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busybody.noun,.plural.busybodies
a person who meddles
or pries into the affairs
of others; a nosy
person
busy, busier,
busiest.adjectives
engaged in activity, as work; occupied; sustaining
much activity (a busy morning; a busy street); cluttered
with detail to the point of being distracting
(the dress pattern was attractive even if it was a busy looking design)
busy, busied,
busying,
busies.transitive
verbs
to make busy; occupy
(busied himself fixing up the old house) busily.adverb
busyness.noun,.plural.busynesses
business.noun,.plural.businesses
another way of spelling busyness; something one
is busy
at doing; something involving
one personally (it's none of my business); one's rightful or proper concern
or interest (her business was managing the home and the children); an affair
or matter
("We will proceed no further in this business"....Shakespeare);
the occupation,
work or trade
in which a person is engaged
(their organic food stand was their only business); patronage
(took her business to a trustworthy salesperson)
brave, braver,
bravest.adjectives
possessing or displaying courage;
valiant
brave.noun,.plural.braves
a Native American warrior; a courageous person
brave, braved,
braving,
braves.verbs
transitive verb use.to
undergo or face courageously; to challenge;
dare
intransitive
verb use.to make a courageous show
or to put up a stalwart front
bravely.adverb
braveness.noun,.plural.bravenesses
bravery.noun,.plural.braveries
the condition
or quality
of being brave; courage
bottom.noun,.plural.bottoms
the deepest or lowest part (the bottom of a well;
the bottom of the page); the underside (scraped the bottom of the car on
a rock); the supporting part; the base; the far end or part (at the bottom
of the bed); the basic underlying quality; the source (let's get to the
bottom of the problem); the solid surface under a body of water; the buttocks;
in baseball, the second or last half of an inning
attributive.often
used to modify another noun: (a bottom drawer; the bottom stair)
rock bottom.noun,.plural.rock
bottoms
the lowest possible level or absolute bottom (some
people like ancient.Jonah
and contemporary.Derek
have to hit rock bottom before they change)
rock bottom.adjective
bottom, bottomed,
bottoming,
bottoms.verbs
transitive verb use.to
provide with an underside; to provide with a foundation; to get to the
bottom of; fathom
intransitive verb use.to
be or become based or grounded; to rest on or touch the bottom
bottom out.phrasal
verb
to descend
to the lowest point possible (sales of cell phone are bottoming out as
the cost of communicating with them is exorbitant)
at bottom.idiom
basically;
fundamentally
bad.adjective
bad is doing something that
does not produce good;
(rather than living with the quietness of God (1Peter
3:4), she lived in a helter-skelter
way that screwed her life up)having an intent to but not achieving an adequate
standard when compared with the positive
things of love (doing bad things would be cheating
in a kids game of marbles, an adult's game of poker
and other such 'flies' whereas
doing evil is having a mindset
to harm); bad is doing inconveniences
to another;
poor (it was a bad explanation);
disobedient or naughty (children who do bad things); something
that is bad is unpleasant,
harmful
or undesirable (bad weather conditions prevented the plane from landing;
they have gone through bad times, as ancient
David also experienced:.Psalms
51:5); unpleasant or disturbing (a bad piece of meat; bad acts); unfavorable
(bad news for the public's health if they eat genetically
modified 'food'); not fresh; rotten or spoiled (leftovers in the fridge
for days spoil); worse, worst; disagreeable,
injurious in effect; detrimental
(bad habits are habits that are harmful); not working properly; defective
(a bad telephone connection); full of or exhibiting faults or errors (bad
grammar);
having no validity;
void
(passed a bad cheque); severe; intense (a bad day with the blizzard
out there); sorry; regretful
(she feels bad about how she treated you); extreme
bad is
evil or having an intent to
harm in some way
bad.noun,.plural.bads
something
