dict_dl/en_merriam_webster/bl_mw.json

{
  "black":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "biographical name ()",
      "geographical name",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": having the very dark color of the night sky or the eye's pupil : of the color black (see black entry 2 sense 2 )",
      ": of or relating to any of various population groups of especially African ancestry often considered as having dark pigmentation of the skin but in fact having a wide range of skin colors",
      ": of or relating to Black people and often especially to African American people or their culture",
      ": dressed in black (see black entry 2 sense 2 )",
      ": dirty , soiled",
      ": characterized by the absence of light",
      ": reflecting or transmitting little or no light",
      ": served without milk or cream",
      ": thoroughly sinister or evil : wicked",
      ": indicative of condemnation or discredit",
      ": heavy , serious",
      ": connected with or invoking the supernatural and especially the devil",
      ": very sad, gloomy, or calamitous",
      ": marked by the occurrence of disaster",
      ": characterized by hostility or angry discontent : sullen",
      ": distorted or darkened by anger",
      ": having dark skin, hair, and eyes",
      ": subject to boycott by trade-union members as employing or favoring nonunion workers or as operating under conditions considered unfair by the trade union",
      ": conducted so as to appear to originate within an enemy country and designed to weaken enemy morale",
      ": characterized by or connected with the use of black propaganda",
      ": characterized by grim, distorted, or grotesque satire",
      ": of or relating to covert intelligence operations",
      ": having a very deep or low register (see register entry 1 sense 4b )",
      ": a pigment or dye of the color black : a black pigment or dye",
      ": one consisting largely of carbon",
      ": the achromatic (see achromatic sense 3 ) color of least lightness characteristically perceived to belong to objects that neither reflect nor transmit light",
      ": something that is black: such as",
      ": black clothing",
      ": a black animal (such as a horse)",
      ": the narrow, black edge of home plate",
      ": a person belonging to any of various population groups of especially African ancestry often considered as having dark pigmentation of the skin but in fact having a wide range of skin colors",
      ": african american",
      ": the pieces of a dark color in a board game for two players (such as chess)",
      ": total or nearly total absence of light",
      ": the condition of making a profit",
      "\u2014 compare red sense 6",
      ": to become black (see black entry 1 ) : blacken",
      ": to make black",
      ": to declare (something, such as a business or industry) subject to boycott by trade-union members",
      ": of the color of coal : colored black",
      ": very dark",
      ": of or relating to any of various groups of people having dark pigmentation of the skin",
      ": of or relating to African-American people or culture",
      ": very sad or gloomy",
      ": unfriendly sense 1",
      ": wicked sense 1",
      ": the color of coal : the opposite of white",
      ": black clothing",
      ": a person belonging to a group of people having dark skin",
      ": an American having black African ancestors : african-american",
      ": total or near total darkness",
      ": the condition of making a profit",
      ": blacken sense 1",
      ": to lose consciousness or the ability to see for a short time",
      "Hugo LaFayette 1886\u20131971 American jurist and politician",
      "Sir James Whyte 1924\u20132010 British pharmacologist",
      "river 101 miles (162 kilometers) long in east central Louisiana flowing south into the Red River",
      "river 500 miles (805 kilometers) long in southeastern Asia rising in central Yunnan, China, and flowing southeast to the Red River in northern Vietnam"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blak",
      "\u02c8blak",
      "\u02c8blak"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "ebony",
      "pitch-black",
      "pitch-dark",
      "pitchy",
      "raven",
      "sable"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blackness",
      "candlelight",
      "dark",
      "darkness",
      "dusk",
      "gloaming",
      "gloom",
      "murk",
      "night",
      "semidarkness",
      "shade",
      "shadows",
      "twilight",
      "umbra"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Drake also shared a photo of what appears to be the cover art: the album\u2019s title set in a shiny silver font, juxtaposed against a plain black background. \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
      "Choose from 7 different patch colors: dark brown, tan, black , blue, gray, red, and pink. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 16 June 2022",
      "Last year, after dressing actress Tiffany Haddish in a black number with taffeta sleeves on the red carpet, the look went viral, the dress sold out, and search interest for the brand jumped by 74%. \u2014 Rachel Marlowe, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
      "Gerber complemented his look in a navy top, black miniskirt, and matching leather blazer. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 June 2022",
      "The vehicle is an older black Chevy Trailblazer with extensive front end damage, according to investigators. \u2014 Hannah Brock, The Indianapolis Star , 16 June 2022",
      "Notably, the only no-cost color options on most models are white and grey, while blue is $1000, black is $1500, and red is $2000. \u2014 Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver , 16 June 2022",
      "Steps away, an outdoor dining room also features furniture from CB2, while a neutral-on- black color palette keeps things cohesive. \u2014 Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine , 16 June 2022",
      "Scientists predict there to be thousands of black holes floating in space. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 15 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "This one comes in four popsicle-bright colors (plus black and a striped option) like the electric lavender seen here. \u2014 Ariel Scotti, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
      "Here are some tips from the Department of Energy to help save during the hot days of summer: User window coverings like black -out drapes to prevent heat gain through your windows during the day. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 14 June 2022",
      "In the sweet pictures, Campbell, dressed in all black , walks along a grassy field near a pond while holding her daughter's hands. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 June 2022",
      "Two ensuites\u2014one pink blossom, the other black and gold\u2014contain elaborate gold baths, showers and walk-in dressing rooms. \u2014 Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report , 10 June 2022",
      "There are 18 colors that range from staples like black and brown to standouts like a very buildable chartreuse green and matte mauve. \u2014 Alaina Demopoulos, Allure , 9 June 2022",
      "That means getting into the black won\u2019t come cheap. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 7 June 2022",
      "Celebrities also leaned into black this week, with interesting silhouettes and textures making up for the lack of color. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 6 June 2022",
      "Stause\u2019s partner, 27-year-old Australian singer G Flip, also wore head-to-toe black for the event. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 6 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "But as the show fades to black , the Byrdes are in surprisingly good shape. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 31 May 2022",
      "Elegantly edited in segments that fade to black as the ice thaws between the siblings, there\u2019s an air of timelessness. \u2014 Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
      "The charcoal-gray dial, which fades to black at the rim, has a grainy texture deliberately reminiscent of antique camera cases. \u2014 Alex Doak, CNN , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "The video fades to black and the title Harry\u2019s House is revealed. \u2014 Izzy Col\u00f3n, SPIN , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "The giant white ball of light at the top of the dome slowly faded to black . \u2014 New York Times , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "In fact, each Nopalera bath soap is shaped like a nopal paddle, ranging in scents from the pink Flor de Mayo to black Noche Clara. \u2014 Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "Why would black , two-man lynch mobs be prowling late-night Chicago in January? \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "The downside projections to yellow are: jealousy, childishness, anxiety; and to black : grief or unhappiness, mysteriousness, emptiness or loneliness. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective, Noun, and Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-215919"
  },
  "black beast":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": b\u00eate noire"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"translation of French b\u00eate noire ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1592, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-204658"
  },
  "black hole":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a celestial object that has a gravitational field so strong that light cannot escape it and that is believed to be created especially in the collapse of a very massive star",
      ": something resembling a black hole: such as",
      ": something that consumes a resource continually",
      ": an empty space : void",
      ": a dark and seemingly inescapable state or situation",
      ": a heavenly body with such strong gravity that light cannot escape it and that is thought to be caused by the collapse of a massive star"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[
      "blank",
      "blankness",
      "emptiness",
      "vacancy",
      "vacuity",
      "void"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But sending millions or even billions of Luna into a virtual black hole would be little more than a drop in the bucket for a coin that ballooned to a supply of over 6.5 trillion in the immediate aftermath of TerraUSD losing its peg. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 30 May 2022",
      "The committee, led by Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, has a reputation as a legislative black hole . \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 25 May 2022",
      "Netflix dropped the official trailer Thursday, giving fans a look at the insanity to come, including countless fight sequences, mysterious powers and a kugelblitz \u2014 a black hole formed from radiation that threatens to swallow the entire universe. \u2014 Sasha Urban, Variety , 19 May 2022",
      "Earlier this month, astronomers shared an image of our galaxy\u2019s black hole . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 17 May 2022",
      "The image of Sagittarius A* is the second image of a black hole taken by EHT. \u2014 Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure , 12 May 2022",
      "The same telescope group released the first black hole image in 2019. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor , 13 May 2022",
      "Daniel Evans is a black hole hunter and astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. \u2014 Brendan Byrne, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 May 2022",
      "Of the 26 total black hole binaries the algorithm identified, ten are close enough to Earth to send audible echoes. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 6 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1964, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203245"
  },
  "black out":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a turning off of the stage lighting to separate scenes in a play or end a play or skit",
      ": a skit that ends with a blackout",
      ": a period of darkness enforced as a precaution against air raids",
      ": a period of darkness (as in a city) caused by a failure of electrical power",
      ": a transient dulling or loss of vision, consciousness, or memory",
      ": a wiping out : obliteration",
      ": a blotting out by censorship : suppression",
      ": a usually temporary loss of a radio signal",
      ": the prohibition or restriction of the telecasting of a sports event",
      ": a time during which a special commercial offer (as of tickets) is not valid",
      ": blot out , erase",
      ": to suppress by censorship",
      ": to envelop in darkness",
      ": to make inoperative (as by a power failure)",
      ": to impose a blackout on",
      ": to become enveloped in darkness",
      ": to undergo a temporary loss of vision, consciousness, or memory",
      ": a period of darkness enforced as a protection against enemy attack by airplanes during a war",
      ": a period of darkness caused by power failure",
      ": a temporary loss of vision or consciousness",
      ": a transient dulling or loss of vision, consciousness, or memory",
      "\u2014 compare grayout , redout",
      ": to undergo a temporary loss of vision, consciousness, or memory (as from temporary impairment of cerebral circulation, retinal anoxia, a traumatic emotional blow, or an alcoholic binge) \u2014 compare gray out , red out",
      ": to cause to black out"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blak-\u02ccau\u0307t",
      "\u02c8blak-\u02ccau\u0307t",
      "\u02c8blak-\u02ccau\u0307t",
      "(\u02c8)blak-\u02c8au\u0307t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "faint",
      "insensibility",
      "knockout",
      "swim",
      "swoon",
      "syncope"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "abolish",
      "annihilate",
      "blot out",
      "cancel",
      "clean (up)",
      "efface",
      "eradicate",
      "erase",
      "expunge",
      "exterminate",
      "extirpate",
      "liquidate",
      "obliterate",
      "root (out)",
      "rub out",
      "snuff (out)",
      "stamp (out)",
      "sweep (away)",
      "wipe out"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the blackouts of World War II",
      "She keeps flashlights and candles handy in case of a blackout .",
      "He told his doctor he had been experiencing blackouts .",
      "Verb",
      "had spent most of her adulthood trying to black out memories of a wretched childhood",
      "with the delivery of the knockout punch, the screen blacks out , and in the next scene the boxer wakes up in the hospital",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "With backup batteries, the systems can operate even in a blackout , keeping businesses open and turning the organization\u2019s headquarters into a refuge for people who use medical devices that need to be powered. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
      "If those were not able to be operated and the site was in a total blackout , mobile fire trucks could be used to inject water into the core \u2014 something that was tried at Fukushima, Lyman said. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Major Ukrainian internet service provider Triolan had been temporarily knocked out, in a blackout that mostly affected the northeastern Kharkiv region\u2014a target of the Russian invasion. \u2014 Gian M. Volpicelli, Wired , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "And as Robb Report previously noted, the truck\u2019s battery will be able to charge other electric vehicles and even power a house for up to three days during a blackout . \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 3 May 2022",
      "During the blackout , each additional megawatt-hour of production should have been worth $87,000, according to that math. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "During the 2021 blackout , Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tried to sneak down to Cancun to escape the cold, only to get caught and slink back home with his tail between his legs. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 5 Jan. 2022",
      "In 2011, during the county-wide blackout that left 1.4 million residents without power, the community flocked to the bar. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 30 Nov. 2021",
      "Shocked because Cuoco\u2019s performance as Cassie Bowden, an alcoholic party girl who may have killed a guy during a blackout , is amazing. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Aug. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "They were supposed to be a game-changer that could be used to black out GPS, disrupt communications, and take over drones or deliberately crash them into the ground. \u2014 Yulia Latynina, WSJ , 1 May 2022",
      "Fans in the comments section have already begun trying their hand at the word game and shared their results \u2014 making sure to black out the answer \u2014 many of whom got the inaugural Weezle right on the first try. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "There may be revisionist histories; and the darkness yet to come may black out the brightness visible now. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "The use of quick black in, then black out stop-action moments to show Penny and Fuzzy becoming friends feels forced, however, even if intended to speed things along. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "The technology frees parents from having to fuss at their kids about their TV viewing, going so far as to black out the screen when someone is too close. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "On October 30, less than a week after the coup, the first of many Millions Marches were held, with reports of between two to four million people taking to the streets (accurate numbers are difficult to come by since the internet black out ). \u2014 Yassmin Abdel-magied, Vogue , 23 Nov. 2021",
      "As for images and videos, make sure to black out parts that could be identifiable to you, such as street names and/or house numbers. \u2014 Essence , 8 Oct. 2021",
      "Meanwhile, Dish said Sinclair threatened to black out 144 channels in 86 markets. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 9 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1913, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "1824, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185707"
  },
  "blacken":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to become dark or black",
      ": to make black",
      ": defame , sully",
      ": to make or become dark or black",
      ": spoil entry 1 sense 2"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla-k\u0259n",
      "\u02c8bla-k\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "befoul",
      "begrime",
      "bemire",
      "besmirch",
      "daub",
      "dirty",
      "distain",
      "foul",
      "gaum",
      "grime",
      "mire",
      "muck",
      "muddy",
      "smirch",
      "smudge",
      "soil",
      "stain",
      "sully"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "clean",
      "cleanse"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Fire had blackened the field.",
      "The sky blackened as the storm approached.",
      "Their false accusations failed to blacken my reputation.",
      "a presidency blackened by scandal",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Mark Werksman, his defense lawyer, argued Wednesday that the witnesses would confuse the jury and serve merely to blacken his reputation. \u2014 Gene Maddaus, Variety , 11 May 2022",
      "At the same time, in a somewhat obvious parallel, Nang\u2019s father\u2019s toe begins to blacken with gangrene that threatens to creep up his leg. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 22 Sep. 2021",
      "For years, Williams has worn sunglasses at all hours, as if to blacken her vision. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 20 Sep. 2021",
      "Because of the high sugar content, the blends will blacken and burn into the meat if left too long in the grill or in the oven. \u2014 Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News , 14 Sep. 2021",
      "Even though the Forest Service had a crew on-scene on the first day, the East Fork Fire would wind up burning for 3\u00bd months and blacken about 90,000 acres of the Ashley National Forest and neighboring tribal lands. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 July 2021",
      "The Class of \u201851 lived through World War II as grade schoolers; some remember having to blacken the windows of their houses for air raid drills. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 18 June 2021",
      "Moreover, the milk solids in butter can burn and blacken in excessive heat. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Mar. 2021",
      "This is a land unsuited for human life, where temperatures dip below minus 50\u00baC in winter and where mosquitoes blacken the skies in summer. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Dec. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192140"
  },
  "blackjack":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a card game the object of which is to be dealt cards having a higher count than those of the dealer up to but not exceeding 21",
      ": an ace and a face card or ten as the first two cards dealt to a player in the game of blackjack",
      ": a hand weapon typically consisting of a piece of leather-enclosed metal with a strap or springy shaft for a handle",
      ": a tankard for beer or ale usually of tar-coated leather",
      ": sphalerite",
      ": an often scrubby oak ( Quercus marilandica ) chiefly of the southeastern U.S.",
      ": to strike with a blackjack",
      ": to coerce with threats or pressure"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blak-\u02ccjak"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "coerce",
      "compel",
      "constrain",
      "dragoon",
      "drive",
      "force",
      "impel",
      "impress",
      "make",
      "muscle",
      "obligate",
      "oblige",
      "press",
      "pressure",
      "sandbag"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "you cannot blackjack me into going along with this",
      "an extortionist trying to blackjack a shopkeeper into paying protection money",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In 2015, Whetstone was also a top advisor to House Speaker Brian Bosma when lawmakers passed a measure allowing live dealers for table games such as blackjack at the horse track-casinos. \u2014 Tony Cook, The Indianapolis Star , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Super 4 Progressive Blackjack involves making a base blackjack wager and an optional Super 4 Progressive Blackjack side bet. \u2014 Staff Report, courant.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "But if Johnny has a bit of a gambling mentality \u2013 he's got some kind of friendly blackjack games with teammate Brad Davison \u2013 Jordan recoils at the thought of losing any money. \u2014 Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Semyon Dukach, a Soviet refugee-turned MIT blackjack player-turned venture capitalist, is no stranger to wild swings of fate. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "That means no more cloth muffling a cheer at a lucky blackjack hand or stifling conversation among the crowds strolling the halls of the resorts. \u2014 Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY , 12 Feb. 2022",
      "Gamblers, eager to get back to slot machines and blackjack tables, have shrugged off inflation increases and fueled a record-breaking March for the casino industry. \u2014 Joseph De Avila, WSJ , 11 May 2022",
      "Lora Johnson and her sister bypassed the slot machines and blackjack tables and didn't even stop to gawk at the cake vending machine on their way through The Cromwell Hotel & Casino. \u2014 USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "Tropical Breeze Casino visitors can gamble with a variety of offerings including blackjack , craps, poker, roulette and more. \u2014 Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com , 21 Nov. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The casino may be able to pick up some additional money from tables, after the gaming commission in mid-March allowed craps to resume and blackjack tables to expand. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 Apr. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "circa 1540, in the meaning defined at sense 3",
      "Verb",
      "1905, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191333"
  },
  "blackness":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": the quality or state of being black : such as",
      ": black color",
      ": darkness",
      ": a gloomy or somber feeling, tone, or character",
      ": the fact or state of belonging to a population group that has dark pigmentation of the skin : the fact or state of being Black (see black entry 1 sense 2a )",
      ": the social and cultural identity and experience of Black people",
      ": representations or expressions of this (as in art or literature)"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blak-\u02ccn\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English blaknesse, from blak  black entry 1 + -nesse  -ness ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182102"
  },
  "blah":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": silly or pretentious chatter or nonsense",
      ": a feeling of boredom, lethargy, or general dissatisfaction",
      ": lacking interest : dull , boring"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "applesauce",
      "balderdash",
      "baloney",
      "boloney",
      "beans",
      "bilge",
      "blarney",
      "blather",
      "blatherskite",
      "blither",
      "bosh",
      "bull",
      "bunk",
      "bunkum",
      "buncombe",
      "claptrap",
      "codswallop",
      "crapola",
      "crock",
      "drivel",
      "drool",
      "fiddle",
      "fiddle-faddle",
      "fiddlesticks",
      "flannel",
      "flapdoodle",
      "folderol",
      "falderal",
      "folly",
      "foolishness",
      "fudge",
      "garbage",
      "guff",
      "hogwash",
      "hokeypokey",
      "hokum",
      "hoodoo",
      "hooey",
      "horsefeathers",
      "humbug",
      "humbuggery",
      "jazz",
      "malarkey",
      "malarky",
      "moonshine",
      "muck",
      "nerts",
      "nonsense",
      "nuts",
      "piffle",
      "poppycock",
      "punk",
      "rot",
      "rubbish",
      "senselessness",
      "silliness",
      "slush",
      "stupidity",
      "taradiddle",
      "tarradiddle",
      "tommyrot",
      "tosh",
      "trash",
      "trumpery",
      "twaddle"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "She had a bad case of the blahs .",
      "gave me the usual blah that my manuscript did not meet their current publishing needs but thanks for considering them",
      "Adjective",
      "The hotel room was totally blah .",
      "She sat on the couch all day watching television and feeling blah .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "This isn't some Amazon drama stretching one episode of story into eight episodes of blah . \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 11 May 2022",
      "Although this Outlander is way better than the third generation, the end result is still blah at best. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "That felt like some pretty blah thinking at the time. \u2014 Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Could the tyranny of the blah , stuffy tuxedo finally be coming to an end? \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "But despite using the best whitening toothpastes on the market, the color has always been a little blah . \u2014 Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Sure, the challenges were a bit blah , but still, a rousing and triumphant success. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 9 Dec. 2021",
      "Nearly 20,000 people came to Target Field on an overcast, blah -weather Wednesday to watch the baseball equivalent of an irritating song being played on repeat. \u2014 Chip Scoggins, Star Tribune , 7 July 2021",
      "High on the Hog comes to mind as a recent creative success\u2014but that its ratio of blah offerings to genuine winners is all off. \u2014 Kate Knibbs, Wired , 6 July 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The inside is clean and neat, but the front yard is so blah ! \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Aug. 2021",
      "But driving to MetLife Stadium is a nightmare and the stadium itself is pretty blah . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 July 2021",
      "That's not to say that this first taste will be totally blah . \u2014 Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com , 13 May 2021",
      "Your daily matchas and teas at home can feel so blah nowadays. \u2014 Kiana Murden, CNN Underscored , 30 Mar. 2021",
      "These last few weeks have left me feeling a bit blah . \u2014 Katie Laughridge, chicagotribune.com , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "The vets on this team are pretty blah , limited pieces such as Dennis Smith, Julius Randle, Omari Spellman, Elfrid Payton and Kevin Knox, who don't fit. \u2014 J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star , 22 Dec. 2020",
      "Wearing the same style of face mask every day can feel so blah . \u2014 Kiana Murden, CNN Underscored , 9 July 2020",
      "The most helpful shopping ideas right now are coming from blah big box stores like Walmart and Lowe\u2019s. \u2014 Shira Ovide, New York Times , 26 May 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1918, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Adjective",
      "1922, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182333"
  },
  "blah-blah":{
    "type":"noun",
    "definitions":[
      "silly or pretentious chatter or nonsense",
      "a feeling of boredom, lethargy, or general dissatisfaction",
      "lacking interest dull , boring"
    ],
    "pronounciation":"\u02c8bl\u00e4",
    "synonyms":[
      "applesauce",
      "balderdash",
      "baloney",
      "boloney",
      "beans",
      "bilge",
      "blarney",
      "blather",
      "blatherskite",
      "blither",
      "bosh",
      "bull",
      "bunk",
      "bunkum",
      "buncombe",
      "claptrap",
      "codswallop",
      "crapola",
      "crock",
      "drivel",
      "drool",
      "fiddle",
      "fiddle-faddle",
      "fiddlesticks",
      "flannel",
      "flapdoodle",
      "folderol",
      "falderal",
      "folly",
      "foolishness",
      "fudge",
      "garbage",
      "guff",
      "hogwash",
      "hokeypokey",
      "hokum",
      "hoodoo",
      "hooey",
      "horsefeathers",
      "humbug",
      "humbuggery",
      "jazz",
      "malarkey",
      "malarky",
      "moonshine",
      "muck",
      "nerts",
      "nonsense",
      "nuts",
      "piffle",
      "poppycock",
      "punk",
      "rot",
      "rubbish",
      "senselessness",
      "silliness",
      "slush",
      "stupidity",
      "taradiddle",
      "tarradiddle",
      "tommyrot",
      "tosh",
      "trash",
      "trumpery",
      "twaddle"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "She had a bad case of the blahs .",
      "gave me the usual blah that my manuscript did not meet their current publishing needs but thanks for considering them",
      "Adjective",
      "The hotel room was totally blah .",
      "She sat on the couch all day watching television and feeling blah .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
      "This isn't some Amazon drama stretching one episode of story into eight episodes of blah . \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 11 May 2022",
      "Although this Outlander is way better than the third generation, the end result is still blah at best. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "That felt like some pretty blah thinking at the time. \u2014 Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Could the tyranny of the blah , stuffy tuxedo finally be coming to an end? \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "But despite using the best whitening toothpastes on the market, the color has always been a little blah . \u2014 Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Sure, the challenges were a bit blah , but still, a rousing and triumphant success. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 9 Dec. 2021",
      "Nearly 20,000 people came to Target Field on an overcast, blah -weather Wednesday to watch the baseball equivalent of an irritating song being played on repeat. \u2014 Chip Scoggins, Star Tribune , 7 July 2021",
      "High on the Hog comes to mind as a recent creative success\u2014but that its ratio of blah offerings to genuine winners is all off. \u2014 Kate Knibbs, Wired , 6 July 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
      "The inside is clean and neat, but the front yard is so blah ! \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Aug. 2021",
      "But driving to MetLife Stadium is a nightmare and the stadium itself is pretty blah . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 July 2021",
      "That's not to say that this first taste will be totally blah . \u2014 Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com , 13 May 2021",
      "Your daily matchas and teas at home can feel so blah nowadays. \u2014 Kiana Murden, CNN Underscored , 30 Mar. 2021",
      "These last few weeks have left me feeling a bit blah . \u2014 Katie Laughridge, chicagotribune.com , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "The vets on this team are pretty blah , limited pieces such as Dennis Smith, Julius Randle, Omari Spellman, Elfrid Payton and Kevin Knox, who don't fit. \u2014 J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star , 22 Dec. 2020",
      "Wearing the same style of face mask every day can feel so blah . \u2014 Kiana Murden, CNN Underscored , 9 July 2020",
      "The most helpful shopping ideas right now are coming from blah big box stores like Walmart and Lowe\u2019s. \u2014 Shira Ovide, New York Times , 26 May 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1918, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Adjective",
      "1922, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
  "blamable":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": deserving blame : reprehensible"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101-m\u0259-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blameworthy",
      "censurable",
      "culpable",
      "reprehensible",
      "reproachable"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blameless",
      "faultless",
      "impeccable",
      "irreproachable"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "an honest mistake is hardly a blamable offense"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205650"
  },
  "blameless":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to find fault with : censure",
      ": to hold responsible",
      ": to place responsibility for",
      ": at fault : responsible",
      ": an expression of disapproval or reproach : censure",
      ": a state of being blameworthy : culpability",
      ": fault , sin",
      ": responsibility for something believed to deserve censure",
      ": to find fault with",
      ": to hold responsible",
      ": to place responsibility for",
      ": responsibility for something that fails or is wrong",
      ": criticism sense 1"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101m",
      "\u02c8bl\u0101m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "censure",
      "condemn",
      "criticize",
      "denounce",
      "dis",
      "diss",
      "dispraise",
      "fault",
      "knock",
      "pan",
      "reprehend",
      "slag"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "culpability",
      "fault",
      "guilt",
      "onus",
      "rap"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Don't blame me. You are responsible for your own problems.",
      "My father always blames everything on me.",
      "I blame the poor harvest on the weather.",
      "Noun",
      "It's not entirely his fault, but he's not completely free of blame , either.",
      "willingly accepted the blame for not seeing that the kitchen was properly cleaned",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The tweet marked the beginning of a daylong anti-Islamic social media attack that blamed all Muslims for ISIS terrorism. \u2014 Chelsea Bailey, NBC News , 2 Nov. 2017",
      "Many have blamed Charlotte\u2019s ongoing development boom for the loss of several of the city\u2019s cultural hotspots. \u2014 Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver , 31 Oct. 2017",
      "But don't blame Alabama for being gun-shy about using Fitzpatrick in that capacity after what happened to Eddie Jackson last season. \u2014 Rainer Sabin, AL.com , 22 Oct. 2017",
      "Despite Matt\u2019s attorneys\u2019 legal analysis of the allegations, Matt has insisted that nothing be said that blames or casts aspersions upon his accusers. \u2014 Andy Cush, Billboard , 20 Oct. 2017",
      "Trump blamed Corker for the Iran deal (though the senator did not support its original passage), and mocked his slight stature. \u2014 Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 Oct. 2017",
      "In areas around the North Sea and Mediterranean coast, however, later winter storms, indicated by cooler colors, are to blame for flooding. \u2014 Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine , 10 Nov. 2017",
      "American intelligence chiefs blamed those hacking attacks on Russian military intelligence. \u2014 The Economist , 4 Nov. 2017",
      "But CW Hemp blamed its customer testimonials for going too far. \u2014 Maggie Fox, NBC News , 1 Nov. 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "So far, most of the blame has been on low oil supply. \u2014 Medora Lee, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
      "And when the eventual breach occurs, CISOs are at the center of the blame . \u2014 Ameesh Divatia, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
      "The medical system bears much of the blame , Dr. Stanford said. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
      "At his sentencing hearing in 2001, a man convicted of killing his infant son tossed some of the blame at his former girlfriend and her relatives, drawing gasps from people in the courtroom. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 May 2022",
      "The economic whipsaw unleashed by the pandemic gets most of the blame , said John Auers, executive vice president at Turner, Mason & Co., an oil-industry research firm in Dallas. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
      "Schweizer said part of the blame for the lack of a special prosecutor lies with the White House, but surmised Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell might not favor such an appointment because of his own family's overseas business ties. \u2014 Fox News , 1 May 2022",
      "DeWitte, a former mayor of St. Charles, said former Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen should shoulder some of the blame for the toll because the county did not find enough funding sources for the $115 parkway project. \u2014 Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is placing some of the blame for Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine on past European leaders: specifically, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and longtime German Chancellor Angela Merkel. \u2014 Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune , 6 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb and Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173729"
  },
  "blameworthy":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": being at fault : deserving blame",
      ": deserving blame"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101m-\u02ccw\u0259r-t\u035fh\u0113",
      "\u02c8bl\u0101m-\u02ccw\u0259r-t\u035fh\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blamable",
      "censurable",
      "culpable",
      "reprehensible",
      "reproachable"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blameless",
      "faultless",
      "impeccable",
      "irreproachable"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Their failure to adequately inform participants of the risks was morally blameworthy .",
      "we were all equally blameworthy , whether we had openly approved the free-speech restrictions or simply kept quiet about them",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But where that entry is not successful, once again, fingers will be pointed at those perceived as blameworthy . \u2014 David Reichenberg, Forbes , 5 Sep. 2021",
      "Those who intentionally seek to inflict injury are considered most blameworthy , while those who cause harm through negligence, or failure to exercise ordinary care, are least culpable. \u2014 Jess Bravin, WSJ , 10 June 2021",
      "The idea of violent crimes as a separate universe, categorically more dangerous and blameworthy than other offenses, dates back little more than half a century. \u2014 David Alan Sklansky, Time , 7 Apr. 2021",
      "These stories run a big-haired gamut in terms of individual culpability, but in every case, popular culture found a way to blame the woman, often to excuse a more blameworthy man. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Mar. 2021",
      "David\u2019s work provided a potent critique of the dominant financial morality, which sees debtors as blameworthy or even criminal. \u2014 Isabelle Fr\u00e9meaux, The New York Review of Books , 5 Sep. 2020",
      "Whether blameworthy or not, the use of the cloak of social responsibility, and the nonsense spoken in its name by influential and prestigious businessmen, does clearly harm the foundations of a free society. \u2014 Daniel Tenreiro, National Review , 19 Aug. 2020",
      "The persistent fantasy that Trump can somehow be leveraged from office is behind the push to criminalize any blameworthy conduct on his part or that of his associates. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 6 Feb. 2018",
      "Isaacson sees Jobs as being hardly more blameworthy , even in his worst moments, than other powerful people. \u2014 Ben Austen, WIRED , 23 July 2012"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-230021"
  },
  "blanched":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to take the color out of",
      ": such as",
      ": to scald or parboil in water or steam in order to remove the skin from, whiten, or stop enzymatic action in (such as food for freezing)",
      ": to bleach by excluding light",
      ": to make ashen or pale",
      ": to become white or pale (as from shock or fear)",
      ": bleach entry 1 , whiten",
      ": to scald so as to remove the skin from",
      ": to turn pale"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blanch",
      "\u02c8blanch"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bleach",
      "blench",
      "decolorize",
      "dull",
      "fade",
      "pale",
      "snow",
      "wash out",
      "whiten"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "darken",
      "deepen",
      "embrown"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Blanch the potatoes before slicing them.",
      "a cup of blanched almonds",
      "She blanched and remained silent when the store owner accused her of taking the money.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Make the fresh dill vinaigrette: Bring the water back to a boil and blanch the fresh dill in the water to set the bright, green color, about 10 seconds. \u2014 Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 June 2022",
      "These preparations blanch the normally deep burgundy tissue to pale fleshy color that\u2019s not quite tan and not quite pink. \u2014 Brenda Goodman, CNN , 13 May 2022",
      "Here's how: Wash the ramps, then blanch them in boiling water for 30 seconds and place them in an ice bath to stop the cooking. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Just blanch the skin, boil it in sugar water and dry it in a bed of sugar. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "But some advertisers and agencies may blanch at the idea of the network that makes money off the sale of advertising acting as the verification of the measurement system behind it. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "The Hornets may blanch at having to also throw in a first-round pick after giving up a couple young players, but that\u2019s what the Rockets will demand. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "The easiest way to do that is to trim the root ends and blanch the onions in boiling water for 1 minute. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 15 Dec. 2021",
      "Note: To blanch whole almonds, bring a small saucepan of water to a boil. \u2014 Kelly Brant, Arkansas Online , 22 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English blaunchen , from Anglo-French blanchir , from blanc , adjective, white \u2014 more at blank ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-202007"
  },
  "blandish":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to coax with flattery : cajole",
      ": to act or speak in a flattering or coaxing manner"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blan-dish"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blarney",
      "cajole",
      "coax",
      "palaver",
      "soft-soap",
      "sweet-talk",
      "wheedle"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "blandished her into doing their work for them by complimenting her shamelessly"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French blandiss- , stem of blandir , from Latin blandiri , from blandus mild, flattering",
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182721"
  },
  "blanket":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a large usually oblong piece of woven fabric used as a bed covering",
      ": a similar piece of fabric used as a body covering (as for an animal)",
      ": something that resembles a blanket",
      ": a rubber or plastic sheet on the cylinder in an offset press that transfers the image to the surface being printed",
      ": to cover with or as if with a blanket",
      ": to cover so as to obscure, interrupt, suppress, or extinguish",
      ": to interrupt the smooth flow of wind to (something, such as a downwind ship)",
      ": to apply or cause to apply to uniformly despite wide separation or diversity among the elements included",
      ": to cause to be included",
      ": effective or applicable in all instances or contingencies",
      ": covering all members of a group or class without individual apportionment",
      ": a heavy woven covering used especially for beds",
      ": a covering layer",
      ": to cover with or as if with a blanket",
      ": covering or affecting all members of a group or class",
      ": covering or affecting all situations"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla\u014b-k\u0259t",
      "\u02c8bla\u014b-k\u0259t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "cloak",
      "cope",
      "cover",
      "cover-up",
      "covering",
      "coverture",
      "curtain",
      "hood",
      "mantle",
      "mask",
      "pall",
      "penumbra",
      "robe",
      "shroud",
      "veil",
      "wraps"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "carpet",
      "coat",
      "cover",
      "overlay",
      "overlie",
      "overspread",
      "sheet"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The rover originally landed about 1.2 miles away from where the shiny piece of thermal blanket was spotted this week. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 16 June 2022",
      "Drink loads of water and bring an extra blanket for the plane. \u2014 Juliet Pennington, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
      "The baby\u2019s blanket was hanging over the the moving steps of the escalator, inches away from being snatched up in its teeth and pulling them all over. \u2014 Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al , 15 June 2022",
      "Sixteen-year-old Wgasa spends much of the day asleep underneath a blanket in the dayroom, and his companion, 17-year-old Rayma, sits in the corner of the dayroom holding a palm frond up in front of her. \u2014 Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic , 15 June 2022",
      "Blanket makers participating in the Homeless Memorial Blanket Project will come together from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, June 10, at St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Naperville to assemble a single complete blanket to be given to a homeless child. \u2014 Naperville Sun Staff, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022",
      "Some people find that a weighted blanket puts them right to sleep. \u2014 Brittany Vanderbill, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
