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bear out. sustain, support, corroborate, confirm, uphold.
beast, n. brute; quadruped; monster, brute.
beastly, a. b.e.s.t.i.a.l, irrational, brutal; (Colloq.) abominable, disagreeable, nasty.
beat, v. forge, malleate, beetle, weld, hammer; belabor, maul, buffet, smite, flagellate, whack, pelt, strike; See whip; overcome, vanquish, surpa.s.s, conquer, eclipse, subdue, checkmate, rout, excel, outdo; cheat, swindle, defraud; throb, pulsate; pulverize, comminute, bruise, bray, triturate; perplex, pose, nonplus.
beat, n. throb, pulsation; round; superior.
beat, a. (Colloq.) exhausted, weary, fatigued, beaten.
beat back. repel, repulse, resist.
beaten, a. conquered, defeated, vanquished.
beating, n. flagellation, drubbing, flogging, fustigation, castigation, thumping, mauling, verberation, pommeling; pulsation, throb, throbbing, saltation; defeat, repulse; malleation, forging, welding.
beating, a. pulsating, throbbing, pulsatile.
beau, n. lover, sweetheart, gallant, swain, flame, cicisbeo, admirer, suitor, inamorato; dandy, popinjay, dude, fop, c.o.xcomb, exquisite, blade.
beautiful, a. fair, lovely, handsome, comely, personable, beauteous, elegant, exquisite. Antonyms: homely, ugly, repulsive, unlovely, hideous, uncomely, inelegant.
beautify, v. embellish, adorn, grace, garnish.
beauty, n. loveliness, fairness, elegance, comeliness, pulchritude, grace, exquisiteness, charm, attraction. a.s.sociated Words: aesthetics, aesthetician, aestheticism, aesthete, aesthetic, esthetology, Apollo, Adonis, Venus, Hebe, Hyperion, Houri, Aphrodite.
becloud, v. dim, cloud, obscure, adumbrate, obfuscate.
becoming, a. appropriate, fit, seemly, befitting, comely. Antonyms: See unbecoming.
bed, n. berth, bunk, couch, cot; pallet, pailla.s.se, mattress; cradle, trundle-bed; deposit, seam, vein, stratum. a.s.sociated Words: dec.u.mbiture, lectual, clinic, clinical, valance, alcove.
bedbug, n. chinch.
bedclothes, n. pl. a.s.sociated Words: floccillation, carphology, tilmus.
bedim, v. obscure, becloud, adumbrate, overcast.
bedlam, n. madhouse, insane asylum; babel, pandemonium.
bedroom, n. chamber.
bedsore, n. decubitus.
bedspread, n. counterpane, coverlet.
bed-wetting, n. enuresis.
beehive, n. beehouse, apiary, alveary.
bees, n. pl. a.s.sociated Words: apiology, apiculture, apiologist, apian, apiarian, apiarist, apivorous, hive, swarm, cerago, beebread.
beetle, n. mallet (heavy); scarabee, clock, coleopter, scarab.
a.s.sociated Words:: coleopterist, coleopteral.
beetle, v. overhang, jut out, protrude, project.
befall, v. happen, supervene, betide, bechance.
befitting, a. suitable, proper, becoming, appropriate, seemly, meet, applicable, congruous.
before, prep. preceding, ahead of, anterior to, previously to, prior.
before death. ante-mortem.
before the flood. antediluvian, antediluvial.
before the war. ante-bellum.
befuddle, v. confuse, mystify, bewilder.
beg, v. beseech, supplicate, implore; ask alms.
beget, v. procreate, engender, generate, get.
begetter, n. procreator, generator, father.
beggar, n. mendicant, starveling, fakir, vagrant, eleemosynary, prog, tramp, bezonian, mumper, schnorrer (Jewish).
beggar, v. impoverish, ruin; exhaust, surpa.s.s, go beyond.
beggarly, a. indigent, dest.i.tute; despicable, pitiable, paltry.
beggary, n. mendicancy, indigence, penury, want, pauperism.
begging letter or drawing. screeve.
begin, v. commence; arise, spring, originate.
begin again. resume, recommence.
beginner, n. tyro, novice, neophyte, learner, apprentice, understudy, novitiate, probationer, catechumen, recruit.
beginning, n. commencement, inception, opening, outset, initiation, indication, incipience, nascency, incipiency, threshold, tyronism, novitiate; origin, source.
beginning again. resumption, recommencement.