that is below standard or expectations, as of ethics
or decency (if there is less good
than bad when considering a mate,
better stay away)
badness.noun,.plural.badnesses
badly.adverb
in a bad manner;
very much; greatly
badass.noun,.plural.badasses
a poor quality.uncaring.individual;
a mean-spirited
or belligerent
individual; ready
to cause
or get into trouble
badass.adjective
mean;
belligerent
too bad
indicating
that something is regrettable
but now beyond.retrieval
bull.noun,.plural.bulls
an official document issued by the pope and sealed
with a bulla; the bulla with which such a document
is sealed; an adult male bovine mammal; the uncastrated
adult male of domestic
cattle; the male of certain other large animals, such as the alligator,
elephant or moose; an exceptionally large, strong and aggressive person;
an optimist, especially regarding business conditions; a person who buys
commodities or securities in anticipation of a rise in prices or who tries
by speculative
purchases to effect such a rise; empty, foolish or pretentious
talk
bulla.noun,.plural.bullae
a round seal affixed
to a papal bull
Pathology:.in
pathology,
a large blister or vesicle
bull.noun,.plural.bulls
an adult male bovine mammal;
a bovine adult male which has not been castrated;
the male of certain other large animals, such as the alligator, elephant
or moose; ; a bullock; a large, strong
and aggressive man or woman; a man or woman who buys commodities
or securities in anticipation
of a rise in prices or who tries by speculative
purchases to effect such a rise;
an empty, foolish or pretentious
comment regarded by the listener as a bunch of bull or nonsense
bovine.adjective
of,
relating.to.or.resembling
a ruminant.mammal
of the genus
'Bos', such as an ox, cow or buffalo
bovine.noun,.plural.bovines
an animal of the genus 'Bos'
bull, bulled,
bulling,
bulls.verbs
transitive verb use.to
push; force
intransitive verb use.to
push ahead or through forcefully
bull.adjective
male; large and strong like a bull;
characterized by rising prices (a bull market)
grab the bull by the horns or take the bull by
the horns.idiom
to deal with a problem directly and resolutely
bullish.adjective
having
a heavy, muscular physique; bullheaded;
causing, expecting or characterized by rising stock market prices (the
market being so active at the present can be called bullish); optimistic
or confident (bullish on the
sales prospects of these new items soon to be available
bullishly.adverb
bullishness.noun
bullheaded.adjective
foolishly
or irrationally.stubborn;
headstrong;
obstinate
bullheadedly.adverb
bullheadedness.noun
boo.noun,.plural.boos
a sound uttered
to show contempt, scorn
or disapproval; also used
to surprise another
boo, booed,
booing,
boos.verbs
intransitive verb use.to
utter a boo
transitive verb use.to
express contempt, scorn or disapproval of by booing (booed the lying.politician
off the stage)
boohoo.interjection
used in stories to show that someone is crying
behest.noun
an authoritative command; an urgent
request
borrower.noun,.plural.borrowers
(one doesn't 'loan' money
from a lending source, they 'borrow' it; the bank loans to you, the borrower,
the one borrowing, but you can say that 'you got a loan' from a lending
source and you got that loan by borrowing
it from them; you borrow, they loan or if you have the money or some goods,
they borrow from you and you lent
to them, such as 'I loaned out my tools to a neighbor who came by looking
to borrow them'); if you 'lend'
to someone, the other person is 'borrowing'
from you; if you borrow something, the person is loaning it to you; if
someone is loaning you something, you are borrowing it from them
borrow, borrowed,
borrowing,
borrows.verbs
transitive verb use.to
obtain or receive something
on loan with the promise or understanding of returning it or its equivalent;
to adopt
or use as one's own (I borrowed your good idea; I can loan you my
car to help you out while yours is in for repair); in subtraction,
to take a unit from the next larger denomination
in the minuend so as to make a
number larger than the number to be subtracted
intransitive verb use.to
obtain or receive something; in linguistics,
to adopt
words from one language
for use in another