      "Leder does not advise repairing all breaks or blanket reconciliations. \u2014 Tom Teicholz, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
      "The flavors, which will be available this month at all their scoop shops and online, are meant to evoke a sunny afternoon on a blanket among some wildflowers perhaps, and at least one of them is a year in the making. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Go for The Works ($329): a mud bath with facial mask, mineral whirlpool bath, geo-steam room, blanket wrap and 30-minute massage. \u2014 Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "Military Appreciation Day, Sensory Friendly Day and blanket giveaway. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "The new proposal does not give transportation projects blanket exemptions from the state\u2019s environmental review process. \u2014 Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "On the other, like many police departments, HPD\u2019s relationship with the community is marred by a lack of transparency, habitual abuse of power, excessive use of force, and blanket impunity for negligence and misconduct. \u2014 Frances Nguyen, The New Republic , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "The joint Instagram post from Savannah and Lee features a baby blanket along with a piece of paper inked with the newborn's footprints. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 21 Jan. 2022",
      "But blanket policies like Mr. Bragg\u2019s are the opposite of smart. \u2014 Charles Fain Lehman, WSJ , 6 Jan. 2022",
      "Tropical rain forests and swamplands blanket Central Africa's Congo Basin, which spans nine countries, including the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Tanzania. \u2014 Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure , 14 Dec. 2021",
      "There also will be an open mic for poetry and performances along with a winter clothing and blanket giveaway. \u2014 Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com , 25 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Adjective",
      "1880, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182533"
  },
  "blare":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to sound loud and strident",
      ": to sound or utter raucously",
      ": to proclaim flamboyantly",
      ": a loud strident noise",
      ": dazzling often garish brilliance",
      ": flamboyance",
      ": to sound loud and harsh",
      ": to present in a harsh noisy manner",
      ": a harsh loud noise"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bler",
      "\u02c8bler"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "advertise",
      "announce",
      "annunciate",
      "blaze",
      "blazon",
      "broadcast",
      "declare",
      "enunciate",
      "flash",
      "give out",
      "herald",
      "placard",
      "post",
      "proclaim",
      "promulgate",
      "publicize",
      "publish",
      "release",
      "sound",
      "trumpet"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "babel",
      "bluster",
      "bowwow",
      "brawl",
      "bruit",
      "cacophony",
      "chatter",
      "clamor",
      "clangor",
      "decibel(s)",
      "din",
      "discordance",
      "katzenjammer",
      "noise",
      "racket",
      "rattle",
      "roar"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Rock music blared through the store from the loudspeakers.",
      "Loudspeakers blared rock music through the store.",
      "Noun",
      "the blare of electric guitars",
      "the blare of horns arising from the long line of cars behind him did nothing to help the motorist get his car started again",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Headlines that blare out the latest in AI are bound to toss around the Machine Learning or Deep Learning phrasing and catch your attention. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
      "Longtime Andretti mechanic Mike Miller hid a train horn under James Hinchcliffe\u2019s golf cart that would blare uncontrollably. \u2014 Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star , 27 May 2022",
      "The speakers blare funky Cambodian pop music and the walls are decked out with vintage movie posters. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 25 May 2022",
      "And the sirens here still blare daily, even if the last shell fell more than two weeks ago. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "Rock music continued to blare , eerily, from the restaurant\u2019s sound system. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "For Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), the olden-times, wartime sound of bagpipes \u2014 which announce the arrival of House Atreides on the planet Arrakis, and later blare when the Duke\u2019s house comes under attack. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "Ottawa's police chief said the city needs assistance as drivers continue to blare horns and idle trucks on downtown streets. \u2014 Paula Newton And Travis Caldwell, CNN , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "Ottawa residents have shared accounts on social media of being afraid to leave their homes and facing sleepless nights as truckers blare their horns through the night. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In Kyiv, once-teeming squares are almost empty at midday as air raid sirens blare and Russian troops work to encircle the capital. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Guests who need a bigger break from the blare can unplug in quiet rooms. \u2014 Michelle Maltais, USA TODAY , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Explosions continue to rock Ukraine\u2019s capital, Kyiv, where air raid sirens blare into the night. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "Sure, the Chapman departure was alarming, but also predictable, like that next blare sounding from your clock. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "The relentless blare of truckers\u2019 horns has gone silent. \u2014 Rob Gillies And Tim Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Feb. 2022",
      "In the basement beneath one apartment block in Kyiv, 19 newborns lie in plastic cots, their cries mingling with the blare of air-raid sirens warning of incoming Russian strikes. \u2014 Isabel Coles, WSJ , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "Sirens blare in Kyiv at least five times per night. \u2014 Vogue , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "The relentless blare of truckers\u2019 horns has gone silent. \u2014 Rob Gillies, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense",
      "Noun",
      "1796, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-171952"
  },
  "blaring":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to sound loud and strident",
      ": to sound or utter raucously",
      ": to proclaim flamboyantly",
      ": a loud strident noise",
      ": dazzling often garish brilliance",
      ": flamboyance",
      ": to sound loud and harsh",
      ": to present in a harsh noisy manner",
      ": a harsh loud noise"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bler",
      "\u02c8bler"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "advertise",
      "announce",
      "annunciate",
      "blaze",
      "blazon",
      "broadcast",
      "declare",
      "enunciate",
      "flash",
      "give out",
      "herald",
      "placard",
      "post",
      "proclaim",
      "promulgate",
      "publicize",
      "publish",
      "release",
      "sound",
      "trumpet"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "babel",
      "bluster",
      "bowwow",
      "brawl",
      "bruit",
      "cacophony",
      "chatter",
      "clamor",
      "clangor",
      "decibel(s)",
      "din",
      "discordance",
      "katzenjammer",
      "noise",
      "racket",
      "rattle",
      "roar"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Rock music blared through the store from the loudspeakers.",
      "Loudspeakers blared rock music through the store.",
      "Noun",
      "the blare of electric guitars",
      "the blare of horns arising from the long line of cars behind him did nothing to help the motorist get his car started again",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Headlines that blare out the latest in AI are bound to toss around the Machine Learning or Deep Learning phrasing and catch your attention. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
      "Longtime Andretti mechanic Mike Miller hid a train horn under James Hinchcliffe\u2019s golf cart that would blare uncontrollably. \u2014 Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star , 27 May 2022",
      "The speakers blare funky Cambodian pop music and the walls are decked out with vintage movie posters. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 25 May 2022",
      "And the sirens here still blare daily, even if the last shell fell more than two weeks ago. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "Rock music continued to blare , eerily, from the restaurant\u2019s sound system. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "For Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), the olden-times, wartime sound of bagpipes \u2014 which announce the arrival of House Atreides on the planet Arrakis, and later blare when the Duke\u2019s house comes under attack. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "Ottawa's police chief said the city needs assistance as drivers continue to blare horns and idle trucks on downtown streets. \u2014 Paula Newton And Travis Caldwell, CNN , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "Ottawa residents have shared accounts on social media of being afraid to leave their homes and facing sleepless nights as truckers blare their horns through the night. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In Kyiv, once-teeming squares are almost empty at midday as air raid sirens blare and Russian troops work to encircle the capital. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Guests who need a bigger break from the blare can unplug in quiet rooms. \u2014 Michelle Maltais, USA TODAY , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Explosions continue to rock Ukraine\u2019s capital, Kyiv, where air raid sirens blare into the night. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "Sure, the Chapman departure was alarming, but also predictable, like that next blare sounding from your clock. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "The relentless blare of truckers\u2019 horns has gone silent. \u2014 Rob Gillies And Tim Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Feb. 2022",
      "In the basement beneath one apartment block in Kyiv, 19 newborns lie in plastic cots, their cries mingling with the blare of air-raid sirens warning of incoming Russian strikes. \u2014 Isabel Coles, WSJ , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "Sirens blare in Kyiv at least five times per night. \u2014 Vogue , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "The relentless blare of truckers\u2019 horns has gone silent. \u2014 Rob Gillies, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense",
      "Noun",
      "1796, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-214841"
  },
  "blarney":{
    "type":"noun",
    "definitions":[
      "skillful flattery blandishment",
      "nonsense , humbug",
      "town in County Cork, southwestern Ireland population 1952"
    ],
    "pronounciation":"\u02c8bl\u00e4r-n\u0113",
    "synonyms":[
      "adulation",
      "butter",
      "flannel",
      "flattery",
      "incense",
      "overpraise",
      "soft soap",
      "sweet talk",
      "taffy"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "She was charmed by his blarney .",
      "a tale with more than a hint of blarney",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This might come as a surprise given the outsized and blarney -filled headlines on social media to the contrary. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
      "Menu soda bread with Irish whiskey butter and fried cabbage and rashers; pork bangers and Irish colcannon with red onion gravy and blarney stones and Irish bananas. \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "The blarney is still strong here (lapsing into Irish dialect is an occupational hazard of reading him), but these characters also act. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "Around the Cedars campus and among the Ross neighbors, Mulligan was known for his blarney , with a joke and a laugh for everyone. \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "The result feels like a film filtered less through real life than the rosy lens of sentiment and memory a soft-focus Irish fairy tale bathed in love and blarney and a whole lot of warbling Van Morrison. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 4 Sep. 2021",
      "The 36-year Senate veteran with a touch of the Irish blarney and the on-message, one-term senator took time to warm to each other. \u2014 Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner , 19 Mar. 2021",
      "These reasons for opposing this vanguard of Warren/Sanders/Harris socialism, for objecting to this doddering culmination of a half-century of hackery and blarney , elicit varying degrees of disqualification and rage-inducement. \u2014 Jack Fowler, National Review , 30 Oct. 2020",
      "Enjoy a wee bit o\u2019 blarney and Irish music at the Plymouth Arts Center March 13-14. \u2014 Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Mar. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":" Blarney stone , a stone in Blarney Castle, near Cork, Ireland, held to bestow skill in flattery on those who kiss it",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1780, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
  "blast":{
    "type":[
      "combining form",
      "noun",
      "noun combining form",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a violent gust of wind",
      ": the effect or accompaniment (such as sleet) of such a gust",
      ": the sound produced by an impulsion of air through a wind instrument or whistle",
      ": something resembling a gust of wind: such as",
      ": a stream of air or gas forced through a hole",
      ": a vehement expression of feeling",
      ": the continuous blowing to which a charge of ore or metal is subjected in a blast furnace",
      ": a sudden pernicious influence or effect",
      ": a disease of plants marked by the formation of destructive lesions on leaves and inflorescences",
      ": an explosion or violent detonation",
      ": the shock wave of an explosion",
      ": a forceful hit (as in baseball) or shot (as in soccer or golf)",
      ": home run",
      ": speed , capacity , operation",
      ": an enjoyably exciting experience, occasion, or event",
      ": party",
      ": the sending of a message (such as a fax or an email) in multiple copies to numerous recipients at one time",
      ": a striking reminder of an earlier time : something that excites nostalgia",
      ": blare",
      ": to make a vigorous attack",
      ": to use an explosive",
      ": shoot",
      ": to hit a golf ball out of a sand trap with explosive force",
      ": to proceed rapidly or aggressively",
      ": to injure by or as if by the action of wind",
      ": blight",
      ": to shatter by or as if by an explosive",
      ": to remove, open, or form by or as if by an explosive",
      ": shoot",
      ": to attack vigorously",
      ": to cause to blast off",
      ": to hit vigorously and effectively",
      ": to play loudly",
      ": bud : budding : germ",
      ": formative unit especially of living matter : germ : cell : cell layer",
      ": the sound made by a wind instrument",
      ": explosion sense 1",
      ": a strong gust of wind",
      ": a stream of air or gas forced through an opening",
      ": a very enjoyable experience",
      ": to break to pieces by an explosion : shatter",
      ": to hit with great force",
      ": shoot entry 1 sense 2",
      ": to hit (someone or something) with something (as air or water) that is moving forcefully",
      ": to make a loud unpleasant sound",
      ": to strongly criticize",
      ": to take off",
      ": an explosion or violent detonation",
      ": the violent effect produced in the vicinity of an explosion that consists of a wave of increased atmospheric pressure followed by a wave of decreased atmospheric pressure",
      ": blast cell"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blast",
      "\u02ccblast",
      "\u02c8blast",
      "\u02c8blast"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bang",
      "boom",
      "clap",
      "crack",
      "crash",
      "pop",
      "report",
      "slam",
      "smash",
      "snap",
      "thunderclap",
      "thwack",
      "whack",
      "whomp",
      "whump"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blow",
      "blow up",
      "burst",
      "demolish",
      "explode",
      "pop",
      "shatter",
      "smash"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "No one was injured in the blast , according to Freeport LNG Development, the company that runs the facility. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 8 June 2022",
      "At least five firefighters were killed in that blast , and 14 others were wounded, officials said. \u2014 Saif Hasnat, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
      "At least five firefighters were killed in that blast , and 14 others were wounded, officials said. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
      "The county dispatch center also reported that the center was being inundated with calls about the situation and that there were likely people injured in the blast . \u2014 Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 May 2022",
      "Nurse Emily Lyons, then 41, was severely injured in the blast , but survived. \u2014 Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al , 7 May 2022",
      "But Knaziev proudly pointed out the area\u2019s relatively pristine condition under the circumstances, with municipal workers landscaping a public park, collecting detritus in a truck or fixing a light damaged in the blast . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
      "Photojournalist Lynsey Addario, who had been huddled behind a cement wall, was sprayed with gravel in the blast , wondering at first if she\u2019d been hit by shrapnel. \u2014 Michelle Ruiz, Vogue , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Zia Zendani, the spokesman for the provincial health authority, said 11 people had been killed and 32 wounded in the blast . \u2014 NBC News , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "But his challenges were put into stark relief Friday, as Trump continued to blast him for failing to go along with his scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. \u2014 Jill Colvin, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2022",
      "But his challenges were put into stark relief Friday, as Trump continued to blast him for failing to go along with his scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. \u2014 Jill Colvin, Chron , 17 June 2022",
      "Ron Jacobs was brought in to blast it out of its poppy Boss Radio past and into the happening world of free-form radio. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 June 2022",
      "Luna 25 was meant to include the ESA PILOT-D navigation camera, but an unnamed commercial service provider is expected to blast it into space instead. \u2014 Matthew Humphries, PCMAG , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Jeff Bezos has amassed enough wealth from his e-commerce empire to blast himself into space, as the employees left behind on earth spent the first months of the outbreak laboring in Amazon warehouses without adequate protective gear. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Jan. 2022",
      "To soften, stand a stick on its end in the microwave and blast it for about eight seconds on high. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "The nose is rich with vanilla and tropical fruit, and surprisingly doesn\u2019t blast you in the olfactories with alcohol given its strength. \u2014 Jonah Flicker, Robb Report , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "The surreal sense of a nation stuck in an odd late-term Covid limbo will be exacerbated on Tuesday by scenes of another billionaire -- Amazon's Jeff Bezos -- preparing to blast himself off the unhealthy planet in a personal rocket ship. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 20 July 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-183741"
  },
  "blasted":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": damaged by or as if by an explosive, lightning, wind, or supernatural force",
      ": damned , detestable",
      ": intoxicated from drugs or alcohol"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla-st\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "accursed",
      "accurst",
      "confounded",
      "cursed",
      "curst",
      "cussed",
      "damnable",
      "dang",
      "danged",
      "darn",
      "durn",
      "darned",
      "durned",
      "deuced",
      "doggone",
      "doggoned",
      "freaking",
      "infernal"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "He got totally blasted at the party.",
      "that blasted car salesman cheated us"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-215732"
  },
  "blasting":{
    "type":[
      "combining form",
      "noun",
      "noun combining form",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a violent gust of wind",
      ": the effect or accompaniment (such as sleet) of such a gust",
      ": the sound produced by an impulsion of air through a wind instrument or whistle",
      ": something resembling a gust of wind: such as",
      ": a stream of air or gas forced through a hole",
      ": a vehement expression of feeling",
      ": the continuous blowing to which a charge of ore or metal is subjected in a blast furnace",
      ": a sudden pernicious influence or effect",
      ": a disease of plants marked by the formation of destructive lesions on leaves and inflorescences",
      ": an explosion or violent detonation",
      ": the shock wave of an explosion",
      ": a forceful hit (as in baseball) or shot (as in soccer or golf)",
      ": home run",
      ": speed , capacity , operation",
      ": an enjoyably exciting experience, occasion, or event",
      ": party",
      ": the sending of a message (such as a fax or an email) in multiple copies to numerous recipients at one time",
      ": a striking reminder of an earlier time : something that excites nostalgia",
      ": blare",
      ": to make a vigorous attack",
      ": to use an explosive",
      ": shoot",
      ": to hit a golf ball out of a sand trap with explosive force",
      ": to proceed rapidly or aggressively",
      ": to injure by or as if by the action of wind",
      ": blight",
      ": to shatter by or as if by an explosive",
      ": to remove, open, or form by or as if by an explosive",
      ": shoot",
      ": to attack vigorously",
      ": to cause to blast off",
      ": to hit vigorously and effectively",
      ": to play loudly",
      ": bud : budding : germ",
      ": formative unit especially of living matter : germ : cell : cell layer",
      ": the sound made by a wind instrument",
      ": explosion sense 1",
      ": a strong gust of wind",
      ": a stream of air or gas forced through an opening",
      ": a very enjoyable experience",
      ": to break to pieces by an explosion : shatter",
      ": to hit with great force",
      ": shoot entry 1 sense 2",
      ": to hit (someone or something) with something (as air or water) that is moving forcefully",
      ": to make a loud unpleasant sound",
      ": to strongly criticize",
      ": to take off",
      ": an explosion or violent detonation",
      ": the violent effect produced in the vicinity of an explosion that consists of a wave of increased atmospheric pressure followed by a wave of decreased atmospheric pressure",
      ": blast cell"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blast",
      "\u02ccblast",
      "\u02c8blast",
      "\u02c8blast"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bang",
      "boom",
      "clap",
      "crack",
      "crash",
      "pop",
      "report",
      "slam",
      "smash",
      "snap",
      "thunderclap",
      "thwack",
      "whack",
      "whomp",
      "whump"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blow",
      "blow up",
      "burst",
      "demolish",
      "explode",
      "pop",
      "shatter",
      "smash"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "No one was injured in the blast , according to Freeport LNG Development, the company that runs the facility. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 8 June 2022",
      "At least five firefighters were killed in that blast , and 14 others were wounded, officials said. \u2014 Saif Hasnat, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
      "At least five firefighters were killed in that blast , and 14 others were wounded, officials said. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
      "The county dispatch center also reported that the center was being inundated with calls about the situation and that there were likely people injured in the blast . \u2014 Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 May 2022",
      "Nurse Emily Lyons, then 41, was severely injured in the blast , but survived. \u2014 Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al , 7 May 2022",
      "But Knaziev proudly pointed out the area\u2019s relatively pristine condition under the circumstances, with municipal workers landscaping a public park, collecting detritus in a truck or fixing a light damaged in the blast . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
      "Photojournalist Lynsey Addario, who had been huddled behind a cement wall, was sprayed with gravel in the blast , wondering at first if she\u2019d been hit by shrapnel. \u2014 Michelle Ruiz, Vogue , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Zia Zendani, the spokesman for the provincial health authority, said 11 people had been killed and 32 wounded in the blast . \u2014 NBC News , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "But his challenges were put into stark relief Friday, as Trump continued to blast him for failing to go along with his scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. \u2014 Jill Colvin, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2022",
      "But his challenges were put into stark relief Friday, as Trump continued to blast him for failing to go along with his scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. \u2014 Jill Colvin, Chron , 17 June 2022",
      "Ron Jacobs was brought in to blast it out of its poppy Boss Radio past and into the happening world of free-form radio. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 June 2022",
      "Luna 25 was meant to include the ESA PILOT-D navigation camera, but an unnamed commercial service provider is expected to blast it into space instead. \u2014 Matthew Humphries, PCMAG , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Jeff Bezos has amassed enough wealth from his e-commerce empire to blast himself into space, as the employees left behind on earth spent the first months of the outbreak laboring in Amazon warehouses without adequate protective gear. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Jan. 2022",
      "To soften, stand a stick on its end in the microwave and blast it for about eight seconds on high. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "The nose is rich with vanilla and tropical fruit, and surprisingly doesn\u2019t blast you in the olfactories with alcohol given its strength. \u2014 Jonah Flicker, Robb Report , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "The surreal sense of a nation stuck in an odd late-term Covid limbo will be exacerbated on Tuesday by scenes of another billionaire -- Amazon's Jeff Bezos -- preparing to blast himself off the unhealthy planet in a personal rocket ship. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 20 July 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185720"
  },
  "blatant":{
    "type":"adjective",
    "definitions":[
      "noisy especially in a vulgar or offensive manner clamorous",
      "completely obvious, conspicuous , or obtrusive especially in a crass or offensive manner brazen",
      "completely obvious in a disagreeable way"
    ],
    "pronounciation":"\u02c8bl\u0101-t\u1d4ant",
    "synonyms":[
      "caterwauling",
      "clamant",
      "clamorous",
      "obstreperous",
      "squawking",
      "vociferant",
      "vociferating",
      "vociferous",
      "yawping",
      "yauping",
      "yowling"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Blatant racial and gender discrimination is just about over. \u2014 Gregg Esterbrook , New Republic , 20 Dec. 1999",
      "The surcharges are particularly galling \u2026 because they seem to amount to blatant double dipping. \u2014 John Greenwald , Time , 29 Nov. 1999",
      "He showed a blatant disregard for the safety of other drivers.",
      "a blatant clamor for the impeachment of the scandal-plagued governor",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The film isn\u2019t subtle about the blatant sexism of the era. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 23 Aug. 2021",
      "But these statements by Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez suggest blatant conscious bias. \u2014 Kim Elsesser, Forbes , 13 May 2021",
      "But rather than speak to the tell-all interview or Morgan's blatant sexism, McCain took the conversation in a different, unexpected direction. \u2014 Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com , 10 Mar. 2021",
      "However, even with the fines and the bans on blatant usage of verbiage that advertises skin lightening, the products are still being sold around the globe, peddled by celebrities like Blac Chyna and Dencia. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 30 May 2022",
      "But the barbarity was too blatant , and witnessed by too many people. \u2014 Time , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Whether that fragile cloth holds together today, in the face of blatant defiance of election results and the rule of law, depends on our respect for every strand in the weave. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "This blatant Democratic power play would inspire more partisan bitterness\u2014and further erode voter faith in elections. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 13 Mar. 2021",
      "Big banks never fail to show blatant disregard for the businesses that keep them functional. \u2014 orlandosentinel.com , 25 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"perhaps from Latin blatire to chatter",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1596, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
  "blather":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to talk foolishly at length",
      ": voluble nonsensical or inconsequential talk or writing",
      ": stir , commotion"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla-t\u035fh\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "go on",
      "maunder",
      "ramble",
      "rattle",
      "run on"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "ado",
      "alarums and excursions",
      "ballyhoo",
      "bluster",
      "bobbery",
      "bother",
      "bustle",
      "clatter",
      "clutter",
      "coil",
      "commotion",
      "corroboree",
      "disturbance",
      "do",
      "foofaraw",
      "fun",
      "furor",
      "furore",
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      "turmoil",
      "uproar",
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      "zoo"
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    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "listening to a lot of blather from politicians about who's to blame for the bad economy",
      "wanted to retire quietly and without all the blather of an office send-off",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Isn\u2019t this the same group of folks who love to blather on about the wonders of the free market system? \u2014 Dave Lieber, Dallas News , 21 May 2021",
      "Jerome blathered with joy as Tiny walked slowly into her house. \u2014 Rion Amilcar Scott, The New Yorker , 30 Sep. 2019",
      "And when the deed was accomplished, it was considered bad form to blather indecorously about it to media. \u2014 National Geographic , 24 May 2019",
      "The people who live in Carbon Hill, and places like it, need attention for so many other reasons than a chuckleheaded mayor blathering nonsense, privately or publicly, about who needs to die in a second Civil War. \u2014 al.com , 6 June 2019",
      "In flashback, there was William the philanthropist, hosting fancy fundraisers and sighing as nasty rich people blathered on at him. \u2014 The Atlantic , 17 June 2018",
      "So why would announcers blather and babble throughout the performance? \u2014 Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News , 26 Mar. 2018",
      "And the phenomenon of people loudly blathering at concerts is endemic at venues large and small. \u2014 George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com , 15 Mar. 2018",
      "Metcalf asked Shepard why her character said so little when her husband would blather on and on. \u2014 Willa Paskin, New York Times , 21 Feb. 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "There was also a lot of blather about that season's philosophical earworms, from cancel culture to gender essentialism. \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, Wired , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "Given all the commercials, referee timeout checks and half-time blather , both genders really need a two-hour time limit for a 40-minute game. \u2014 Bob Hill, The Courier-Journal , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Hear this week\u2019s episode, plus all 12 entertaining interviews from last year (including me in full blather ), at bit.ly/invite-podcast, or on most podcast platforms. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 July 2021",
      "Item: Being hushed by a fellow library patron while Steve continues to blather on, ad nauseam. \u2014 Brooke Knisley, The New Yorker , 17 Nov. 2020",
      "With Trump, that distance between talk-radio blather \u2014 which is designed to get people frothed up enough to keep listening \u2014 and presidential messaging \u2014 which was always designed to minimize drama \u2014 closed completely. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com , 31 Oct. 2020",
      "All of this blather about uncertainty might make for good actuarial policy. \u2014 Libby Watson, The New Republic , 9 Oct. 2020",
      "This season could appeal to anyone yearning for heavy metal Fargo, with sly off-kilter characterization sacrificed to self-important blather and undifferentiated bulletstorms. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 14 Sep. 2020",
      "Kunzru takes us to 2016, of course: The only possible conclusion to this fable about the emptiness of right-wing blather is the election of Donald Trump. \u2014 Rumaan Alam, The New Republic , 9 Sep. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "1524, in the meaning defined above",
      "Noun",
      "1719, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-184258"
  },
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a person who blathers a lot",
      ": nonsense , blather"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla-t\u035fh\u0259r-\u02ccsk\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "applesauce",
      "balderdash",
      "baloney",
      "boloney",
      "beans",
      "bilge",
      "blah",
      "blah-blah",
      "blarney",
      "blather",
      "blither",
      "bosh",
      "bull",
      "bunk",
      "bunkum",
      "buncombe",
      "claptrap",
      "codswallop",
      "crapola",
      "crock",
      "drivel",
      "drool",
      "fiddle",
      "fiddle-faddle",
      "fiddlesticks",
      "flannel",
      "flapdoodle",
      "folderol",
      "falderal",
      "folly",
      "foolishness",
      "fudge",
      "garbage",
      "guff",
      "hogwash",
      "hokeypokey",
      "hokum",
      "hoodoo",
      "hooey",
      "horsefeathers",
      "humbug",
      "humbuggery",
      "jazz",
      "malarkey",
      "malarky",
      "moonshine",
      "muck",
      "nerts",
      "nonsense",
      "nuts",
      "piffle",
      "poppycock",
      "punk",
      "rot",
      "rubbish",
      "senselessness",
      "silliness",
      "slush",
      "stupidity",
      "taradiddle",
      "tarradiddle",
      "tommyrot",
      "tosh",
      "trash",
      "trumpery",
      "twaddle"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "a Scottish uncle who regards any pronouncement from the government as ignorable blatherskite"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Scots, alteration of blather skate , from blather, blether blather + skate a contemptible person",
    "first_known_use":[
      "circa 1650, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182137"
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    "type":[
      "noun",
      "noun ()",
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      "verb ()"
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      ": an intensely burning fire",
      ": intense direct light often accompanied by heat",
      ": an active burning",
      ": a sudden bursting forth of flame",
      ": something that resembles the blaze of a fire: such as",
      ": a dazzling display",
      ": a sudden outburst",
      ": hell",
      ": to burn brightly",
      ": to flare up : flame",
      ": to be conspicuously brilliant or resplendent",
      ": to shoot rapidly and repeatedly",
      ": to proceed extremely rapidly : blast",
      ": to make public or conspicuous",
      ": a usually white stripe down the center of the face of an animal",
      ": a white or gray streak in the hair of the head",
      ": a trail marker",
      ": a mark made on a tree by chipping off a piece of the bark",
      ": to mark (a trail) with blazes (see blaze entry 4 sense 2 )",
      ": to lead in some direction or activity",
      ": an intense and dangerous fire",
      ": great brightness and heat",
      ": a bright display",
      ": outburst sense 1",
      ": to burn brightly",
      ": to shine as if on fire",
      ": a white stripe down the center of an animal's face",
      ": a mark made on a tree to show a trail",
      ": to show a path by making marks on trees",
      ": a white or gray streak in the hair of the head"
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      "\u02c8bl\u0101z",
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      "\u02c8bl\u0101z"
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      "agony",
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      "ebullition",
      "eruption",
      "explosion",
      "fit",
      "flare",
      "flare-up",
      "flash",
      "flush",
      "gale",
      "gush",
      "gust",
      "outburst",
      "paroxysm",
      "spasm",
      "storm"
    ],
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      "burn",
      "combust",
      "flame",
      "glow"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun (1)",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb (1)",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb (2)",
      "1541, in the meaning defined above",
      "Noun (2)",
      "1639, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb (3)",
      "1750, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-212356"
  },
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    "type":"adjective",
    "definitions":[
      "burning very brightly and intensely",
      "of outstanding power, speed, heat, or intensity"
    ],
    "pronounciation":"\u02c8bl\u0101-zi\u014b",
    "synonyms":[
      "ablaze",
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      "alight",
      "burning",
      "combusting",
      "conflagrant",
      "fiery",
      "flaming",
      "ignited",
      "inflamed",
      "enflamed",
      "kindled",
      "lit",
      "lighted"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "She runs with blazing speed.",
      "the blazing logs in the fireplace cast a warm glow on our holiday party"
    ],
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    "first_known_use":[
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-162324"
  },
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    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": armorial bearings : coat of arms",
      ": the proper description or representation of heraldic or armorial bearings",
      ": ostentatious display",
      ": to publish widely : proclaim",
      ": to describe (heraldic or armorial bearings) in technical terms",
      ": to represent (armorial bearings) in drawing or engraving",
      ": display",
      ": deck , adorn"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101-z\u1d4an"
    ],
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      "advertise",
      "announce",
      "annunciate",
      "blare",
      "blaze",
      "broadcast",
      "declare",
      "enunciate",
      "flash",
      "give out",
      "herald",
      "placard",
      "post",
      "proclaim",
      "promulgate",
      "publicize",
      "publish",
      "release",
      "sound",
      "trumpet"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "their very public canoodling has pretty much blazoned the fact that they are having an affair",
      "the city's waterfront has been blazoned with banners celebrating the festival of tall ships",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The Android-only app with the blazon of the French republic will be the only way for residents to create a legal digital ID and facial recognition will be its sole enabler. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 7 Oct. 2019",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "There were lines at The Washington Post\u2019s downtown office Thursday as fans sought to buy a copy of the day\u2019s paper celebrating the win and a 12-page commemorative edition with a single-word headline blazoned across the top of the front page: CHAMPS! \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Nov. 2019",
      "There were Disney characters blazoned on the curtains, the soap, the armoire. \u2014 James Marcus, The New Yorker , 29 Oct. 2019",
      "The far-right white nationalist Identitarian movement\u2019s symbol, blazoned in gold against a black background, is the circle of an aspis, the round shield that was a Spartan warrior\u2019s principal piece of equipment. \u2014 Myke Cole, The New Republic , 1 Aug. 2019",
      "The packaging\u2014 blazoned in #millennialpink with a fashion illo of lashes or lips\u2014admittedly speaks to a slightly younger demo (as do the $10.50 glitter pots). \u2014 Lindsay Schallon, Glamour , 5 Sep. 2017",
      "Already in 1492, when Christopher Columbus embarked for the Indies, the German mariner and cosmographer Georg Martin Behaim had blazoned an animal that might be a polar bear near the North Pole of his 1492 Erdapfel (Earth Apple) globe. \u2014 Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian , 31 May 2017",
      "The company even sells monorail blazoned socks and others items paying homage to the ride that has existed since 1971 when the Magic Kingdom first opened. \u2014 Gabrielle Russon, OrlandoSentinel.com , 25 June 2017",
      "The Leave campaign bus was blazoned with a promise that quitting Europe could add 350 million pounds per week to the National Health Service. \u2014 David Frum, The Atlantic , 9 June 2017",
      "Already in 1492, when Christopher Columbus embarked for the Indies, the German mariner and cosmographer Georg Martin Behaim had blazoned an animal that might be a polar bear near the North Pole of his 1492 Erdapfel (Earth Apple) globe. \u2014 Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian , 31 May 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "circa 1533, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-224649"
  },
  "bleak":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": exposed and barren and often windswept",
      ": cold , raw",
      ": lacking in warmth, life, or kindliness : grim",
      ": not hopeful or encouraging : depressing",
      ": severely simple or austere",
      ": open to wind or weather",
      ": being cold and raw or cheerless",
      ": not hopeful or encouraging"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0113k",
      "\u02c8bl\u0113k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "black",
      "cheerless",
      "chill",
      "Cimmerian",
      "cloudy",
      "cold",
      "comfortless",
      "dark",
      "darkening",
      "depressing",
      "depressive",
      "desolate",
      "dire",
      "disconsolate",
      "dismal",
      "drear",
      "dreary",
      "dreich",
      "elegiac",
      "elegiacal",
      "forlorn",
      "funereal",
      "gloomy",
      "glum",
      "godforsaken",
      "gray",
      "grey",
      "lonely",
      "lonesome",
      "lugubrious",
      "miserable",
      "morbid",
      "morose",
      "murky",
      "plutonian",
      "saturnine",
      "sepulchral",
      "solemn",
      "somber",
      "sombre",
      "sullen",
      "sunless",
      "tenebrific",
      "tenebrous",
      "wretched"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bright",
      "cheerful",
      "cheering",
      "cheery",
      "comforting",
      "cordial",
      "festive",
      "friendly",
      "gay",
      "heartwarming",
      "sunshiny"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "a bleak outlook for the team for the rest of the season",
      "it was a dark and bleak wintry day",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Amid the bleak outlook for glove exports and other global headwinds, the index of Malaysian healthcare stocks has dropped 37% in the past year, with glove manufacturers among the worst performers. \u2014 Anu Raghunathan, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "In many of Cook County\u2019s Southland communities, a moribund tax base and a dearth of jobs has contributed to a bleak economic outlook for those south suburbs. \u2014 The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune , 1 June 2022",
      "When reminded of this bleak outlook, climate progressives point to corporate action and the stock market, which both seemed to be moving in their direction. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 11 May 2022",
      "The bank also forecast that Russia\u2019s economy would shrink by 10 percent this year and stagnate next year, with a bleak outlook unless a peace agreement leads to the relaxing of Western sanctions. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2022",
      "Dimon reiterated his bleak long term outlook for the global economy in statements included in the earnings report. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "But the budget details don\u2019t match his rhetoric, and Exhibit A is the bleak outlook for the Navy. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "Kubrick's film was exceedingly ahead of its time, its bleak outlook an unlikely subject for a comedy. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Notably, the state\u2019s youngest voters have a particularly bleak outlook. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English bleke pale; probably akin to Old English bl\u0101c ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1574, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174247"
  },
  "blear":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to make (the eyes) sore or watery",
      ": dim , blur",
      ": dim with water or tears",
      ": obscure to the view or imagination",
      ": to make (the eyes) sore or watery",
      ": dim with water or tears"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blir",
      "\u02c8bli(\u0259)r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "becloud",
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      "befog",
      "blacken",
      "blur",
      "cloud",
      "darken",
      "dim",
      "dislimn",
      "fog",
      "fuzz (up)",
      "haze",
      "mist",
      "obscure",
      "overcast",
      "overcloud",
      "overshadow",
      "shadow",
      "shroud"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bleary",
      "blurry",
      "dim",
      "faint",
      "foggy",
      "fuzzy",
      "gauzy",
      "hazy",
      "indefinite",
      "indistinct",
      "indistinguishable",
      "misty",
      "murky",
      "nebulous",
      "obscure",
      "opaque",
      "pale",
      "shadowy",
      "unclear",
      "undefined",
      "undetermined",
      "vague"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "her image was bleared , as if I were staring at it through a watery lens",
      "Adjective",
      "I can't describe him; all I saw was a blear figure for an instant."
