bulk large
verb · hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
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bullock's heart
noun · large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp
bullyrag
verb · be bossy towards
Example: Her big brother always bullied her when she was youngbump up
verb · increase or raise
Example: OPEC bumped up the price of oilbumptiously
adverb · in a bumptious manner
Example: he behaved rather bumptiously and offended the hostessbunch together
verb · form into a bunch
Example: The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroombunch up
verb · gather or cause to gather into a cluster
Example: She bunched her fingers into a fistbundled-up
adjective · dressed warmly
Example: bundled-up sailors and soldiersbungaloid
adjective · characterized by bungalows
Example: the bungaloid suburbsbungled
adjective · spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness
Example: a bungled jobburdensome
adjective · not easily borne; wearing
Example: the burdensome task of preparing the income tax returnbureaucratic
adjective · of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy
Example: his bureaucratic behavior annoyed his colleaguesbureaucratically
adverb · with respect to bureaucracy
Example: it's bureaucratically complicatedburgeon forth
verb · produce buds, branches, or germinate
Example: the potatoes sproutedburglarise
verb · commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
burglarize
verb · commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
burial
noun · concealing something under the ground
burial site
noun · a tract of land used for burials
buried
adjective · placed in a grave
Example: the hastily buried corpsesburn down
verb · burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
Example: The hut burned downburr
noun · small bit used in dentistry or surgery
burred
adjective · having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Example: a horse with a short bristly maneburst in on
verb · spring suddenly
Example: He burst upon our conversationbushwhack
verb · wait in hiding to attack
busily
adverb · in a busy manner
Example: they were busily engaged in buying souvenirsbusk
verb · play music in a public place and solicit money for it
Example: three young men were busking in the plazabustle about
verb · move or cause to move energetically or busily
Example: The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performancebut then
adverb · (contrastive) from another point of view
Example: on the other hand, she is too ambitious for her own goodbutcher
noun · someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
butcher block
noun · a thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwood
butt against
verb · collide violently with an obstacle
Example: I ran into the telephone polebutt-weld
noun · a butt joint that is welded
buttery
adjective · resembling or containing or spread with butter
Example: a rich buttery cakebutton up
verb · refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
Example: The children shut up when their father approachedbuttonlike
adjective · small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button
Example: bright beady eyesbutty
noun · a sandwich
Example: a bacon buttybuxomly
adverb · in a curvaceous way
Example: his date was curvaceously beguilingbuy food
verb · purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
buy in
verb · amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
Example: let's stock coffee as long as prices are lowby
adverb · in reserve; not for immediate use
Example: started setting aside money to buy a carby a long shot
adverb · by a great deal
Example: he is the best by a long shotby all means
adverb · definitely or certainly
Example: Visit us by all meansby all odds
adverb · without question and beyond doubt
Example: it was decidedly too expensiveby and by
adverb · at some eventual time in the future
Example: By and by he'll understandby artificial means
adverb · not according to nature; not by natural means
Example: artificially induced conditionsby chance
adverb · without advance planning
Example: they met accidentallyby experimentation
adverb · in an experimental fashion
Example: this can be experimentally determinedby fits and starts
adverb · intermittently
Example: he worked on his book by fits and startsby hand
adverb · without the use of a machine
Example: this dress is sewn by handby heart
adverb · by committing to memory
Example: she knew the poem by heartby hook or by crook
adverb · in any way necessary
Example: I'll pass this course by hook or by crookby inches
adverb · by a short distance
Example: they moved it by inchesby machine
adverb · with the use of a machine
Example: the shirt is sewn by machineby memory
adverb · by committing to memory
Example: she knew the poem by heartby nature
adverb · through inherent nature
Example: he was naturally lazyby no means
adverb · definitely not
Example: the prize is by no means certainby right of office
adverb · by virtue of position
Example: the president sat on the committee ex officioby rights
adverb · with reason or justice
by small degrees
adverb · by a short distance
Example: they moved it by inchesby the bye
adverb · introducing a different topic; in point of fact
Example: incidentally, I won't go to the party