz,v.hum, bombinate.
by degrees.gradually.
bystander,n.spectator,onlooker,witness.
by turns.alternately, insuccession.