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Adjective",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203758"
  },
  "bleary":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": dull or dimmed especially from fatigue or sleep",
      ": poorly outlined or defined : dim",
      ": very tired",
      ": dull or dimmed especially from fatigue or sleep"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blir-\u0113",
      "\u02c8bli(\u0259)r-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "all in",
      "aweary",
      "beat",
      "beaten",
      "burned-out",
      "burnt-out",
      "bushed",
      "dead",
      "done",
      "drained",
      "exhausted",
      "fatigued",
      "jaded",
      "knackered",
      "limp",
      "logy",
      "loggy",
      "played out",
      "pooped",
      "prostrate",
      "spent",
      "tapped out",
      "tired",
      "tuckered (out)",
      "washed-out",
      "wearied",
      "weary",
      "wiped out",
      "worn",
      "worn-out"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "unwearied"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "She looked at me with bleary eyes.",
      "disoriented, bleary passengers departing from the red-eye",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Uzi came onstage 30 minutes after his scheduled start time Sunday and saw his sound cut in the middle of one of his bleary emo-rap songs \u2014 a demonstration that not every troublemaker enjoys the industry leeway that Tyler does. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "The song is spare, with a bleary electric-guitar line but not much else; in the open space, Nas is able to use his vocals to mark the contours of his emotions more delicately than on his other songs. \u2014 Carrie Battan, The New Yorker , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "Sun or not, bleary -eyed race winner Alex Bowman needed his shades. \u2014 Dan Gelston, Orlando Sentinel , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "Silver hair tousled, dark eyes bleary , Tosh grabs her phone from the nightstand, taps off the soft music and starts scrolling through her texts and emails. \u2014 Andrea Ball, USA TODAY , 27 Feb. 2022",
      "Notre Dame wasn\u2019t the only bleary -eyed arrival to San Diego early Thursday. \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Americans may be bleary -eyed from Zoom fatigue, and many may be desperate to get back to live concerts and movie theaters. \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times , 24 June 2021",
      "People emerged bleary eyed and unsure, lining up at bank machines and stores, rushing to collect valuables and making plans to wait out the storm. \u2014 Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "The passengers stepped out bleary -eyed, clutching their luggage, pets and young children. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195202"
  },
  "bleat":{
    "type":"verb",
    "definitions":[
      "to make the natural cry of a sheep or goat",
      "to utter a similar sound",
      "whimper",
      "to talk complainingly or with a whine",
      "blather",
      "to utter in a bleating manner",
      "the cry of a sheep or goat",
      "a similar sound",
      "a feeble outcry, protest, or complaint",
      "to make the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf",
      "the sound made by a sheep, goat, or calf"
    ],
    "pronounciation":"\u02c8bl\u0113t",
    "synonyms":[
      "beef",
      "bellyache",
      "bitch",
      "carp",
      "caterwaul",
      "complain",
      "crab",
      "croak",
      "fuss",
      "gripe",
      "grizzle",
      "grouch",
      "grouse",
      "growl",
      "grumble",
      "grump",
      "holler",
      "inveigh",
      "keen",
      "kick",
      "kvetch",
      "maunder",
      "moan",
      "murmur",
      "mutter",
      "nag",
      "repine",
      "scream",
      "squawk",
      "squeal",
      "wail",
      "whimper",
      "whine",
      "whinge",
      "yammer",
      "yawp",
      "yaup",
      "yowl"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "beef",
      "bitch",
      "carp",
      "complaint",
      "fuss",
      "grievance",
      "gripe",
      "grouch",
      "grouse",
      "grumble",
      "holler",
      "kvetch",
      "lament",
      "miserere",
      "moan",
      "murmur",
      "plaint",
      "squawk",
      "wail",
      "whimper",
      "whine",
      "whinge",
      "yammer"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The lamb bleated as I approached.",
      "\u201cBut why can't I go?\u201d she bleated .",
      "The labor union is always bleating about the management.",
      "Noun",
      "a very patient, understanding person who accepts life's inconveniences without a bleat",
      "Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
      "For decades, conservative Republicans have posed as the party of chest-thumping ultra-patriots who bleat constantly about how America is the best country on the planet. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 9 Aug. 2021",
      "Watching smug, satisfied 1 percenters bleat on about their unlimited financial options is about as welcome as a wet teddy bear. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 July 2021",
      "She was booted from her GOP leadership spot for refusing to go along with her reprobate and deceitful Republican colleagues, who continue to lay prostrate before former President Donald Trump and bleat that the election was stolen from him. \u2014 Mika Brzezinski, NBC News , 17 May 2021",
      "On the small farm that Alberto Barroso runs a few miles from his apartment, the sprightly stems of potatoes and onions peek through fresh soil; his hundreds of goats bleat into the clean air. \u2014 Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor , 12 Mar. 2021",
      "The New York Times will bellow and bleat , And the silence will echo down Mulberry Street. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 3 Mar. 2021",
      "Even those inside that didn\u2019t come out must have heard the truck horns moaning, the air brakes bleating , the hymn of an industrial funeral. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2020",
      "The buck bleated several times but soon stopped struggling. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Mar. 2020",
      "The season opens with the faintest noise A single French horn bleats a plaintive melody while a platoon of hoary men from the Royal Mail service, all wearing dark suits, shuffles into a stateroom in Buckingham Palace. \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Republic , 12 Dec. 2019",
      "Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
      "The biographer gave out what could pass for a happy bleat . \u2014 Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "In the nine-episode first season\u2014filmed mostly in Troy, New York\u2014viewers hear sheep bleat in Central Park, watch workers sweep away ceaselessly accumulating street dust and listen to the crackling of interior fires. \u2014 Kimberly Hamlin, Smithsonian Magazine , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "The 93rd Academy Awards ended not with a bang but a bleat . \u2014 Glenn Whipp Entertainment Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 23 Nov. 2021",
      "On a recent weekday morning, the shrill bleat of a drill unscrewing a wooden crate echoed over music playing from a small speaker in the building\u2019s rotunda. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Oct. 2021",
      "As Bryant scrupulously took notes on dance moves, and Davis practiced his bleat , some moments seemed sure to land differently, even though they were crafted years ago. \u2014 Michael Paulson, New York Times , 2 Aug. 2021",
      "The alarm continued its steady bleat , the volume seeming to increase. \u2014 Emma Cline, The New Yorker , 1 June 2020",
      "Hungry fawns often make a soft bleat that has a begging tone to it. \u2014 Jarrod Spilger, Field & Stream , 6 Dec. 2019",
      "Solar Sister, so tell us\u2014how to, how to disassemble our fragile empire without ballooning the glottal- bleat system for another. \u2014 Aria Aber, The New Republic , 17 Apr. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a",
      "Noun",
      "1508, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
  "bleed":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to emit or lose blood",
      ": to sacrifice one's blood especially in battle",
      ": to feel anguish, pain, or sympathy",
      ": to escape by oozing or flowing (as from a wound)",
      ": to spread into or through something gradually : seep",
      ": to give up some constituent (such as sap or dye) by exuding or diffusing it",
      ": to pay out or give money",
      ": to have money extorted",
      ": to be printed so as to run off one or more edges of the page after trimming",
      ": to remove or draw blood from",
      ": to get or extort money from especially over a prolonged period",
      ": to draw sap from (a tree)",
      ": to extract or let out some or all of a contained substance from",
      ": to extract or cause to escape from a container",
      ": to diminish gradually",
      ": to lose rapidly and uncontrollably",
      ": sap",
      ": to cause (something, such as a printed illustration) to bleed",
      ": to drain of blood or resources",
      ": printed matter (such as an illustration) that bleeds",
      ": the part of a bleed trimmed off",
      ": the escape of blood from vessels : hemorrhage",
      ": to lose or shed blood",
      ": to feel pain or pity",
      ": to draw a liquid or gas from",
      ": to spread into something else",
      ": to emit or lose blood",
      ": to escape by oozing or flowing (as from a wound)",
      ": to remove or draw blood from",
      ": the escape of blood from vessels : hemorrhage"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0113d",
      "\u02c8bl\u0113d",
      "\u02c8bl\u0113d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "agonize",
      "anguish",
      "grieve",
      "hurt",
      "mourn",
      "sorrow",
      "suffer"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "She was bleeding from the face and hands.",
      "Doctors used to bleed their patients in an effort to cure them.",
      "We bled air from the tank.",
      "You'll need to bleed the car's brake lines.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Crump said the officers\u2019 actions after the shooting caused McClain to bleed more heavily and contributed to his death. \u2014 James Queally, Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "The retail sector\u2019s recent weight on the broader market could next bleed through to overall hiring as employers look to control costs, said Bill Adams, chief economist for Comerica Bank. \u2014 Damian J. Troise, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
      "The ticks can gather on moose in the tens of thousands and can bleed the animals to the point of death. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
      "One other positive piece of news for the crypto market is the widespread belief that the LUNA/UST crash will not lead to contagion throughout the crypto ecosystem or bleed into the traditional financial world. \u2014 Michael Del Castillo, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
      "Because the fabric is woven a bit loosely to create a softer feel, some yarns and fibers may shed in the washer, and bright colors may bleed , so be sure to keep them separate from other items for their first wash. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
      "Opponents, however, fear that those interests will bleed into how the new city is governed. \u2014 Brian Eason, ajc , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "This culture will likely bleed into the metaverse as well, Gmoney told Fortune. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Her exploration of the pathways by which a seemingly private family melodrama can bleed into public savagery illuminates not just a single household\u2019s, but an entire country\u2019s toxic dysfunction. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The effects would come through the legends strongly with some light bleed on the lower corners of some keycaps. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 24 May 2022",
      "The child suffered a brain bleed that would likely have resulted in death had doctors not provided treatment. \u2014 Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "Sarah Staudte was admitted to the ICU with a brain bleed and organ failure. \u2014 Joseph Diaz, ABC News , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "Symptoms can vary based on where in the brain the bleed occurs but can include numbness or weakness in part of the face or body, confusion, severe headache, and difficulty speaking, walking and/or seeing. \u2014 Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun , 16 May 2022",
      "Despite the bleed of parishioners, white evangelicals have managed to maintain their power in electoral politics by solidifying their stake in the Republican Party. \u2014 NBC News , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "The goal has transitioned from fixing the devaluation to merely slowing the bleed . \u2014 Prem Ramkumar, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Areas for employees' medical training such as stop the bleed practices, and awareness of what law enforcement response looks like. \u2014 Edward Segal, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "This means better contrast and less bleed from light to dark. \u2014 Parker Hall, Wired , 30 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a",
      "Noun",
      "1917, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-204908"
  },
  "bleeder":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": one that bleeds",
      ": hemophiliac",
      ": rotter",
      ": bloke",
      ": one that draws blood",
      ": a person who draws blood for medical reasons : bloodletter",
      ": hemophiliac",
      ": a large blood vessel (as one cut during surgery) that is losing blood",
      ": a horse that has experienced exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0113-d\u0259r",
      "\u02c8bl\u0113d-\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bastard",
      "beast",
      "blighter",
      "boor",
      "bounder",
      "bugger",
      "buzzard",
      "cad",
      "chuff",
      "churl",
      "clown",
      "creep",
      "cretin",
      "crud",
      "crumb",
      "cur",
      "dirtbag",
      "dog",
      "fink",
      "heel",
      "hound",
      "jerk",
      "joker",
      "louse",
      "lout",
      "pill",
      "rat",
      "rat fink",
      "reptile",
      "rotter",
      "schmuck",
      "scum",
      "scumbag",
      "scuzzball",
      "skunk",
      "sleaze",
      "sleazebag",
      "sleazeball",
      "slime",
      "slimeball",
      "slob",
      "snake",
      "so-and-so",
      "sod",
      "stinkard",
      "stinker",
      "swine",
      "toad",
      "varmint",
      "vermin"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Don't let those bleeders grind you down.",
      "\u201cI've won the lottery.\u201d \u201cYou lucky bleeder !\u201d",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "On Kelley\u2019s very first big-league pitch in 21 months, Travis d\u2019Arnaud hit a bleeder against the shift for a single that scored the runner who began the inning on second. \u2014 Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 May 2022",
      "Next, make sure the bleeder valves can be loosened. \u2014 Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics , 8 Oct. 2020",
      "This big, cut-on-contact model with bleeder blades brought back fond memories of the old-school Bear Razorheads in my dad\u2019s archery tackle box. \u2014 Will Brantley, Field & Stream , 5 June 2020",
      "Trailing behind the main blades is a pair of 1-1/8-inch-cut bleeder blades. \u2014 Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream , 9 Jan. 2020",
      "What continues below is a first-time free bleeder \u2019s review. \u2014 Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF , 30 Oct. 2018",
      "Shane Greene returned from the disabled list Greene made his official return in the bottom of the eighth inning and allowed a pair of bleeder hits to Jose Altuve and Yulieski Gurriel to start the inning. \u2014 Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press , 13 July 2018",
      "Bloopers, bleeders and infield singles did in starter Charlie Morton \u2014 not to mention a pair of three-run homers that barely cleared the fence. \u2014 USA TODAY , 17 Oct. 2017",
      "The offensive attack was opportunistic and relentless, swarming Giants starter Ty Blach with an array of bleeders , bloopers and broken bats. \u2014 Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com , 13 June 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1803, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-224813"
  },
  "blemish":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to spoil by a flaw",
      ": a noticeable imperfection",
      ": one that seriously impairs appearance",
      ": a mark that makes something imperfect : an unwanted mark on a surface",
      ": to spoil by or as if by an ugly mark",
      ": a mark of physical deformity or injury: as",
      ": any small mark on the skin (as a pimple or birthmark)",
      ": a defect of an animal (as a horse) that detracts from its appearance but does not interfere with its usefulness"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ble-mish",
      "\u02c8blem-ish",
      "\u02c8blem-ish"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "darken",
      "mar",
      "poison",
      "spoil",
      "stain",
      "taint",
      "tarnish",
      "touch",
      "vitiate"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blight",
      "blotch",
      "defect",
      "deformity",
      "disfigurement",
      "excrescence",
      "excrescency",
      "fault",
      "flaw",
      "imperfection",
      "mar",
      "mark",
      "pockmark",
      "scar"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "While liquid is simmering, peel the pears, leaving the stem intact and being careful not to blemish the flesh of the pears. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Dec. 2021",
      "But Paul\u2019s latest shortcoming and his uncertain playoff future should not blemish an otherwise impeccable basketball r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u2014 Mark Medina, USA TODAY , 21 July 2021",
      "And while some have sought therapy or medications to cope, others fear that engaging in these support systems could blemish their records and dissuade future employers from hiring them. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Nov. 2020",
      "For his part, Hinch defended his players' talents but acknowledged the clubhouse put itself in a position where its achievements may be blemished . \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 7 Feb. 2020",
      "Such a policy would ensure that individuals did not emerge from this crisis burdened with debts and blemished credit Renters need help, too. \u2014 Sendhil Mullainathan, New York Times , 19 Mar. 2020",
      "Skin lighteners generate a less painted look than skin whiteners by removing rather than concealing blemished or melanin-rich skin. \u2014 Lynn M. Thomas, Quartz Africa , 9 Mar. 2020",
      "Fort Scott takes blemished bullets from their production line and turns them into Bullet Bait, a run of handmade fishing lures. \u2014 Matthew Every, Outdoor Life , 11 Feb. 2020",
      "The incident served as the catalyst for Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson\u2019s request that the then-Obama Justice Department examine the department\u2019s blemished history of unconstitutional policing practices. \u2014 Evan Macdonald, cleveland , 24 Jan. 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "A year earlier, Alabama\u2019s record-setting 2020 offense outpaced Texas A&M in a 52-24 win that was the only blemish on the Aggies\u2019 9-1 record. \u2014 Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "The lone blemish from Faedo came in the sixth inning, when Brett Phillips hit a home run off the catwalk. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 17 May 2022",
      "The lone blemish on Michigan\u2019s record was its loss at Michigan State, but a win over Iowa in the Big Ten Championship Game secured Michigan\u2019s spot in the playoff for the first time in the Jim Harbaugh era. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Dec. 2021",
      "Sure, the mind-boggling number of weapons in the hands of civilians is a daunting problem with deadly consequences, and the failure to address it is a blemish on America's system of government. \u2014 Frida Ghitis, CNN , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "The lone blemish on the team\u2019s record is a 7-4 loss to Palm Beach Gardens. \u2014 Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com , 16 Apr. 2021",
      "The Hero Cosmetics Mighty Patch collection features an array of hydrocolloid bandages in different shapes and sizes to treat any blemish that might form. \u2014 Angela Trakoshis, Allure , 17 May 2022",
      "Halfway up is a huge scar that looks as if a giant took a bite out of it; Velasquez said there is no record of what caused that blemish . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
      "Lemieux, 33, looks to put the first blemish on the 25-0 Benavidez's record. \u2014 Jos\u00e9 M. Romero, The Arizona Republic , 26 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above",
      "Noun",
      "1535, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185349"
  },
  "blench":{
    "type":[
      "verb ()"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to draw back or turn aside from lack of courage : flinch",
      ": bleach , whiten"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blench"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "cringe",
      "flinch",
      "quail",
      "recoil",
      "shrink",
      "squinch",
      "wince"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blanch",
      "bleach",
      "decolorize",
      "dull",
      "fade",
      "pale",
      "snow",
      "wash out",
      "whiten"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb (1)",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb (1)",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined above",
      "Verb (2)",
      "1797, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210252"
  },
  "bless":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to hallow or consecrate by religious rite or word",
      ": to hallow with the sign of the cross",
      ": to invoke divine care for",
      ": praise , glorify",
      ": to speak well of : approve",
      ": to confer prosperity or happiness upon",
      ": protect , preserve",
      ": endow , favor",
      ": to make holy by a religious ceremony or words",
      ": to ask the favor or protection of God for",
      ": to praise or honor as holy",
      ": to give happiness or good fortune to"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bles",
      "\u02c8bles"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "consecrate",
      "hallow",
      "sacralize",
      "sanctify"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "deconsecrate",
      "desacralize",
      "desanctify"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "The priest blessed their marriage at the wedding.",
      "The water for the baptism has been blessed .",
      "The priest blessed the baby I held in my arms.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "God bless our wonderful costume designer Joanna Johnston. \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
      "Liam Payne, bless his heart, popped up on Logan Paul\u2019s podcast and earned a robust round of ire from One Direction fans with some rather wild comments about his former bandmates and his solo career. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 1 June 2022",
      "And god bless Jeff for always making people laugh even in the saddest times. \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "God bless you sir for putting so much effort into this race. \u2014 Paul Steinhauser, Fox News , 18 May 2022",
      "Also, everyone else at that karaoke bar, except maybe the people who were blackout drunk ( bless them). \u2014 Jason Adam Katzenstein, The New Yorker , 18 May 2022",
      "God bless this room for handling that whole thing with such grace. \u2014 Mary Mcnamara, Los Angeles Times , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Awards directors and publicists for the studios, networks and streamers, bless them, just endured two days of clawing and pouncing on Emmy FYC dates. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "And if Roe is indeed overturned, God bless our country that can make such a terrible, coldhearted mistake and yet, half a century later, redress it, right it, turn it around. \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 5 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Old English bl\u0113tsian , from bl\u014dd blood; from the use of blood in consecration",
    "first_known_use":[
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220335"
  },
  "blessed":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": held in reverence : venerated",
      ": honored in worship : hallowed",
      ": beatific",
      ": of or enjoying happiness",
      ": enjoying the bliss of heaven",
      ": bringing pleasure, contentment, or good fortune",
      ": holy sense 1",
      ": enjoying happiness"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ble-s\u0259d",
      "\u02c8ble-s\u0259d",
      "\u02c8blest"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "divine",
      "godlike",
      "godly",
      "heavenly",
      "holy",
      "sacred",
      "supernatural"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "The rain brought blessed relief from the heat.",
      "He spent his weekend in blessed freedom.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The adults in our wildly blessed country can't figure out traffic circles . \u2014 Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
      "So its actual appearance at the Metropolitano Stadium opener was considered a blessed event indeed. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 1 June 2022",
      "There are times when the show still manages to pull off that blessed trick, especially when taking satirical jabs at Black grifters who\u2019ve figured out how to siphon White money into their own bank accounts. \u2014 Inkoo Kang, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
      "Butch navigates his broad shoulders through the maze that is his cramped garage, past his freshly blessed boat, a freezer filled with bluefin tuna steaks, a 1966 Volvo up on blocks and two more boats. \u2014 Steven E. Banks, Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2022",
      "Copper, like dozens of other hard assets, was already shooting higher over the past few months thanks to that blessed combination of surging demand and supply shortages. \u2014 Brett Owens, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "Definitely without a doubt, so blessed to have him. \u2014 Nubyjas Wilborn | Nwilborn@al.com, al , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "The dumbest stroke of luck, but a blessed one nonetheless. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "All of us are so blessed and honored to have been inspired by him. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 27 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"see bless ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220417"
  },
  "blessedness":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": held in reverence : venerated",
      ": honored in worship : hallowed",
      ": beatific",
      ": of or enjoying happiness",
      ": enjoying the bliss of heaven",
      ": bringing pleasure, contentment, or good fortune",
      ": holy sense 1",
      ": enjoying happiness"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ble-s\u0259d",
      "\u02c8ble-s\u0259d",
      "\u02c8blest"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "divine",
      "godlike",
      "godly",
      "heavenly",
      "holy",
      "sacred",
      "supernatural"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "The rain brought blessed relief from the heat.",
      "He spent his weekend in blessed freedom.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The adults in our wildly blessed country can't figure out traffic circles . \u2014 Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
      "So its actual appearance at the Metropolitano Stadium opener was considered a blessed event indeed. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 1 June 2022",
      "There are times when the show still manages to pull off that blessed trick, especially when taking satirical jabs at Black grifters who\u2019ve figured out how to siphon White money into their own bank accounts. \u2014 Inkoo Kang, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
      "Butch navigates his broad shoulders through the maze that is his cramped garage, past his freshly blessed boat, a freezer filled with bluefin tuna steaks, a 1966 Volvo up on blocks and two more boats. \u2014 Steven E. Banks, Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2022",
      "Copper, like dozens of other hard assets, was already shooting higher over the past few months thanks to that blessed combination of surging demand and supply shortages. \u2014 Brett Owens, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "Definitely without a doubt, so blessed to have him. \u2014 Nubyjas Wilborn | Nwilborn@al.com, al , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "The dumbest stroke of luck, but a blessed one nonetheless. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "All of us are so blessed and honored to have been inspired by him. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 27 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"see bless ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195609"
  },
  "blest":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to hallow or consecrate by religious rite or word",
      ": to hallow with the sign of the cross",
      ": to invoke divine care for",
      ": praise , glorify",
      ": to speak well of : approve",
      ": to confer prosperity or happiness upon",
      ": protect , preserve",
      ": endow , favor",
      ": to make holy by a religious ceremony or words",
      ": to ask the favor or protection of God for",
      ": to praise or honor as holy",
      ": to give happiness or good fortune to"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bles",
      "\u02c8bles"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "consecrate",
      "hallow",
      "sacralize",
      "sanctify"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "deconsecrate",
      "desacralize",
      "desanctify"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "The priest blessed their marriage at the wedding.",
      "The water for the baptism has been blessed .",
      "The priest blessed the baby I held in my arms.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "God bless our wonderful costume designer Joanna Johnston. \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
      "Liam Payne, bless his heart, popped up on Logan Paul\u2019s podcast and earned a robust round of ire from One Direction fans with some rather wild comments about his former bandmates and his solo career. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 1 June 2022",
      "And god bless Jeff for always making people laugh even in the saddest times. \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "God bless you sir for putting so much effort into this race. \u2014 Paul Steinhauser, Fox News , 18 May 2022",
      "Also, everyone else at that karaoke bar, except maybe the people who were blackout drunk ( bless them). \u2014 Jason Adam Katzenstein, The New Yorker , 18 May 2022",
      "God bless this room for handling that whole thing with such grace. \u2014 Mary Mcnamara, Los Angeles Times , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Awards directors and publicists for the studios, networks and streamers, bless them, just endured two days of clawing and pouncing on Emmy FYC dates. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "And if Roe is indeed overturned, God bless our country that can make such a terrible, coldhearted mistake and yet, half a century later, redress it, right it, turn it around. \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 5 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Old English bl\u0113tsian , from bl\u014dd blood; from the use of blood in consecration",
    "first_known_use":[
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174610"
  },
  "blighter":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": one that blights",
      ": a disliked or contemptible person",
      ": fellow , guy"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u012b-t\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bastard",
      "beast",
      "bleeder",
      "boor",
      "bounder",
      "bugger",
      "buzzard",
      "cad",
      "chuff",
      "churl",
      "clown",
      "creep",
      "cretin",
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      "dog",
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      "heel",
      "hound",
      "jerk",
      "joker",
      "louse",
      "lout",
      "pill",
      "rat",
      "rat fink",
      "reptile",
      "rotter",
      "schmuck",
      "scum",
      "scumbag",
      "scuzzball",
      "skunk",
      "sleaze",
      "sleazebag",
      "sleazeball",
      "slime",
      "slimeball",
      "slob",
      "snake",
      "so-and-so",
      "sod",
      "stinkard",
      "stinker",
      "swine",
      "toad",
      "varmint",
      "vermin"
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    "examples":[
      "Just tell the blighter to leave you alone.",
      "I feel sorry for the little blighter ."
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1797, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174913"
  },
  "blindsiding":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to hit unexpectedly from or as if from the blind side",
      ": to surprise unpleasantly",
      ": the side away from which one is looking",
      ": the side on which one that is blind in one eye cannot see",
      ": the side on which one who is blind in one eye cannot see"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u012bn(d)-\u02ccs\u012bd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The quarterback was blindsided just as he was about to throw a pass.",
      "We were all blindsided by the news of her sudden death.",
      "Noun",
      "He was hit on his blind side .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "That said, makeup artist Kazu Hiro managed to blindside Esmail with his makeover of Sean Penn into the graying, double-chinned John Mitchell. \u2014 Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
      "Understand that this story will likely completely blindside others in attendance. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 25 May 2022",
      "Understand that this story will likely completely blindside others in attendance. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
      "At Tribal Council, Maryanne was able to blindside Omar, who becomes the next member of the jury. \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 25 May 2022",
      "Understand that this story will likely completely blindside others in attendance. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 25 May 2022",
      "Understand that this story will likely completely blindside others in attendance. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
      "Understand that this story will likely completely blindside others in attendance. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune , 24 May 2022",
      "Vorhees originally started at left guard before bumping out to blindside duties during the last four games of the 2021 campaign. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 6 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Enter Ekwonu, who\u2019s a mauler with sweet feet on the blind side \u2013 the 6-4, 310-pounder ran a sub-5-second 40-yard dash at the combine \u2013 and has more than enough upside to reach his All-Pro potential. \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Leatherwood, who passed for 52 touchdowns in the fall, acted like his left tackle protecting his blind side . \u2014 Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "Leatherwood, who passed for 52 touchdowns in the fall, acted like his left tackle protecting his blind side . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "Robinson is responsible for protecting quarterback Trevor Lawrence's blind side . \u2014 John Reid, USA TODAY , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "Petit-Frere, one year removed from his breakout season at right tackle, took Munford\u2019s spot on the blind side of whichever freshman quarterback wins the starting job. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "In a game where big mistakes are likely the only way to get beat, Fisher has to be able to protect Wentz\u2019s blind side . \u2014 Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star , 8 Jan. 2022",
      "Williams, who protects Garoppolo\u2019s blind side , helps the 49ers not only in pass blocking but also in fueling their running game. \u2014 Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 Jan. 2022",
      "Early in the third quarter, Indiana linebacker Micah McFadden stormed through an opening on C.J. Stroud\u2019s blind side and sacked the OSU quarterback. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 24 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "1960, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "1606, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-181852"
  },
  "bliss":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": complete happiness",
      ": paradise , heaven",
      ": great happiness : joy"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blis",
      "\u02c8blis"
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      "above",
      "elysian fields",
      "Elysium",
      "empyrean",
      "heaven",
      "kingdom come",
      "New Jerusalem",
      "paradise",
      "sky",
      "Zion",
      "Sion"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "Gehenna",
      "hell",
      "Pandemonium",
      "perdition"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Relaxing on the porch of our private villa was sheer bliss .",
      "the godly life she has lived will surely lead to infinite bliss after death",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The film, about an ideal couple whose bliss is threatened by a best friend\u2019s determination to atone for something long ago forgotten, is the first acquisition by FilmInk Originals. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 9 June 2022",
      "The pleasure and the sadness are inextricable, which seems fitting, given how closely aesthetic bliss and moral despair were entwined in Sassoon\u2019s own art. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
      "Why this bliss , this abundance, this mind-boggling being called by her name? \u2014 Joshua Ferris, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
      "Nobu Hotel\u2019s signature spa experiences also include an outdoor hydrotherapy garden, steam and sauna areas, a hydrotherapy pool, and cabana jacuzzis, promising a boundless bliss . \u2014 Yola Robert, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
      "Nick and Janine live in bliss until her ex warps time to try to tear them apart by using Nick's old girlfriend. \u2014 Travis Bean, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "While the lovebirds are undoubtedly reveling in engagement bliss , their celebrity friends wasted no time congratulating the couple on the momentous milestone in their relationship. \u2014 Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com , 12 Jan. 2022",
      "Alice Coltrane spent the mid-Sixties in personal and musical bliss , starting a family with John Coltrane and touring the world as the pianist in his band. \u2014 Rolling Stone , 30 Nov. 2021",
      "Gwen Stefani is still living in newlywed bliss with husband and country singer Blake Shelton. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 21 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English blisse , from Old English bliss ; akin to Old English bl\u012bthe blithe",
    "first_known_use":[
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195136"
  },
  "blissfully":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": full of, marked by, or causing complete happiness",
      ": happily benighted"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blis-f\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "chuffed",
      "delighted",
      "glad",
      "gratified",
      "happy",
      "joyful",
      "joyous",
      "pleased",
      "satisfied",
      "thankful",
      "tickled"
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      "displeased",
      "dissatisfied",
      "joyless",
      "sad",
      "unhappy",
      "unpleased",
      "unsatisfied"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "At first, their time together was blissful .",
      "He sat there in a blissful state of comfort.",
      "a blissful setting for a wedding",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Parsing through the seemingly endless options of bouquets, ceremony arches, cakes and, most crucially, fashion to find what feels right for you and your betrothed can be blissful \u2014or headache-inducing. \u2014 Vogue , 1 June 2022",
      "But the many exhibitors who did show up did their best to provide a blissful , if temporary, separation from the realities waiting just outside the doors. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
      "Men and women love the lightweight feel and the delectable scent of coconuts and blissful paradise. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
      "To help facilitate a blissful vacation, there\u2019s an on-site spa with a dry sauna, experiential shower, and an outdoor treatment room. \u2014 Christina Liao, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
      "The person in front of me, however, was calm, even blissful . \u2014 Gregory Grieve, The Conversation , 19 May 2022",
      "Bring that blissful feeling to you backyard patio with his stylish piece from Safavieh, which features a steel frame wrapped in all-weather black resin wicker. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 9 May 2022",
      "What started as a blissful homebirth turned into an emergency run to the hospital where an epidural, heart monitors and Pitocin made possible what would have been \u2014 in long-ago days \u2014 pure tragedy. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
      "Those days of blissful fiscal ignorance will soon end. \u2014 Chris Jacobs, WSJ , 15 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"see bliss ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-214312"
  },
  "blissfulness":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": full of, marked by, or causing complete happiness",
      ": happily benighted"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blis-f\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "chuffed",
      "delighted",
      "glad",
      "gratified",
      "happy",
      "joyful",
      "joyous",
      "pleased",
      "satisfied",
      "thankful",
      "tickled"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "displeased",
      "dissatisfied",
      "joyless",
      "sad",
      "unhappy",
      "unpleased",
      "unsatisfied"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "At first, their time together was blissful .",
      "He sat there in a blissful state of comfort.",
      "a blissful setting for a wedding",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Parsing through the seemingly endless options of bouquets, ceremony arches, cakes and, most crucially, fashion to find what feels right for you and your betrothed can be blissful \u2014or headache-inducing. \u2014 Vogue , 1 June 2022",
      "But the many exhibitors who did show up did their best to provide a blissful , if temporary, separation from the realities waiting just outside the doors. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
      "Men and women love the lightweight feel and the delectable scent of coconuts and blissful paradise. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
      "To help facilitate a blissful vacation, there\u2019s an on-site spa with a dry sauna, experiential shower, and an outdoor treatment room. \u2014 Christina Liao, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
      "The person in front of me, however, was calm, even blissful . \u2014 Gregory Grieve, The Conversation , 19 May 2022",
      "Bring that blissful feeling to you backyard patio with his stylish piece from Safavieh, which features a steel frame wrapped in all-weather black resin wicker. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 9 May 2022",
      "What started as a blissful homebirth turned into an emergency run to the hospital where an epidural, heart monitors and Pitocin made possible what would have been \u2014 in long-ago days \u2014 pure tragedy. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
      "Those days of blissful fiscal ignorance will soon end. \u2014 Chris Jacobs, WSJ , 15 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"see bliss ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195243"
  },
  "blistering":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": extremely intense or severe",
      ": very rapid"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bli-st(\u0259-)ri\u014b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "acute",
      "almighty",
      "deep",
      "dreadful",
      "excruciating",
      "explosive",
      "exquisite",
      "fearful",
      "fearsome",
      "ferocious",
      "fierce",
      "frightful",
      "furious",
      "ghastly",
      "hard",
      "heavy",
      "heavy-duty",
      "hellacious",
      "intense",
      "intensive",
      "keen",
      "profound",
      "terrible",
      "vehement",
      "vicious",
      "violent"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "light",
      "moderate",
      "soft"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "a hockey player with a blistering slap shot",
      "even after a blistering attack from the enemy, the fortress held",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Knapp and Alper are smart to surround Ren\u00e9e with a larger-than-expected backing band of seven players, three of whom make up a blistering horn section, anchored by the steady, admirably understated guitar played by Brendan Saadat. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 19 May 2022",
      "Granted, the economy just grew at a blistering 6.9% annual rate in the fourth quarter, but many things have changed since then, including two more months so far in 2022 of continuing high inflation. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "Inflation has proven to be one of the most blistering features of the pandemic recovery, one that weighs directly on households across the country. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "The coup\u00e9 can rocket from zero to 62 mph in 2.8 second and has a blistering top speed of 220.5 mph. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "The game was tied 21-21 at half, but the Malemutes went on a blistering 13-0 run over the first half of the third quarter, taking command of the game. \u2014 Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "Playing their fourth game in four days, the seventh-seeded Hokies (23-12) clinched a berth in next week\u2019s NCAA Tournament with a stunning 82-67 win Saturday over top-seeded Duke behind a blistering offensive performance from Hunter Cattoor. \u2014 David Thompson, USA TODAY , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "But his most blistering critiques also are directed at Trump and efforts by Abbott and Paxton to stop cities, counties and school districts from enforcing mandates on masks, vaccinations and testing. \u2014 Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Behind a balanced scoring attack and a blistering first-half run, Noblesville defeated Franklin, 76-52, to secure the IHSAA Class 4A girls basketball championship, its first since 1987. \u2014 Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star , 27 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1708, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205550"
  },
  "blithe":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": lacking due thought or consideration : casual , heedless",
      ": of a happy lighthearted character or disposition",
      ": free from worry : merry , cheerful"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u012bth",
      "\u02c8bl\u012bt\u035fh",
      "\u02c8bl\u012bth",
      "\u02c8bl\u012bt\u035fh"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blithesome",
      "bright",
      "buoyant",
      "canty",
      "cheerful",
      "cheery",
      "chipper",
      "eupeptic",
      "gay",
      "gladsome",
      "lightsome",
      "sunny",
      "upbeat",
      "winsome"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "dour",
      "gloomy",
      "glum",
      "morose",
      "saturnine",
      "sulky",
      "sullen"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "He showed blithe disregard for the rights of others.",
      "He was blithe about the risks to his health.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The members grabbed their backpacks, gathered up half-empty bags of chips and some clementine peels to use as compost, and alighted into a blare of car horns and the blithe clamor of a midtown Saturday night. \u2014 Danyoung Kim, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022",
      "Those who survived the plague are still scarred by their memories of it, while the blithe young adults around them can\u2019t relate. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
      "What would, today, be dismissed as garish act of patriotism was somehow symbolic of the bold, blithe zeitgeist. \u2014 CNN , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "Sywak plans to purchase tickets this week for Tori Amos\u2019 L.A. concerts in June and is taking a blithe approach. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "Lost in the blithe tale of surviving one's youthful idiocy are all the subtleties of that process (as well as the one unsubtlety of it, that not everyone survives). \u2014 Washington Post , 30 May 2021",
      "HBO Max Savage and sweet, this family comedy parodies the inanity of celebrity culture with blithe brilliance. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "In a book so elegantly written and so generously packed with data and references, this is the only jarringly blithe (and jarringly non-Bayesian) note. \u2014 Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 Oct. 2021",
      "Meanwhile, the Western tourists also make attempts to document the trip, snapping away at their fellow travelers with a blithe condescension never present in this good-humored but conscientious film. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 23 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Old English bl\u012bthe ; akin to Old High German bl\u012bdi joyous",
    "first_known_use":[
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-201820"
  },
  "blither":{
    "type":"verb",
    "definitions":[
      "to talk foolishly or nonsensically blather"
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    "pronounciation":"\u02c8bli-t\u035fh\u0259r",
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":null,
    "first_known_use":[
      "1867, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
  "blitzed":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": intoxicated by drugs or alcohol"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blitst"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blasted",
      "bombed",
      "high",
      "hopped-up",
      "loaded",
      "ripped",
      "spaced-out",
      "spaced",
      "stoned",
      "strung out",
      "wasted",
      "wiped out",
      "zonked",
      "zonked-out"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "sober",
      "straight"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "She was totally blitzed that night."
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1966, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-232310"
  },
  "blitzkrieg":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": war conducted with great speed and force",
      ": a violent surprise offensive by massed air forces and mechanized ground forces in close coordination",
      ": blitz sense 2a"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blits-\u02cckr\u0113g"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "barrage",
      "blitz",
      "bombardment",
      "cannonade",
      "drumbeat",
      "drumfire",
      "flurry",
      "fusillade",
      "hail",
      "salvo",
      "shower",
      "storm",
      "volley"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "the stunned survivors of the crash were then confronted with a blitzkrieg of insensitive questions from the media",
      "the war began with a blitzkrieg that was designed to shock the enemy into submission",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Fifty years later, Roxy Music\u2019s art-rock blitzkrieg of a debut remains their finest show of collective power. \u2014 Jill Krajewski, SPIN , 8 June 2022",
      "The failure of Russia\u2019s early blitzkrieg fueled Ukrainian confidence that is ebbing as Russia concentrates its firepower on a narrower, grinding advance. \u2014 Marcus Walker, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
      "Each mat goes for a blitzkrieg -like concentration\u2014my model has 7,992 spikes, each one-eighth inch long. \u2014 Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online , 4 Sep. 2020",
      "Auburn utilized an 11-run blitzkrieg in the first inning on its way to defeating 19-7 Southeastern Louisiana in the opening round of the NCAA regional Friday at Plainsman Park. \u2014 Nubyjas Wilborn | Nwilborn@al.com, al , 4 June 2022",
      "Russian President Vladimir Putin has played down the impact of the war, saying that the West\u2019s economic blitzkrieg has failed. \u2014 Georgi Kantchev, WSJ , 2 June 2022",
      "Yam laid the groundwork for his coverage of the Taliban\u2019s blitzkrieg takeover of Afghanistan with diligent previous work in the country. \u2014 James Rainey, Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2022",
      "The initial blitzkrieg , an attempt to take Kyiv and areas of the North with a lightning assault along main highways, has failed and Russian forces have withdrawn from that area. \u2014 David Hambling, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Netflix, of course, has also been at this game far longer than Apple, and routinely subjects Hollywood to a marketing blitzkrieg for its Oscar contenders. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 27 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"German, from Blitz lightning + Krieg war",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1937, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213050"
  },
  "blob":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick",
      ": a daub or spot of color",
      ": something shapeless",
      ": to mark with blobs : splotch",
      ": a small lump or drop of something thick"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4b",
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "chunk",
      "clod",
      "clot",
      "clump",
      "dollop",
      "glob",
      "gob",
      "gobbet",
      "hunk",
      "knob",
      "lump",
      "nub",
      "nubble",
      "nugget",
      "wad"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "That blue blob in the corner of the map is the lake we're headed for.",
      "flicked a blob of jelly on the toast and began to spread it around",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The vast volcanic caldera at Yellowstone National Park is just the latest in a long string of volcanic sites, all of which seem to be linked to a hot blob of material that may go all the way down to the Earth's mantle. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Looked at directly by a powerful telescope, those waves are one massive, glaring blob of starlight. \u2014 Chris Wright, Wired , 4 Jan. 2022",
      "That was all there was: a six-year-old image of splintering glass, the blob of milk spreading over the dingy tiles like a diabolical hand. \u2014 Elif Batuman, The New Yorker , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "As the teaser dramatically spells out the show\u2019s title, clips from the season show Nadia literally walking out of a grave, falling down a set of stairs, and approaching a door with a strange, glowy blue blob on it. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Great \u2014 but what are those of us who don\u2019t know how to read aura colors supposed to do with that blob of color? \u2014 Justin Curto, Vulture , 1 Dec. 2021",
      "To end the video, the camera zooms out to show the CGI humanoids forming a large blob . \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "Because of these changes, the researchers say, the magnetic blob lurking beneath Canada slowly elongated in the early aughts, weakening the corresponding magnetic intensity on Earth\u2019s surface. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "From one of her ovaries, surgeons pulled a cancerous blob stretching nearly eight inches and weighing roughly 4\u00bd pounds. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The Pacific Ocean off South America\u2014that big blue blob on the map\u2014resists extreme heat because of the upwelling of cold, deep waters. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 1 Feb. 2022",
