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  • 121lay on — Synonyms and related words: administer, apply, apply to, attack, baste, bastinado, beat, bedaub, belabor, belt, besmear, bestow, birch, blanket, block, buffet, burden with, butter, cane, canopy, charge, cloak, clothe, cloud, club, coat, cope,… …

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  • 122Broomstick (horse) — Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename = Broomstick caption = sire = Ben Brush grandsire = Bramble dam = Elf damsire = Galliard sex = Stallion foaled = 1901 country = USA flagicon|USA colour = Bay breeder = Col. Milton Young (McGrathiana Stud)… …

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  • 123bludgeon — 1. noun /blʌdʒ.ən/ A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end. We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon. 2. verb /blʌdʒ.ən/ a) To strike or hit with something har …

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  • 124switch — Synonyms and related words: about face, accommodation, action, adaptation, adjustment, agency, alchemy, alteration, alternate, amelioration, anagnorisis, angle, apostacize, apostasy, apostatize, appendage, architectonics, architecture, argument,… …

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  • 125bhāt- : bhǝt- —     bhāt : bhǝt     English meaning: to hit     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schlagen, stoßen”     Material: Lat. fatuus “ foolish, idiotic, silly, awful, tasteless from taste “ (*from beaten the head, dull); Gaul. Lw. Lat. battuō, ere, more recently… …

    Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

  • 126club — [klub] n. [ME clubbe < ON klubba, cudgel < IE * geleb(h) < base * gel , form a ball > CLIMB, CALF1] 1. a) a heavy stick, usually thinner at one end, used as a weapon b) anything used to threaten or coerce 2 …

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  • 127Swaddle — Swad dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swaddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swaddling}.] 1. To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. [1913 Webster] They swaddled me up in my nightgown …

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  • 128Swaddled — Swaddle Swad dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swaddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swaddling}.] 1. To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. [1913 Webster] They swaddled me up in my… …

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