Words that rhyme with hubble
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bauble
n 1: a mock scepter carried by a court jester 2: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket] -
befuddle
v 1: be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" [syn: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate] 2: make stupid with alcohol [syn: befuddle, fuddle] -
bubble
n 1: a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) 2: a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble" [syn: house of cards, bubble] 3: an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble" 4: a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic v 1: form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling" 2: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle] 3: rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles; "bubble to the surface" 4: cause to form bubbles; "bubble gas through a liquid" 5: expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table" [syn: burp, bubble, belch, eruct] -
buckle
n 1: fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong 2: a shape distorted by twisting or folding [syn: warp, buckle] v 1: fasten with a buckle or buckles [syn: buckle, clasp] [ant: unbuckle] 2: fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" [syn: buckle, crumple] 3: bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave" [syn: heave, buckle, warp] -
chuckle
n 1: a soft partly suppressed laugh [syn: chortle, chuckle] v 1: laugh quietly or with restraint [syn: chuckle, chortle, laugh softly] -
couple
n 1: a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" [syn: couple, twosome, duo, duet] 2: a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago" [syn: couple, mates, match] 3: a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days" 4: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad] 5: (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines v 1: bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project" [syn: match, mate, couple, pair, twin] 2: link together; "can we couple these proposals?" [syn: couple, couple on, couple up] [ant: decouple, uncouple] 3: form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off" [syn: pair, pair off, partner off, couple] 4: engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring" [syn: copulate, mate, pair, couple] -
crumble
v 1: fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down" [syn: crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse] 2: break or fall apart into fragments; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling" [syn: crumble, fall apart] 3: fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay" [syn: decay, crumble, dilapidate] -
cuddle
n 1: a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace [syn: cuddle, nestle, snuggle] v 1: move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags" [syn: cuddle, snuggle, nestle, nest, nuzzle, draw close] 2: hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth; "I cuddled the baby" -
decouple
v 1: disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds" [syn: uncouple, decouple] [ant: couple, couple on, couple up] 2: regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" [syn: decouple, dissociate] [ant: associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in] 3: eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) 4: reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) -
double
adv 1: downward and forward; "he was bent double with pain" 2: two together; "some people sleep better double" 3: to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright" [syn: doubly, double, twice] adj 1: having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison [syn: double, dual, twofold, two-fold, treble, threefold, three-fold] 2: consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure" [syn: double, dual, duple] 3: twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is doubled"; "a twofold increase" [syn: double, doubled, twofold, two-fold] 4: used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements; "double chrysanthemums have many rows of petals and are usually spherical or hemispherical" [ant: single] 5: used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis [syn: bivalent, double] [ant: multivalent, univalent] 6: large enough for two; "a double bed"; "a double room" 7: having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: double, forked] n 1: a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield" [syn: double, two- base hit, two-bagger, two-baser] 2: a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable" [syn: double, stunt man, stunt woman] 3: someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" [syn: double, image, look-alike] 4: a quantity that is twice as great as another; "36 is the double of 18" 5: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" [syn: doubling, double] v 1: increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years" [syn: double, duplicate] 2: hit a two-base hit 3: bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain; "He doubled and vomited violently" [syn: double over, double, double up] 4: do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions; "She doubles as his wife and secretary" 5: bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit) 6: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate] -
fumble
n 1: (sports) dropping the ball [syn: fumble, muff] v 1: feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom" [syn: grope, fumble] 2: make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door" [syn: fumble, blunder] 3: handle clumsily 4: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up] 5: drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder" -
humble
adj 1: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest, small] 2: marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski [ant: proud] 3: used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) [syn: humble, menial, lowly] 4: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" [syn: base, baseborn, humble, lowly] v 1: cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him" 2: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn: humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase] -
rabble
n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: mob, rabble, rout] 2: disparaging terms for the common people [syn: rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail] -
redouble
v 1: double in magnitude, extent, or intensity; "The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio" 2: double again; "The noise doubled and redoubled" 3: make twice as great or intense; "The screaming redoubled" -
rubble
n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus] -
rumble
n 1: a loud low dull continuous noise; "they heard the rumbling of thunder" [syn: rumble, rumbling, grumble, grumbling] 2: a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage 3: a fight between rival gangs of adolescents [syn: rumble, gang fight] v 1: make a low noise; "rumbling thunder" [syn: rumble, grumble] 2: to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds; "he grumbled a rude response"; "Stones grumbled down the cliff" [syn: grumble, growl, rumble] -
stubble
n 1: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble] 2: short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days -
stumble
n 1: an unsteady uneven gait [syn: lurch, stumble, stagger] 2: an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep" [syn: trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep] v 1: walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about" [syn: stumble, falter, bumble] 2: miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" [syn: stumble, trip] 3: encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" [syn: stumble, hit] 4: make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name" [syn: stumble, slip up, trip up] -
trouble
n 1: a source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed the job"; "what's the problem?" [syn: trouble, problem] 2: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, trouble, bother, hassle] 3: an event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?"; "heart trouble" 4: an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty" [syn: trouble, difficulty] 5: a strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over the prospect of being fired"; "it is not work but worry that kills"; "he wanted to die and end his troubles" [syn: worry, trouble] 6: an unwanted pregnancy; "he got several girls in trouble" v 1: move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought" [syn: disturb, upset, trouble] 2: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..." [syn: trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother] 3: disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill" [syn: perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder] 4: take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please" [syn: trouble oneself, trouble, bother, inconvenience oneself] 5: cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed [syn: trouble, ail, pain] -
buccal
adj 1: of or relating to or toward the cheek 2: lying within the mouth; "a buccal gland" 3: oriented toward the inside of the cheek; "the buccal aspect of the gum" -
nubble
n 1: a small lump or protuberance [syn: nub, nubble] -
beall
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hubbell
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