      "In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "Dark matter can and does turn into black holes, but the scientists posit that Sagittarius A* is instead a blob -like mass that will require a lot more material in order to turn into a black hole. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 16 June 2021",
      "The population blob that\u2019s forming around us has tremendous potential to create wealth. \u2014 Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News , 26 Mar. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203459"
  },
  "bloc":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a temporary combination of parties in a legislative assembly",
      ": a group of legislators who act together for some common purpose irrespective of party lines",
      ": a combination of persons, groups, or nations forming a unit with a common interest or purpose",
      ": a group of nations united by treaty or agreement for mutual support or joint action",
      ": a quantity, number, or section of things dealt with as a unit : block"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "block",
      "body",
      "coalition",
      "faction",
      "party",
      "sect",
      "set",
      "side",
      "wing"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "a voting bloc in the senate",
      "a whole bloc of students got together to complain",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The Ukrainian bloc of protesters at the Baltic Pride march Sunday in Vilnius, Lithuania. \u2014 Enrique Anarte Lazo, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
      "But Kattula knew there was another bloc of voters crucial to Trump\u2019s success. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
      "So candidates can\u2019t count on the state\u2019s huge bloc of nominating or electoral votes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
      "In terms of McCarthy\u2019s own ambitions, Greene is another member of the House Freedom Caucus, that small bloc of unruly ultraconservative insurgents who are more than happy to buck Republican leadership anywhere and everywhere. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 2 May 2022",
      "The unionists, who have splintered into three parties, could still end up with the largest bloc of votes, according to political analysts. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "The Azovstal plant is believed to be where the last resistance bloc of Ukrainian forces remain in the city. \u2014 Fox News , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "In 2018, she was elected chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, a powerful voting bloc in the Democratic caucus. \u2014 Jennifer Haberkornstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
      "The war in Ukraine has undermined the ability of the Group of 20 nations \u2014 a bloc in which the United States, major European economies and Russia all belong \u2014 to be an effective platform for global cooperation at a time of looming economic crisis. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 25 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"French, literally, block",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1903, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-193812"
  },
  "block":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a compact usually solid piece of substantial material especially when worked or altered to serve a particular purpose",
      ": such as",
      ": the piece of wood on which the neck of a person condemned to be beheaded is laid for execution",
      ": a mold or form on which articles are shaped or displayed",
      ": a hollow rectangular building unit usually of artificial material",
      ": a lightweight usually cubical and solid wooden or plastic building toy that is usually provided in sets",
      ": the casting that contains the cylinders of an internal combustion engine",
      ": starting block",
      ": obstacle",
      ": an obstruction of an opponent's play",
      ": a halting or impeding of the progress or movement of an opponent by use of the body",
      ": interruption of normal physiological function (as of a tissue or organ)",
      ": heart block",
      ": local anesthesia (as by injection) produced by interruption of the flow of impulses along a nerve",
      ": interruption or cessation especially of train of thought by competing thoughts or psychological suppression",
      "\u2014 compare writer's block",
      ": head sense 1",
      ": a wooden or metal case enclosing one or more pulleys and having a hook, eye, or strap by which it may be attached",
      ": a piece of material (such as wood or linoleum) having on its surface a hand-cut design from which impressions are to be printed",
      ": a usually rectangular space (as in a city) enclosed by streets and occupied by or intended for buildings",
      ": the distance along one of the sides of such a block",
      ": a large building divided into separate functional units",
      ": a line of row houses",
      ": a distinctive part of a building or integrated group of buildings",
      ": a platform from which property is sold at auction",
      ": a quantity, number, or section of things dealt with as a unit",
      ": bloc sense 2",
      ": through many experiences",
      ": for sale",
      ": to make unsuitable for passage or progress by obstruction",
      ": blockade",
      ": to hinder the passage, progress, or accomplishment of by or as if by interposing an obstruction",
      ": to shut off from view",
      ": to interfere usually legitimately with (an opponent, an opponent's shot, etc.) in various games or sports",
      ": to prevent normal functioning or action of",
      ": to restrict the exchange of (currency, checks, etc.)",
      ": to mark or indicate the outline or chief lines of",
      ": to shape on, with, or as if with a block (see block entry 1 sense 1b )",
      ": to secure, support, or provide with a block (see block entry 1 sense 1 )",
      ": to work out (the principal positions and movements) for the performers (as of a play)",
      ": to work out the players' positions and movements for (a scene or a play)",
      ": to make (two or more lines of writing or type) flush at the left or at both left and right",
      ": to hit (a ball or shot) inaccurately toward the right from a right-handed swing or toward the left from a left-handed swing : push",
      ": to interfere usually legitimately with an opponent : to block an opponent",
      ": a solid piece of some material usually with one or more flat sides",
      ": an area of land surrounded by four streets in a city",
      ": the length of one side of a city block",
      ": a number of things thought of as forming a group or unit",
      ": a large building divided into separate houses or shops",
      ": an action that stops or slows down an opponent (as in football)",
      ": something that prevents a person from thinking about certain things",
      ": something that stops or makes passage or progress difficult : obstruction",
      ": a case enclosing one or more pulleys",
      ": to stop or make passage through or through to difficult : obstruct",
      ": to stop or make the passage of difficult",
      ": to make an opponent's movement (as in football) difficult",
      ": interruption of normal physiological function of a tissue or organ",
      ": heart block",
      ": block anesthesia",
      ": nerve block sense 1",
      ": interruption of a train of thought by competing thoughts or psychological suppression",
      ": to prevent normal functioning of (a bodily element)",
      ": to obstruct the effect of",
      ": to experience or exhibit psychological blocking or blockage",
      "Herbert Lawrence 1909\u20132001",
      "American editorial cartoonist"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4k",
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4k",
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4k",
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "array",
      "assemblage",
      "band",
      "bank",
      "batch",
      "battery",
      "bunch",
      "clot",
      "clump",
      "cluster",
      "clutch",
      "collection",
      "constellation",
      "group",
      "grouping",
      "huddle",
      "knot",
      "lot",
      "muster",
      "package",
      "parcel",
      "passel",
      "set",
      "suite"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bung",
      "dam",
      "fill",
      "pack",
      "plug",
      "stop",
      "stuff"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The shooting happened at 3:20 p.m. on Saturday in the 8600 block of S. Damen on the city's South Side, according to police. \u2014 Adam Sabes, Fox News , 12 June 2022",
      "In Detroit \u2014 where just hours earlier, there was a quadruple nonfatal shooting in the 13500 block of Cloverlawn \u2014 more than 500 people, including families with grandparents and young children, marched. \u2014 Eve Sampson, Detroit Free Press , 12 June 2022",
      "According to Chicago police, Hamilton and a 29-year-old woman were in a vehicle in the 8100 block of South Marshfield Avenue when the shooting happened. \u2014 Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune , 11 June 2022",
      "In the first case, officers were sent to a location in the 300 block of Whitewood Drive on the Southwest Side around 8:40 p.m. Friday to investigate a report of a man who had been shot in the face. \u2014 Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News , 11 June 2022",
      "Department officials released surveillance photos and videos of the break-in at the Holiday Bottle Shop in the 700 block of Morrow Road. \u2014 Matt Bruce, ajc , 11 June 2022",
      "The plane clipped a commercial building in the 3500 block of Camino Avenue near Trabajo Drive, said Oxnard Fire Battalion Chief Steve McNaughten. \u2014 Brian J. Varela, The Arizona Republic , 11 June 2022",
      "East Precinct officers were dispatched at 4:40 p.m. to a report of gunfire in the 7500 block of 66th Court Way South in Gate City. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 11 June 2022",
      "Noriega was pronounced dead at 5:20 p.m. in the 500 block of North First Street in the city of Burbank, California, according to the coroner. \u2014 Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News , 10 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Just one or two swipes of this product will block odor-causing bacteria from forming. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
      "However, Senate Republicans will likely block or water down the measures. \u2014 Alan Murray, Fortune , 9 June 2022",
      "If signed into law, the Cannabis Employment Protections Amendment Act of 2022 would also block employers from refusing to hire those who use marijuana or test positive. \u2014 Wyatte Grantham-philips, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
      "Not feeling legitimate can block you from taking on projects that are in your area of expertise. \u2014 Xavier Preterit, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "There are not a ton of guys who can block , run and catch\u2026David certainly is deserving of that contract. \u2014 cleveland , 2 June 2022",
      "Exposing leaves to moisture has costs: even a thin film of water can block the flow of carbon dioxide into leaf openings called stomata, hindering photosynthesis. \u2014 Ula Chrobak, Scientific American , 1 June 2022",
      "Europe's sanctions also aim to block insurance companies that cover oil shipments, further weakening Russia's ability to transport oil to other buyers. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 1 June 2022",
      "The most loyal of subjects will block major thoroughfares with street parties, so nobody will be Ubering across London until at least Monday afternoon. \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 1 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun and Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "1602, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-170842"
  },
  "blockade":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to subject to a blockade",
      ": block , obstruct",
      ": the isolation by a warring nation of an enemy area (such as a harbor) by troops or warships to prevent passage of persons or supplies",
      ": a restrictive measure designed to obstruct the commerce and communications of an unfriendly nation",
      ": something that blocks",
      ": interruption of normal physiological function (such as transmission of nerve impulses) of a cellular receptor, tissue, or organ",
      ": inhibition of a physiologically active substance (such as a hormone)",
      ": to close off a place to prevent the coming in or going out of people or supplies",
      ": the closing off of a place (as by warships) to prevent the coming in or going out of people or supplies",
      ": interruption of normal physiological function (as transmission of nerve impulses) of a cellular receptor, tissue, or organ",
      ": inhibition of a physiologically active substance (as a hormone)",
      ": the process of reducing the phagocytic capabilities of the mononuclear phagocyte system by loading it with harmless material (as India ink or lampblack) which engages its cells in phagocytosis and prevents them from reacting to new antigenic material \u2014 compare blocking antibody",
      ": to subject to blockade"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "bl\u00e4-\u02c8k\u0101d",
      "bl\u00e4-\u02c8k\u0101d",
      "bl\u00e4-\u02c8k\u0101d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bar",
      "barricade",
      "block (off)",
      "close (off)",
      "guard",
      "wall (off)"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "beleaguerment",
      "investment",
      "leaguer",
      "siege"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "They blockaded the country's ports.",
      "the militant protestors blockaded the whole area around city hall",
      "Noun",
      "it was the blockade of all the enemy's major ports that finally won the war",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "At talks in Turkey last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov indicated support for a UN proposal that would create shipping corridors to ease the ports blockade and allow Russia to export grain and fertilizer. \u2014 Sarah Kaplan, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
      "Moscow continues to blockade Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea ports, preventing the export of millions of tons of grain to countries around the world. \u2014 Claire Parker, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
      "Ukrainian defenders continue to hold a last redoubt, a sprawling steelworks plant, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to blockade . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "Earlier Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his defense minister that Russian forces should not storm the plant but blockade it instead. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Slouching and gripping the table with his right hand, Putin ordered Shoigu to blockade the city\u2019s Azovstal steel plant \u2014 a final Ukrainian holdout \u2014 rather than storm the facility. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 May 2022",
      "Putin told troops on Thursday morning to blockade the plant, saying a breach wasn\u2019t necessary. \u2014 Fox News , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "Russian naval forces continue to blockade the Ukrainian coast on the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, preventing resupply by sea, British military intelligence said Sunday. \u2014 NBC News , 3 Apr. 2022",
      "Two days earlier, Putin had given an order not to send troops in but instead to blockade the plant. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "This is a signal, a symptom of the sickness, the sick policy of blockade that the U.S. maintains against Cuba and that has been rejected the world over \u2014 and also rejected by a majority of U.S. citizens and Cubans living in the U.S. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
      "Many countries across Africa and the Middle East have been facing alarming levels of hunger and starvation as a result of the blockade . \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
      "The global Depression, which shrunk international trade by two-thirds from 1929 to 1932, threatened a new form of blockade . \u2014 Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "The preparations were made in case of a blockade as Russian forces remain outside of the city. \u2014 NBC News , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "He was honored in a final visit to Berlin in 2019 during the 70th-anniversary celebration of the end of the Soviet blockade . \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "Local activists arrived early and parked their cars around the cluster of tents, forming a kind of blockade so a front-loader or bulldozer couldn\u2019t reach them. \u2014 Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "Pick-up trucks, which are easy to forcibly move, formed most of the blockade at the Ambassador Bridge but, in Ottawa, protesters have blocked roads with heavy rigs that are difficult to tow away. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association, put the price tag of the week-long blockade at about a billion Canadian dollars ($790 million), plus the harm to Canada's reputation as a reliable trading partner. \u2014 Peter Weber, The Week , 13 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "1683, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-225053"
  },
  "blockbuster":{
    "type":"noun",
    "definitions":[
      "a very large high-explosive bomb",
      "one that is notably expensive, effective, successful, large, or extravagant",
      "one who engages in blockbusting"
    ],
    "pronounciation":"\u02c8bl\u00e4k-\u02ccb\u0259-st\u0259r",
    "synonyms":[
      "hit",
      "megahit",
      "smash",
      "success",
      "supernova",
      "winner"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bomb",
      "bummer",
      "bust",
      "catastrophe",
      "clinker",
      "debacle",
      "d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
      "dud",
      "failure",
      "fiasco",
      "flop",
      "misfire",
      "turkey",
      "washout"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "a 900-page blockbuster of a novel",
      "the movie is expected to be the biggest blockbuster of the summer",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Less stressful than many of the movies on this list, The Martian is a wildly entertaining blockbuster about a man's solo struggle to survive on Mars. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 17 June 2022",
      "Such is the life of those filming a blockbuster during the pandemic. \u2014 Clarissa Cruz, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
      "That type of a drop for a blockbuster is pretty remarkable since most are front loaded \u2014 making a lot of their money in the opening weekend. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 5 June 2022",
      "But a studio cannot effectively promote a big-budget blockbuster without the film\u2019s star. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 2 June 2022",
      "Seeing a woman like DeBose cast as a lead in something as big-budget and mainstream as a Spielberg blockbuster is still far from the norm. \u2014 Elaina Patton, NBC News , 1 June 2022",
      "Every way but critical, really, but this was a blockbuster that was happy to invert itself above the press corps and flip them the bird before cackling and soaring away. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 29 May 2022",
      "But as a stand-alone blockbuster that\u2019s just trying to suck viewers\u2019 eyeballs out of their sockets with hellacious flight photography and thunderous sound, Maverick is just what every cineplex in the country has been crying out for. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 27 May 2022",
      "Aduhelm was hailed as a potential blockbuster that targeted a root cause of the disease by clearing a sticky protein known as amyloid from the brain. \u2014 Dominique Mosbergen, WSJ , 22 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":null,
    "first_known_use":[
      "1942, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
  "blocked":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": affected by a psychological block"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4kt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "She was never tested for blocked blood vessels, something that increases someone's odds of another heart attack. \u2014 Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American , 19 May 2022",
      "These cells continue to build up over time, resulting in blocked pores, blackheads, ingrown hairs, and faded looking skin. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 May 2022",
      "In this case, the hollow fibers will become blocked and the filter will stop flowing water. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 5 Apr. 2020",
      "Paschal had his most productive year as a senior, playing in 12 games and totaling 53 tackles, a team-high 15.5 tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks, one forced fumble, a blocked kick and led the Wildcats with eight quarterback hurries. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "The Lost City follows Bullock's Loretta, a successful but blocked romance novelist who, during her latest book tour with her handsome cover model, Alan (Channing Tatum), gets swept up in a kidnapping attempt that lands them both in a jungle chase. \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "In addition to follicular occlusion, meaning the hair follicles become blocked and then ruptured, the development of hidradenitis suppurativa is also associated with having some kind of inflammation in the body, Dr. Sayed explains. \u2014 Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "Despite missing some time and playing through injury, Overshown led the team with 74 total tackles and added 5.5 tackles for loss, two sacks, two fumble recoveries and one blocked kick. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "Abbott is currently conducting a clinical trial involving new technology to treat blocked arteries below the knees, Earnhardt says. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 5 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1898, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-222149"
  },
  "blockhead":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a stupid person"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4k-\u02cched"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "airhead",
      "birdbrain",
      "bonehead",
      "bubblehead",
      "chowderhead",
      "chucklehead",
      "clodpoll",
      "clodpole",
      "clot",
      "cluck",
      "clunk",
      "cretin",
      "cuddy",
      "cuddie",
      "deadhead",
      "dim bulb",
      "dimwit",
      "dip",
      "dodo",
      "dolt",
      "donkey",
      "doofus",
      "dope",
      "dork",
      "dullard",
      "dum-dum",
      "dumbbell",
      "dumbhead",
      "dummkopf",
      "dummy",
      "dunce",
      "dunderhead",
      "fathead",
      "gander",
      "golem",
      "goof",
      "goon",
      "half-wit",
      "hammerhead",
      "hardhead",
      "idiot",
      "ignoramus",
      "imbecile",
      "jackass",
      "know-nothing",
      "knucklehead",
      "lamebrain",
      "loggerhead",
      "loon",
      "lump",
      "lunkhead",
      "meathead",
      "mome",
      "moron",
      "mug",
      "mutt",
      "natural",
      "nimrod",
      "nincompoop",
      "ninny",
      "ninnyhammer",
      "nit",
      "nitwit",
      "noddy",
      "noodle",
      "numskull",
      "numbskull",
      "oaf",
      "pinhead",
      "prat",
      "ratbag",
      "saphead",
      "schlub",
      "shlub",
      "schnook",
      "simpleton",
      "stock",
      "stupe",
      "stupid",
      "thickhead",
      "turkey",
      "woodenhead",
      "yahoo",
      "yo-yo"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "brain",
      "genius"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Don't be such a blockhead !",
      "only a real blockhead would think that she had literally said it a million times",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Breen\u2019s partner, the strongwoman Lynne, also came out in an apron and workout clothes, as did Hexli, the belly dancer, and Moore, the human blockhead . \u2014 David Hill, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "With the help of Remy Bouchard, a pint-sized local blockhead and an aging and Mike Byrne, a low-level mobster, Ruth changes her fate\u2014and transforms the future of her community with the theft of millions of dollars\u2019 worth of maple syrup. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Newsom\u2019s attendance with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, at a 50th birthday party for a longtime lobbyist friend at a fancy wine country restaurant was a blockhead move. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 19 Nov. 2020",
      "Her big blockhead is always looking for pets and kisses, but that pales in comparison to her big block heart. \u2014 Arizona Republic, azcentral , 1 May 2020",
      "Charlie Brown is, was, and always will be a blockhead . \u2014 Bruce Handy, The Atlantic , 29 Aug. 2019",
      "No man but a blockhead ever edited, except for money. \u2014 John E. Mcintyre, baltimoresun.com , 12 May 2018",
      "But those columns keep getting written for a reason: There are still far too many of you thoughtless blockheads out there. \u2014 Tony Long, WIRED , 19 Jan. 2006"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1549, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-171241"
  },
  "bloke":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": man sense 1a(1) , fellow sense 4c"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014dk"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bastard",
      "buck",
      "cat",
      "chap",
      "chappie",
      "dude",
      "fella",
      "fellow",
      "galoot",
      "gent",
      "gentleman",
      "guy",
      "hombre",
      "jack",
      "joe",
      "joker",
      "lad",
      "male",
      "man"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "a couple of friendly blokes offered to show us the sights of London",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Of course, her new boss (Adam Demos) is a mysterious, rugged bloke and sparks fly \u2013 as does liquefied sheep poo. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 20 May 2022",
      "One of the few mortal characters introduced in Eternals is Harington's Dane Whitman, a seemingly ordinary British bloke working at a museum and dating Gemma Chan's Sersi. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 9 Nov. 2021",
      "But Jamie Dornan was so cute and such a down-to-earth bloke . \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 29 Oct. 2021",
      "The origin of the painting was a Titian of a bloke playing an organ and a nude woman. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2021",
      "But more than four years after Britain voted to split \u2014 and after thousands of anxious, raging, nationalistic, infuriated headlines \u2014 what next for the ordinary bloke ? \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Dec. 2020",
      "Whereas Mrs von der Leyen speaks like a technocrat, Mr Johnson speaks like a bloke telling jokes in a pub. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Dec. 2020",
      "Plaintive, breathless, and more than a little disappointed by the shabbiness of the place, Fagan is a nonthreatening figure, the sort of bloke who might wheedle a free pint in a Clerkenwell pub. \u2014 Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner , 10 Dec. 2020",
      "For a lager-swilling bloke like Charlie, the proposition is as alien as going to the pub in a tutu. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 10 Sep. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"origin unknown",
    "first_known_use":[
      "circa 1829, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-214947"
  },
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
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      ": the fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of a vertebrate animal carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body",
      ": a comparable fluid of an invertebrate",
      ": a fluid resembling blood",
      ": the shedding of blood",
      ": the taking of life",
      ": lifeblood",
      ": life",
      ": human stock or lineage",
      ": royal lineage",
      ": relationship by descent from a common ancestor : kinship",
      ": persons related through common descent : kindred",
      ": honorable or high birth or descent",
      ": descent from parents of recognized breed or pedigree",
      ": blood regarded as the seat of the emotions : temper",
      ": lust",
      ": a showy foppish man : rake",
      ": members of a team, staff, or organization : personnel",
      ": an African American male",
      ": ingrained in one's nature : occurring as an innate or seemingly hereditary principle, inclination, or talent",
      ": to stain or wet with blood",
      ": bleed sense 1",
      ": to expose (a hunting dog) to sight, scent, or taste of the blood of its prey",
      ": to give experience to",
      ": the red fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of persons and animals and that brings nourishment and oxygen to and carries away waste products from all parts of the body",
      ": relationship through a common ancestor : kinship",
      ": the fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of a vertebrate animal carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body",
      ": a fluid of an invertebrate comparable to blood",
      ": blood regarded in medieval physiology as one of the four humors and believed to be the seat of the emotions",
      ": descent from parents of recognized breed or pedigree"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d"
    ],
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      "clan",
      "family",
      "folks",
      "house",
      "kin",
      "kindred",
      "kinfolk",
      "kinfolks",
      "kinsfolk",
      "line",
      "lineage",
      "people",
      "race",
      "stock",
      "tribe"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The accident victim has already lost a lot of blood .",
      "the blood in your veins",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Cantero sent the patient to the lab, where a half dozen tubes of blood were drawn and sent off. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
      "Police had reported finding traces of blood in Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira's boat. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 15 June 2022",
      "Last week, police also reported finding traces of blood in Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira\u2019s boat. \u2014 Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News , 15 June 2022",
      "Kathleen went into the house and was later found dead in a sea of blood at the bottom of a staircase. \u2014 Addie Morfoot, Variety , 15 June 2022",
      "Police have also reported finding traces of blood in the boat of a fisherman who is under arrest as the only suspect in the disappearance. \u2014 Fabiano Maisonnave, ajc , 13 June 2022",
      "The left side then has to work harder to pump the same amount of blood . \u2014 Rachel Nall, Msn, SELF , 8 June 2022",
      "Miah Cerrillo, a fourth-grader who smeared herself with her murdered friend\u2019s blood to play dead and stay alive during last month's mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, should be two weeks into her summer vacation. \u2014 Candy Woodall, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
      "Videos appearing to be from the scene of the attack showed church worshippers lying in pools of blood while people around them wailed. \u2014 Time , 6 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Haji believes Vipingo Ridge's efforts to blood the next generation of golfing talent are reflective of the sport's increasing popularity in Kenya. \u2014 Jack Bantock, CNN , 6 May 2022",
      "How long after getting the J&J vaccine can blood clots occur? \u2014 Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY , 19 Dec. 2021",
      "The challenge of 2020 will be starting to blood them in the big leagues without overwhelming them, allowing the players to finish their development at a reasonable pace. \u2014 Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com , 7 Apr. 2021",
      "Some COVID-19 patients have been found to have blood oxygen levels below 65%. \u2014 Mark Johnson, USA TODAY , 18 May 2020",
      "Some COVID-19 patients have been found to have blood oxygen levels below 65%. \u2014 Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 May 2020",
      "Additionally, some research says that dinosaurs were neither warm- or cold- blooded but lived in the space in between, known as mesotherms. \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 19 Feb. 2020",
      "White sharks, another winter visitor to Florida waters, are warm blooded , and can handle a wider range of temperatures. \u2014 Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY , 25 Jan. 2020",
      "Connor made up for blooding Girard by scoring seven seconds into Nazem Kadri\u2019s ensuing penalty for interference. \u2014 Mike Chambers, The Denver Post , 31 Dec. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)",
      "Verb",
      "1590, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-171115"
  },
  "bloodthirsty":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": eager for or marked by the shedding of blood , violence, or killing",
      ": eager to kill or hurt"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d-\u02ccth\u0259r-st\u0113",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d-\u02ccth\u0259r-st\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bloody",
      "bloody-minded",
      "homicidal",
      "murdering",
      "murderous",
      "sanguinary",
      "sanguine",
      "sanguineous"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "the Goths were a wild and bloodthirsty people",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Building on Picasso\u2019s 1937 anti-war masterpiece, 11-year-old Andres Valencia contemplates the horrors of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s bloodthirsty Invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
      "Directors can emphasize its witchy aura, its bloodthirsty politics, its marital drama or critique of masculinity without endangering its essential stageworthiness. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Their success at eluding Daiyu\u2019s predatory madam and the Hip Yee tong, the bloodthirsty gang that controls the brothel, is one of many junctures where Zhang\u2019s novel seems to tilt toward a conventional redemption story. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Apr. 2022",
      "Russians are represented as bloodthirsty bears, serpents, dead-eyed zombies and red-skinned goons. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2022",
      "He was also considered to be a violent and bloodthirsty god, as well as a being thought to rule over evil spirits. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "The whole bloody history of Russia, as imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet, is based on the bloodthirsty attitude towards its neighbors and its people, who have never been united ethnically or culturally. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Our Flag Means Death, a quirky, swashbuckling saga that's part bloodthirsty pirate tale, part awkward workplace comedy. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "In Lileana Blain-Cruz\u2019s ungainly production, the Greek soldiers, in hokey costumes suitable for a school play, are a bloodthirsty lot. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 21 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1539, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173822"
  },
  "bloody":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": containing or made up of blood",
      ": of or contained in the blood",
      ": smeared or stained with blood",
      ": accompanied by or involving bloodshed",
      ": marked by great slaughter",
      ": marked by fierce conflict",
      ": murderous",
      ": merciless , cruel",
      ": bloodred",
      ": damned",
      ": to make bloody or bloodred",
      ": harm , damage",
      ": bleeding or covered with blood",
      ": causing or accompanied by bloodshed",
      ": containing or made up of blood",
      ": of or contained in the blood",
      ": smeared or stained with blood",
      ": dripping blood : bleeding"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259-d\u0113",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259-d\u0113",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bloodstained",
      "gory"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blemish",
      "break",
      "compromise",
      "crab",
      "cripple",
      "cross (up)",
      "damage",
      "deface",
      "disfigure",
      "endamage",
      "flaw",
      "harm",
      "hurt",
      "impair",
      "injure",
      "mar",
      "spoil",
      "vitiate"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "He hit me and gave me a bloody nose.",
      "after the fight, her shirt was all bloody",
      "Verb",
      "He hit me and bloodied my nose.",
      "the politician's reputation was permanently bloodied by the rumors of corruption",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "After watching in terror as a man violently attacked a police officer in an El Cajon fast-food restaurant, Iesha Booker checked for a pulse on the bloody , unconscious officer and yelled into the radio on his belt. \u2014 Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com , 19 July 2017",
      "Photos of the man in a hospital bed with a bloody mouth were also posted. \u2014 Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com , 14 July 2017",
      "A man found the baby bloody but still breathing and asked security at the building to call 911, prosecutors said at the time. \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com , 10 July 2017",
      "His comments came after weeks of saber-rattling in New Delhi and Beijing, as officials from both sides talk up a potential clash even bloodier than their 1962 war that left thousands dead. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 6 July 2017",
      "For example, at Chester\u2019s Roman Amphitheatre, centurion Marcus Aurelius Nepos tells about England\u2019s bloody combat history at the spot. \u2014 Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian , 30 June 2017",
      "Collapsing the roof isn\u2019t a spur-of-the-moment thing, either\u2014our experience involved about three minutes, two swearing fits, and at least one bloody knuckle. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 30 June 2017",
      "Instead, there\u2019s glee for Trump\u2019s base in watching Trump bring justice to the streets of media Gotham, flinging Batarangs of acerbic nastiness at Mika Brzezinski\u2019s bloody face. \u2014 Ben Shapiro, National Review , 5 July 2017",
      "His next memory was waking up on the floor with a bloody nose and painful headache. \u2014 Michael Osipoff, Post-Tribune , 3 July 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Bruised, bloodied , and reeking of fuel, the three men were handcuffed in the back of a police truck and driven to a hospital in Toluca. \u2014 Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2020",
      "Videos showed people being beaten on the floor and left bloodied and dazed. \u2014 James Griffiths, CNN , 24 July 2019",
      "Bruised, bloodied , and reeking of fuel, the three men were handcuffed in the back of a police truck and driven to a hospital in Toluca. \u2014 Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2020",
      "Cordon\u2019s face was bloodied during a home invasion in the early hours of July 10. \u2014 John Wawrow, The Seattle Times , 13 Aug. 2018",
      "The woman was bloodied , and her hair was cut by the blades of the arrow, the sheriff\u2019s office said. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Mar. 2020",
      "Meanwhile, Democrats bloodied each other in a debate battle ahead of today\u2019s Nevada caucuses that candidate Michael Bloomberg said Trump won. \u2014 Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner , 22 Feb. 2020",
      "News photos showed rescue workers with lights bringing out people, some bloodied by the collapse. \u2014 USA TODAY , 9 Mar. 2020",
      "Bruised, bloodied , and reeking of fuel, the three men were handcuffed in the back of a police truck and driven to a hospital in Toluca. \u2014 Seth Harp, Harper's magazine , 2 Mar. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Adverb",
      "1681, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211636"
  },
  "bloody-minded":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": inclined towards violence or bloodshed",
      ": stubbornly contrary or obstructive : cantankerous"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccbl\u0259-d\u0113-\u02c8m\u012bn-d\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bloodthirsty",
      "bloody",
      "homicidal",
      "murdering",
      "murderous",
      "sanguinary",
      "sanguine",
      "sanguineous"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1584, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190448"
  },
  "bloom":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name",
      "noun",
      "noun ()",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a mass of wrought iron from the forge or puddling furnace",
      ": a bar of iron or steel hammered or rolled from an ingot",
      ": blossom sense 1a , flower",
      ": the flowering state",
      ": a period of flowering",
      ": a rapid and excessive growth of a plankton population (as of algae or dinoflagellates) \u2014 compare red tide",
      ": a large aggregation of free-swimming organisms : swarm",
      ": a state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor",
      ": a state or time of high development or achievement",
      ": a surface coating or appearance: such as",
      ": a delicate powdery coating on some fruits and leaves",
      ": a rosy appearance of the cheeks",
      ": an outward evidence of freshness or healthy vigor",
      ": a cloudiness on a film of varnish or lacquer",
      ": a grayish discoloration on chocolate",
      ": glare caused by an object reflecting too much light into a television camera",
      ": to produce or yield flowers",
      ": to support abundant plant life",
      ": to mature into achievement of one's potential",
      ": to flourish in youthful beauty, freshness, or excellence",
      ": to shine out : glow",
      ": to become more apparent or fully expressed (as in flavor or aroma)",
      ": to appear or occur unexpectedly or in remarkable quantity or degree",
      ": to become densely populated with microorganisms and especially plankton",
      ": to cause to bloom",
      ": to give bloom to",
      ": flower entry 1 sense 1",
      ": the period or state of producing flowers",
      ": a condition or time of beauty, freshness, and strength",
      ": the rosy color of the cheek",
      ": to produce flowers",
      ": to change, grow, or develop fully",
      "Harold 1930\u20132019 American literary critic"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fcm",
      "\u02c8bl\u00fcm",
      "\u02c8bl\u00fcm"
    ],
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      "blossom",
      "florescence",
      "floruit",
      "flower",
      "flush",
      "heyday",
      "high noon",
      "prime",
      "salad days",
      "springtime"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blossom",
      "blow",
      "burgeon",
      "bourgeon",
      "effloresce",
      "flower",
      "unfold"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "flowers blooming in the garden",
      "Their love was just beginning to bloom ."
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun (1)",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun (2)",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-183438"
  },
  "blooming":{
    "type":[
      "adjective or adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": having blooms unfolding : flowering",
      ": thriving in health, beauty, and vigor : exhibiting the freshness and beauties of youth or health"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc-m\u0259n",
      "-mi\u014b"
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    "synonyms":[
      "florid",
      "flush",
      "full-blooded",
      "glowing",
      "red",
      "rosy",
      "rubicund",
      "ruddy",
      "sanguine"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "ashen",
      "ashy",
      "doughy",
      "livid",
      "lurid",
      "mealy",
      "pale",
      "paled",
      "palish",
      "pallid",
      "pasty",
      "peaked",
      "peaky",
      "sallow",
      "sallowish",
      "wan"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"probably euphemism for bloody ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191806"
  },
  "blossom":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": the flower of a seed plant",
      ": the mass of such flowers on a single plant",
      ": the state of bearing flowers",
      ": a peak period or stage of development",
      ": bloom",
      ": to come into one's own : develop",
      ": to become evident",
      ": to make an appearance",
      ": flower entry 1 sense 1",
      ": bloom entry 1 sense 2",
      ": bloom entry 2 sense 1",
      ": to appear, change, grow, or develop"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4-s\u0259m",
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4-s\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bloom",
      "florescence",
      "floruit",
      "flower",
      "flush",
      "heyday",
      "high noon",
      "prime",
      "salad days",
      "springtime"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bloom",
      "blow",
      "burgeon",
      "bourgeon",
      "effloresce",
      "flower",
      "unfold"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "Her hair smelled of apple blossoms .",
      "in the full blossom of her career as a writer",
      "Verb",
      "Their friendship blossomed into romance.",
      "the fruit tree seemed to blossom overnight once the warm spring weather arrived",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Two ensuites\u2014one pink blossom , the other black and gold\u2014contain elaborate gold baths, showers and walk-in dressing rooms. \u2014 Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report , 10 June 2022",
      "Every spring, crowds flock to admire Japan's cherry blossom -- a dazzling pink and white bloom that has been revered in the country for more than a thousand years. \u2014 Helen Regan, CNN , 20 May 2022",
      "Product placement in Korean media also helped the multi-balm trend blossom , both Hong and Cho note. \u2014 Devon Abelman, Allure , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Fans can also expect to watch the romance blossom between Kardashian and Davidson, who met on the SNL set. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "An elegant orange- blossom and neroli scent accompanies you following each use. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Around the booths, visitors and artists alike dressed up for the affair, cladding themselves in their best ribbon skirts or turquoise squash- blossom necklaces. \u2014 Christian Allair, Vogue , 25 Aug. 2021",
      "In our climate and soils, blossom end rot is caused by uneven watering. \u2014 Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
      "The Japan market has a new electric Nissan called the Sakura, which fits into the kei-car class and is named after the Japanese cherry blossom . \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 20 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Shortly after, a breakfast meeting between the two solidified the friendship that would blossom into a relationship \u2014 though Griffin knew right away that Krusen was the one. \u2014 Sarah Michaud, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
      "With the Los Angeles Olympics looming, Jake and Rupert are pitted against each other to land a spot on the national team while also fighting for the affection of the English roses who blossom around the show jumpers. \u2014 Courtney Maum, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Whoever lands the California corner will be getting one of the fastest-rising defensive players in America, one that could blossom into a future NFL draft pick. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "While larger agencies would overlook these smaller deals, Hochberg views them as an opportunity to grow a partnership that could eventually blossom into a long-term contract. \u2014 Nick Diunte, Forbes , 29 Sep. 2021",
      "The league offers a unique collegiality, Mathre said, where friendships born at track meets can blossom into lifelong bonds. \u2014 Rachel Blount, Star Tribune , 6 Feb. 2021",
      "April, however, is when things begin to blossom once again. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "There is no question to me that social commerce will continue to blossom into an indispensable avenue that leads straight into shoppers\u2019 hearts. \u2014 Sean Reiter, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "Since then, the Black community on TikTok, especially Black women, continue to blossom as their most authentic selves, unapologetically reclaiming their culture and creativity that has been in their ancestry for generations. \u2014 Celeste Polanco, refinery29.com , 7 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190905"
  },
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    "type":[
      "noun",
      "noun ()",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a soiling or disfiguring mark : spot",
      ": a mark of reproach : moral flaw",
      ": a usually nitrocellulose or nylon sheet that contains spots of immobilized macromolecules (as of DNA, RNA, or protein) or their fragments and is used to identify specific components of the spots by applying a molecular probe (such as a complementary nucleic acid or a radiolabeled antibody) \u2014 compare southern blot , western blot",
      ": to spot, stain, or spatter with a discoloring substance",
      ": mar",
      ": to stain with infamy",
      ": to dry (something, such as writing) with an absorbing agent",
      ": to remove with absorbing material",
      ": to make a blot",
      ": to become marked with a blot",
      ": a lone backgammon man exposed to capture",
      ": a weak or exposed point",
      ": a spot or stain of dirt or ink",
      ": a mark of shame or dishonor",
      ": spot entry 2 sense 1",
      ": to dry by pressing with paper or cloth",
      ": to make (something) difficult to see",
      ": to destroy completely",
      ": a nitrocellulose sheet that contains spots of immobilized macromolecules (as of DNA, RNA, or protein) or their fragments and that is used to identify specific components of the spots by applying a suitable molecular probe (as a complementary nucleic acid or a radiolabeled antibody) \u2014 see northern blot , southern blot , western blot"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4t",
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4t",
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "brand",
      "onus",
      "slur",
      "smirch",
      "smudge",
      "spot",
      "stain",
      "stigma",
      "taint"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Don't rub the wine stain. Blot it dry with a paper towel.",
      "Blot your lipstick with a tissue."
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun (1)",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
      "Noun (2)",
      "1595, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200526"
  },
  "blotch":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to mark or mar with blotches",
      ": imperfection , blemish",
      ": a spot or mark (as of color or ink) especially when large or irregular",
      ": a blemish on the skin",
      ": a large irregular spot of color or ink",
      ": a discolored patch on the skin"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4ch",
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4ch",
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4ch"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "dapple",
      "dot",
      "fleck",
      "freckle",
      "marble",
      "mottle",
      "pepper",
      "shoot",
      "speck",
      "speckle",
      "splotch",
      "spot",
      "sprinkle",
      "stipple"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "dapple",
      "dot",
      "eyespot",
      "fleck",
      "mottle",
      "patch",
      "pip",
      "point",
      "speck",
      "speckle",
      "splotch",
      "spot"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "blotched the bedroom walls with various shades of blue to give them a textured effect",
      "my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket",
      "Noun",
      "blotches on the tree's leaves",
      "a dog with a single small blotch of black",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Still, in the contents of this collection, some blotched with stray fingerprints or grease splatters, O\u2019Keeffe left traces of her daily effort to maintain Abiquiu as a sanctuary. \u2014 Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times , 7 Feb. 2020",
      "The friend spotted a big male Chinook \u2014 its fins torn, its back blotched with the fungus of decay. \u2014 Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com , 5 May 2018",
      "Inside the box there's a pile of mint-green paint chips, blotched with brown stains and cracked like a dehydrated lake bed. \u2014 Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader , 24 Oct. 2017",
      "As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia\u2019s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle. \u2014 Lauren Young, Smithsonian , 6 Feb. 2017",
      "People emerged from the pools, their pale white skin blotched with red. \u2014 James Hamblin, The Atlantic , 9 June 2017",
      "As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia\u2019s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle. \u2014 Lauren Young, Smithsonian , 6 Feb. 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "At-home stain removal comes with many risks: setting that wine blotch forever, rubbing a hole in your favorite shirt, making dye bleed. \u2014 Kevin Brasler, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
      "Last night, the only blotch on his record was a leadoff bunt single in the 1st inning. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022",
      "To say the least, my skin looked radiant and bright from the exfoliating mask, and not a blotch of redness or irritation was in sight. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Vineyards at harvest time are a popular subject for photographers and romantics, but those beautiful red leaves betray a disease called red blotch virus. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "One sin was for attempting to hire Ben Johnson, the notorious drug cheater from Canada, who left a blotch on the Seoul Olympics in 1988 by winning the 100 meters and quickly testing positive for steroids. \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 8 Dec. 2021",
      "However, the real purpose of this conversation is for Heather to talk about her stress rash, which is really just a red blotch on her forehead. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 28 Nov. 2021",
      "Look for a nearby blotch of green space or set off in search of a sunset or a playground full of happy memories. \u2014 New York Times , 5 July 2021",
      "The woman is definitely experiencing some kind of stress- blotch breakout. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 16 Mar. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "1604, in the meaning defined above",
      "Noun",
      "1619, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194209"
  },
  "blotto":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": drunk sense 1a"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4-(\u02cc)t\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "besotted",
      "blasted",
      "blind",
      "blitzed",
      "bombed",
      "boozy",
      "canned",
      "cockeyed",
      "crocked",
      "drunk",
      "drunken",
      "fried",
      "gassed",
      "hammered",
      "high",
      "impaired",
      "inebriate",
      "inebriated",
      "intoxicated",
      "juiced",
      "lit",
      "lit up",
      "loaded",
      "looped",
      "oiled",
      "pickled",
      "pie-eyed",
      "plastered",
      "potted",
      "ripped",
      "sloshed",
      "smashed",
      "sottish",
      "soused",
      "sozzled",
      "squiffed",
      "squiffy",
      "stewed",
      "stiff",
      "stinking",
      "stoned",
      "tanked",
      "tiddly",
      "tight",
      "tipsy",
      "wasted",
      "wet",
      "wiped out"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "sober",
      "straight"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "He came home blotto after the party.",
      "She got blotto on cheap wine."
