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apple
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n 1: fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart
crisp whitish flesh
2: native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for
its firm rounded edible fruits [syn: apple, orchard apple
tree, Malus pumila]
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astraddle
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adv 1: with one leg on each side; "she sat astride the chair"
[syn: astride, astraddle]
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babble
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n 1: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: babble,
babbling, lallation]
v 1: utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an
incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay
attention"
2: to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the
baby" [syn: babble, blather, smatter, blether,
blither]
3: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling
brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble,
bubble, gurgle]
4: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his
secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of
the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble,
sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth
shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]
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bagel
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n 1: (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with
hard crust [syn: bagel, beigel]
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battle
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n 1: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course
of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of
Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he
got into a real engagement" [syn: battle, conflict,
fight, engagement]
2: an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through
the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for
recognition" [syn: struggle, battle]
3: an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
"the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--
Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the
pro- and anti-abortion mobs" [syn: conflict, struggle,
battle]
v 1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The
Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We
must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they
battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat]
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bedraggle
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v 1: make wet and dirty, as from rain [syn: bedraggle,
draggle]
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brattle
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v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter,
clack, brattle]
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cackle
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n 1: the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
2: noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter,
cackle]
3: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
v 1: talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when
they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
2: squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
3: emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
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cattle
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n 1: domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or
age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come
home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of
oxen" [syn: cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus]
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chapel
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n 1: a place of worship that has its own altar
2: a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own
altar; "he was late for chapel" [syn: chapel service,
chapel]
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chattel
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n 1: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable
property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn:
chattel, personal chattel, movable]
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crackle
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adj 1: having the surface decorated with a network of fine
cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"
n 1: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle,
crackling, crepitation]
2: glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
[syn: crackle, crackleware, crackle china]
v 1: make a crackling sound; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the
bowl" [syn: crepitate, crackle]
2: make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the
gravel" [syn: crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle]
3: to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of
small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
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dabble
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v 1: dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn:
dabble, paddle, splash around]
3: work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in
astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never
makes any money" [syn: dabble, smatter, play around]
4: bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body
of water; "dabbling ducks"
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dapple
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n 1: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a
leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin
ice"; "a fleck of red" [syn: spot, speckle, dapple,
patch, fleck, maculation]
v 1: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn:
mottle, dapple, cloud]
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draggle
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v 1: make wet and dirty, as from rain [syn: bedraggle,
draggle]
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gaggle
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n 1: a flock of geese
v 1: make a noise characteristic of a goose; "Cackling geese"
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haggle
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n 1: an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn:
haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling]
v 1: wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's
not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: haggle, higgle,
chaffer, huckster]
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juggle
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n 1: the act of rearranging things to give a misleading
impression [syn: juggle, juggling]
2: throwing and catching several objects simultaneously [syn:
juggle, juggling]
v 1: influence by slyness [syn: juggle, beguile, hoodwink]
2: manipulate by or as if by moving around components; "juggle
an account so as to hide a deficit"
3: deal with simultaneously; "She had to juggle her job and her
children"
4: throw, catch, and keep in the air several things
simultaneously
5: hold with difficulty and balance insecurely; "the player
juggled the ball"
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smuggle
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v 1: import or export without paying customs duties; "She
smuggled cigarettes across the border"
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snuggle
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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: position comfortably; "The baby nestled her head in her
mother's elbow" [syn: nestle, snuggle]
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straggle
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n 1: a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons);
"a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers"
v 1: wander from a direct or straight course [syn: sidetrack,
depart, digress, straggle]
2: go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches
straggling out quite far" [syn: sprawl, straggle]
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waggle
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n 1: causing to move repeatedly from side to side [syn: wag,
waggle, shake]
v 1: move from side to side; "The happy dog wagged his tail"
[syn: wag, waggle]
2: move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion [syn:
wamble, waggle]
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guggle
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v 1: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise;
"babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle,
burble, bubble, gurgle]
2: make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle
3: drink from a flask with a gurgling sound [syn: guggle,
gurgle]
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gagel
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hagel
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magel
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nagele
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pagel
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raggle
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slagel
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