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affront
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n 1: a deliberately offensive act or something producing the
effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me
was a deliberate insult" [syn: insult, affront]
v 1: treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with
his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his
classmate was dissed by everyone" [syn: diss, insult,
affront]
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beachfront
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n 1: a strip of land running along a beach
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blunt
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adj 1: having a broad or rounded end; "thick marks made by a
blunt pencil"
2: used of a knife or other blade; not sharp; "a blunt
instrument"
3: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without
subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting";
"a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid
opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to
the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as
well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being
rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank
accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank,
free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank,
straight-from-the-shoulder]
4: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the
blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of
the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)]
v 1: make less intense; "blunted emotions"
2: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn:
numb, benumb, blunt, dull]
3: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
[syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen]
4: make less sharp; "blunt the knives"
5: make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor,
force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings";
"deaden a sound" [syn: deaden, blunt] [ant: animate,
enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up]
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brunt
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n 1: main force of a blow etc; "bore the brunt of the attack"
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bunt
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n 1: (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without
swinging the bat
2: disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains
with greasy masses of smelly smut spores [syn: bunt,
stinking smut]
3: similar to Tilletia caries [syn: bunt, stinking smut,
Tilletia foetida]
4: fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with
greasy masses of smelly spores [syn: bunt, Tilletia
caries]
v 1: hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short
distance [syn: bunt, drag a bunt]
2: to strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out
of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns" [syn:
butt, bunt]
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confront
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v 1: oppose, as in hostility or a competition; "You must
confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing
ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other"
[syn: confront, face]
2: deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront
your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his
mistakes" [syn: confront, face up, face] [ant: avoid]
3: present somebody with something, usually to accuse or
criticize; "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was
faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his
actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us" [syn: confront,
face, present]
4: be face to face with; "The child screamed when he confronted
the man in the Halloween costume"
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forefront
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n 1: the part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the
forefront"; "he was at the head of the column" [syn:
forefront, head]
2: the position of greatest importance or advancement; the
leading position in any movement or field; "the Cotswolds
were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in
England"; "the idea of motion was always to the forefront of
his mind and central to his philosophy" [syn: vanguard,
forefront, cutting edge]
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front
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adj 1: relating to or located in the front; "the front lines";
"the front porch" [ant: back(a)]
n 1: the side that is forward or prominent [syn: front, front
end, forepart] [ant: back end, backside, rear]
2: the line along which opposing armies face each other [syn:
battlefront, front, front line]
3: the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"
4: the side that is seen or that goes first [ant: back,
rear]
5: a person used as a cover for some questionable activity [syn:
front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw
man, strawman]
6: a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were
active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on
many different fronts"
7: (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the
boundary between two different air masses
8: the immediate proximity of someone or something; "she blushed
in his presence"; "he sensed the presence of danger"; "he was
well behaved in front of company" [syn: presence, front]
9: the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer;
"he walked to the front of the stage" [ant: back, rear]
10: a group of people with a common ideology who try together to
achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of
the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass
movement"; "he led the national liberation front" [syn:
movement, social movement, front]
v 1: be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to
another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks
north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building
faces the park" [syn: front, look, face] [ant:
back]
2: confront bodily; "breast the storm" [syn: front, breast]
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grunt
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n 1: the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs [syn:
grunt, oink]
2: an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker;
"infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from
grunt to chairman in six years"
3: medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting
sounds when caught
v 1: issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise; "He grunted his
reluctant approval"
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hunt
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n 1: Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) [syn:
Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt]
2: United States architect (1827-1895) [syn: Hunt, Richard
Morris Hunt]
3: British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and
Shelley (1784-1859) [syn: Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry
Leigh Hunt]
4: an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport [syn: hunt,
hunt club]
5: an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for
submarines"
6: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something
or someone [syn: search, hunt, hunting]
7: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food
or pelts [syn: hunt, hunting]
8: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded
as a sport [syn: hunt, hunting]
v 1: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering
often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running
deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn: hunt,
run, hunt down, track down]
2: pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer
into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until
they found him" [syn: hound, hunt, trace]
3: chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted
immigrants out of the neighborhood"
4: yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose
yawed"
5: oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an
undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct
frequency"
6: seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was
unable to locate them"
7: search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these
forests"
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lakefront
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n 1: land bordering a lake
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manhunt
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n 1: an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with
a crime)
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oceanfront
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n 1: land bordering an ocean
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punt
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n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100
pence [syn: Irish pound, Irish punt, punt, pound]
2: an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and
propelled by a long pole
3: (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the
hands and kicked before it touches the ground; "the punt
traveled 50 yards"; "punting is an important part of the
game" [syn: punt, punting]
v 1: kick the ball
2: propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went
punting in Cambridge" [syn: punt, pole]
3: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting
on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake,
game, punt]
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shunt
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n 1: a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is
diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus
shunt"
2: a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another
device to divert a fraction of the current [syn: shunt,
electrical shunt, bypass]
3: implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for
draining fluids within the body
v 1: transfer to another track, of trains
2: provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
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stunt
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n 1: a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to
gain attention
2: a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from
attaining full growth
v 1: check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your
growth by building all these muscles"
2: perform a stunt or stunts
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shirtfront
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n 1: the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a
jacket); "he had spilled catsup on his shirtfront"
2: a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the
front of a shirt [syn: dickey, dickie, dicky,
shirtfront]
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cunt
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n 1: a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is
thoroughly disliked; "she said her son thought Hillary was
a bitch" [syn: cunt, bitch]
2: obscene terms for female genitals [syn: cunt, puss,
pussy, slit, snatch, twat]
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lunt
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n 1: United States actor who performed with his wife Lynn
Fontanne in many stage productions (1893-1977) [syn:
Lunt, Alfred Lunt]
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exeunt
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bunte
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glunt
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hundt
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hunte
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jundt
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klundt
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lundt
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munt
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pundt
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runte
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