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"probably irregular from blot entry 2 ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1917, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192432"
  },
  "blow-by-blow":{
    "type":"adjective",
    "definitions":[
      "minutely detailed"
    ],
    "pronounciation":"\u02c8bl\u014d-b\u012b-\u02c8bl\u014d",
    "synonyms":[
      "circumstantial",
      "detailed",
      "elaborate",
      "full",
      "minute",
      "particular",
      "particularized",
      "thorough"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "compendious",
      "summary"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":null,
    "first_known_use":[
      "1921, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
  "blowout":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a festive social affair",
      ": a bursting of a container (such as a tire) by pressure of the contents on a weak spot",
      ": an uncontrolled eruption of an oil or gas well",
      ": an easy or one-sided victory",
      ": a valley or depression created by the wind in areas of shifting sand or of light cultivated soil",
      ": a hairstyle in which the hair is blow-dried while being styled with a round brush",
      ": to extinguish by a gust",
      ": to dissipate (itself) by blowing",
      ": to defeat easily",
      ": to damage severely",
      ": to become extinguished by a gust",
      ": to erupt out of control"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014d-\u02ccau\u0307t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "affair",
      "bash",
      "binge",
      "blast",
      "do",
      "event",
      "fete",
      "f\u00eate",
      "function",
      "get-together",
      "party",
      "reception",
      "shindig"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The car crashed after one of its tires had a blowout .",
      "We had a big blowout to celebrate his promotion.",
      "The game was expected to be close but it turned out to be a blowout .",
      "Verb",
      "blew out a smoke ring and began to tell us a good yarn",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Less than a month after suffering a season-ending blowout loss to top-seeded Kansas on the second day of the Big 12 Tournament, Bob Huggins sat at his desk inside his office on the West Virginia University campus. \u2014 Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022",
      "Hager came on in the ninth inning of a blowout loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday and threw 12 total pitches to six hitters. \u2014 Jos\u00e9 M. Romero, The Arizona Republic , 29 May 2022",
      "Pence's ex-boss, the former president who once was seen as a kingmaker in GOP politics, gave his full-throated support to former US Sen. David Perdue, who was humiliated in a blowout loss to incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. \u2014 Michael D'antonio, CNN , 25 May 2022",
      "Pinder recently pitched in an A\u2019s blowout loss and has now played every position in the majors except catcher. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 May 2022",
      "The Heat were embarrassed in Game 2, surrendering home-court advantage in their blowout loss to the Celtics in their Eastern Conference finals matchup. \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 23 May 2022",
      "The Heat were embarrassed in Game 2, surrendering home-court advantage in their blowout loss to the Celtics in their Eastern Conference finals matchup. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 23 May 2022",
      "Spoelstra appeared to be veering in that direction in the second half of a blowout loss to the Celtics in Game 2. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 21 May 2022",
      "However, following the blowout loss, Lamb's campaign found itself in the crosshairs of Democratic strategists. \u2014 Joe Schoffstall, Fox News , 19 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "More significant has been the infrequency of situations where the game hinges on a single pitch; the Red Sox\u2019 ability to blow out opponents resulted in just 79 high-leverage plate appearances since May 10, 17th in the big leagues. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
      "It's been more than four decades since Vincent Simmons has had a birthday cake -- candles to blow out and make a wish. \u2014 CBS News , 25 May 2022",
      "Ballard dominated from start to finish as the Seventh Region champs used a nine-run second inning to blow out 15th Region representative Johnson Central 10-0 in five innings at the University of Kentucky's John Cropp Stadium. \u2014 Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal , 4 June 2022",
      "As Klarman began to blow out the candles on a day that gifted him his second Preakness winner on the five-year anniversary of Cloud Computing, the baseball connections flowed. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 May 2022",
      "Other trends surrounding the film have also sprung up on TikTok, including the #candle trend, in which creators blow out the family candle as Mirabel does in the movie. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "And do stay tuned for an event next week to blow out some inventory. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Earlier on Sunday, Kansas\u2014the only No. 1 seed left standing after Arizona, Baylor and Gonzaga all fell\u2014overcame a six-point halftime deficit to blow out Miami, 76-50. \u2014 Jared Diamond, WSJ , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "The Pistons used a 27-6 third-quarter run to take control and blow out the Atlanta Hawks at Little Caesars Arena, 122-101. \u2014 Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press , 24 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190820"
  },
  "blowsy":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": having a sloppy or unkempt appearance or aspect : frowsy",
      ": being coarse and ruddy of complexion"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blau\u0307-z\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "dowdy",
      "frowsy",
      "frowzy",
      "slobbish",
      "slobby",
      "sloppy",
      "sloven",
      "slovenly",
      "unkempt",
      "untidy"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "dapper",
      "dashing",
      "dolled up",
      "sharp",
      "smart",
      "spruce"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "a large, blowsy woman in frumpy clothes runs the diner"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"English dialect blowse, blowze wench",
    "first_known_use":[
      "circa 1712, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-184928"
  },
  "blowup":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a blowing up: such as",
      ": explosion",
      ": an outburst of temper",
      ": enlargement sense 2",
      ": a catastrophic financial failure or collapse",
      ": inflatable",
      ": to build up or tout to an unreasonable extent",
      ": to rend apart, shatter, or destroy by explosion",
      ": to fill up with a gas (such as air)",
      ": to make a photographic enlargement of",
      ": to bring into existence by blowing of wind",
      ": explode",
      ": to be disrupted or destroyed (as by explosion)",
      ": to lose self-control",
      ": to become violently angry",
      ": to become or come into being by or as if by blowing of wind",
      ": to become filled with a gas",
      ": to become expanded to unreasonable proportions",
      ": to gain a large amount of weight",
      ": to suddenly become very successful, prevalent, or popular"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014d-\u02cc\u0259p",
      "\u02c8bl\u014d-\u02cc\u0259p"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "explosion",
      "fireworks",
      "fit",
      "hissy",
      "hissy fit",
      "huff",
      "scene",
      "tantrum"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "flare (up)",
      "flip (out)"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The blowup of the photograph was easy to frame.",
      "The two of them had a big blowup about something trivial.",
      "The coach's latest blowup occurred when one of his players arrived late.",
      "Verb",
      "she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day",
      "the building blew up because of a gas leak",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband\u2019s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person\u2019s sense of identity. \u2014 Time , 1 June 2022",
      "Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband\u2019s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person\u2019s sense of identity. \u2014 Lynn Elber, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
      "On April 26, three days after the blowup , Lin announced his departure on the Fast social media channels. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 May 2022",
      "But unlike the events leading to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008, the financial community is divided on whether a crypto blowup could lead to systemic risk for financial markets. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 12 May 2022",
      "People reported that Jeff addressed his longtime collaborator\u2019s blowup at the Oscars at Dorian\u2019s Through The Record Shop in Chicago, during the Closed Sessions Legend Conversation: DJ Jazzy Jeff last Thursday. \u2014 Jude Zhu, Billboard , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "To fully prove blowup , mathematicians need to show that, given the approximate singularity, a true one exists nearby. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Spoelstra suggested Wednesday's blowup could help the Heat in the long run. \u2014 Jace Evans, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "With its international reserves now totalling more than a third of its G.D.P., Putin\u2019s Russia is far less vulnerable to the kind of financial blowup that Boris Yeltsin\u2019s Russia experienced in 1998. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Did expenses unexpectedly blow up because of an unplanned event? \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
      "With the mask, users can blow up balloons, hold their breath to steady a toy gun, and do several other things. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 1 June 2022",
      "These floaties are easy to blow up , too, thanks to the single-nozzle design. \u2014 Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure , 1 June 2022",
      "But, of course, all of these options and plans could ultimately blow up in the Blazers\u2019 faces, as did the lottery. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 May 2022",
      "Simply blow up the pad, attach it to a hose, and adjust the water pressure depending on how high your kids want the sprinkler to go. \u2014 Kylee Mcguigan, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2022",
      "Constrained by long-term contracts for core, veteran players, general manager Brian MacLellan can\u2019t blow up the roster with wholesale changes. \u2014 Wire Reports, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
      "The comments soon started to blow up at the sight of Ackles' stacked physique, due as much to his famous friends as to his thirsty fans. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Of the Big Three (Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Le Orme, Premiata Forneria Marconi), the latter were the obvious pick to blow up internationally, steadying even their most complex tunes with grabbable melodies and riffs. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 22 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1757, in the meaning defined above",
      "Adjective",
      "1850, in the meaning defined above",
      "Verb",
      "1536, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173434"
  },
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    "type":"adjective",
    "definitions":[
      "having a sloppy or unkempt appearance or aspect frowsy",
      "being coarse and ruddy of complexion"
    ],
    "pronounciation":"\u02c8blau\u0307-z\u0113",
    "synonyms":[
      "dowdy",
      "frowsy",
      "frowzy",
      "slobbish",
      "slobby",
      "sloppy",
      "sloven",
      "slovenly",
      "unkempt",
      "untidy"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "dapper",
      "dashing",
      "dolled up",
      "sharp",
      "smart",
      "spruce"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "a large, blowsy woman in frumpy clothes runs the diner"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"English dialect blowse, blowze wench",
    "first_known_use":[
      "circa 1712, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
  "blub":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": blubber"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bawl",
      "blubber",
      "cry",
      "sob",
      "weep"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "the girl was blubbing so uncontrollably that we couldn't understand what she was trying to tell us"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1860, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-183916"
  },
  "blubber":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to weep noisily",
      ": to swell, distort, or wet with weeping",
      ": to utter while weeping",
      ": the fat of whales and other large marine mammals",
      ": excessive fat on the body",
      ": the action of blubbering",
      ": to weep noisily",
      ": to utter while weeping",
      ": the fat of various sea mammals (as whales and seals) from which oil can be obtained"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259-b\u0259r",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259-b\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
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      "cry",
      "sob",
      "weep"
    ],
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    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Oh, stop blubbering , you big baby!",
      "the poor child was blubbering because she had fallen and skinned her knee",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Their white American maleness is too mythic and valuable to go around blubbering all over valets. \u2014 Wesley Morris, New York Times , 13 Jan. 2020",
      "Their white American maleness is too mythic and valuable to go around blubbering all over valets. \u2014 Wesley Morris, New York Times , 4 Feb. 2020",
      "According to researchers on shore, the octopuses were likely chowing down on living crustaceans, not blubber remaining on the bones. \u2014 Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian , 16 Oct. 2019",
      "As the humans blubbered and begged for their lives, the bots turned them into target practice, used their corpses to set up ambushes to create more corpses, and hanged them only after the slow torment of a monologue. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 22 Apr. 2018",
      "And over the last 24 hours, there\u2019s been loads of excitement: Team USA\u2019s nail-biting final curling match against Sweden left four-time Olympian John Shuster a blubbering mess after leading his team to gold. \u2014 Kathryn Lundstrom, SI.com , 24 Feb. 2018",
      "Burning: Songs like Burning are the reason why casual listeners turn to Sam Smith\u2019s music, looking for three-minute exercises in emotional manipulation that renders you a blubbering mess. \u2014 Maeve Mcdermott, USA TODAY , 2 Nov. 2017",
      "DeeDee Magno Hall\u2019s Diana also is capable of reducing audience members \u2014 first timers or not \u2014 to blubbering wrecks with her searching fragility and voice like warm honey. \u2014 Margaret Gray, latimes.com , 26 May 2017",
      "This explains why most, so far, appear to be playing along with Trump\u2014espousing a patriotic duty to work with the administration while blubbering platitudes about cooperation and listening and being stewards of the economy. \u2014 Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com , 25 Jan. 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Over the past few million years, walruses have adapted to their frigid environments, with long ivory tusks to protect them from polar bears and thick, bristled skin with up to six inches of insulating blubber underneath. \u2014 Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "Their blubber edible as well as their meat, those cetaceans have sustained human life here to a large extent, with the Grind on record as dating back nearly 600 years. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "Before that, northern elephant seals nearly disappeared entirely because of hunting during the 19th century for their blubber , which was used for lamp oil and soap. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "The stove appeared to be a trywork, a type of cast iron furnace used in rendering whale blubber to oil, the researchers said. \u2014 al , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "There is fluid inside both lungs, hemorrhaging in the blubber , edema on the kidneys. \u2014 Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "Graduate students Theresa Keates and Arina Favilla carefully removed the satellite tag and time-depth recorder glued to her body, each about the size of a deck of cards, and used an ultrasound to measure her blubber , typically 2 inches thick. \u2014 Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "During a lecture on the Sea Bird, naturalist Adam Marie had explained that, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, gray whales were hunted for blubber in these same lagoons. \u2014 Liz Vaccariello, Travel + Leisure , 26 Jan. 2022",
      "Long before the evolution of blowholes or blubber , whales were at home in the seas. \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense",
      "Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182744"
  },
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    "type":"adjective",
    "definitions":[
      "having or characterized by blubber",
      "puffed out thick"
    ],
    "pronounciation":"\u02c8bl\u0259-b(\u0259-)r\u0113",
    "synonyms":[
      "chubby",
      "corpulent",
      "fat",
      "fleshy",
      "full",
      "gross",
      "lardy",
      "obese",
      "overweight",
      "plump",
      "podgy",
      "portly",
      "pudgy",
      "replete",
      "roly-poly",
      "rotund",
      "round",
      "tubby"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "lean",
      "skinny",
      "slender",
      "slim",
      "spare",
      "thin"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "the sort of blubbery person you hope you never see naked"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":null,
    "first_known_use":[
      "1791, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
  "bludgeon":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a short stick that usually has one thick or loaded end and is used as a weapon",
      ": something used to attack or bully",
      ": to hit with heavy impact",
      ": to attack or overcome by aggressive argument : bully"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259-j\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bastinado",
      "bastinade",
      "bat",
      "baton",
      "billy",
      "billy club",
      "cane",
      "club",
      "cudgel",
      "nightstick",
      "rod",
      "rung",
      "sap",
      "shillelagh",
      "shillalah",
      "staff",
      "truncheon",
      "waddy"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bang",
      "bash",
      "bat",
      "belt",
      "biff",
      "bob",
      "bonk",
      "bop",
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      "Noun",
      "guards armed with bludgeons roamed the compound",
      "Verb",
      "remodelers bludgeoned the wall with a sledgehammer to join the two rooms",
      "the boxer bludgeons opponents with an assortment of punches",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Its leading office holders have demonstrated that the party will take a stand on principle even when doing so harms one of its most prominent members (and not only when the gesture can be used as a bludgeon against the other guys). \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 6 Aug. 2021",
      "And so this is when good old, New England Protestants who had been really nurturing the story of the pilgrims started using this story as the founders of America, as a sort of cultural bludgeon to claim their spot on the top of America's hierarchy. \u2014 Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY , 21 Nov. 2021",
      "In the Middle East, the idea of hospitality is both sacrament and bludgeon . \u2014 New York Times , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "Yet a small but important part of the progressive coalition\u2014criminal-defense lawyers\u2014can\u2019t afford to treat gun laws as one more culture-war bludgeon . \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 23 July 2021",
      "Because fascism, it\u2019s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2021",
      "Their large could also double as a bludgeon in the unlikely event of a mugging. \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 13 Dec. 2020",
      "Hegar, by contrast, has used the issue as a bludgeon . \u2014 Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News , 26 Oct. 2020",
      "Hobbes tells Marshall that people often use the subject as a bludgeon . \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Yorker , 12 Oct. 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "It\u2019s well- documented that these creatures will use rocks to bludgeon \u2014read: loosen\u2014food from its perch. \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "According to authorities, Heredia-Rios used a hammer to bludgeon Oscar Garrido-Castro, who was 36 at the time of his death. \u2014 Alicia Fabbre, chicagotribune.com , 14 Jan. 2022",
      "Trying to bludgeon the working class into jobs accomplished the exact opposite. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 26 July 2021",
      "The writer-director Blerta Basholli doesn\u2019t bludgeon you with the character\u2019s miseries, or hold your emotions hostage. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "Basilashvili, of the country of Georgia, saved seven break points along the way and used his powerful backhand to bludgeon young Taylor Fritz, 7-6 (5), 6-3. \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 16 Oct. 2021",
      "Never mind that their Republican opponents will likelier bludgeon them over the budget deficit, which (unlike the debt ceiling) is something voters actually understand. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 12 Oct. 2021",
      "Prosecutors said Johnson used a claw hammer to fatally bludgeon a manager, Mary Bratcher, 46, and employees Mabel Scruggs, 57, and Fred Jones, 58, during a closing-time robbery at the Casey\u2019s General Store in Columbia on Feb. 12, 1994. \u2014 NBC News , 7 May 2021",
      "Traditionally therapies for lupus and other autoimmune diseases have relied on decades-old blunt-force strategies that essentially bludgeon a badly behaving immune system into submission. \u2014 Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American , 1 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1730, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "1777, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194839"
  },
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      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
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      ": of the color whose hue is that of the clear sky : of the color blue (see blue entry 2 sense 1 )",
      ": bluish",
      ": discolored by or as if by bruising",
      ": bluish gray",
      ": low in spirits : melancholy",
      ": marked by low spirits : depressing",
      ": wearing blue",
      ": learned , intellectual",
      ": puritanical",
      ": profane , indecent",
      ": off-color , risqu\u00e9",
      ": of, relating to, or used in blues (see blues sense 3 )",
      ": tending to support Democratic candidates or policies",
      "\u2014 compare purple sense 3 , red sense 5",
      ": extremely exasperated",
      ": a color whose hue is that of the clear sky or that of the portion of the color spectrum lying between green and violet",
      ": a pigment or dye that colors blue",
      ": bluing",
      ": blue clothing or cloth",
      ": a blue costume or uniform",
      ": a Union soldier in the American Civil War",
      ": the Union army",
      ": sky",
      ": the far distance",
      ": sea",
      ": a blue object",
      ": bluestocking",
      ": any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies (family Lycaenidae)",
      ": bluefish",
      ": blue cheese",
      ": one of the three colors (see color entry 1 sense 15 ) that quarks have in the theory of quantum chromodynamics",
      ": without advance notice : unexpectedly",
      ": to make (something) blue in color: such as",
      ": to dye, tint, or paint (something) blue",
      ": to heat (iron or steel) to about 550 to 600 degrees Fahrenheit so that it acquires a protective bluish coating",
      ": to turn blue",
      ": to curse angrily",
      ": the color of the clear daytime sky",
      ": blue clothing or cloth",
      ": sky sense 1",
      ": sea sense 1",
      ": suddenly and unexpectedly",
      ": of the color of the sky : of the color blue",
      ": sad sense 1",
      ": of the color blue",
      ": a color whose hue is that of the clear sky or that of the portion of the color spectrum lying between green and violet",
      ": a pigment or dye that colors blue \u2014 see prussian blue"
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      "filthy",
      "foul",
      "gross",
      "gutter",
      "impure",
      "indecent",
      "lascivious",
      "lewd",
      "locker-room",
      "nasty",
      "obscene",
      "pornographic",
      "porny",
      "profane",
      "raunchy",
      "ribald",
      "smutty",
      "stag",
      "trashy",
      "unprintable",
      "vulgar",
      "wanton",
      "X-rated"
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      "firmament",
      "heaven(s)",
      "high",
      "sky",
      "welkin"
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      "Adjective",
      "shocked at the blue banter she heard on that satellite-radio talk show",
      "a cold, dreary day always leaves me blue",
      "Noun",
      "Her favorite color is blue .",
      "a mixture of blues and greens",
      "They sailed off into the blue .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The Norse Atlantic plane scheduled to leave Fort Lauderdale on Monday arrived in South Florida over the weekend and could be seen parked with its white and blue livery Sunday evening in the northwest corner of the airport. \u2014 David Lyons, Sun Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
      "On Wednesday and Thursday, at least 14 social media users criticized Newport News officials for their post claiming that red, white and blue represent both July 4th and Juneteenth. \u2014 Saleen Martin, USA TODAY , 18 June 2022",
      "But the traditional Juneteenth flag, designed by National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation Founder Ben Haith in 1997, is red, white and blue to replicate the flags for the United States and the Lone Star State. \u2014 Samantha Chery, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2022",
      "The red, white and blue represents the American flag, a reminder that slaves and their descendants were and are Americans. \u2014 Will Mullery, CNN , 17 June 2022",
      "The Savannah River Queen and the Georgia Queen, the two giant red-white-and- blue paddle-wheel riverboats that are a fixture on the historic Savannah riverfront, are a great way to see Georgia\u2019s famous old port city. \u2014 Avery Newmark, AccessAtlanta , 17 June 2022",
      "The flag\u2019s red, white and blue colors signify that both the previously enslaved and their descendants are unquestionably American. \u2014 Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 June 2022",
      "They are also encouraged to wear red, white and blue . \u2014 Lexi Whitehead, The Enquirer , 16 June 2022",
      "Among the relatives who packed the memorial auditorium wearing red, white and blue ribbons was Adams\u2019s son, Stanley Earley, who seemed a bit taken aback by the attention. \u2014 Peter Marks, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "This announcement came out of the blue , said multiple scientists. \u2014 Pratik Pawar, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 June 2022",
      "Across France, more than 300 people have reported being pricked out of the blue with needles at nightclubs or concerts in recent months. \u2014 Fox News , 2 June 2022",
      "Over the past eight months, hundreds of other families have been caught in similar whirlwinds, as their otherwise healthy children developed hepatitis, seemingly out of the blue . \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
      "Sometimes a torture idea will come to you out of the blue . \u2014 Jack Handey, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
      "While rare, other primary headache disorders include primary stabbing headache, which causes sudden, stabbing pain, and new daily persistent headache, which appears out of the blue , is daily and continuous, and lasts for more than three months. \u2014 Carly Vandergriendt, SELF , 19 May 2022",
      "With so much instability in the atmosphere, storms will develop almost out of the blue . \u2014 Judson Jones And Monica Garrett, CNN , 6 May 2022",
      "Martina Gelf, a college classmate whom Sandy hadn\u2019t spoken with since college, calls out of the blue . \u2014 Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022",
      "This is once again reliant upon your connections and relationships, especially in outlets with global coverage, which rarely accept opinion articles out of the blue . \u2014 Felipe Reisch, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Republicans in Virginia\u2019s 10th, 7th and 2nd districts \u2014 all seats targeted by the national GOP \u2014 are seeking to unseat the three Democratic congresswomen who flipped their districts to blue in 2018 with major help from suburban voters. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "The home uniforms, which FAU wore versus the 49ers, have blue as the dominant color once again. \u2014 Khobi Price, sun-sentinel.com , 3 Oct. 2020",
      "To ensure that John Cornyn, Chip Roy and the rest of the Texas Republicans stop putting us in danger, voter blue up and down the ballot in November. \u2014 Taylor Goldenstein, ExpressNews.com , 26 Aug. 2020",
      "There are signs that Texas, due to changing demographics, may be the next Electoral College giant to turn from red, if not to blue , then at least to purple. \u2014 John A. Farrell, The New Republic , 16 Apr. 2020",
      "So why won't blue shampoo cut it for keeping cool brunettes cool? \u2014 Taylore Glynn, Marie Claire , 23 Jan. 2020",
      "Ruscillo has studied the production of the ancient purple dye, including experimenting with it to make colors from pink to blue to almost black, though she isn't involved in the excavations on Chrysi. \u2014 Fox News , 12 Dec. 2019",
      "The pair were all smiles for the appearance at St. James\u2019s Palace, where Kate blue a royal blue Issa dress that matched her sapphire engagement ring, which once belonged to William\u2019s mother Princess Diana. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 25 July 2019",
      "Give classic orange and blue a dose of edge with abstract prints and a hit of dark \u00e0 la Samantha Angelo. \u2014 Laurel Benedum, ELLE Decor , 4 June 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective, Noun, and Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "1606, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205715"
  },
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    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": low spirits : despondency"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
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      "mournfulness",
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      "sadness",
      "sorrowfulness",
      "unhappiness"
    ],
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      "exhilaration",
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      "exultation",
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    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1756, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220624-075901"
  },
  "blue moon":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":[
      ": a very long period of time",
      ": a second full moon in a calendar month"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "once in a blue moon we'll get dressed up and eat in a fancy restaurant",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Esposito\u2019s Genny Savastano wasn\u2019t born under a bad sign, with a blue moon in his eyes. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "And once in a blue moon , a fabulous one comes up for sale: such is the case with the Lanier House, a Beaux-Arts gem on East 35th Street. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "The rarer, blue moon \u2019s light passes through larger dust particles. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Edinson Cavani, the current second-string centre forward who does pose a threat on the pitch, can only play once in a blue moon and spends the rest of the time on the sidelines or in the treatment room. \u2014 Liam Canning, Forbes , 17 Apr. 2022",
      "As for giving up goals, well, that happens once in a blue moon . \u2014 Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "The next blue moon is forecasted for August 2023, much sooner than the 19 years one Facebook post claimed. \u2014 Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY , 28 Oct. 2021",
      "Sometimes a blue moon can fall on Halloween, as the post indicates. \u2014 Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY , 28 Oct. 2021",
      "The last blue moon to appear happened in October of 2020 \u2014 and on the night of Halloween. \u2014 Karly Williams, Chron , 19 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1821, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-204320"
  },
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": membership in a noble or socially prominent family",
      ": a member of a noble or socially prominent family"
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      "patrician"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "a woman of blue blood",
      "This is where the city's blue bloods like to gather.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Cinderella takes a blue blood when Saint Peter\u2019s faces North Carolina on Sunday, March 27. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Rival Auburn feels like a college hoops blue blood in the making. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "The two college basketball blue blood schools meet in New Orleans tonight to decide this year\u2019s champion. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "The pride of Jersey City is taking the City of Brotherly Love by storm, fresh off wins over blue blood Kentucky and red hot Murray State. \u2014 Stephen Edelson, USA TODAY , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Hamilton, 73, has transformed FSU into a new blue blood basketball program in the ACC, competing with the North Carolinas and Dukes. \u2014 Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Two weeks of upsets and underdogs in the books, the Final Four is down to four blue blood programs: Kansas, Duke, North Carolina and Villanova. \u2014 John Marshall, ajc , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Two weeks of upsets and underdogs in the books, the Final Four is down to four blue blood programs: Kansas, Duke, North Carolina and Villanova. \u2014 John Marshall, chicagotribune.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "In the novel, Spragg, navigates the rigid rules of high society, learning that her family\u2019s newfound wealth doesn\u2019t quite stack up to an old, blue blood social pedigree. \u2014 Cady Lang, Time , 25 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1809, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190701"
  },
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
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    "definitions":[
      ": of outstanding quality",
      ": consisting of individuals selected for quality, reputation, or authority",
      ": an honor or award gained for preeminence",
      ": a blue ribbon awarded as an honor (as to the first-place winner in a competition)",
      ": a decorative ribbon colored blue that is given to the winner in a competition",
      ": consisting of individuals selected for quality, reputation, or authority"
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      "superlative",
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      "top-of-the-line",
      "top-shelf",
      "topflight",
      "topping",
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    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "Our pumpkin won the blue ribbon at the county fair this year.",
      "the Pritzker Prize is widely regarded as the ultimate blue ribbon for architectural achievement",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Leda Levine, president of New Agenda: Northeast, and Pam Gould, superintendent of Sandwich Public Schools and a member of the MIAA\u2019s blue ribbon committee, also spoke. \u2014 Sarah Barber, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
      "And on it there was this little kind of tube with a blue ribbon around it. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "Inspired by one of her most iconic looks, the Queen Elizabeth II Barbie wears an elegant ivory gown and blue ribbon adorned with decorations of order. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung wore the blue ribbon , as well. \u2014 Nadja Sayej, Forbes , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Designer Sage Mountainflower, Ohkay Owingeh/Taos Pueblo/Navajo, had a successful showcase at the Heard after one of her pieces from her Phendi\u2019-Tewa collection won the blue ribbon . \u2014 AZCentral.com , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "Jason Momoa wore a handkerchief with the colors of the Ukrainian flag, and Yoon Yeo-jeong had a blue ribbon pinned to her outfit. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "More celebrities are bound to be wearing this blue ribbon . \u2014 Nadja Sayej, Forbes , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Designer Sage Mountainflower, Ohkay Owingeh/Taos Pueblo/Navajo, had a successful showcase at the Heard after one of her pieces from her Phendi\u2019-Tewa collection won the blue ribbon . \u2014 AZCentral.com , 13 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "1860, in the meaning defined above",
      "Noun",
      "1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-223907"
  },
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    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a photographic print in white on a bright blue ground or blue on a white ground used especially for copying maps, mechanical drawings, and architects' plans",
      ": something resembling a blueprint (as in serving as a model or providing guidance)",
      ": a detailed plan or program of action",
      ": a photographic print made with white lines on a blue background and showing how something will be made",
      ": a detailed plan of something to be done"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
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      "\u02c8bl\u00fc-\u02ccprint"
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      "game plan",
      "ground plan",
      "master plan",
      "plan",
      "program",
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      "road map",
      "scheme",
      "strategy",
      "system"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "a blueprint for reforming the public school system",
      "an ambitious young man with a remarkably detailed blueprint for becoming a millionaire by the age of 25",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The measures could serve as a blueprint for other countries, including the U.S. \u2014 Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
      "The struggle of a fresh start Senegal launched in 2018 what leaders hailed as a blueprint for tackling the crisis of vanishing coasts. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 June 2022",
      "Kardashian has often been referenced as the blueprint for the influencing industry, but did that influence alone earn Skims, her shapewear company, a valuation of $3.2 billion? \u2014 Kirbie Johnson, Allure , 1 June 2022",
      "His archive would serve as a blueprint to help restore any damage to the city\u2019s centuries-old buildings. \u2014 Lauren Egan, NBC News , 30 May 2022",
      "Deja looked up to Randall for that, not only as a dad, but as a blueprint of a man. \u2014 Kathleen Newman-bremang, refinery29.com , 25 May 2022",
      "It was formally announced in Georgia on Friday as Biden began his Asia trip touring a Samsung semiconductor plant in PyeongtaekThe plant serves as a blueprint for a $17 billion facility the electronics company plans to open near Austin. \u2014 Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY , 22 May 2022",
      "The All-Hazards Mitigation Plan serves as the blueprint for reducing property damage and saving lives after hazard events, such as tornadoes or floods. \u2014 cleveland , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Winter Garden hopes to remake a struggling east side neighborhood using the city\u2019s revitalized downtown as a blueprint . \u2014 Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com , 31 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1857, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211031"
  },
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": having an edge or point that is not sharp",
      ": abrupt in speech or manner",
      ": being straight to the point : direct",
      ": slow or deficient in feeling : insensitive",
      ": obtuse (see obtuse sense 2a ) in understanding or discernment : dull",
      ": to make less sharp, definite, or forceful",
      ": to become blunt (see blunt entry 1 )",
      ": a cigar that has been hollowed out and filled with marijuana",
      ": having a thick edge or point : dull",
      ": speaking or spoken in plain language without thought for other people's feelings",
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      "dull",
      "numb"
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      "Adjective",
      "To be perfectly blunt , I find her annoying.",
      "He was blunt about needing more privacy.",
      "Verb",
      "a weapon blunted by use",
      "the mushy music blunted the effect of the movie's final tragic scene",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "An autopsy report said Johnson died from multiple blunt force injuries and listed the manner of death as an accident. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 8 June 2022",
      "Haskins died from multiple blunt -force injuries, and his manner of death was an accident, the report says. \u2014 Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
      "Investigators said the fire was started with gasoline and determined Rita Politte had also suffered blunt force head trauma. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
      "Mazariegos was left brain dead and had blunt force injuries, fractured ribs and internal bleeding after the attack, according to investigators. \u2014 Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star , 26 May 2022",
      "Besides the bangs, blown straight and blunt , this is identical to the style Gomez had last September, when she was spotted on the NYC late-night circuit with mermaid hair that almost brushed her hips. \u2014 Elizabeth Logan, Glamour , 25 May 2022",
      "On Wednesday, the Chinese army described organizing combat drills in the waters and airspace around Taiwan to send a blunt message to the United States. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
      "His cause of death was determined to be multiple blunt force injuries, the report says. \u2014 Laura James, CNN , 24 May 2022",
      "Castrejon, a Wheeling resident, was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy indicated death from blunt force injuries, the Lake County coroner\u2019s office said Tuesday. \u2014 Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune , 24 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Her rep had something to say about that\u2014as blunt a denial as possible\u2014and now the Daily Mail has taken its story down. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 4 June 2022",
      "Their dominance in those arenas and toeholds in other businesses should blunt the pains of inflation, even as those challenges hammer big companies such as Walmart and Target and the stock market nears bear market territory. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
      "And that could quickly blunt the league\u2019s aspirations. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "But as noted, other than vaccination, the strategies being proposed will not materially blunt the coming predictable wave. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 16 Dec. 2021",
      "However, officials have expressed some optimism that the widespread administration of vaccines and availability of therapeutics might blunt and potential uptick in fatalities. \u2014 Luke Money, Los Angeles Times , 21 May 2022",
      "The world\u2019s major powers have been working in earnest on laser weapons since the 1990s, looking to overcome the inherent atmospheric problems that blunt targeted laser beams which favor clear air or, ideally, a vacuum to work. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
      "Candidates who create trust barriers are candidates who begin the campaign season at a disadvantage \u2013 one that might just blunt the potential blow to Democrats in the midterm elections. \u2014 Gina Glantz, CNN , 13 May 2022",
      "Fighting in the days ahead, including in Severodonetsk, will show to what extent these and other Western weapons systems supplied by the U.S. and allies could blunt the Russian advantage in artillery and aviation. \u2014 Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In Chambers' viral campaign ad, the candidate smokes a blunt while pointing out that Black Americans are four times as likely to be arrested for marijuana, despite their rate of usage being about the same as for other racial groups. \u2014 NBC News , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "Amid a crowd of thousands Wednesday afternoon in Golden Gate Park, Aaron Lacy sat down, relaxed, and tried his best to roll a blunt . \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Serena\u2019s blunt -cut wig, swooped behind her ears, evened the symmetry of her entire look. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Officials executed a search warrant on Morgan's white GMC pickup truck and recovered empty cans of Michelob Ultra in the front cab, marijuana and drug paraphernalia \u2013 including a bong, pipes and a blunt . \u2014 Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Madonna is also seen smoking what appears to be a large blunt in the new clip. \u2014 Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "While hosting a TikTok live stream to chat with fans about Hulu's Only Murders in the Building season finale, Gomez surprised her followers by debuting a sleek blunt bob after rocking long loose waves for the past few months. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 27 Feb. 2022",
      "Meaning, your favorite Super Bowl commercial this year will not involve a blunt or a bong despite the intersection of the big game and legal cannabis. \u2014 Josh Peter, USA TODAY , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Last month, Gary Chambers drew attention for sparking up a marijuana blunt in a political campaign ad. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
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      "Adjective",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3a",
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense",
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      "1988, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174612"
  },
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    "type":"adjective",
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      "having an edge or point that is not sharp",
      "abrupt in speech or manner",
      "being straight to the point direct",
      "slow or deficient in feeling insensitive",
      "obtuse (see obtuse sense 2a ) in understanding or discernment dull",
      "to make less sharp, definite, or forceful",
      "to become blunt (see blunt entry 1 )",
      "a cigar that has been hollowed out and filled with marijuana",
      "having a thick edge or point dull",
      "speaking or spoken in plain language without thought for other people's feelings",
      "to make or become less sharp"
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      "abrupt",
      "bluff",
      "brusque",
      "brusk",
      "crusty",
      "curt",
      "downright",
      "short",
      "short-spoken",
      "snippy",
      "unceremonious"
    ],
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      "benumb",
      "cauterize",
      "damp",
      "dampen",
      "deaden",
      "dull",
      "numb"
    ],
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      "Adjective",
      "To be perfectly blunt , I find her annoying.",
      "He was blunt about needing more privacy.",
      "Verb",
      "a weapon blunted by use",
      "the mushy music blunted the effect of the movie's final tragic scene",
      "Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
      "An autopsy report said Johnson died from multiple blunt force injuries and listed the manner of death as an accident. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 8 June 2022",
      "Haskins died from multiple blunt -force injuries, and his manner of death was an accident, the report says. \u2014 Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
      "Investigators said the fire was started with gasoline and determined Rita Politte had also suffered blunt force head trauma. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
      "Mazariegos was left brain dead and had blunt force injuries, fractured ribs and internal bleeding after the attack, according to investigators. \u2014 Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star , 26 May 2022",
      "Besides the bangs, blown straight and blunt , this is identical to the style Gomez had last September, when she was spotted on the NYC late-night circuit with mermaid hair that almost brushed her hips. \u2014 Elizabeth Logan, Glamour , 25 May 2022",
      "On Wednesday, the Chinese army described organizing combat drills in the waters and airspace around Taiwan to send a blunt message to the United States. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
      "His cause of death was determined to be multiple blunt force injuries, the report says. \u2014 Laura James, CNN , 24 May 2022",
      "Castrejon, a Wheeling resident, was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy indicated death from blunt force injuries, the Lake County coroner\u2019s office said Tuesday. \u2014 Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune , 24 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
      "Her rep had something to say about that\u2014as blunt a denial as possible\u2014and now the Daily Mail has taken its story down. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 4 June 2022",
      "Their dominance in those arenas and toeholds in other businesses should blunt the pains of inflation, even as those challenges hammer big companies such as Walmart and Target and the stock market nears bear market territory. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
      "And that could quickly blunt the league\u2019s aspirations. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "But as noted, other than vaccination, the strategies being proposed will not materially blunt the coming predictable wave. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 16 Dec. 2021",
      "However, officials have expressed some optimism that the widespread administration of vaccines and availability of therapeutics might blunt and potential uptick in fatalities. \u2014 Luke Money, Los Angeles Times , 21 May 2022",
      "The world\u2019s major powers have been working in earnest on laser weapons since the 1990s, looking to overcome the inherent atmospheric problems that blunt targeted laser beams which favor clear air or, ideally, a vacuum to work. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
      "Candidates who create trust barriers are candidates who begin the campaign season at a disadvantage \u2013 one that might just blunt the potential blow to Democrats in the midterm elections. \u2014 Gina Glantz, CNN , 13 May 2022",
      "Fighting in the days ahead, including in Severodonetsk, will show to what extent these and other Western weapons systems supplied by the U.S. and allies could blunt the Russian advantage in artillery and aviation. \u2014 Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
      "In Chambers' viral campaign ad, the candidate smokes a blunt while pointing out that Black Americans are four times as likely to be arrested for marijuana, despite their rate of usage being about the same as for other racial groups. \u2014 NBC News , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "Amid a crowd of thousands Wednesday afternoon in Golden Gate Park, Aaron Lacy sat down, relaxed, and tried his best to roll a blunt . \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Serena\u2019s blunt -cut wig, swooped behind her ears, evened the symmetry of her entire look. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Officials executed a search warrant on Morgan's white GMC pickup truck and recovered empty cans of Michelob Ultra in the front cab, marijuana and drug paraphernalia \u2013 including a bong, pipes and a blunt . \u2014 Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Madonna is also seen smoking what appears to be a large blunt in the new clip. \u2014 Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "While hosting a TikTok live stream to chat with fans about Hulu's Only Murders in the Building season finale, Gomez surprised her followers by debuting a sleek blunt bob after rocking long loose waves for the past few months. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 27 Feb. 2022",
      "Meaning, your favorite Super Bowl commercial this year will not involve a blunt or a bong despite the intersection of the big game and legal cannabis. \u2014 Josh Peter, USA TODAY , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Last month, Gary Chambers drew attention for sparking up a marijuana blunt in a political campaign ad. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3a",
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense",
      "Noun",
      "1988, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
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      ": having an edge or point that is not sharp",
      ": abrupt in speech or manner",
      ": being straight to the point : direct",
      ": slow or deficient in feeling : insensitive",
      ": obtuse (see obtuse sense 2a ) in understanding or discernment : dull",
      ": to make less sharp, definite, or forceful",
      ": to become blunt (see blunt entry 1 )",
      ": a cigar that has been hollowed out and filled with marijuana",
      ": having a thick edge or point : dull",
      ": speaking or spoken in plain language without thought for other people's feelings",
      ": to make or become less sharp"
    ],
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      "abrupt",
      "bluff",
      "brusque",
      "brusk",
      "crusty",
      "curt",
      "downright",
      "short",
      "short-spoken",
      "snippy",
      "unceremonious"
    ],
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      "benumb",
      "cauterize",
      "damp",
      "dampen",
      "deaden",
      "dull",
      "numb"
    ],
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      "Adjective",
      "To be perfectly blunt , I find her annoying.",
      "He was blunt about needing more privacy.",
      "Verb",
      "a weapon blunted by use",
      "the mushy music blunted the effect of the movie's final tragic scene",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "An autopsy report said Johnson died from multiple blunt force injuries and listed the manner of death as an accident. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 8 June 2022",
      "Haskins died from multiple blunt -force injuries, and his manner of death was an accident, the report says. \u2014 Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
      "Investigators said the fire was started with gasoline and determined Rita Politte had also suffered blunt force head trauma. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
      "Mazariegos was left brain dead and had blunt force injuries, fractured ribs and internal bleeding after the attack, according to investigators. \u2014 Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star , 26 May 2022",
      "Besides the bangs, blown straight and blunt , this is identical to the style Gomez had last September, when she was spotted on the NYC late-night circuit with mermaid hair that almost brushed her hips. \u2014 Elizabeth Logan, Glamour , 25 May 2022",
      "On Wednesday, the Chinese army described organizing combat drills in the waters and airspace around Taiwan to send a blunt message to the United States. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
      "His cause of death was determined to be multiple blunt force injuries, the report says. \u2014 Laura James, CNN , 24 May 2022",