borrow trouble.idiom
to take an unnecessary
action that will probably
engender.adverse
effects
brawl.noun
a noisy quarrel
or fight
brawl,
brawled,
brawling,
brawls.intransitive
verbs
to quarrel or fight noisily;
quarrelsome;
scrappy
brawlingly.adverb
brawling.adjective
brawler.noun
disposed
to loud disagreements and fighting
blazon,
blazoned,
blazoning,blazons.transitive
verbs
heraldry;
to describe a coat of arms in proper terms; to paint or depict
(a coat of arms) with accurate.detail;
to adorn or embellish
with or as if with a coat of arms; to proclaim
widely; emblazon
blazon.noun
an ostentatious.display;
heraldry;
a coat of arms; the description
or representation of a coat of arms
blazoner,
blazonment.nouns
bungee.noun
also called bungee cord
or rope; an elasticized rope; a long nylon-cased rubber band used for securing
luggage and in the sport of bungee jumping
berserk.adjective
if someone or something
goes berserk, control is lost and if it's an angry person, they may become
obnoxious;
destructively or frenetically
violent (an angry person who went berserk started smashing all the windows);
mentally or emotionally upset; deranged
(berserk with grief); unrestrained,
as with enthusiasm or appetite (she goes beserk over chocolate treats);
wild
berserk.noun
one that may be upset, unrestrained,
even violent
berserker.noun,.plural.berserkers
a berserker was one of a
band of ancient Norse warriors, legendary for their savagery and reckless
frenzy
in battle; the word berserker is from the Old
Norse word 'berserkr' meaning 'a wild warrior or champion', where such
warriors wore hides of bears, explaining the probable origins of 'berserkr'
as a compound of 'bera' meaning
'bear' and 'serkr' meaning 'shirt' and 'coat'; berserkers appeared frenzied
in battle, howling like animals, foaming at the mouth and biting the edges
of their iron shields in an effort to
intimidate
those they came up against in battle; the word 'berserker' was first recorded
in English in the early 19th century (the 1800's), long after these wild
warriors ceased to exist
berserk,
berserkly.adverbs
before.adverb
in front of (mist before the mountain; she stood
before him); earlier in time (they called me the day before to arrange
for the beach party this weekend; she stood up before he did); ahead (before
she
committed
to the help she was willing to provide, she wanted to be sure she had transportation
there and back; he arrived an hour before the party)
before.preposition
previous
to in time; ere;
earlier than; in store for; awaiting (a young individual's whole life lies
before him); in front of (he placed a plan before us to clean up the local
environment); into or in the presence of (she asked that the visitor be
brought before her); under the consideration or jurisdiction
of (the case is now before the court); in a position superior
to (the oldest son is before his brother in the line of succession)
before.conjunction
in advance of the time when (see me before you
leave); ere;
rather
than; sooner than (I will pack for the trip well before I leave)
beforehand.adverb
beforehand.adjective
in anticipation;
in advance;
early
bin.noun,.plural.bins
a container or enclosed space for storage (a garbage
bin)
bin, binned,
binning,
bins.transitive
verbs
to place or store in a bin
bioremediation.noun,.plural.bioremediations
biological
correction of deficiency
(when you body senses a shortage of say, blood after you cut yourself,
it corrects the imbalace in amount while at the same time heals the cut
with new cells)
bison.noun.plural.bisons
a bovine
mammal of western North America, having large forequarters, a shaggy mane
and a massive head with short, curved horns; a buffalo; an animal (Bison
bonasus) of Europe, similar to but somewhat smaller than the bison; a wisent
brimstone.noun.plural.brimstones
a sulfuric
mineral substance, highly inflammable that burns with a suffocating
smell. Way back when, Sodom and the other
cities of the plain were destroyed."by
brimstone and fire":.Genesis
19:24 and this awful catastrophe
is often used in Scripture
to show what God thinks of low consciousness living that
gets worse.
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