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blandish, v. flatter, cajole, caress.
blandishment, n. cajolery, wheedling, caresses, blandiloquence.
blank, a. void, empty, unfilled; expressionless, vacant: confounded, nonplused, astounded; unmitigated, absolute, downright.
blarney, n. (Colloq.) blandiloquence, palaver, blandishment, cajolery, flattery.
blamey, v. flatter, cajole, palaver, wheedle, blandish.
blase, a. surfeited (with pleasure), sated, palled.
blasphemy, n. sacrilege, calumny, profanity.
blast, n. squall, gust; peal, blare, clang; explosion, discharge.
blast, v. blight, destroy; frustrate, ruin; explode, rend, open.
blasting, n. blighting, carbunculation; frustration, ruination.
blat, v. bleat.
blatant, a. brawling, clamorous, obstreperous, bawling braying.
blaze, n. flame.
blazing, a. flaming, ablaze, aflame. Antonym: smoldering.
blazon, v. emblazon; publish, display, exhibit.
bleach, v. etiolate, whiten, blanch.
bleaching, n. blanching, whitening, etiolation.
bleak, a. windswept, cheerless, raw, penetrating, desolate, dreary.
bleared, a. rheumy.
blearedness, n. lippitude, glama, epiphora.
bleed, v. exude.
bleeding, n. hemorrhage; phlebotomy, bloodletting, venesection.
a.s.sociated Words: tourniquet, garrot, styptic.
blemish, v. deface, mar, disfigure, sully.
blemish, n. defect, fault, imperfection, eyesore, disfigurement, blot.
blench, v. flinch, recoil, shrink from.
blend, v. intermingle, fuse, merge, combine, mix, a.s.similate.
blend, n. mixture, merging, fusion, a.s.similation, synthesis.
blessing, n. benediction, benison, beat.i.tude; boon, G.o.d-send.
blight, v. blast; ruin, frustrate, fowart.
blind, a. unseeing, sightless, purblind; oblivious, undiscriminating, inconsiderate, unmindful; unintelligible, illegible; obscure, intricate, involved.
blind, n. shade, curtain, screen; blinder, blinker; subterfuge, pretext, ruse, stratagem, pretense, feint sophistry.
blind alley. cul-de-sac, _impa.s.se_.
blind gut. caec.u.m.
blinding, a. obscuring.
blindness, n. sightlessness, anopsia, purblindness; amaurosis.
blink, v. wink; connive at, disregard, overlook.
bliss, n. felicity, transport, rapture, beat.i.tude, happiness, ecstasy.
blissful, a. felicitous, ecstatic, rapturous, beatific.
blister, n. vesicle, pustule, pustulation, bleb; vesicatory, vesicant, epispastic, pustulant.--v. vesicate, pustulate.
blistering, a. vesicatory, epispastic, pustulant.--n.
vesication, pustulation.
bloat, v. inflate, distend.
bloated, a. distended, turgid, intumescent, tumefied.
bloating, n. dilatation, intumescence, turgidity.
block, v. obstruct, blockade.--n. obstruction, obstacle, barrier.
blockhead, n. dolt, dunce, simpleton, ninny, numskull.
blood, n. lifeblood; gore. a.s.sociated Words: hematology, hemorrhage, hemal, hematic, plethora, anaemia, sanguification, sanguify, clot, corpuscle, styptic, hematosis, sanguiferous, hematin, sanguine, sanguineous, sanguinivorous, hematophobia, hyperaemia.
blood, n. blade, spark.
bloodhound, n. sleuthhound.
bloodless, a. exsanguineous, exsanguious, anaemic.