      "Castrejon, a Wheeling resident, was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy indicated death from blunt force injuries, the Lake County coroner\u2019s office said Tuesday. \u2014 Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune , 24 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Her rep had something to say about that\u2014as blunt a denial as possible\u2014and now the Daily Mail has taken its story down. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 4 June 2022",
      "Their dominance in those arenas and toeholds in other businesses should blunt the pains of inflation, even as those challenges hammer big companies such as Walmart and Target and the stock market nears bear market territory. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
      "And that could quickly blunt the league\u2019s aspirations. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "But as noted, other than vaccination, the strategies being proposed will not materially blunt the coming predictable wave. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 16 Dec. 2021",
      "However, officials have expressed some optimism that the widespread administration of vaccines and availability of therapeutics might blunt and potential uptick in fatalities. \u2014 Luke Money, Los Angeles Times , 21 May 2022",
      "The world\u2019s major powers have been working in earnest on laser weapons since the 1990s, looking to overcome the inherent atmospheric problems that blunt targeted laser beams which favor clear air or, ideally, a vacuum to work. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
      "Candidates who create trust barriers are candidates who begin the campaign season at a disadvantage \u2013 one that might just blunt the potential blow to Democrats in the midterm elections. \u2014 Gina Glantz, CNN , 13 May 2022",
      "Fighting in the days ahead, including in Severodonetsk, will show to what extent these and other Western weapons systems supplied by the U.S. and allies could blunt the Russian advantage in artillery and aviation. \u2014 Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In Chambers' viral campaign ad, the candidate smokes a blunt while pointing out that Black Americans are four times as likely to be arrested for marijuana, despite their rate of usage being about the same as for other racial groups. \u2014 NBC News , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "Amid a crowd of thousands Wednesday afternoon in Golden Gate Park, Aaron Lacy sat down, relaxed, and tried his best to roll a blunt . \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Serena\u2019s blunt -cut wig, swooped behind her ears, evened the symmetry of her entire look. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Officials executed a search warrant on Morgan's white GMC pickup truck and recovered empty cans of Michelob Ultra in the front cab, marijuana and drug paraphernalia \u2013 including a bong, pipes and a blunt . \u2014 Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Madonna is also seen smoking what appears to be a large blunt in the new clip. \u2014 Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "While hosting a TikTok live stream to chat with fans about Hulu's Only Murders in the Building season finale, Gomez surprised her followers by debuting a sleek blunt bob after rocking long loose waves for the past few months. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 27 Feb. 2022",
      "Meaning, your favorite Super Bowl commercial this year will not involve a blunt or a bong despite the intersection of the big game and legal cannabis. \u2014 Josh Peter, USA TODAY , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Last month, Gary Chambers drew attention for sparking up a marijuana blunt in a political campaign ad. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3a",
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      "Noun",
      "1988, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-201503"
  },
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      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
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      ": a smear or stain that obscures",
      ": something vaguely or indistinctly perceived",
      ": something moving or occurring too quickly to be clearly seen",
      ": to obscure or blemish by smearing",
      ": sully",
      ": to make dim, indistinct, or vague in outline or character",
      ": to make cloudy or confused",
      ": to make blurs",
      ": move too quickly to be seen clearly",
      ": to become vague or indistinct",
      ": something that cannot be seen clearly",
      ": something that is difficult to remember",
      ": to make unclear or hard to see or remember",
      ": to make or become unclear or confused"
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      "cloud",
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      "muddy",
      "obfuscate"
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      "illuminate"
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      "Verb",
      "The tears in my eyes blurred the words on the page.",
      "His novel is based on historical occurrences but it blurs the line between fact and fiction.",
      "The two events have blurred together in my mind.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Reality and story telling blur as Tommy goes toe-to-toe with famous historical figures like Winston Churchill and Sir Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin). \u2014 Emma Fraser, Town & Country , 11 June 2022",
      "Portrait mode that improves the bokeh effect by adding artificial blur to the foreground as well as the background. \u2014 Paul Monckton, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
      "But last year my kids were only a few weeks old and the whole day was one big blur . \u2014 Derek Blasberg, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
      "Assayas is a former film critic who has long indulged in making movies about the way reality and fantasy blur on sets. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
      "Oliver remembers the days after the MSD shooting as a blur of well-meaning people coming at him with advice. \u2014 Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel , 29 May 2022",
      "There's a lot of handshakes and a blur of faces as players get shuffled between interviews with teams and the media at Wintrust Arena. \u2014 Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 May 2022",
      "The knife in my character's hand has some blur and shows the system at its weakest, but the rest of the image resolves very cleanly. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 13 May 2022",
      "In the spring, her garden was a Monet: a blur of bright pink phlox, deep purple lupine, blue hyacinth, and yellow and red tulips. \u2014 Beverly Beckham, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Here, find the 14 best setting powders to blur , set, and mattify your skin\u2013without looking dusty or cakey. \u2014 ELLE , 13 May 2022",
      "Though intellectually complex, the end goal was to blur the financial status of the company, rather than illuminate it. \u2014 Isaac Cheifetz, Star Tribune , 24 Apr. 2021",
      "To what extent does the collection blur the boundaries between wearable art and fine art? \u2014 Kate Matthams, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
      "Shoot against clean backgrounds or blur out the background. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 May 2022",
      "The camera lingers on them and gives us views of the scene from them at every opportunity, burying important but no longer novel ideas about truth, artifice, and how cameras blur the lines between them under several layers of showy reflexivity. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "The urge to blur lines may best be exemplified by collaborations between streetwear and indie restaurants. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "One key thing the pandemic and the resulting work-from-home model have done is blur \u2014and in many cases eliminate\u2014the separation between work and life. \u2014 Michael Held, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "In Leifheit\u2019s images, go-go dancers under red stage lights blur into luminescent shadows. \u2014 Jack Parlett, The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun and Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1519, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "1520, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190732"
  },
  "bluster":{
    "type":"verb",
    "definitions":[
      "to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats",
      "to blow in stormy noisy gusts",
      "to be windy and boisterous",
      "to utter with noisy self-assertiveness",
      "to drive or force by blustering",
      "a violent boisterous blowing",
      "violent commotion",
      "loudly boastful or threatening speech",
      "to talk or act in a noisy boastful way",
      "to blow hard and noisily",
      "noisy violent action or speech"
    ],
    "pronounciation":"\u02c8bl\u0259-st\u0259r",
    "synonyms":[
      "fulminate",
      "huff",
      "rant",
      "rave",
      "spout"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bombast",
      "brag",
      "braggadocio",
      "bull",
      "cockalorum",
      "fanfaronade",
      "gas",
      "gasconade",
      "grandiloquence",
      "hot air",
      "magniloquence",
      "rant",
      "rodomontade",
      "rhodomontade"
    ],
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      "Verb",
      "He brags and blusters , but he never really does what he says he'll do.",
      "\u201cI don't want to hear it!\u201d he blustered .",
      "The wind blustered through the valley.",
      "Noun",
      "We were all tired of his macho bluster .",
      "all the bluster in the campaign speech was intended to hide a lack of specifics",
      "Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
      "The area is frequently hit with fierce storms; fog can roll in suddenly; and winds often bluster at more than 75 miles per hour. \u2014 Jeanine Barone, CNN , 22 July 2021",
      "But for all the fear and bluster around Satanism, the actual religion is not well-understood. \u2014 Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com , 31 Mar. 2021",
      "But Johnson likes to bluster his way past the facts, and von der Leyen likes to muster them. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Dec. 2020",
      "The Herald continued to thrive, Bennett continued to bluster , crimes and calamities continued to happen. \u2014 James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 Mar. 2020",
      "Iran will bluster and threaten, but waging an all-out war with the U.S. would be suicidal, and Iran knows it. \u2014 Victor Davis Hanson, National Review , 9 Jan. 2020",
      "At times, the actor\u2019s florid portrayal of the quirky, blustering general evokes, of all people, Frank Morgan\u2019s Wizard of Oz. \u2014 Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com , 5 Aug. 2019",
      "But as his host blustered , Mr Khan seemed to have little cause for concern. \u2014 The Economist , 25 July 2019",
      "Rather than endure a humiliating climb-down that would involve admission of cheating and the destruction of the new missiles, Putin is blustering new threats. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 20 Feb. 2019",
      "Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
      "Russia\u2019s regular reminders over the past three months of its nuclear might, even if largely bluster , were the latest evidence of how the potential threat has resurfaced in more overt and dangerous ways. \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
      "For all the bloviating and bluster in the news\u2013and on Twitter\u201368% of U.S. adults expect that Musk will actually have a positive impact on free speech. \u2014 Will Johnson, Fortune , 2 May 2022",
      "Cua's attorney now characterizes such comment as bluster from an impressionable young person and said Cua regrets his actions. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 May 2021",
      "Cua\u2019s attorney now characterizes such comments as bluster from an impressionable young person and said Cua regrets his actions. \u2014 David Klepper, Anchorage Daily News , 29 May 2021",
      "Defendants have dismissed those conversations as bluster . \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Mar. 2021",
      "Rogozin\u2014who heads up Russia\u2019s federal space agency, Roscosmos\u2014has long been known for his bluster . \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 10 May 2022",
      "Sheriff Villanueva just showed the world the petty emptiness behind his bluster . \u2014 Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Their buffoonish bluster masks a deeper pain in the play \u2014 in particular, the pain relating to Teach\u2019s jealousy and the need for Donny to help steer clueless, aimless Bobby out of addiction. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb and Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "1582, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
  },
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": coated with a mixture of spices (such as garlic powder and cayenne pepper) and fried over extremely high heat"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla-k\u0259nd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bedraggled",
      "befouled",
      "begrimed",
      "bemired",
      "besmirched",
      "black",
      "cruddy",
      "dingy",
      "dirty",
      "draggled",
      "dusty",
      "filthy",
      "foul",
      "grimy",
      "grotty",
      "grubby",
      "grungy",
      "mucky",
      "muddy",
      "nasty",
      "smudged",
      "smutty",
      "soiled",
      "sordid",
      "stained",
      "sullied",
      "unclean",
      "uncleanly"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "clean",
      "cleanly",
      "immaculate",
      "spick-and-span",
      "spic-and-span",
      "spotless",
      "stainless",
      "ultraclean",
      "unsoiled",
      "unstained",
      "unsullied"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "the church's blackened ceiling is the result of centuries of candle smoke",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "His blackened execution pyre stands in a barren field, a leitmotif driven like a stake through the heart of the film. \u2014 Elle Carroll, Vulture , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "Firefighters remained in one untouched rectangular slice of land in Meyers Wednesday morning, hosing down blackened earth in backyards, a sign of just how close the flames got to homes. \u2014 Sarah Ravani, Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Sep. 2021",
      "Near the towns of Phillips, Twin Bridges and Strawberry, cracks of blue sky and sunshine illuminated scorched terrain and skeletal bare tree branches, but also blue jays and chipmunks scampering over blackened tree roots and fallen rocks. \u2014 Lauren Hepler, Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Sep. 2021",
      "Using gloved hands, scrape off all of the blackened exteriors and slice into small pieces. \u2014 Joanne Rosa, ABC News , 21 June 2021",
      "Dinner was delicious: dish after dish of blackened shrimp, fried shrimp, catfish, garlic corn. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2021",
      "The contrast is quite pleasurable: Sweet, milky mozzarella meets slightly bitter radicchio, still a bit warm, blackened and smoky from high heat. \u2014 David Tanis, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "Texas Black Gold Garlic puts its signature garlic through a two-month fermenting process, turning traditional white cloves into sweet blackened treats. \u2014 Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com , 3 Aug. 2020",
      "Al-Kolak placed a blackened kettle atop the makeshift stove and dropped a few Lipton teabags inside it. \u2014 Patrick Strickland, The New York Review of Books , 4 Mar. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1979, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220624-125744"
  },
  "blank":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": colorless",
      ": appearing or causing to appear dazed, confounded, or nonplussed",
      ": expressionless",
      ": devoid of covering or content",
      ": such as",
      ": free from writing or marks",
      ": without any recorded sound or information",
      ": having spaces to be filled in",
      "\u2014 see also blank check",
      ": lacking interest, variety, or change",
      ": absolute , unqualified",
      ": unfinished",
      ": having a plain or unbroken surface where an opening is usual",
      ": the bull's-eye of a target",
      ": an empty space (as on a paper)",
      ": a paper with spaces for the entry of data",
      ": a piece of material prepared to be made into something (such as a key) by a further operation",
      ": a cartridge loaded with propellant and a seal but no projectile",
      ": an empty or featureless place or space",
      ": a vacant or uneventful period",
      ": a dash substituting for an omitted word",
      ": obscure , obliterate",
      ": to stop access to : seal",
      ": to keep (an opponent) from scoring",
      ": to treat (a friend or acquaintance) in a hostile or unfriendly way : to ignore or refuse to talk to (someone)",
      ": fade",
      ": to become confused or abstracted",
      ": not having any writing or marks",
      ": having empty spaces to be filled in",
      ": not showing emotion or understanding",
      ": an empty space in a line of writing or printing",
      ": a paper with empty spaces to be filled in",
      ": a cartridge loaded with powder but no bullet",
      ": events or a time that cannot be remembered"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla\u014bk",
      "\u02c8bla\u014bk"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "catatonic",
      "deadpan",
      "empty",
      "expressionless",
      "impassive",
      "inexpressive",
      "numb",
      "stolid",
      "vacant"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "document",
      "form",
      "paper"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "a blank sheet of paper",
      "a book with blank pages",
      "Noun",
      "The form has a blank for your signature.",
      "The actors are shooting blanks .",
      "Verb",
      "The goalie blanked the Falcons for two periods in the hockey game.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The market for investments in blank -check mergers is particularly challenged with regulators now paying much closer attention to companies\u2019 lofty promises, many of which proved unrealistic. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
      "Cortese\u2019s bill would have banned the use of guns and blank ammunition containing gunpowder or other explosive charges from film sets, with some exceptions. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 23 May 2022",
      "As long as big banks stay on the SPAC sideline, though, the blank -check market will never be the same. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 11 May 2022",
      "The company provides the prop house and its clients with blank ammunition, which generate a flash and sound when fired but don\u2019t contain lead bullets. \u2014 Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "Even blank ammunition can be deadly if fired at close range. \u2014 Aya Elamroussi, Chloe Melas And Claudia Dominguez, CNN , 23 Oct. 2021",
      "The entertainment industry uses toy guns as well as fully functional guns that are loaded with blank ammunition, which are cartridge cases with no bullets, and are instead filled with wads of paper, wax, or cotton. \u2014 Anna Kaplan, Forbes , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "At that point, Longman came in and shot Breinholt in the head at near point- blank range. \u2014 Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 May 2022",
      "Johnston's father, David, and a colleague were shot at point- blank range in the back of the head late one morning in 1997, a year before the Good Friday Agreement that largely brought an end to the sectarian violence. \u2014 Kitty Donaldson, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Segel earns some empathy as a hangdog Everyman, though his backstory remains such a deliberate blank that any insight is mostly gleaned from his blundering missteps and low-simmering misery. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "But the bill stops short of banning all functional guns \u2014 including blank -firing weapons \u2014 from film and TV sets. \u2014 Gene Maddaus, Variety , 12 Jan. 2022",
      "So, draw your own conclusion by filling in the blank in the following sentence with a) or b). \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Dec. 2021",
      "Fill in the blank : Koufax, Gibson, Maddux, Valenzula, Scherzer, Buehler etc. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 4 Nov. 2021",
      "But the Jets couldn\u2019t keep up with the Colts, who scored touchdowns on six of their first seven possessions \u2013 and on the one blank were stopped on downs at the New York 1-yard line. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 4 Nov. 2021",
      "Fill in the blank with service, customer service rep, salesperson, product, etc. \u2014 Shep Hyken, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
      "That caused the blank to propel the dummy round out of the barrel, striking Lee. \u2014 Justin Curto, Vulture , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "Although the blank did not penetrate his skin, the impact fractured his skull and caused hemorrhaging in his brain. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Blanchard managed to force two pop outs and a strikeout to blank Fairfield-Ludlowe with the night\u2019s drama at its peak. \u2014 Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant , 7 June 2022",
      "Jack Brown and Joey Wilmoth helped the Tigers blank the Shamrocks the following day. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "But a strikeout of Hays with an 88-mph changeup to end the inning seemed to catapult Syndergaard into the rest of his night, the 6-foot-6, 230-pounder needing only 63 pitches to blank the Orioles on two hits over the next 4 2/3 innings. \u2014 Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
      "The North Eastern girls varsity high school ice hockey team traveled to Piney Orchard Ice Rink last Friday to face and blank Howard County, 6-0. \u2014 Randy Mcroberts, baltimoresun.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
      "Instead, the floors of the apartment were concrete, the walls blank plaster. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Oct. 2021",
      "Wily Peralta and Kyle Funkhouser combined to blank Houston on two hits through the fifth. \u2014 Dave Hogg, Chron , 27 June 2021",
      "Wily Peralta and Kyle Funkhouser combined to blank Houston on two hits through the fifth. \u2014 Dave Hogg, Chron , 27 June 2021",
      "Wily Peralta and Kyle Funkhouser combined to blank Houston on two hits through the fifth. \u2014 Dave Hogg, Chron , 27 June 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "circa 1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "1764, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220624-130855"
  },
  "blab":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": one that blabs : tattletale",
      ": idle or excessive talk : chatter",
      ": to talk idly or thoughtlessly",
      ": to reveal a secret especially by indiscreet chatter",
      ": to reveal especially without reserve or discretion",
      ": to reveal a secret",
      ": to talk too much"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blab",
      "\u02c8blab"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "babble",
      "cackle",
      "chaffer",
      "chat",
      "chatter",
      "chin",
      "converse",
      "gab",
      "gabble",
      "gas",
      "jabber",
      "jaw",
      "kibitz",
      "kibbitz",
      "natter",
      "palaver",
      "patter",
      "prate",
      "prattle",
      "rap",
      "rattle",
      "run on",
      "schmooze",
      "shmooze",
      "talk",
      "twitter",
      "visit"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Don't tell Mary. She'll blab it all over town.",
      "\u201cHow did she find out about the surprise party?\u201d \u201cTom blabbed .\u201d",
      "He kept blabbing on and on about politics.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Lots of people just blab on about personal things to me, but this is a medical office. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "On cue, the CDC's latest update is being met with the usual tomato-throwing response from the anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-logic members of the blab -o-sphere who have declared the CDC hopelessly lost, unscientific and waffling. \u2014 Kent Sepkowitz, CNN , 2 Aug. 2021",
      "Will the former National Security Advisor and right-wing nightmare answer a subpoena and blab to the house committee on Thursday? \u2014 Lynn Yaeger, Vogue , 3 Nov. 2019",
      "Doing this will: kick your blab habit; conquer your fear of rejection (worst case, you get rejected for being yourself, far better than being loved for faking it); and render your what-to-tell question moot. \u2014 Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman , 19 Mar. 2018",
      "Want to hear a scientist blab about his latest project? \u2014 Steven Strom, Ars Technica , 7 Feb. 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "More to the point, what kind of guy would blab to the world on TV about the level of his losses? \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 Oct. 2021",
      "Just remember to take advice from real experts -- not from someone blabbing on Instagram or Facebook or tweeting junk to us. \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 20 Mar. 2020",
      "The chat can go on for as long as the chattiest participant wants to blab on. \u2014 Nicole Nguyen, WSJ , 25 Mar. 2020",
      "Toby should not have blabbed about being in love with Nadal. \u2014 Han Ong, The New Yorker , 23 Mar. 2020",
      "But that\u2019s not the end of the bad vibes, as Victoria F. is mad that Alayah had been reading online spoilers during her ever-so-brief time off the show, and Alayah has been blabbing about the Chase Rice connection. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 Feb. 2020",
      "His climactic loop in a helicopter after blabbing about it for the first part of the movie is the equivalent of an old drunk at the bar reenacting his game-winning high school touchdown. \u2014 Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica , 10 Jan. 2020",
      "Alexa is all too happy to blab all the details about what\u2019s in those packages to anyone in the house who asks. \u2014 Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com , 10 Dec. 2019",
      "Boisterous lunch customers pack tables, blabbing in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Greek and English. \u2014 Seth Kugel, New York Times , 1 July 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220624-214506"
  },
  "bleach":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to remove color or stains from",
      ": to make whiter or lighter especially by physical or chemical removal of color",
      ": to remove, make dull, or sanitize as if by removing color",
      ": to grow white or lose color",
      ": to expel symbiotic zooxanthellae exposing a white skeleton",
      ": the act or process of bleaching",
      ": a preparation used in bleaching",
      ": the degree of whiteness obtained by bleaching",
      ": to make white by removing the color or stains from",
      ": a chemical used for bleaching"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0113ch",
      "\u02c8bl\u0113ch"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blanch",
      "blench",
      "decolorize",
      "dull",
      "fade",
      "pale",
      "snow",
      "wash out",
      "whiten"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "darken",
      "deepen",
      "embrown"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "bones bleached white by the sun",
      "She bleached her hair blonde.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Benzoyl peroxide products should be used with caution as it is known to be a skin irritant when exposed to the skin for long periods of time and can bleach the hairline and clothes. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
      "All flours will bleach (i.e. lighten) over time with exposure to air. \u2014 Carmen Collins, Country Living , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Spider mites suck the juices from leaf cells, causing leaves to bleach out. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 Feb. 2022",
      "For example, many people will bleach their skin in Jamaica and alter their appearance to look lighter. \u2014 Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
      "Sharp also says to bleach any mildew because paint won't adhere properly to mildewed surfaces. \u2014 Alicia Chilton, Better Homes & Gardens , 17 Dec. 2021",
      "Waxing to its First Quarter phase tonight, our satellite now becomes bright enough to begin to bleach the night sky. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 5 Dec. 2021",
      "So thank you, Rihanna, for giving me my daily urge to bleach my hair with complete abandon. \u2014 Nicola Dall'asen, Allure , 4 Nov. 2021",
      "Waxing to its First Quarter phase on Wednesday, our satellite this week becomes bright enough to begin to bleach the night sky. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 10 Oct. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "That's right: Less than a month after Kardashian stepped onto the 2022 Met Gala red carpet with a new, bleach -blonde look, Davidson has gone blonde, as well. \u2014 Rosemary Donahue, Allure , 30 May 2022",
      "The star of Peacock's upcoming drama series Angelyne, based on the life and times of the bleach -blonde Los Angeles icon of the same name, showed up to a business meeting with NBC executives in full character. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 11 May 2022",
      "While walking the 2022 Met Gala red carpet in a Prada two-piece, the model appeared nearly browless, and this seemed to be the result of bleach . \u2014 Elizabeth Logan, Glamour , 3 May 2022",
      "The Mayo Clinic recommends mixing just half a cup of bleach in a 40-gallon bathtub filled with water, then soaking your hands for 10 minutes. \u2014 Stephanie Watson, SELF , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Disinfect tools between cuts in a 10 percent solution of household bleach . \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "But, her coordinating bleach look didn't last for long. \u2014 Michelle Lee, PEOPLE.com , 13 May 2022",
      "Work in a stain pre-treater or some liquid detergent and launder the sheet using fabric-safe bleach . \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 9 May 2022",
      "On Instagram, Clenney posts as Courtney Tailor, with bleach blonde extensions and a girl-next-door smile. \u2014 Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone , 9 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "1746, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220624-221748"
  },
  "blow":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "noun ()",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb",
      "verb ()"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to be in motion",
      ": to move with speed or force",
      ": to move or run quickly",
      ": to send forth a current of air or other gas",
      ": to make a sound by or as if by blowing",
      ": sound entry 2",
      ": boast",
      ": to talk in an empty or boastful way",
      ": pant , gasp",
      ": to eject moisture-laden air from the lungs through the blowhole",
      ": to move or be carried by or as if by wind",
      ": erupt , explode",
      ": to become damaged or destroyed as a result of an electrical overload",
      ": to release the contained air through a spontaneous rupture",
      ": to be extremely bad in quality or execution : suck , stink",
      ": to set (gas or vapor) in motion",
      ": to act on with a current of gas or vapor",
      ": to play or sound on (a wind instrument)",
      ": to play (something) on a wind instrument",
      ": to spread by report",
      ": damn",
      ": to drive with a current of gas or vapor",
      ": to clear of contents by forcible passage of a current of air",
      ": to project (a gesture or sound made with the mouth) by blowing",
      ": to distend with or as if with gas",
      ": to produce or shape by the action of blown or injected air",
      ": to deposit eggs or larvae on or in",
      ": to shatter, burst, or destroy by explosion",
      ": to put out of breath with exertion",
      ": to let (an animal, such as a horse) pause to catch the breath",
      ": to expend (something, such as money) extravagantly",
      ": to treat with unusual expenditure",
      ": to cause (a fuse) to blow",
      ": to rupture by too much pressure",
      ": botch sense 1",
      ": to fail to keep or hold",
      ": to lose or miss (an opportunity) because of mistakes or poor judgment",
      ": to leave hurriedly",
      ": to propel with great force or speed",
      ": to drive or speed through or past (a traffic signal or stop sign) without stopping",
      ": to become enraged",
      ": vomit sense 1",
      ": to be favorable at one moment and adverse the next",
      ": to release pent-up emotions",
      ": to lose one's composure",
      ": to reveal one's real identity",
      ": to overwhelm one with wonder or bafflement",
      ": to become violently angry",
      ": to go crazy",
      ": to speak idly, misleadingly, or boastfully",
      ": to call public or official attention to something (such as a wrongdoing) kept secret",
      ": an instance of air moving with speed or force : a blowing of wind especially when strong or violent",
      ": brag , boasting",
      ": an act or instance of blowing (see blow entry 1 )",
      ": the time during which air is forced through molten metal to refine it",
      ": the quantity of metal refined during that time",
      ": cocaine",
      ": flower , bloom",
      ": blossoms",
      ": bloom entry 2 sense 1b",
      ": a forcible stroke delivered with a part of the body (such as the fist) or with an instrument",
      ": a hostile act or state : combat",
      ": a forcible or sudden act or effort : assault",
      ": an unfortunate or calamitous happening",
      ": to move or be moved usually with speed and force",
      ": to move in or with the wind",
      ": to send forth a strong stream of air from the mouth or from a bellows",
      ": to make a sound or cause to sound by blowing",
      ": to clear by forcing air through",
      ": to shape by forcing air into",
      ": to enter or leave very quickly",
      ": to fail in performing or keeping",
      ": to pass without effect",
      ": explode sense 1",
      ": to fill with a gas",
      ": a blowing of wind : gale",
      ": a hard hit with a part of the body or an object",
      ": a sudden happening that causes suffering or loss",
      ": to free (the nose) of mucus and debris by forcible exhalation",
      ": to deposit eggs or larvae on or in",
      ": the act of some insects of depositing eggs or larvae",
      ": a larva so deposited (as in a wound)",
      ": forcible ejection of air from the body (as in freeing the nose of mucus and debris)",
      ": cocaine"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014d",
      "\u02c8bl\u014d",
      "\u02c8bl\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "gasp",
      "heave",
      "hyperventilate",
      "pant",
      "puff",
      "wheeze"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blast",
      "flurry",
      "gust",
      "scud",
      "williwaw",
      "windblast"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb (1) and Noun (1)",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb (1)",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a",
      "Noun (1)",
      "1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb (2)",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above",
      "Noun (2)",
      "1710, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun (3)",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220624-231616"
  },
  "blooded":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": having blood of a specified kind",
      ": being entirely or largely purebred"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259-d\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "full-blood",
      "full-blooded",
      "pedigreed",
      "pedigree",
      "pure-blooded",
      "pure-blood",
      "purebred",
      "thoroughbred"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "hybrid",
      "mixed",
      "mongrel"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "the expansive farm on which blooded Arabian horses are raised",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Take Sumner Welles, for instance, a high-ranking official in Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s State Department and a member of that era\u2019s blue- blooded establishment, who had a penchant for propositioning train porters. \u2014 Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic , 8 June 2022",
      "Mayor Adams has no beef with the NYPD\u2019s month-long wait to make an arrest in the cold- blooded slaying of a hard-working Chinese food delivery man that stemmed from a dispute about duck sauce. \u2014 Fox News , 5 June 2022",
      "Wilson said the python likely slipped into the Sonic\u2019s kitchen through an open back door, finding a cozy spot for its cold- blooded body behind the hot fryer. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
      "Fenwick stands 50-1 on the morning line, an afterthought amid the entries of blue- blooded , monied heavyweights like Steve Asmussen, Chad Brown and Doug O\u2019Neill. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 May 2022",
      "Bone offers five different kinds, from real Japanese wagyu to domestic wagyu hybrids in varying degrees of leanness, to full blooded domestic wagyu, USDA Prime, and G1 Certified Angus. \u2014 Larry Olmsted, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
      "Gossip Girl\u2019s Lily van der Woodsen), or just plain cold- blooded . \u2014 Kim Fusaro, Glamour , 16 May 2022",
      "That would explain all the cold- blooded blackouts; Jake has no reservations about shooting Harrow in the face. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 6 May 2022",
      "Using a combination of a cold- blooded offensive attack and a defense that forced six turnovers, the Suns regained the lead early in the third. \u2014 Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic , 4 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1572, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-012119"
  },
  "blabbermouth":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a person who talks too much",
      ": tattletale"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla-b\u0259r-\u02ccmau\u0307th"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "babbler",
      "blabber",
      "blowhard",
      "cackler",
      "chatterbox",
      "chatterer",
      "conversationalist",
      "gabbler",
      "gasbag",
      "jabberer",
      "jay",
      "magpie",
      "motormouth",
      "prattler",
      "talker",
      "windbag"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "told the blabbermouth to put a lid on it"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1936, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-020807"
  },
  "bloodline":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a sequence of direct ancestors especially in a pedigree",
      ": family , strain"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d-\u02ccl\u012bn"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "ancestry",
      "birth",
      "blood",
      "breeding",
      "descent",
      "extraction",
      "family tree",
      "genealogy",
      "line",
      "lineage",
      "origin",
      "parentage",
      "pedigree",
      "stock",
      "strain"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "issue",
      "posterity",
      "progeny",
      "seed"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "came from a bloodline that could be traced back to the 12th century",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Julian using nothing more than the power of music and the talent which flows through his bloodline is about to share a classic musical moment from history with everyone who has $11 to help Ukraine. \u2014 Eric Fuller, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
      "Inevitably, there\u2019s a terrible sense of needless loss, the terror of Nazi persecution exacerbated by our heroine\u2019s realization that mental illness and suicide have run through her family bloodline . \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Roscoe was one of many in the bloodline to die young. \u2014 Isabella Cueto, STAT , 2 May 2022",
      "Rainier needed a wife who could have children because, under a 1918 treaty with Paris, the principality would revert to France if his bloodline died out. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Something about this play feels like it\u2019s the bloodline of my family or something. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
      "The filly whose bloodline includes both Curlin and AP Indy has won both of her starts this year and four out of her five overall. \u2014 Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal , 5 May 2022",
      "The horses are then categorized by a different bloodline , genotype, breed, gender and color coat, resulting in over 90,000 potential combinations. \u2014 J.l. Kirven, USA TODAY , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Certainly Fury, who is of Irish-Gypsy heritage and comes from a bloodline of bare-knuckle champions, is the more skilful of the two boxers. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 23 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1658, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-090834"
  },
  "blue ribbon":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": of outstanding quality",
      ": consisting of individuals selected for quality, reputation, or authority",
      ": an honor or award gained for preeminence",
      ": a blue ribbon awarded as an honor (as to the first-place winner in a competition)",
      ": a decorative ribbon colored blue that is given to the winner in a competition",
      ": consisting of individuals selected for quality, reputation, or authority"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[
      "A-OK",
      "A1",
      "awesome",
      "bang-up",
      "banner",
      "beautiful",
      "blue-chip",
      "boffo",
      "bonny",
      "bonnie",
      "boss",
      "brag",
      "brave",
      "bully",
      "bumper",
      "capital",
      "choice",
      "classic",
      "cool",
      "corking",
      "crackerjack",
      "cracking",
      "dandy",
      "divine",
      "dope",
      "down",
      "dynamite",
      "excellent",
      "fab",
      "fabulous",
      "famous",
      "fantabulous",
      "fantastic",
      "fine",
      "first-class",
      "first-rate",
      "first-string",
      "five-star",
      "four-star",
      "frontline",
      "gangbusters",
      "gangbuster",
      "gilt-edged",
      "gilt-edge",
      "gone",
      "grand",
      "great",
      "groovy",
      "heavenly",
      "high-class",
      "hot",
      "hype",
      "immense",
      "jim-dandy",
      "keen",
      "lovely",
      "marvelous",
      "marvellous",
      "mean",
      "neat",
      "nifty",
      "noble",
      "number one",
      "No. 1",
      "numero uno",
      "out-of-sight",
      "par excellence",
      "peachy",
      "peachy keen",
      "phat",
      "prime",
      "primo",
      "prize",
      "prizewinning",
      "quality",
      "radical",
      "righteous",
      "sensational",
      "slick",
      "splendid",
      "stellar",
      "sterling",
      "superb",
      "superior",
      "superlative",
      "supernal",
      "swell",
      "terrific",
      "tip-top",
      "top",
      "top-notch",
      "top-of-the-line",
      "top-shelf",
      "topflight",
      "topping",
      "unsurpassed",
      "wizard",
      "wonderful"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "accolade",
      "award",
      "decoration",
      "distinction",
      "honor",
      "kudo",
      "plume",
      "premium",
      "prize"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "Our pumpkin won the blue ribbon at the county fair this year.",
      "the Pritzker Prize is widely regarded as the ultimate blue ribbon for architectural achievement",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Leda Levine, president of New Agenda: Northeast, and Pam Gould, superintendent of Sandwich Public Schools and a member of the MIAA\u2019s blue ribbon committee, also spoke. \u2014 Sarah Barber, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
      "And on it there was this little kind of tube with a blue ribbon around it. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "Inspired by one of her most iconic looks, the Queen Elizabeth II Barbie wears an elegant ivory gown and blue ribbon adorned with decorations of order. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung wore the blue ribbon , as well. \u2014 Nadja Sayej, Forbes , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Designer Sage Mountainflower, Ohkay Owingeh/Taos Pueblo/Navajo, had a successful showcase at the Heard after one of her pieces from her Phendi\u2019-Tewa collection won the blue ribbon . \u2014 AZCentral.com , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "Jason Momoa wore a handkerchief with the colors of the Ukrainian flag, and Yoon Yeo-jeong had a blue ribbon pinned to her outfit. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "More celebrities are bound to be wearing this blue ribbon . \u2014 Nadja Sayej, Forbes , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Designer Sage Mountainflower, Ohkay Owingeh/Taos Pueblo/Navajo, had a successful showcase at the Heard after one of her pieces from her Phendi\u2019-Tewa collection won the blue ribbon . \u2014 AZCentral.com , 13 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "1860, in the meaning defined above",
      "Noun",
      "1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-091638"
  },
  "blanch":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to take the color out of",
      ": such as",
      ": to scald or parboil in water or steam in order to remove the skin from, whiten, or stop enzymatic action in (such as food for freezing)",
      ": to bleach by excluding light",
      ": to make ashen or pale",
      ": to become white or pale (as from shock or fear)",
      ": bleach entry 1 , whiten",
      ": to scald so as to remove the skin from",
      ": to turn pale"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blanch",
      "\u02c8blanch"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bleach",
      "blench",
      "decolorize",
      "dull",
      "fade",
      "pale",
      "snow",
      "wash out",
      "whiten"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "darken",
      "deepen",
      "embrown"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Blanch the potatoes before slicing them.",
      "a cup of blanched almonds",
      "She blanched and remained silent when the store owner accused her of taking the money.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Make the fresh dill vinaigrette: Bring the water back to a boil and blanch the fresh dill in the water to set the bright, green color, about 10 seconds. \u2014 Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 June 2022",
      "These preparations blanch the normally deep burgundy tissue to pale fleshy color that\u2019s not quite tan and not quite pink. \u2014 Brenda Goodman, CNN , 13 May 2022",
      "Here's how: Wash the ramps, then blanch them in boiling water for 30 seconds and place them in an ice bath to stop the cooking. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Just blanch the skin, boil it in sugar water and dry it in a bed of sugar. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "But some advertisers and agencies may blanch at the idea of the network that makes money off the sale of advertising acting as the verification of the measurement system behind it. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "The Hornets may blanch at having to also throw in a first-round pick after giving up a couple young players, but that\u2019s what the Rockets will demand. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "The easiest way to do that is to trim the root ends and blanch the onions in boiling water for 1 minute. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 15 Dec. 2021",
      "Note: To blanch whole almonds, bring a small saucepan of water to a boil. \u2014 Kelly Brant, Arkansas Online , 22 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English blaunchen , from Anglo-French blanchir , from blanc , adjective, white \u2014 more at blank ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-115858"
  },
  "blabber":{
    "type":[
      "noun ()",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to talk foolishly or excessively",
      ": to say indiscreetly",
      ": idle talk : babble",
      ": a person who blabs"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla-b\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "babbler",
      "blabbermouth",
      "blowhard",
      "cackler",
      "chatterbox",
      "chatterer",
      "conversationalist",
      "gabbler",
      "gasbag",
      "jabberer",
      "jay",
      "magpie",
      "motormouth",
      "prattler",
      "talker",
      "windbag"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense",
      "Noun (1)",
      "circa 1913, in the meaning defined above",
      "Noun (2)",
      "1557, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-122116"
  },
  "blast off":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a blasting off (as of a rocket)",
      ": take off sense 1b",
      ": an instance of taking off (as of a rocket)"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blast-\u02cc\u022ff",
      "\u02c8blast-\u02cc\u022ff"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "launch",
      "liftoff",
      "takeoff"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "landing"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the mission was scrubbed just minutes before blastoff",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "What if the rocket could be tossed several meters above the surface, allowing more clearance for blastoff ? \u2014 Jonathan O'callaghan, Scientific American , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Walter Cronkite helms the program, and news clips depict excited crowds, waving astronauts and a blastoff countdown. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "Billions over budget and years behind schedule, the James Webb Space Telescope is targeted for blastoff from the European Space Agency's Kourou, French Guiana, launch site at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday atop an Ariane 5 rocket, weather permitting. \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 24 Dec. 2021",
      "The communications problem, which technicians were still troubleshooting as of this morning, has pushed Webb\u2019s blastoff back a couple of days, to December 24. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 15 Dec. 2021",
      "Live footage showed the 154-foot rocket soaring into the air with bright yellow flames shooting out of its engines after blastoff at Naro Space Center, the country's lone spaceport, on a small island off its southern coast. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "His image caught the fiery blastoff , with spectators silhouetted in the glow of creation. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Aug. 2021",
      "Shatner will join Chris Boshuizen, founder of Earth-observation company Planet Labs; microbiologist Glen de Vries; and Blue Origin's Audrey Powers for blastoff on a 10-minute up-and-down flight out of the discernible atmosphere to the edge of space. \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "His image caught the fiery blastoff , with spectators silhouetted in the glow of creation. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1934, in the meaning defined above",
      "Verb",
      "1934, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-133512"
  },
  "blueness":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": of the color whose hue is that of the clear sky : of the color blue (see blue entry 2 sense 1 )",
      ": bluish",
      ": discolored by or as if by bruising",
      ": bluish gray",
      ": low in spirits : melancholy",
      ": marked by low spirits : depressing",
      ": wearing blue",
      ": learned , intellectual",
      ": puritanical",
      ": profane , indecent",
      ": off-color , risqu\u00e9",
      ": of, relating to, or used in blues (see blues sense 3 )",
      ": tending to support Democratic candidates or policies",
      "\u2014 compare purple sense 3 , red sense 5",
      ": extremely exasperated",
      ": a color whose hue is that of the clear sky or that of the portion of the color spectrum lying between green and violet",
      ": a pigment or dye that colors blue",
      ": bluing",
      ": blue clothing or cloth",
      ": a blue costume or uniform",
      ": a Union soldier in the American Civil War",
      ": the Union army",
      ": sky",
      ": the far distance",
      ": sea",
      ": a blue object",
      ": bluestocking",
      ": any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies (family Lycaenidae)",
      ": bluefish",
      ": blue cheese",
      ": one of the three colors (see color entry 1 sense 15 ) that quarks have in the theory of quantum chromodynamics",
      ": without advance notice : unexpectedly",
      ": to make (something) blue in color: such as",
      ": to dye, tint, or paint (something) blue",
      ": to heat (iron or steel) to about 550 to 600 degrees Fahrenheit so that it acquires a protective bluish coating",
      ": to turn blue",
      ": to curse angrily",
      ": the color of the clear daytime sky",
      ": blue clothing or cloth",
      ": sky sense 1",
      ": sea sense 1",
      ": suddenly and unexpectedly",
      ": of the color of the sky : of the color blue",
      ": sad sense 1",
      ": of the color blue",
      ": a color whose hue is that of the clear sky or that of the portion of the color spectrum lying between green and violet",
      ": a pigment or dye that colors blue \u2014 see prussian blue"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc",
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc",
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bawdy",
      "coarse",
      "crude",
      "dirty",
      "filthy",
      "foul",
      "gross",
      "gutter",
      "impure",
      "indecent",
      "lascivious",
      "lewd",
      "locker-room",
      "nasty",
      "obscene",
      "pornographic",
      "porny",
      "profane",
      "raunchy",
      "ribald",
      "smutty",
      "stag",
      "trashy",
      "unprintable",
      "vulgar",
      "wanton",
      "X-rated"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "firmament",
      "heaven(s)",
      "high",
      "sky",
      "welkin"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "shocked at the blue banter she heard on that satellite-radio talk show",
      "a cold, dreary day always leaves me blue",
      "Noun",
      "Her favorite color is blue .",
      "a mixture of blues and greens",
      "They sailed off into the blue .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The Norse Atlantic plane scheduled to leave Fort Lauderdale on Monday arrived in South Florida over the weekend and could be seen parked with its white and blue livery Sunday evening in the northwest corner of the airport. \u2014 David Lyons, Sun Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
      "On Wednesday and Thursday, at least 14 social media users criticized Newport News officials for their post claiming that red, white and blue represent both July 4th and Juneteenth. \u2014 Saleen Martin, USA TODAY , 18 June 2022",
      "But the traditional Juneteenth flag, designed by National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation Founder Ben Haith in 1997, is red, white and blue to replicate the flags for the United States and the Lone Star State. \u2014 Samantha Chery, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2022",
      "The red, white and blue represents the American flag, a reminder that slaves and their descendants were and are Americans. \u2014 Will Mullery, CNN , 17 June 2022",
      "The Savannah River Queen and the Georgia Queen, the two giant red-white-and- blue paddle-wheel riverboats that are a fixture on the historic Savannah riverfront, are a great way to see Georgia\u2019s famous old port city. \u2014 Avery Newmark, AccessAtlanta , 17 June 2022",
      "The flag\u2019s red, white and blue colors signify that both the previously enslaved and their descendants are unquestionably American. \u2014 Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 June 2022",
      "They are also encouraged to wear red, white and blue . \u2014 Lexi Whitehead, The Enquirer , 16 June 2022",
      "Among the relatives who packed the memorial auditorium wearing red, white and blue ribbons was Adams\u2019s son, Stanley Earley, who seemed a bit taken aback by the attention. \u2014 Peter Marks, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "This year, the anomaly that is Sonic, with its very high PCMag Speed Index, sends all the dark blue into California. \u2014 Eric Griffith, PCMAG , 17 June 2022",
      "However, there was an Atlantic hurricane that survived the trip over Central America and entered the Pacific blue . \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 31 May 2022",
      "Georgia's gubernatorial primaries will also highlight Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams' efforts to mobilize voters and turn the Peach state blue . \u2014 David Jackson, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
      "The first photo in Krok's Instagram carousel spotlights the big toes, adorned with one eye each: one with a hazel iris, and the other light blue . \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 20 May 2022",
      "Suburban women and moderate voters helped Wexton flip the seat blue in 2018. \u2014 Meagan Flynn, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
      "The rest of the stands were dominated by the blue of Rangers. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
      "Go for a Mayan massage in the Muluk Spa, after which therapists draw back the curtains to reveal the candy-floss blue of the Caribbean. \u2014 Lauren Mowery, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
      "The images are split in half by color \u2014 with blue on the top and red on the bottom. \u2014 Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Republicans in Virginia\u2019s 10th, 7th and 2nd districts \u2014 all seats targeted by the national GOP \u2014 are seeking to unseat the three Democratic congresswomen who flipped their districts to blue in 2018 with major help from suburban voters. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "The home uniforms, which FAU wore versus the 49ers, have blue as the dominant color once again. \u2014 Khobi Price, sun-sentinel.com , 3 Oct. 2020",
      "To ensure that John Cornyn, Chip Roy and the rest of the Texas Republicans stop putting us in danger, voter blue up and down the ballot in November. \u2014 Taylor Goldenstein, ExpressNews.com , 26 Aug. 2020",
      "There are signs that Texas, due to changing demographics, may be the next Electoral College giant to turn from red, if not to blue , then at least to purple. \u2014 John A. Farrell, The New Republic , 16 Apr. 2020",
      "So why won't blue shampoo cut it for keeping cool brunettes cool? \u2014 Taylore Glynn, Marie Claire , 23 Jan. 2020",
      "Ruscillo has studied the production of the ancient purple dye, including experimenting with it to make colors from pink to blue to almost black, though she isn't involved in the excavations on Chrysi. \u2014 Fox News , 12 Dec. 2019",
      "The pair were all smiles for the appearance at St. James\u2019s Palace, where Kate blue a royal blue Issa dress that matched her sapphire engagement ring, which once belonged to William\u2019s mother Princess Diana. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 25 July 2019",
      "Give classic orange and blue a dose of edge with abstract prints and a hit of dark \u00e0 la Samantha Angelo. \u2014 Laurel Benedum, ELLE Decor , 4 June 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective, Noun, and Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "1606, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-191903"
  },
  "blankness":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": colorless",
      ": appearing or causing to appear dazed, confounded, or nonplussed",
      ": expressionless",
      ": devoid of covering or content",
      ": such as",
      ": free from writing or marks",
      ": without any recorded sound or information",
      ": having spaces to be filled in",
      "\u2014 see also blank check",
      ": lacking interest, variety, or change",
      ": absolute , unqualified",
      ": unfinished",
      ": having a plain or unbroken surface where an opening is usual",
      ": the bull's-eye of a target",
      ": an empty space (as on a paper)",
      ": a paper with spaces for the entry of data",
      ": a piece of material prepared to be made into something (such as a key) by a further operation",
      ": a cartridge loaded with propellant and a seal but no projectile",
      ": an empty or featureless place or space",
      ": a vacant or uneventful period",
      ": a dash substituting for an omitted word",
      ": obscure , obliterate",
      ": to stop access to : seal",
      ": to keep (an opponent) from scoring",
      ": to treat (a friend or acquaintance) in a hostile or unfriendly way : to ignore or refuse to talk to (someone)",
      ": fade",
      ": to become confused or abstracted",
      ": not having any writing or marks",
      ": having empty spaces to be filled in",
      ": not showing emotion or understanding",
      ": an empty space in a line of writing or printing",
      ": a paper with empty spaces to be filled in",
      ": a cartridge loaded with powder but no bullet",
      ": events or a time that cannot be remembered"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla\u014bk",
      "\u02c8bla\u014bk"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "catatonic",
      "deadpan",
      "empty",
      "expressionless",
      "impassive",
      "inexpressive",
      "numb",
      "stolid",
      "vacant"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "document",
      "form",
      "paper"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "a blank sheet of paper",
      "a book with blank pages",
      "Noun",
      "The form has a blank for your signature.",
      "The actors are shooting blanks .",
      "Verb",
      "The goalie blanked the Falcons for two periods in the hockey game.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The market for investments in blank -check mergers is particularly challenged with regulators now paying much closer attention to companies\u2019 lofty promises, many of which proved unrealistic. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
      "Cortese\u2019s bill would have banned the use of guns and blank ammunition containing gunpowder or other explosive charges from film sets, with some exceptions. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 23 May 2022",
      "As long as big banks stay on the SPAC sideline, though, the blank -check market will never be the same. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 11 May 2022",
      "The company provides the prop house and its clients with blank ammunition, which generate a flash and sound when fired but don\u2019t contain lead bullets. \u2014 Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "Even blank ammunition can be deadly if fired at close range. \u2014 Aya Elamroussi, Chloe Melas And Claudia Dominguez, CNN , 23 Oct. 2021",
      "The entertainment industry uses toy guns as well as fully functional guns that are loaded with blank ammunition, which are cartridge cases with no bullets, and are instead filled with wads of paper, wax, or cotton. \u2014 Anna Kaplan, Forbes , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "At that point, Longman came in and shot Breinholt in the head at near point- blank range. \u2014 Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 May 2022",
      "Johnston's father, David, and a colleague were shot at point- blank range in the back of the head late one morning in 1997, a year before the Good Friday Agreement that largely brought an end to the sectarian violence. \u2014 Kitty Donaldson, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Segel earns some empathy as a hangdog Everyman, though his backstory remains such a deliberate blank that any insight is mostly gleaned from his blundering missteps and low-simmering misery. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "But the bill stops short of banning all functional guns \u2014 including blank -firing weapons \u2014 from film and TV sets. \u2014 Gene Maddaus, Variety , 12 Jan. 2022",
      "So, draw your own conclusion by filling in the blank in the following sentence with a) or b). \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Dec. 2021",
      "Fill in the blank : Koufax, Gibson, Maddux, Valenzula, Scherzer, Buehler etc. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 4 Nov. 2021",
      "But the Jets couldn\u2019t keep up with the Colts, who scored touchdowns on six of their first seven possessions \u2013 and on the one blank were stopped on downs at the New York 1-yard line. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 4 Nov. 2021",
      "Fill in the blank with service, customer service rep, salesperson, product, etc. \u2014 Shep Hyken, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
      "That caused the blank to propel the dummy round out of the barrel, striking Lee. \u2014 Justin Curto, Vulture , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "Although the blank did not penetrate his skin, the impact fractured his skull and caused hemorrhaging in his brain. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Blanchard managed to force two pop outs and a strikeout to blank Fairfield-Ludlowe with the night\u2019s drama at its peak. \u2014 Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant , 7 June 2022",
      "Jack Brown and Joey Wilmoth helped the Tigers blank the Shamrocks the following day. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "But a strikeout of Hays with an 88-mph changeup to end the inning seemed to catapult Syndergaard into the rest of his night, the 6-foot-6, 230-pounder needing only 63 pitches to blank the Orioles on two hits over the next 4 2/3 innings. \u2014 Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
      "The North Eastern girls varsity high school ice hockey team traveled to Piney Orchard Ice Rink last Friday to face and blank Howard County, 6-0. \u2014 Randy Mcroberts, baltimoresun.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
      "Instead, the floors of the apartment were concrete, the walls blank plaster. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Oct. 2021",
      "Wily Peralta and Kyle Funkhouser combined to blank Houston on two hits through the fifth. \u2014 Dave Hogg, Chron , 27 June 2021",
      "Wily Peralta and Kyle Funkhouser combined to blank Houston on two hits through the fifth. \u2014 Dave Hogg, Chron , 27 June 2021",
      "Wily Peralta and Kyle Funkhouser combined to blank Houston on two hits through the fifth. \u2014 Dave Hogg, Chron , 27 June 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "circa 1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "1764, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-192637"
  },
  "bloodstained":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": stained with blood",
      ": involved with slaughter",
      ": stained with blood"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d-\u02ccst\u0101nd",
      "-\u02ccst\u0101nd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bloody",
      "gory"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "had to throw away the bloodstained washcloth after a particularly bad nosebleed",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The bloodstained bedding was still there when a Wall Street Journal reporter visited last month. \u2014 Isabel Coles, WSJ , 15 May 2022",
      "After a mother is murdered at her house, police focus on their best clues: a bloodstained hammer and a dusty footprint. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Apr. 2022",
      "Othram\u2019s pitch is simple: Government labs lack the expensive equipment needed to process DNA evidence \u2014 cigarette butts, bloodstained fabric, bone \u2014 which may be decades old, degraded or mixed with nonhuman materials. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "The deal has others flaws, such as letting the ayatollahs get their bloodstained hands on nearly $100 billion in foreign currencies. \u2014 Steve Forbes, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Is God Is, a murderous modern myth about vengeful twin sisters on a bloodstained mission to kill their father. \u2014 Sagal Mohammed, Harper's BAZAAR , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "For the next two weeks, their safety, security, and privacy will be in the bloodstained hands of the CCP. \u2014 Tom Cotton, National Review , 5 Feb. 2022",
      "In the imagery of Bloody Sunday, the 17-year-old seems limp, and Daly waves a bloodstained handkerchief as an impromptu flag of truce. \u2014 Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com , 29 Jan. 2022",
      "In the imagery of Bloody Sunday, the 17-year-old seems limp, and Father Daly waves a bloodstained handkerchief as an impromptu flag of truce. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-193943"
  },
  "blush":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": outward appearance : view",
      ": a reddening of the face especially from shame, modesty, or confusion",
      ": a red or rosy tint",
      ": a cosmetic applied to the face to give a usually pink color or to accent the cheekbones",
      ": to become red in the face especially from shame, modesty, or confusion",
      ": to feel shame or embarrassment",
      ": to have a rosy or fresh color : bloom",
      ": to become red in the face from shame, confusion, or embarrassment",
      ": to feel ashamed or embarrassed",
      ": a reddening of the face from shame, confusion, or embarrassment",
      ": a rosy color",
      ": to become red in the face especially from shame, modesty, or confusion"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259sh",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259sh",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259sh"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bloom",
      "color",
      "flush"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bloom",
      "color",
      "crimson",
      "flush",
      "glow",
      "redden"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The comment brought a blush to her cheeks.",
      "The fruit is yellow, with a blush of pink.",
      "She put on a little lipstick and blush .",
      "Verb",
      "He blushed at the compliment.",
      "I blush to admit it, but you've caught me in an error.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Honestly, Jamie is the spiciest option at first blush . \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 13 June 2022",
      "At first blush , the new GLC doesn\u2019t look all that different from its predecessor\u2014the changes are subtle. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 1 June 2022",
      "In this case, what looks idyllic at first blush soon turns nightmarish. \u2014 Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
      "Though the decision to include pixelated drawings of naked humans in the mix may seem odd at first blush , researchers have good reason to include them, reasoning that aliens would, naturally, want to know what humans look like. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 May 2022",
      "The base seems a little bulky at first blush , but this is by design. \u2014 Theresa Holland, PEOPLE.com , 16 May 2022",
      "At first blush , books might not seem very apt at keeping up with the many challenges of our moment. \u2014 Jane Yong Kim, The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
      "At first blush , though, the fit feels roomier and lighter on the head, despite only weighing 4 grams less than the XM4 (at 250 g, compared to 254 g before). \u2014 Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica , 12 May 2022",
      "At first blush , the Lightning\u2019s specs certainly check out. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "But even Saul Goodman may blush at some of the real class-action suits these days. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
      "Along Main Street on a spring day \u2014 the surrounding mountains just beginning to blush with green and sprayed with purple redbud blossoms \u2014 there is only a lonely suggestion of the place Pound once was. \u2014 Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post , 23 May 2022",
      "This home office sports a warm glow thanks to blush pink walls. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Even fraudsters holding billions in crypto won\u2019t blush at the chance to abscond with a little more fiat. \u2014 Ben Mckenzie, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "The modern take on regency beauty features a new MTHRSHP eye palette, glow and blush trio and highlighters, all made to flatter every skin tone. \u2014 Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE.com , 10 Dec. 2021",
      "Convention has fled to her innermost shrine there to blush unseen and waste her orisons on a futile prayer. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "Infused with beautifully hydrating cupuacu, sunflower and jojoba oils, this weightless formula delivers a luscious, full-lip look in 5 shades that range from nude to blush to berry in a natural vanilla scent. \u2014 Joseph Deacetis, Forbes , 2 Nov. 2021",
      "Her early designs offered romantic, modern silhouettes that were close-cut to the body and embellished with unexpected details, from colorful sashes to blush veils. \u2014 CNN , 29 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-194527"
  },
  "blue-sky":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": marked by a blue cloudless sky : clear",
      ": characterized by unconstrained optimism or imagination : visionary",
      ": overly optimistic about the future : unrealistic",
      ": having little or no value",
      ": of or relating to blue-sky laws",
      ": to offer ideas that are conceived by unrestrained imagination or optimism",
      ": a time or situation marked by easy progress or success",
      ": overly optimistic and unrealistic thinking about the future",
      ": having little or no value",
      ": of or relating to blue-sky laws"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc-\u02c8sk\u012b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "1852, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "1957, in the meaning defined above",
      "Noun",
      "1862, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-203001"
  },
  "blend":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": mix",
      ": to combine or associate so that the separate constituents or the line of demarcation cannot be distinguished",
      ": to prepare by thoroughly intermingling different varieties or grades",
      ": to mingle intimately or unobtrusively",
      ": to combine into an integrated whole",
      ": to produce a harmonious effect",
      ": something produced by blending : such as",
      ": a product prepared by blending",
      ": a word (such as brunch ) produced by combining other words or parts of words",
      ": a group of two or more consecutive consonants that begin a syllable",
      ": to mix so completely that the separate things mixed cannot be told apart",
      ": to exist agreeably with each other",
      ": to look like part of something",
      ": a thorough mixture : a product made by blending",
      ": a word formed by combining parts of two or more other words so that they overlap"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blend",
      "\u02c8blend"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "amalgamate",
      "combine",
      "comingle",
      "commingle",
      "commix",
      "composite",
      "concrete",
      "conflate",
      "fuse",
      "homogenize",
      "immingle",
      "immix",
      "incorporate",
      "integrate",
      "interfuse",
      "intermingle",
      "intermix",
      "meld",
      "merge",
      "mingle",
      "mix"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "admixture",
      "alloy",
      "amalgam",
      "amalgamation",
      "cocktail",
      "combination",
      "composite",
      "compound",
      "conflation",
      "emulsion",
      "fusion",
      "intermixture",
      "meld",
      "mix",
      "mixture",
      "synthesis"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The music blends traditional and modern melodies.",
      "She blends psychology and crime in her new novel.",
      "Noun",
      "a blend of cream and eggs",
      "a blend of traditional and modern melodies",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "If necessary, use your fingers to blend in the butter. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
      "Suspects often use luxury cars to easily blend into their target communities, police said. \u2014 Betty Yu, CBS News , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "As a result, district officials said, they were forced to use drinking water to blend with the recycled water. \u2014 Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "Place the cream cheese, sour cream, garlic, scallions, cayenne, parsley, Worcestershire, lemon juice, and salt and pepper in a bowl and use a fork, spoon or electric mixer to blend well. \u2014 Katie Workman, sun-sentinel.com , 1 Feb. 2022",
      "Here\u2019s how to make a delicious cinnamon butter spread: Use an electric mixer to blend \u00bd -pound of butter or margarine, 3 tablespoons of cinnamon and a \u00bd -pound of confectioners\u2019 sugar. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Dec. 2021",
      "The lightbulb moment to use a face roller to blend her foundation ultimately came to her while sitting in front of her vanity. \u2014 Sara Miranda, Allure , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "The firm is now attempting to scale the technology, potentially setting up the conditions to create the synthetic carbon-neutral fuel in quantities the Air Force can use to blend (up to 50%) with current jet fuel. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Forbes , 29 Oct. 2021",
      "Use both windshield wiper and circular motions to blend into the light brown shadow. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 24 May 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Together, the pair\u2019s voices blend perfectly, painting a heartbreaking portrait of infidelity and love lost, all over the smooth, echoing strains of a plaintive guitar and some poignant vocal harmonies. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 10 June 2022",
      "Free Real Coconut 48 HR Deodorant is a breezy blend of tropical notes, such as coconut, vanilla and jasmine, that mask intense odor and hydrate your skin. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
      "The light blue-grey cushions blend right in with the waves and sea mist beyond. \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 10 June 2022",
      "Hall's signature blend of lush romanticism, explorations of family trauma, and banter worthy of a Wimbledon match are firing on all cylinders here. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
      "Made with a stretchy, synthetic polyester-nylon blend , these socks have added cushioning on the ball of the foot and heel. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
      "The heart of the fragrance is a blend of four flowers: rose and peony, wild Jasmine for body, and lily of the valley. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 6 June 2022",
      "Cana\u2019s Bordeaux blend , at just 14.2% alcohol, with 43% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, 14% Malbec, 14% Petit Verdot and 7% Cabernet Franc, has plenty of complexity after spending 16 months in French oak. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
      "Animal: Pipper, 7-month-old, 25 pound Lab-Shepherd blend . \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "1883, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-203329"
  },
  "bloodsucker":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": an animal that sucks blood",
      ": leech",
      ": a person who sponges or preys on another",
      ": an animal (as a leech) that sucks blood",
      ": an animal that sucks blood",
      ": leech"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d-\u02ccs\u0259-k\u0259r",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d-\u02ccs\u0259-k\u0259r",
      "-\u02ccs\u0259k-\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "free rider",
      "freeloader",
      "hanger-on",
      "leech",
      "moocher",
      "parasite",
      "sponge",
      "sponger"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Our landlord, the bloodsucker , just raised our rent again.",
      "the union accused the company executives of being bloodsuckers , since they had given themselves raises at a time when the rank and file were forced to take cuts in their benefits",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "As Claudia, an orphan turned bloodsucker with an ever-youthful appearance, Dunst has to inject years of wisdom into her tiny physique. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
      "Those methods have failed to make a tick detach and could also cause the tiny bloodsucker to regurgitate into the bite, causing other issues. \u2014 Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2021",
      "Still, at least one citizen scientist sees the chupacabra as both a cultural phenomenon and a modern spin on the world\u2019s most storied bloodsucker . \u2014 Ren\u00e9 A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News , 24 Feb. 2021",
      "The team behind the reboot of Sherlock that turned Benedict Cumberbatch into a star \u2013 Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat \u2013 collaborate again on this modern take on the Bram Stoker classic, starring Claes Bang as the legendary bloodsucker . \u2014 Brian Tallerico, Vulture , 1 Feb. 2021",
      "Klaus Kinski plays Count Dracula, Isabelle Adjani is Lucy Harker, and Bruno Ganz is Jonathan Harker in this unforgettable mood piece, a movie that\u2019s so unsettling that one wonders if Kinski might actually be a bloodsucker . \u2014 Brian Tallerico, Vulture , 23 Jan. 2021",
      "Eddie Murphy plays the titular bloodsucker in this comedic vamp around \u201990s Brooklyn. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Oct. 2020",
      "The real estate company behind all these shuttered businesses and bougie new development plans isn\u2019t just a figurative bloodsucker . \u2014 Emma Grey Ellis, Wired , 2 Oct. 2020",
      "Disabling IR21a, however, isn\u2019t enough to completely flummox a hungry bloodsucker . \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-204450"
  },
  "blurry":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": lacking definition or focus",
      ": not in sharp focus"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259r-\u0113",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259r-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blear",
      "bleary",
      "dim",
      "faint",
      "foggy",
      "fuzzy",
      "gauzy",
      "hazy",
      "indefinite",
      "indistinct",
      "indistinguishable",
      "misty",
      "murky",
      "nebulous",
      "obscure",
      "opaque",
      "pale",
      "shadowy",
      "unclear",
      "undefined",
      "undetermined",
      "vague"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "clear",
      "definite",
      "pellucid"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "a blurry image in the foreground of the photograph",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There is kind of a blurry delineation, though, as to how advanced a player needs to be in order to swing an authoritative hammer. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 June 2022",
      "In the video, Rick could just make out the dim outlines of a small room with a blurry object sitting in the center of the floor. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 13 June 2022",
      "Elizabeth are portrayed with an eye toward the blurry lines between their bond as siblings and their unavoidable rivalry as royals. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 June 2022",
      "Their promise was good in theory, but in practice the footage rarely, if ever, was useful: video was often shaky, blurry , and, until the last couple iterations, relatively low-resolution for pro videographers. \u2014 Andy Cochrane, Outside Online , 17 Oct. 2021",
      "And in some cases, that blurry line between fan and investor can even appear more cynical. \u2014 Rebecca Ackermann, The Week , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "The Paper has confirmed the footage\u2014shared on social media\u2014was captured by the mine\u2019s CCTV cameras, but the image is too blurry to verify that the object in the shot is flight MU5735. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Official, campaign and personal accounts have different rules and the line between free speech and harassment can also be pretty blurry . \u2014 Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Creator Simone Finch is trying to walk a very blurry straight line with Single Dark Female. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 20 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1757, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-205209"
  },
  "blow up":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a blowing up: such as",
      ": explosion",
      ": an outburst of temper",
      ": enlargement sense 2",
      ": a catastrophic financial failure or collapse",
      ": inflatable",
      ": to build up or tout to an unreasonable extent",
      ": to rend apart, shatter, or destroy by explosion",
      ": to fill up with a gas (such as air)",
      ": to make a photographic enlargement of",
      ": to bring into existence by blowing of wind",
      ": explode",
      ": to be disrupted or destroyed (as by explosion)",
      ": to lose self-control",
      ": to become violently angry",
      ": to become or come into being by or as if by blowing of wind",
      ": to become filled with a gas",
      ": to become expanded to unreasonable proportions",
      ": to gain a large amount of weight",
      ": to suddenly become very successful, prevalent, or popular"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014d-\u02cc\u0259p",
      "\u02c8bl\u014d-\u02cc\u0259p"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "explosion",
      "fireworks",
      "fit",
      "hissy",
      "hissy fit",
      "huff",
      "scene",
      "tantrum"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "flare (up)",
      "flip (out)"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The blowup of the photograph was easy to frame.",
      "The two of them had a big blowup about something trivial.",
      "The coach's latest blowup occurred when one of his players arrived late.",
      "Verb",
      "she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day",
      "the building blew up because of a gas leak",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband\u2019s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person\u2019s sense of identity. \u2014 Time , 1 June 2022",
      "Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband\u2019s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person\u2019s sense of identity. \u2014 Lynn Elber, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
      "On April 26, three days after the blowup , Lin announced his departure on the Fast social media channels. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 May 2022",
      "But unlike the events leading to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008, the financial community is divided on whether a crypto blowup could lead to systemic risk for financial markets. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 12 May 2022",
      "People reported that Jeff addressed his longtime collaborator\u2019s blowup at the Oscars at Dorian\u2019s Through The Record Shop in Chicago, during the Closed Sessions Legend Conversation: DJ Jazzy Jeff last Thursday. \u2014 Jude Zhu, Billboard , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "To fully prove blowup , mathematicians need to show that, given the approximate singularity, a true one exists nearby. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Spoelstra suggested Wednesday's blowup could help the Heat in the long run. \u2014 Jace Evans, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "With its international reserves now totalling more than a third of its G.D.P., Putin\u2019s Russia is far less vulnerable to the kind of financial blowup that Boris Yeltsin\u2019s Russia experienced in 1998. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Did expenses unexpectedly blow up because of an unplanned event? \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
      "With the mask, users can blow up balloons, hold their breath to steady a toy gun, and do several other things. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 1 June 2022",
      "These floaties are easy to blow up , too, thanks to the single-nozzle design. \u2014 Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure , 1 June 2022",
      "But, of course, all of these options and plans could ultimately blow up in the Blazers\u2019 faces, as did the lottery. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 May 2022",
      "Simply blow up the pad, attach it to a hose, and adjust the water pressure depending on how high your kids want the sprinkler to go. \u2014 Kylee Mcguigan, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2022",
      "Constrained by long-term contracts for core, veteran players, general manager Brian MacLellan can\u2019t blow up the roster with wholesale changes. \u2014 Wire Reports, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
      "The comments soon started to blow up at the sight of Ackles' stacked physique, due as much to his famous friends as to his thirsty fans. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Of the Big Three (Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Le Orme, Premiata Forneria Marconi), the latter were the obvious pick to blow up internationally, steadying even their most complex tunes with grabbable melodies and riffs. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 22 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1757, in the meaning defined above",
      "Adjective",
      "1850, in the meaning defined above",
      "Verb",
      "1536, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-212543"
  },
  "blackout":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a turning off of the stage lighting to separate scenes in a play or end a play or skit",
      ": a skit that ends with a blackout",
      ": a period of darkness enforced as a precaution against air raids",
      ": a period of darkness (as in a city) caused by a failure of electrical power",
      ": a transient dulling or loss of vision, consciousness, or memory",
      ": a wiping out : obliteration",
      ": a blotting out by censorship : suppression",
      ": a usually temporary loss of a radio signal",
      ": the prohibition or restriction of the telecasting of a sports event",
      ": a time during which a special commercial offer (as of tickets) is not valid",
      ": blot out , erase",
      ": to suppress by censorship",
      ": to envelop in darkness",
      ": to make inoperative (as by a power failure)",
      ": to impose a blackout on",
      ": to become enveloped in darkness",
      ": to undergo a temporary loss of vision, consciousness, or memory",
      ": a period of darkness enforced as a protection against enemy attack by airplanes during a war",
      ": a period of darkness caused by power failure",
      ": a temporary loss of vision or consciousness",
      ": a transient dulling or loss of vision, consciousness, or memory",
      "\u2014 compare grayout , redout",
      ": to undergo a temporary loss of vision, consciousness, or memory (as from temporary impairment of cerebral circulation, retinal anoxia, a traumatic emotional blow, or an alcoholic binge) \u2014 compare gray out , red out",
      ": to cause to black out"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blak-\u02ccau\u0307t",
      "\u02c8blak-\u02ccau\u0307t",
      "\u02c8blak-\u02ccau\u0307t",
      "(\u02c8)blak-\u02c8au\u0307t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "faint",
      "insensibility",
      "knockout",
      "swim",
      "swoon",
      "syncope"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "abolish",
      "annihilate",
      "blot out",
      "cancel",
      "clean (up)",
      "efface",
      "eradicate",
      "erase",
      "expunge",
      "exterminate",
      "extirpate",
      "liquidate",
      "obliterate",
      "root (out)",
      "rub out",
      "snuff (out)",
      "stamp (out)",
      "sweep (away)",
      "wipe out"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the blackouts of World War II",
      "She keeps flashlights and candles handy in case of a blackout .",
      "He told his doctor he had been experiencing blackouts .",
      "Verb",
      "had spent most of her adulthood trying to black out memories of a wretched childhood",
      "with the delivery of the knockout punch, the screen blacks out , and in the next scene the boxer wakes up in the hospital",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "With backup batteries, the systems can operate even in a blackout , keeping businesses open and turning the organization\u2019s headquarters into a refuge for people who use medical devices that need to be powered. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
      "If those were not able to be operated and the site was in a total blackout , mobile fire trucks could be used to inject water into the core \u2014 something that was tried at Fukushima, Lyman said. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Major Ukrainian internet service provider Triolan had been temporarily knocked out, in a blackout that mostly affected the northeastern Kharkiv region\u2014a target of the Russian invasion. \u2014 Gian M. Volpicelli, Wired , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "And as Robb Report previously noted, the truck\u2019s battery will be able to charge other electric vehicles and even power a house for up to three days during a blackout . \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 3 May 2022",
      "During the blackout , each additional megawatt-hour of production should have been worth $87,000, according to that math. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "During the 2021 blackout , Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tried to sneak down to Cancun to escape the cold, only to get caught and slink back home with his tail between his legs. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 5 Jan. 2022",
      "In 2011, during the county-wide blackout that left 1.4 million residents without power, the community flocked to the bar. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 30 Nov. 2021",
      "Shocked because Cuoco\u2019s performance as Cassie Bowden, an alcoholic party girl who may have killed a guy during a blackout , is amazing. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Aug. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "They were supposed to be a game-changer that could be used to black out GPS, disrupt communications, and take over drones or deliberately crash them into the ground. \u2014 Yulia Latynina, WSJ , 1 May 2022",
      "Fans in the comments section have already begun trying their hand at the word game and shared their results \u2014 making sure to black out the answer \u2014 many of whom got the inaugural Weezle right on the first try. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "There may be revisionist histories; and the darkness yet to come may black out the brightness visible now. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "The use of quick black in, then black out stop-action moments to show Penny and Fuzzy becoming friends feels forced, however, even if intended to speed things along. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "The technology frees parents from having to fuss at their kids about their TV viewing, going so far as to black out the screen when someone is too close. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "On October 30, less than a week after the coup, the first of many Millions Marches were held, with reports of between two to four million people taking to the streets (accurate numbers are difficult to come by since the internet black out ). \u2014 Yassmin Abdel-magied, Vogue , 23 Nov. 2021",
      "As for images and videos, make sure to black out parts that could be identifiable to you, such as street names and/or house numbers. \u2014 Essence , 8 Oct. 2021",
      "Meanwhile, Dish said Sinclair threatened to black out 144 channels in 86 markets. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 9 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1913, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "1824, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-220157"
  },
  "blow away":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to dissipate or remove as if with a current of air",
      ": to kill by gunfire : shoot dead",
      ": to impress very strongly and usually favorably",
      ": to defeat soundly"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[
      "annihilate",
      "bomb",
      "bury",
      "clobber",
      "cream",
      "drub",
      "dust",
      "flatten",
      "paste",
      "rout",
      "shellac",
      "skin",
      "skunk",
      "smoke",
      "smother",
      "snow under",
      "thrash",
      "trim",
      "tromp",
      "trounce",
      "wallop",
      "wax",
      "whip",
      "whomp",
      "whop",
      "whap",
      "whup"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-222716"
  },
  "blaspheme":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to speak in a way that shows irreverence for God or something sacred : to utter blasphemy",
      ": to speak of or address with irreverence",
      ": revile , abuse",
      ": to commit blasphemy against",
      ": to commit blasphemy"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "blas-\u02c8f\u0113m",
      "\u02c8blas-\u02ccf\u0113m",
      "blas-\u02c8f\u0113m, \u02c8blas-\u02ccf\u0113m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "curse",
      "cuss",
      "swear"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "He did not curse or blaspheme .",
      "people who have blasphemed against God",
      "people who have blasphemed God",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In one infamous case in 2010, Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, was sentenced to death, accused of blaspheming Islam. \u2014 New York Times , 4 May 2020",
      "To disguise ourselves forever would be to blaspheme his work of redeeming the world. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 30 Mar. 2020",
      "Witnesses at the mosque said Abdelrhim Abdelghani shoved his way in at about 4 p.m., swiped a Quran off a shelf, took it to the nearby intersection of Northwest Fourth Avenue and Northwest 15th Vista and began defiling and blaspheming the holy book. \u2014 Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com , 26 June 2019",
      "God\u2019s mercy and justice on those who have blasphemed God\u2019s holy name, those who slander and bear false witness and those who commit murder or justify murder as a means for fighting criminality. \u2014 Jim Gomez, The Seattle Times , 9 July 2018",
      "God\u2019s mercy and justice on those who have blasphemed God\u2019s Holy Name, those who slander and bear false witness, and those who commit murder or justify murder as a means for fighting criminality in our country. \u2014 Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ , 9 July 2018",
      "Regrettable, but perhaps this incident will wake up some progressives who were all too giddy that Google Memo guy gets fired for daring to blaspheme the Church of Diversity. \u2014 Josh Levin, Slate Magazine , 15 Sep. 2017",
      "No, to them patriotism is a religion, the national anthem is its hymn, and anyone who expresses misgivings about our nation is a heretic, blaspheming their god. \u2014 Jack Moore, GQ , 6 Sep. 2017",
      "Hizbut Tahrir, along with groups such as the violent Islamic Defenders Front, was behind a series of massive protests against the Jakarta governor, a minority Christian and Jokowi ally who was accused of blaspheming Islam. \u2014 Stephen Wright, The Seattle Times , 19 July 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English blasfemen , from Late Latin blasphemare \u2014 more at blame ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-230615"
  },
  "blame":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to find fault with : censure",
      ": to hold responsible",
      ": to place responsibility for",
      ": at fault : responsible",
      ": an expression of disapproval or reproach : censure",
      ": a state of being blameworthy : culpability",
      ": fault , sin",
      ": responsibility for something believed to deserve censure",
      ": to find fault with",
      ": to hold responsible",
      ": to place responsibility for",
      ": responsibility for something that fails or is wrong",
      ": criticism sense 1"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101m",
      "\u02c8bl\u0101m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "censure",
      "condemn",
      "criticize",
      "denounce",
      "dis",
      "diss",
      "dispraise",
      "fault",
      "knock",
      "pan",
      "reprehend",
      "slag"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "culpability",
      "fault",
      "guilt",
      "onus",
      "rap"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Don't blame me. You are responsible for your own problems.",
      "My father always blames everything on me.",
      "I blame the poor harvest on the weather.",
      "Noun",
      "It's not entirely his fault, but he's not completely free of blame , either.",
      "willingly accepted the blame for not seeing that the kitchen was properly cleaned",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The tweet marked the beginning of a daylong anti-Islamic social media attack that blamed all Muslims for ISIS terrorism. \u2014 Chelsea Bailey, NBC News , 2 Nov. 2017",
      "Many have blamed Charlotte\u2019s ongoing development boom for the loss of several of the city\u2019s cultural hotspots. \u2014 Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver , 31 Oct. 2017",
      "But don't blame Alabama for being gun-shy about using Fitzpatrick in that capacity after what happened to Eddie Jackson last season. \u2014 Rainer Sabin, AL.com , 22 Oct. 2017",
      "Despite Matt\u2019s attorneys\u2019 legal analysis of the allegations, Matt has insisted that nothing be said that blames or casts aspersions upon his accusers. \u2014 Andy Cush, Billboard , 20 Oct. 2017",
      "Trump blamed Corker for the Iran deal (though the senator did not support its original passage), and mocked his slight stature. \u2014 Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 Oct. 2017",
      "In areas around the North Sea and Mediterranean coast, however, later winter storms, indicated by cooler colors, are to blame for flooding. \u2014 Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine , 10 Nov. 2017",
      "American intelligence chiefs blamed those hacking attacks on Russian military intelligence. \u2014 The Economist , 4 Nov. 2017",
      "But CW Hemp blamed its customer testimonials for going too far. \u2014 Maggie Fox, NBC News , 1 Nov. 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "So far, most of the blame has been on low oil supply. \u2014 Medora Lee, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
      "And when the eventual breach occurs, CISOs are at the center of the blame . \u2014 Ameesh Divatia, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
      "The medical system bears much of the blame , Dr. Stanford said. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
      "At his sentencing hearing in 2001, a man convicted of killing his infant son tossed some of the blame at his former girlfriend and her relatives, drawing gasps from people in the courtroom. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 May 2022",
      "The economic whipsaw unleashed by the pandemic gets most of the blame , said John Auers, executive vice president at Turner, Mason & Co., an oil-industry research firm in Dallas. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
      "Schweizer said part of the blame for the lack of a special prosecutor lies with the White House, but surmised Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell might not favor such an appointment because of his own family's overseas business ties. \u2014 Fox News , 1 May 2022",
      "DeWitte, a former mayor of St. Charles, said former Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen should shoulder some of the blame for the toll because the county did not find enough funding sources for the $115 parkway project. \u2014 Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is placing some of the blame for Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine on past European leaders: specifically, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and longtime German Chancellor Angela Merkel. \u2014 Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune , 6 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb and Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220626-004640"
  },
  "blue blood":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": membership in a noble or socially prominent family",
      ": a member of a noble or socially prominent family"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[
      "aristocrat",
      "gentle",
      "gentleperson",
      "noble",
      "patrician"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "a woman of blue blood",
      "This is where the city's blue bloods like to gather.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Cinderella takes a blue blood when Saint Peter\u2019s faces North Carolina on Sunday, March 27. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Rival Auburn feels like a college hoops blue blood in the making. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "The two college basketball blue blood schools meet in New Orleans tonight to decide this year\u2019s champion. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "The pride of Jersey City is taking the City of Brotherly Love by storm, fresh off wins over blue blood Kentucky and red hot Murray State. \u2014 Stephen Edelson, USA TODAY , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Hamilton, 73, has transformed FSU into a new blue blood basketball program in the ACC, competing with the North Carolinas and Dukes. \u2014 Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Two weeks of upsets and underdogs in the books, the Final Four is down to four blue blood programs: Kansas, Duke, North Carolina and Villanova. \u2014 John Marshall, ajc , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Two weeks of upsets and underdogs in the books, the Final Four is down to four blue blood programs: Kansas, Duke, North Carolina and Villanova. \u2014 John Marshall, chicagotribune.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "In the novel, Spragg, navigates the rigid rules of high society, learning that her family\u2019s newfound wealth doesn\u2019t quite stack up to an old, blue blood social pedigree. \u2014 Cady Lang, Time , 25 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1809, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220626-054746"
  },
  "bleakness":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": exposed and barren and often windswept",
      ": cold , raw",
      ": lacking in warmth, life, or kindliness : grim",
      ": not hopeful or encouraging : depressing",
      ": severely simple or austere",
      ": open to wind or weather",
      ": being cold and raw or cheerless",
      ": not hopeful or encouraging"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0113k",
      "\u02c8bl\u0113k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "black",
      "cheerless",
      "chill",
      "Cimmerian",
      "cloudy",
      "cold",
      "comfortless",
      "dark",
      "darkening",
      "depressing",
      "depressive",
      "desolate",
      "dire",
      "disconsolate",
      "dismal",
      "drear",
      "dreary",
      "dreich",
      "elegiac",
      "elegiacal",
      "forlorn",
      "funereal",
      "gloomy",
      "glum",
      "godforsaken",
      "gray",
      "grey",
      "lonely",
      "lonesome",
      "lugubrious",
      "miserable",
      "morbid",
      "morose",
      "murky",
      "plutonian",
      "saturnine",
      "sepulchral",
      "solemn",
      "somber",
      "sombre",
      "sullen",
      "sunless",
      "tenebrific",
      "tenebrous",
      "wretched"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bright",
      "cheerful",
      "cheering",
      "cheery",
      "comforting",
      "cordial",
      "festive",
      "friendly",
      "gay",
      "heartwarming",
      "sunshiny"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "a bleak outlook for the team for the rest of the season",
      "it was a dark and bleak wintry day",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Amid the bleak outlook for glove exports and other global headwinds, the index of Malaysian healthcare stocks has dropped 37% in the past year, with glove manufacturers among the worst performers. \u2014 Anu Raghunathan, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "In many of Cook County\u2019s Southland communities, a moribund tax base and a dearth of jobs has contributed to a bleak economic outlook for those south suburbs. \u2014 The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune , 1 June 2022",
      "When reminded of this bleak outlook, climate progressives point to corporate action and the stock market, which both seemed to be moving in their direction. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 11 May 2022",
      "The bank also forecast that Russia\u2019s economy would shrink by 10 percent this year and stagnate next year, with a bleak outlook unless a peace agreement leads to the relaxing of Western sanctions. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2022",
      "Dimon reiterated his bleak long term outlook for the global economy in statements included in the earnings report. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "But the budget details don\u2019t match his rhetoric, and Exhibit A is the bleak outlook for the Navy. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "Kubrick's film was exceedingly ahead of its time, its bleak outlook an unlikely subject for a comedy. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Notably, the state\u2019s youngest voters have a particularly bleak outlook. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Middle English bleke pale; probably akin to Old English bl\u0101c ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1574, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220626-064652"
  },
  "bland":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": smooth and soothing in manner or quality",
      ": exhibiting no personal concern or embarrassment : unperturbed",
      ": not irritating, stimulating, or invigorating : soothing",
      ": dull , insipid",
      ": lacking strong flavor",
      ": not interesting or exciting",
      ": not having much flavor",
      ": not showing emotion"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bland",
      "\u02c8bland"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "balmy",
      "benign",
      "delicate",
      "gentle",
      "light",
      "mellow",
      "mild",
      "nonabrasive",
      "soft",
      "soothing",
      "tender"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "abrasive",
      "caustic",
      "coarse",
      "hard",
      "harsh",
      "rough",
      "scathing",
      "stern",
      "ungentle"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "The vegetable soup was rather bland .",
      "The diplomat's bland statement did nothing to calm the situation.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Environments feel bland and generic, chock-full of uninspired hallways, dull elevators and boring stairwells. \u2014 Mitch Wallace, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
      "Decades of Soviet-era scarcity and devastating famines transformed the cooking of many households in the U.S.S.R.; dishes that weren\u2019t inspired by places like Uzbekistan and Armenia were largely bland , greasy and cheap. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "Plus, YuChen puts to rest, once and for all, the false assumption that steamed food is drab, bland , or boring. \u2014 Antara Sinha, Bon App\u00e9tit , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "The American League was the bland brother in baseball's talent pool. \u2014 Star Tribune , 28 Aug. 2020",
      "Inside, on the ninth floor, through another door that requires badge access, is a C.I.A. office with an ostentatiously bland name: the Operations Support Branch. \u2014 Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
      "In the early years after World War II, the Bowl had become bland and began losing popularity. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
      "Susanne Schattenberg\u2019s new biography of Brezhnev is almost as bland as its subject. \u2014 Yuri Slezkine, The New York Review of Books , 25 May 2022",
      "While the Republican primaries for both Senate and governor have been chaotic, bare-knuckle brawls, the Democratic primaries have been far more bland . \u2014 Grace Segers, The New Republic , 17 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Latin blandus ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220627-061853"
  },
  "blamelessness":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to find fault with : censure",
      ": to hold responsible",
      ": to place responsibility for",
      ": at fault : responsible",
      ": an expression of disapproval or reproach : censure",
      ": a state of being blameworthy : culpability",
      ": fault , sin",
      ": responsibility for something believed to deserve censure",
      ": to find fault with",
      ": to hold responsible",
      ": to place responsibility for",
      ": responsibility for something that fails or is wrong",
      ": criticism sense 1"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101m",
      "\u02c8bl\u0101m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "censure",
      "condemn",
      "criticize",
      "denounce",
      "dis",
      "diss",
      "dispraise",
      "fault",
      "knock",
      "pan",
      "reprehend",
      "slag"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "culpability",
      "fault",
      "guilt",
      "onus",
      "rap"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Don't blame me. You are responsible for your own problems.",
      "My father always blames everything on me.",
      "I blame the poor harvest on the weather.",
      "Noun",
      "It's not entirely his fault, but he's not completely free of blame , either.",
      "willingly accepted the blame for not seeing that the kitchen was properly cleaned",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The tweet marked the beginning of a daylong anti-Islamic social media attack that blamed all Muslims for ISIS terrorism. \u2014 Chelsea Bailey, NBC News , 2 Nov. 2017",
      "Many have blamed Charlotte\u2019s ongoing development boom for the loss of several of the city\u2019s cultural hotspots. \u2014 Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver , 31 Oct. 2017",
      "But don't blame Alabama for being gun-shy about using Fitzpatrick in that capacity after what happened to Eddie Jackson last season. \u2014 Rainer Sabin, AL.com , 22 Oct. 2017",
      "Despite Matt\u2019s attorneys\u2019 legal analysis of the allegations, Matt has insisted that nothing be said that blames or casts aspersions upon his accusers. \u2014 Andy Cush, Billboard , 20 Oct. 2017",
      "Trump blamed Corker for the Iran deal (though the senator did not support its original passage), and mocked his slight stature. \u2014 Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 Oct. 2017",
      "In areas around the North Sea and Mediterranean coast, however, later winter storms, indicated by cooler colors, are to blame for flooding. \u2014 Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine , 10 Nov. 2017",
      "American intelligence chiefs blamed those hacking attacks on Russian military intelligence. \u2014 The Economist , 4 Nov. 2017",
      "But CW Hemp blamed its customer testimonials for going too far. \u2014 Maggie Fox, NBC News , 1 Nov. 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Phillies executive vice president Dave Buck said the blame lies with MLB uniform supplier Fanatics, the sports apparel and memorabilia behemoth. \u2014 Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY , 10 Apr. 2022",
      "The blame , according to Bijou owner Santikos Entertainment, falls on the impact the coronavirus has had on independent filmmakers, who have struggled in the past two years. \u2014 Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "The federal government is effectively barred from issuing an ergonomics rule, and the blame for that falls partly on the Clinton administration. \u2014 Brian Callaci, The New Republic , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "On China\u2019s heavily controlled internet, enough calls for solidarity with Ukraine have persisted to counter those siding with Russia and echoing Beijing\u2019s view that blame for the conflict lies with the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. \u2014 Wenxin Fan, WSJ , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "So far, most of the blame has been on low oil supply. \u2014 Medora Lee, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
      "And when the eventual breach occurs, CISOs are at the center of the blame . \u2014 Ameesh Divatia, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
      "The medical system bears much of the blame , Dr. Stanford said. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
      "At his sentencing hearing in 2001, a man convicted of killing his infant son tossed some of the blame at his former girlfriend and her relatives, drawing gasps from people in the courtroom. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb and Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220627-124247"
  },
  "blameworthiness":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": being at fault : deserving blame",
      ": deserving blame"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101m-\u02ccw\u0259r-t\u035fh\u0113",
      "\u02c8bl\u0101m-\u02ccw\u0259r-t\u035fh\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blamable",
      "censurable",
      "culpable",
      "reprehensible",
      "reproachable"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "blameless",
      "faultless",
      "impeccable",
      "irreproachable"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Their failure to adequately inform participants of the risks was morally blameworthy .",
      "we were all equally blameworthy , whether we had openly approved the free-speech restrictions or simply kept quiet about them",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But where that entry is not successful, once again, fingers will be pointed at those perceived as blameworthy . \u2014 David Reichenberg, Forbes , 5 Sep. 2021",
      "Those who intentionally seek to inflict injury are considered most blameworthy , while those who cause harm through negligence, or failure to exercise ordinary care, are least culpable. \u2014 Jess Bravin, WSJ , 10 June 2021",
      "The idea of violent crimes as a separate universe, categorically more dangerous and blameworthy than other offenses, dates back little more than half a century. \u2014 David Alan Sklansky, Time , 7 Apr. 2021",
      "These stories run a big-haired gamut in terms of individual culpability, but in every case, popular culture found a way to blame the woman, often to excuse a more blameworthy man. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Mar. 2021",
      "David\u2019s work provided a potent critique of the dominant financial morality, which sees debtors as blameworthy or even criminal. \u2014 Isabelle Fr\u00e9meaux, The New York Review of Books , 5 Sep. 2020",
      "Whether blameworthy or not, the use of the cloak of social responsibility, and the nonsense spoken in its name by influential and prestigious businessmen, does clearly harm the foundations of a free society. \u2014 Daniel Tenreiro, National Review , 19 Aug. 2020",
      "The persistent fantasy that Trump can somehow be leveraged from office is behind the push to criminalize any blameworthy conduct on his part or that of his associates. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 6 Feb. 2018",
      "Isaacson sees Jobs as being hardly more blameworthy , even in his worst moments, than other powerful people. \u2014 Ben Austen, WIRED , 23 July 2012"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220627-132945"
  },
  "blues":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun plural",
      "noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": low spirits : melancholy",
      ": a song often of lamentation characterized by usually 12-bar phrases, 3-line stanzas in which the words of the second line usually repeat those of the first, and continual occurrence of blue notes in melody and harmony",
      ": jazz or popular music using harmonic and phrase structures of blues",
      ": low spirits",
      ": a style of music that was created by African-Americans and that expresses feelings of sadness",
      ": low spirits : melancholy"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fcz",
      "\u02c8bl\u00fcz",
      "\u02c8bl\u00fcz"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blue devils",
      "dejection",
      "depression",
      "desolation",
      "despond",
      "despondence",
      "despondency",
      "disconsolateness",
      "dispiritedness",
      "doldrums",
      "dolefulness",
      "downheartedness",
      "dreariness",
      "dumps",
      "forlornness",
      "gloom",
      "gloominess",
      "glumness",
      "heartsickness",
      "joylessness",
      "melancholy",
      "miserableness",
      "mopes",
      "mournfulness",
      "oppression",
      "sadness",
      "sorrowfulness",
      "unhappiness"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bliss",
      "blissfulness",
      "ecstasy",
      "elatedness",
      "elation",
      "euphoria",
      "exhilaration",
      "exuberance",
      "exultation",
      "felicity",
      "gladness",
      "gladsomeness",
      "happiness",
      "heaven",
      "intoxication",
      "joy",
      "joyfulness",
      "joyousness",
      "jubilation",
      "rapture",
      "rapturousness"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The striking greens and blues that made Van Gogh famous were developed by chemists in the 1th century. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 23 June 2022",
      "The 2019 International Blues Challenge finalists pay tribute in song and story to four undeniable female blues greats: Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, Ruth Brown, and Koko Taylor. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
      "On this tour booked by Raitt\u2019s representatives at the Creative Artists Agency, the opening artists include Staples, Marc Cohn and, for recent dates, Lucinda Williams, who is Raitt\u2019s spiritual sister in the blues . \u2014 Thom Duffy, Billboard , 22 June 2022",
      "At the old Mayan Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, fans are wound up for a smoldering night of jagged, turbocharged punk and deep blues . \u2014 Steve Appleford, SPIN , 21 June 2022",
      "Your overwater villa is drenched with the incredible light from the ocean and sky, the cobalt and cerulean blues merging like a watercolour painting. \u2014 Angelina Villa-clarke, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
      "Black music, which gave America the blues and jazz, grew out of the trauma of slavery. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 19 June 2022",
      "Piet Mondrian\u2019s name is indistinguishable from his signature style: blocks of reds, blues and yellows against a black-and-white grid. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 June 2022",
      "Sometimes the only thing stopping us from taking to the dance floor to shake off the blues , is the lack of some guy willing to make a fool of himself up there first. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":" blue devils ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1741, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220627-135146"
  },
  "blot out":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to make obscure, insignificant, or inconsequential",
      ": wipe out , destroy"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[
      "abolish",
      "annihilate",
      "black out",
      "cancel",
      "clean (up)",
      "efface",
      "eradicate",
      "erase",
      "expunge",
      "exterminate",
      "extirpate",
      "liquidate",
      "obliterate",
      "root (out)",
      "rub out",
      "snuff (out)",
      "stamp (out)",
      "sweep (away)",
      "wipe out"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device",
      "bushes blotted out the shed from our view"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1549, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220627-174734"
  },
  "blessing":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": the act or words of one that blesses",
      ": approval , encouragement",
      ": a thing conducive to happiness or welfare",
      ": grace (see grace entry 1 sense 5 ) said at a meal",
      ": the act of someone who blesses",
      ": approval",
      ": something that makes a person happy or content",
      ": a short prayer"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ble-si\u014b",
      "\u02c8ble-sing"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "benediction",
      "benison"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "anathema",
      "curse",
      "execration",
      "imprecation",
      "malediction"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Presumably he was acting with the government's blessing .",
      "They got married without their parents' blessing .",
      "We asked the Lord's blessing on us and on our project.",
      "He said a blessing before the meal.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "So there was a blessing , and eating, and laughter, and conversation. \u2014 John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al , 23 June 2022",
      "Having the ability to predict someone\u2019s future has not always been a blessing for Seul-bi or her mother. \u2014 Joan Macdonald, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
      "Steliac made his way up a path where parishioners had lined up with their baskets, waiting for a blessing , the faint smell of incense wafting in the air. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "Then, as if out of nowhere, a big double chorus, accompanied by an orchestra with timpani thumping, announces a grand Hosanna that lasts no more than 45 seconds for a dazzling but startlingly perfunctory blessing . \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "May primaries in Ohio and Pennsylvania are heating up as GOP candidates jockey for former President Donald Trump's blessing . \u2014 Simone Pathe, CNN , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "According to the Moscow City News Agency, the image shows a ritual blessing of the participants in the Victory Parade and the consecration of launches on the Khodynka field. \u2014 Ana Faguy, USA TODAY , 24 June 2022",
      "The Cavs also have around $4 million in cash remaining to buy a pick, with chairman Dan Gilbert\u2019s blessing to be aggressive. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 23 June 2022",
      "In those court documents, the meeting of the phony Arizona Republican electors would be erroneously described as taking place at the state Capitol, conferring a sheen of official legislative blessing . \u2014 Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"see bless ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220627-213541"
  },
  "blow (out)":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a festive social affair",
      ": a bursting of a container (such as a tire) by pressure of the contents on a weak spot",
      ": an uncontrolled eruption of an oil or gas well",
      ": an easy or one-sided victory",
      ": a valley or depression created by the wind in areas of shifting sand or of light cultivated soil",
      ": a hairstyle in which the hair is blow-dried while being styled with a round brush",
      ": to extinguish by a gust",
      ": to dissipate (itself) by blowing",
      ": to defeat easily",
      ": to damage severely",
      ": to become extinguished by a gust",
      ": to erupt out of control"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014d-\u02ccau\u0307t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "affair",
      "bash",
      "binge",
      "blast",
      "do",
      "event",
      "fete",
      "f\u00eate",
      "function",
      "get-together",
      "party",
      "reception",
      "shindig"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The car crashed after one of its tires had a blowout .",
      "We had a big blowout to celebrate his promotion.",
      "The game was expected to be close but it turned out to be a blowout .",
      "Verb",
      "blew out a smoke ring and began to tell us a good yarn",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Less than a month after suffering a season-ending blowout loss to top-seeded Kansas on the second day of the Big 12 Tournament, Bob Huggins sat at his desk inside his office on the West Virginia University campus. \u2014 Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022",
      "Hager came on in the ninth inning of a blowout loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday and threw 12 total pitches to six hitters. \u2014 Jos\u00e9 M. Romero, The Arizona Republic , 29 May 2022",
      "Pence's ex-boss, the former president who once was seen as a kingmaker in GOP politics, gave his full-throated support to former US Sen. David Perdue, who was humiliated in a blowout loss to incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. \u2014 Michael D'antonio, CNN , 25 May 2022",
      "Pinder recently pitched in an A\u2019s blowout loss and has now played every position in the majors except catcher. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 May 2022",
      "The Heat were embarrassed in Game 2, surrendering home-court advantage in their blowout loss to the Celtics in their Eastern Conference finals matchup. \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 23 May 2022",
      "The Heat were embarrassed in Game 2, surrendering home-court advantage in their blowout loss to the Celtics in their Eastern Conference finals matchup. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 23 May 2022",
      "Spoelstra appeared to be veering in that direction in the second half of a blowout loss to the Celtics in Game 2. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 21 May 2022",
      "However, following the blowout loss, Lamb's campaign found itself in the crosshairs of Democratic strategists. \u2014 Joe Schoffstall, Fox News , 19 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "More significant has been the infrequency of situations where the game hinges on a single pitch; the Red Sox\u2019 ability to blow out opponents resulted in just 79 high-leverage plate appearances since May 10, 17th in the big leagues. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
      "It's been more than four decades since Vincent Simmons has had a birthday cake -- candles to blow out and make a wish. \u2014 CBS News , 25 May 2022",
      "Ballard dominated from start to finish as the Seventh Region champs used a nine-run second inning to blow out 15th Region representative Johnson Central 10-0 in five innings at the University of Kentucky's John Cropp Stadium. \u2014 Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal , 4 June 2022",
      "As Klarman began to blow out the candles on a day that gifted him his second Preakness winner on the five-year anniversary of Cloud Computing, the baseball connections flowed. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 May 2022",
      "Other trends surrounding the film have also sprung up on TikTok, including the #candle trend, in which creators blow out the family candle as Mirabel does in the movie. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "And do stay tuned for an event next week to blow out some inventory. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Earlier on Sunday, Kansas\u2014the only No. 1 seed left standing after Arizona, Baylor and Gonzaga all fell\u2014overcame a six-point halftime deficit to blow out Miami, 76-50. \u2014 Jared Diamond, WSJ , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "The Pistons used a 27-6 third-quarter run to take control and blow out the Atlanta Hawks at Little Caesars Arena, 122-101. \u2014 Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press , 24 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220628-011236"
  },
  "blunderer":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to move unsteadily or confusedly",
      ": to make a mistake through stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness",
      ": to utter stupidly, confusedly, or thoughtlessly",
      ": to make a stupid, careless, or thoughtless mistake in",
      ": a gross error or mistake resulting usually from stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness",
      ": to move in a clumsy way",
      ": to make a mistake",
      ": a bad or stupid mistake"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259n-d\u0259r",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259n-d\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "boob",
      "err",
      "flub",
      "fluff",
      "foul up",
      "fumble",
      "goof (up)",
      "louse up",
      "mess (up)",
      "screw up",
      "slip up",
      "stumble",
      "trip"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bobble",
      "boo-boo",
      "boob",
      "brick",
      "clanger",
      "clinker",
      "error",
      "fault",
      "flub",
      "fluff",
      "fumble",
      "gaff",
      "gaffe",
      "goof",
      "inaccuracy",
      "lapse",
      "miscue",
      "misstep",
      "mistake",
      "oversight",
      "screwup",
      "slip",
      "slipup",
      "stumble",
      "trip"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "We blundered along through the woods until we finally found the trail.",
      "Another skier blundered into his path.",
      "The government blundered by not acting sooner.",
      "Noun",
      "The accident was the result of a series of blunders .",
      "fixed a minor blunder in the advertising flyer",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "And in some of the criticism there was a sense Republicans were playing into the conservative media trope that Biden is old, is not in full control and could blunder the US into a war. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Special teams blunder aside, Kevin Stefanski and the Browns offense squandered two potential go-ahead opportunities. \u2014 Ellis L. Williams, cleveland , 13 Sep. 2021",
      "But what dollar hawks didn't calculate was that the U.S. would jump out to such a huge lead in vaccinating Americans, while its biggest trading partners in Asia and the eurozone would blunder along. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 5 May 2021",
      "The soil is full of pathogenic fungi just waiting for a nice juicy fire ant to blunder into them. \u2014 Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American , 21 Nov. 2020",
      "The only points for Leach and Mississippi State during the 24-2 loss to Kentucky came on a Wildcats special teams blunder that resulted in a safety. \u2014 Matt Zenitz | Mzenitz@al.com, al , 13 Oct. 2020",
      "Ant death spirals break only when enough workers accidentally blunder away, creating trails that lead the spiraling workers to safety. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 9 Sep. 2020",
      "Yearling black bears blunder over the asphalt in search of their own territories. \u2014 Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic , 6 July 2020",
      "Some pointed to other calls Goldman strategists blundered in the past, while others said Wall Street banks were too slow to catch onto the trend. \u2014 Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com , 27 May 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Experts say the expansion will be evidence of yet another strategic blunder on Russia's part. \u2014 Byguy Davies Andines De La Cuetara, ABC News , 12 May 2022",
      "The blunder was spotted by 9to5Mac digging through the source code of Apple's new iOS 15.5 beta release. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "Scotty David's defense lawyer Todd Spodek told Fox News Digital that his client taped the interview Jan. 4 \u2013 long before he was hauled into court over the blunder . \u2014 Fox News , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "The site then reverted the figure to 0 minutes, but the blunder leaked. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Easing Venezuelan sanctions would be a strategic blunder that provides a financial lifeline to Mr. Maduro while doing little to ease the oil price spike. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Biden continues to believe the pipeline, called Nord Stream 2, represents a strategic blunder for Germany, and that once completed, will give Russia too much influence over Germany\u2019s energy supply. \u2014 Time , 15 June 2021",
      "His greatest blunder was blocking regulation of derivatives in the 1990s, a mistake that gives him some ownership of the Great Recession, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "The Biden Administration has done a decent rear-guard job of mobilizing Europe and NATO in opposition to Russia\u2019s designs on Ukraine\u2014despite his blunder in dropping Nord Stream 2 sanctions. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 13 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "1681, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220628-103048"
  },
  "bluff":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "geographical name",
      "noun",
      "noun ()",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": having a broad flattened front",
      ": rising steeply with a broad flat or rounded front",
      ": good-naturedly frank and outspoken",
      ": a high steep bank : cliff",
      ": to deter or frighten by pretense or a mere show of strength",
      ": deceive",
      ": feign",
      ": to deceive (an opponent) by a bold bet on an inferior hand",
      ": to bluff someone : act deceptively",
      ": a false threat or claim intended to deter or deceive someone : an act or instance of bluffing (see bluff entry 3 )",
      ": the practice of bluffing",
      ": one who bluffs",
      ": rising steeply with a broad front",
      ": frank and outspoken in a rough but good-natured way",
      ": a high steep bank : cliff",
      ": to deceive or frighten by pretending to have more strength or confidence than is really true",
      ": an act or instance of pretending to have more strength, confidence, or ability than is really true",
      "town in southern New Zealand"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259f",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259f",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259f"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "abrupt",
      "blunt",
      "brusque",
      "brusk",
      "crusty",
      "curt",
      "downright",
      "short",
      "short-spoken",
      "snippy",
      "unceremonious"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "barranca",
      "barranco",
      "cliff",
      "crag",
      "escarpment",
      "palisade",
      "precipice",
      "scar",
      "scarp"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "he's a bluff but good-hearted teacher",
      "Verb",
      "She says someone else has made her a higher offer, but I think she's bluffing .",
      "Don't listen to his threats\u2014he's just bluffing you.",
      "I bluffed my way through the interview."
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective and Noun (1)",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "1627, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Noun (1)",
      "1666, in the meaning defined above",
      "Verb",
      "1791, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
      "Noun (2)",
      "1845, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220628-110430"
  },
  "blind":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": sightless",
      ": having less than \u00b9/\u2081\u2080 of normal vision in the more efficient eye when refractive defects are fully corrected by lenses",
      ": of or relating to sightless persons",
      ": unable or unwilling to discern or judge",
      ": unquestioning",
      ": having no regard to rational discrimination, guidance, or restriction",
      ": lacking a directing or controlling consciousness",
      ": drunk sense 1a",
      ": made or done without sight of certain objects or knowledge of certain facts that could serve for guidance or cause bias",
      "\u2014 compare double-blind , single-blind",
      ": having no knowledge of information that may cause bias during the course of an experiment or test",
      ": defective : such as",
      ": lacking a growing point or producing leaves instead of flowers",
      ": lacking a complete or legible address",
      ": difficult to discern, make out, or discover",
      ": hidden from sight : covered",
      ": having but one opening or outlet",
      ": having no opening for light or passage : blank",
      ": to make blind",
      ": dazzle",
      ": to withhold light from",
      ": hide , conceal",
      ": something to hinder sight or keep out light: such as",
      ": a window shutter",
      ": a roller window shade",
      ": venetian blind",
      ": blinder",
      ": a place of concealment",
      ": a concealing enclosure from which one may shoot game or observe wildlife",
      ": something put forward for the purpose of misleading : subterfuge",
      ": a person who acts as a decoy or distraction",
      ": blindly : such as",
      ": to the point of insensibility",
      ": without seeing outside an airplane",
      ": without knowledge of certain facts that could serve for guidance or cause bias",
      ": unable or nearly unable to see",
      ": lacking in judgment or understanding",
      ": unquestioning",
      ": closed at one end",
      ": to cause the permanent loss of sight in",
      ": to make it impossible to see well for a short time",
      ": a device to reduce sight or keep out light",
      ": a place of hiding",
      ": with only instruments as guidance",
      ": lacking or deficient in sight",
      ": having less than \u00b9/\u2081\u2080 of normal vision in the more efficient eye when refractive defects are fully corrected by lenses",
      ": of or relating to sightless persons",
      ": designed to prevent participants from having information that could cause bias",
      "\u2014 see double-blind , single-blind",
      ": having no knowledge of information that may cause bias during the course of an experiment or test",
      ": having but one opening or outlet",
      ": to make blind"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u012bnd",
      "\u02c8bl\u012bnd",
      "\u02c8bl\u012bnd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "eyeless",
      "sightless",
      "stone-blind",
      "visionless"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bedazzle",
      "daze",
      "dazzle"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Maybe the taxpayer is a willing participant or turns a blind eye to some sketchy claims on that return. \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 16 June 2022",
      "Though the two presidents and their agents discussed IP theft, the United States mostly turned a blind eye to the continuation of the Chinese practice. \u2014 Milton Ezrati, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
      "Tenants have a few tools at their disposal when a landlord or management company turns a blind eye. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
      "The Good News: This is referencing a very specific situation but the overall sentiment rings true \u2014 don't turn a blind eye to the suffering of others. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 10 June 2022",
      "Our intention is not to diminish the values of those who support the boycott or to turn a blind eye to those suffering. \u2014 Shirley Halperin, Variety , 9 June 2022",
      "It is accused by rights groups of stoking Hindu nationalist sentiment and turning a blind eye to religious violence. \u2014 Gerry Shih, Washington Post , 7 June 2022",
      "Our intention is not to diminish the values of those who support the boycott or to turn a blind eye to those suffering. \u2014 Katrina Nattress, SPIN , 4 June 2022",
      "Many recruits are now fleeing, turned off by a management culture that former executives say at its worst belittles expatriates, makes unrealistic demands and turns a blind eye to discrimination. \u2014 Rory Jones, WSJ , 31 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "But that shouldn\u2019t blind them to what is coming later this year. \u2014 Ewan Spence, Forbes , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "Russia\u2019s advanced systems are designed to blind U.S. Airborne Warning and Control Systems, or AWACS, aircraft \u2014 the eyes and ears of battlefield commanders \u2014 as well as cruise missiles and spy satellites. \u2014 Oleksandr Stashevskyi And Frank Bajak, Anchorage Daily News , 3 June 2022",
      "Lasers can blind pilots and damage cockpit equipment, the FAA said in a Feb. 4 news release. \u2014 Don Sweeney, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "The prospect of investing and implementing new tech tools can sometimes blind companies to the potential risks associated with such an investment. \u2014 David Gasparyan, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Although each element alone could read as too much\u2014the belt alone is enough to blind passersby\u2014there\u2019s a harmony among all the earth tones and the gold. \u2014 Jake Smith, Glamour , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Such cognitive bias can blind us to what the data is trying to tell us. \u2014 Thor Olof Philog\u00e8ne, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "This cognitive bias can blind doctors to possible errors the machine learning algorithm may make. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Germany and others are beginning to shift away from this policy, but that should not blind the West to the challenges that change itself poses. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "But when par- or blind -baking, not every type of crust needs to be docked. \u2014 Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
      "Best valentine\u2019s memory was when my ex-boyfriend blind folded me and took me to a trail of flowers that led to a romantic dinner on the beach in Mexico. \u2014 Griselda Flores, Billboard , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Wright took particular issue with how police completed the double- blind photo array for both witnesses. \u2014 Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Another TikTok creator breaks down a rumor that Harry Styles\u2019 team is quietly deleting unfavorable articles about the singer, and another points out how a blind about Elon Musk separating from Grimes was, in fact, true. \u2014 Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "According to Kentucky Owl, McGuane and Rhea blind tasted various cask samples and blended them together in different proportions before settling on this particular combination of bourbon aged from 4 to 11 years. \u2014 Jonah Flicker, Robb Report , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "At daybreak, deer graze until spooked by the motion of a window blind being raised. \u2014 Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com , 26 Nov. 2021",
      "The researchers made this discovery through a classic double- blind study in which 127 people were randomly assigned to an experimental or a control group, either inhaling clove oil infused with HEX or clove oil alone. \u2014 Susan Pinker, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "The competition involved a double- blind taste test by professional food scientists at Cornell University as well as an extensive scientific study of the ice cream\u2019s ingredients in Cornell\u2019s dairy lab. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Feb. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
      "Docking can be called for in recipes where par- or blind -baking the crust is required. \u2014 Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
      "Forced to leave the police force after turning blind , Johnson Chong See-tun takes on cold cases the police can't solve. \u2014 Men's Health , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "The city told the newspaper that the recipients of the initial email were supposed to be blind -copied, meaning their names and emails would have been hidden from other recipients. \u2014 Danielle Wallace, Fox News , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "The lab in the bowels of the winery, where the team is blind -tasting vial after vial of intricate blends? \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "This kind of attitude is how our public-health establishment wound up blind -sided by an actual epidemic. \u2014 WSJ , 6 Oct. 2021",
      "The going out to watch stars, stumbling blind through the difficult door. \u2014 Anthony Lan, The New Yorker , 5 July 2021",
      "This year, the competition took place in Estes park, Colorado, where a professional tasting panel made of whisky, beer, and wine experts blind tasted each whisky using a 100-point scale system. \u2014 Emily Price, Forbes , 15 June 2021",
      "This beer was selected Best of Show at a blind -tasting event of over 40 Oktoberfest beers hosted by the Growler magazine in 2019. \u2014 Michael Agnew, Star Tribune , 9 Sep. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)",
      "Verb",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Noun",
      "1633, in the meaning defined at sense 3",
      "Adverb",
      "1698, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220628-124239"
  },
  "blitz":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": blitzkrieg sense 1",
      ": an intensive aerial military campaign",
      ": air raid",
      ": a fast intensive nonmilitary campaign or attack",
      ": a rush of the passer by a defensive linebacker, back, or end in football",
      ": an occurrence in which large numbers of fish gather to chase and feed on prey or bait"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blits"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "barrage",
      "blitzkrieg",
      "bombardment",
      "cannonade",
      "drumbeat",
      "drumfire",
      "flurry",
      "fusillade",
      "hail",
      "salvo",
      "shower",
      "storm",
      "volley"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "The company is planning an advertising blitz for the new product.",
      "a multimedia blitz of advertisements for the summer blockbuster",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Under Martindale, the defense also regularly ranked among the NFL\u2019s most aggressive, blitz -heavy units. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "The delivery blitz from an hour to 30 minutes to 15 is evidence of absurdity more than innovation. \u2014 Adam Chandler, The Atlantic , 31 May 2022",
      "The concerted media blitz was a blatant effort to paint the brothers not only as homophobic, racist, and violent, but guilty of the attack in the first place, the suit alleged. \u2014 Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "The wedding blitz is a microcosm of a global economy still mired in a pandemic, from shifting medical protocols and rising prices to staffing shortages and supply chain disruptions. \u2014 Stewart Ain, sun-sentinel.com , 2 Dec. 2021",
      "Late in the fourth quarter Sunday, with the Chicago Bears facing fourth-and-6, trailing 9-7 and not quite in field-goal range, the Ravens\u2019 defense lined up as if a blitz were imminent. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com , 22 Nov. 2021",
      "Trump's endorsement blitz is a frank attempt to keep remaking the party in his image, with Republicans eagerly courting his favor. \u2014 Jeff Amy, ajc , 26 Sep. 2021",
      "Trump\u2019s endorsement blitz is a frank attempt to keep remaking the party in his image, with Republicans eagerly courting his favor. \u2014 al , 25 Sep. 2021",
      "The fighters' lightning blitz across the country took less than a week to overrun some 300,000 government troops, most of whom surrendered or fled. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 6 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "circa 1939, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220628-160313"
  },
  "blunder":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to move unsteadily or confusedly",
      ": to make a mistake through stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness",
      ": to utter stupidly, confusedly, or thoughtlessly",
      ": to make a stupid, careless, or thoughtless mistake in",
      ": a gross error or mistake resulting usually from stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness",
      ": to move in a clumsy way",
      ": to make a mistake",
      ": a bad or stupid mistake"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259n-d\u0259r",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259n-d\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "boob",
      "err",
      "flub",
      "fluff",
      "foul up",
      "fumble",
      "goof (up)",
      "louse up",
      "mess (up)",
      "screw up",
      "slip up",
      "stumble",
      "trip"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bobble",
      "boo-boo",
      "boob",
      "brick",
      "clanger",
      "clinker",
      "error",
      "fault",
      "flub",
      "fluff",
      "fumble",
      "gaff",
      "gaffe",
      "goof",
      "inaccuracy",
      "lapse",
      "miscue",
      "misstep",
      "mistake",
      "oversight",
      "screwup",
      "slip",
      "slipup",
      "stumble",
      "trip"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "We blundered along through the woods until we finally found the trail.",
      "Another skier blundered into his path.",
      "The government blundered by not acting sooner.",
      "Noun",
      "The accident was the result of a series of blunders .",
      "fixed a minor blunder in the advertising flyer",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "And in some of the criticism there was a sense Republicans were playing into the conservative media trope that Biden is old, is not in full control and could blunder the US into a war. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Special teams blunder aside, Kevin Stefanski and the Browns offense squandered two potential go-ahead opportunities. \u2014 Ellis L. Williams, cleveland , 13 Sep. 2021",
      "But what dollar hawks didn't calculate was that the U.S. would jump out to such a huge lead in vaccinating Americans, while its biggest trading partners in Asia and the eurozone would blunder along. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 5 May 2021",
      "The soil is full of pathogenic fungi just waiting for a nice juicy fire ant to blunder into them. \u2014 Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American , 21 Nov. 2020",
      "The only points for Leach and Mississippi State during the 24-2 loss to Kentucky came on a Wildcats special teams blunder that resulted in a safety. \u2014 Matt Zenitz | Mzenitz@al.com, al , 13 Oct. 2020",
      "Ant death spirals break only when enough workers accidentally blunder away, creating trails that lead the spiraling workers to safety. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 9 Sep. 2020",
      "Yearling black bears blunder over the asphalt in search of their own territories. \u2014 Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic , 6 July 2020",
      "Some pointed to other calls Goldman strategists blundered in the past, while others said Wall Street banks were too slow to catch onto the trend. \u2014 Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com , 27 May 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Experts say the expansion will be evidence of yet another strategic blunder on Russia's part. \u2014 Byguy Davies Andines De La Cuetara, ABC News , 12 May 2022",
      "The blunder was spotted by 9to5Mac digging through the source code of Apple's new iOS 15.5 beta release. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "Scotty David's defense lawyer Todd Spodek told Fox News Digital that his client taped the interview Jan. 4 \u2013 long before he was hauled into court over the blunder . \u2014 Fox News , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "The site then reverted the figure to 0 minutes, but the blunder leaked. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Easing Venezuelan sanctions would be a strategic blunder that provides a financial lifeline to Mr. Maduro while doing little to ease the oil price spike. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Biden continues to believe the pipeline, called Nord Stream 2, represents a strategic blunder for Germany, and that once completed, will give Russia too much influence over Germany\u2019s energy supply. \u2014 Time , 15 June 2021",
      "His greatest blunder was blocking regulation of derivatives in the 1990s, a mistake that gives him some ownership of the Great Recession, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "The Biden Administration has done a decent rear-guard job of mobilizing Europe and NATO in opposition to Russia\u2019s designs on Ukraine\u2014despite his blunder in dropping Nord Stream 2 sanctions. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 13 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "1681, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220628-183952"
  },
  "blaze (up)":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": flare-up"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"from blaze up , verb",
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220628-203151"
  },
  "blackball":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to vote against",
      ": to exclude from membership by casting a negative vote",
      ": to exclude socially : ostracize",
      ": boycott",
      ": a small black ball for use as a negative vote in a ballot box",
      ": an adverse vote especially against admitting someone to membership in an organization"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blak-\u02ccb\u022fl"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "down",
      "kill",
      "negative",
      "nix",
      "shoot down",
      "veto"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "confirm",
      "ratify"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "She was blackballed by the sorority",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "That's why all of these coaches really need to band together, because the NFL can't blackball everybody. \u2014 Brandon Tensley, CNN , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "Trust us, says the league that paid millions to quarterback Colin Kaepernick and defensive back Eric Reid to settle their claim that the league colluded to blackball them for their politics. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "The lawyer is confident what is going on, from bullying to trying to blackball him with a feeling a betrayal. \u2014 Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic , 2 Sep. 2021",
      "Haines perhaps was overly convinced that his fame was robust enough to survive Mayer's attempts to blackball him. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 4 June 2021",
      "The company\u2019s sway in business has come in for scrutiny, too, over its ability to blackball particular apps, cut preferential deals and use its financial power to acquire promising startups. \u2014 John D. Mckinnon, WSJ , 10 Dec. 2020",
      "Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers went so far as to say Kaepernick was being blackballed from the league. \u2014 Nancy Armour, USA TODAY , 30 May 2020",
      "In 2016, Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the National Anthem in protest of these racist deaths, and the latter was functionally blackballed from the NFL. \u2014 Zo\u00e9 Samudzi, The New Republic , 16 May 2020",
      "For years she was blackballed and had to settle for crumbs. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 7 Aug. 2019",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Photos of Jay-Z hamming it up with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who many see as the face of Kaepernick\u2019s blackball , were off-putting, to put it politely. \u2014 Jonathan Jones, SI.com , 21 Aug. 2019",
      "Supporters of the proposed law say letting landlords blackball people who qualify for federal vouchers is partly responsible for San Diego\u2019s stark racial segregation, with minorities dominating southern areas and whites dominant in northern areas. \u2014 David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com , 2 July 2018",
      "Pay college players, blackball Colin Kaepernick, baseball is too slow. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 24 Apr. 2018",
      "Even with Kaepernick grayballed ( blackball -lite?), the trickle of protesters became a torrent, thanks to the president. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Mar. 2018",
      "There is a reason why fashionable members clubs admit freelance graphic designers who live hand to mouth and blackball superstar bankers. \u2014 Janan Ganesh, Town & Country , 8 Dec. 2017",
      "But the idea that this situation is anything but a blackball is ridiculous. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 5 Oct. 2017",
      "When there are too many swimmers for safe surfing, the blackball flag serves as a warning. \u2014 Julia Herbst, Los Angeles Magazine , 13 July 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "1550, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "1763, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220628-214248"
  },
  "blow off":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to refuse to take notice of, honor, or deal with : ignore",
      ": to end a relationship with",
      ": to outperform in a contest",
      ": to fail to attend or show up for"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[
      "break off (with)",
      "ditch",
      "dump",
      "jilt",
      "kiss off",
      "leave"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off",
      "blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1631, in the meaning defined at sense 1b"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-000929"
  },
  "blastoff":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a blasting off (as of a rocket)",
      ": take off sense 1b",
      ": an instance of taking off (as of a rocket)"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blast-\u02cc\u022ff",
      "\u02c8blast-\u02cc\u022ff"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "launch",
      "liftoff",
      "takeoff"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "landing"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the mission was scrubbed just minutes before blastoff",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "What if the rocket could be tossed several meters above the surface, allowing more clearance for blastoff ? \u2014 Jonathan O'callaghan, Scientific American , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Walter Cronkite helms the program, and news clips depict excited crowds, waving astronauts and a blastoff countdown. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "Billions over budget and years behind schedule, the James Webb Space Telescope is targeted for blastoff from the European Space Agency's Kourou, French Guiana, launch site at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday atop an Ariane 5 rocket, weather permitting. \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 24 Dec. 2021",
      "The communications problem, which technicians were still troubleshooting as of this morning, has pushed Webb\u2019s blastoff back a couple of days, to December 24. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 15 Dec. 2021",
      "Live footage showed the 154-foot rocket soaring into the air with bright yellow flames shooting out of its engines after blastoff at Naro Space Center, the country's lone spaceport, on a small island off its southern coast. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "His image caught the fiery blastoff , with spectators silhouetted in the glow of creation. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Aug. 2021",
      "Shatner will join Chris Boshuizen, founder of Earth-observation company Planet Labs; microbiologist Glen de Vries; and Blue Origin's Audrey Powers for blastoff on a 10-minute up-and-down flight out of the discernible atmosphere to the edge of space. \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "His image caught the fiery blastoff , with spectators silhouetted in the glow of creation. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1934, in the meaning defined above",
      "Verb",
      "1934, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-014430"
  },
  "black baldy":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a hardy black cow with a mostly white face that is produced by crossing a Hereford and Angus cow"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1950, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-113151"
  },
  "blissful":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": full of, marked by, or causing complete happiness",
      ": happily benighted"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blis-f\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "chuffed",
      "delighted",
      "glad",
      "gratified",
      "happy",
      "joyful",
      "joyous",
      "pleased",
      "satisfied",
      "thankful",
      "tickled"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "displeased",
      "dissatisfied",
      "joyless",
      "sad",
      "unhappy",
      "unpleased",
      "unsatisfied"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "At first, their time together was blissful .",
      "He sat there in a blissful state of comfort.",
      "a blissful setting for a wedding",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Parsing through the seemingly endless options of bouquets, ceremony arches, cakes and, most crucially, fashion to find what feels right for you and your betrothed can be blissful \u2014or headache-inducing. \u2014 Vogue , 1 June 2022",
      "But the many exhibitors who did show up did their best to provide a blissful , if temporary, separation from the realities waiting just outside the doors. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
      "Men and women love the lightweight feel and the delectable scent of coconuts and blissful paradise. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
      "To help facilitate a blissful vacation, there\u2019s an on-site spa with a dry sauna, experiential shower, and an outdoor treatment room. \u2014 Christina Liao, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
      "The person in front of me, however, was calm, even blissful . \u2014 Gregory Grieve, The Conversation , 19 May 2022",
      "Bring that blissful feeling to you backyard patio with his stylish piece from Safavieh, which features a steel frame wrapped in all-weather black resin wicker. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 9 May 2022",
      "What started as a blissful homebirth turned into an emergency run to the hospital where an epidural, heart monitors and Pitocin made possible what would have been \u2014 in long-ago days \u2014 pure tragedy. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
      "Those days of blissful fiscal ignorance will soon end. \u2014 Chris Jacobs, WSJ , 15 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"see bliss ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-121555"
  },
  "blink":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to look glancingly : peep",
      ": to look with half-shut eyes",
      ": to close and open the eyes involuntarily",
      ": to shine dimly or intermittently",
      ": to look with too little concern",
      ": to look with surprise or dismay",
      ": yield , give in",
      ": to cause to blink",
      ": to remove (something, such as tears) from the eye by blinking",
      ": to deny recognition to",
      ": glimpse , glance",
      ": glimmer , sparkle",
      ": a usually involuntary shutting and opening of the eye",
      ": iceblink",
      ": in an instant",
      ": in or into a disabled or useless condition",
      ": to shut and open the eyes quickly",
      ": to shine with a light that goes or seems to go on and off",
      ": to close and open the eyes involuntarily (as when struggling against drowsiness or when dazzled)",
      ": to close and open (the eye) involuntarily",
      ": to remove (as tears) from the eye by blinking",
      ": a usually involuntary shutting and opening of the eye"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bli\u014bk",
      "\u02c8bli\u014bk",
      "\u02c8bli\u014bk"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "flash",
      "twinkle",
      "wink"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "She blinked when the light flashed.",
      "Her eyes blinked when the light flashed.",
      "She blinked her eyes when the light flashed.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "At Ocean Beach, the container ships blink just offshore. \u2014 Bonnie Tsui, Outside Online , 6 Feb. 2021",
      "Change the color of each individual bulb, dim them, produce unique effects, and even set the lights to blink to your own music all through the use of a smart phone app. \u2014 Hannah Jones, Country Living , 25 May 2022",
      "Is there a risk here of economic contagion, and is Jerome Powell less likely to blink now that he's secured a second term as Federal Reserve Chair? \u2014 Matt Sekerke, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
      "More probable is that the Fed will blink and continue along its path of tightening but not to the point of driving the US economy into recession. \u2014 George Schultze, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
      "When they are connected, the status light on the case would blink and then stay. \u2014 Toby Grey, BGR , 9 May 2022",
      "This New York punk duo stares directly into the hybrid catastrophes piling up on the horizon and does not blink . \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "One of the new Multiverse of Madness ads that Marvel released contains a blink -and-you-miss-it scene that could explain one of the film\u2019s big mysteries. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "But my main direction is don\u2019t blink , don\u2019t move your face, and say your lines. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Technology advanced in the blink of an eye, and the advancement has ushered in a new era of communication, collaboration and cooperation. \u2014 Ryan Moody, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
      "The weather and ocean conditions can change in the blink of an eye. \u2014 CBS News , 13 June 2022",
      "In one blink -or-you\u2019ll-miss-it instant, Bernstein throws himself on the piano, arms out as if crucified on the keyboard. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Taylor Ingram's throw was not in time to beat Brown's slide, and the Bluebirds stormed the field as Dixie felt the agony of a walk-off defeat, their season coming to an end in the blink of an eye. \u2014 Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer , 1 June 2022",
      "Using just a smartphone, people can create ads, messages, sales, services, graphics and videos that can be curated, created and shared with the world in the blink of an eye. \u2014 Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone , 27 May 2022",
      "Circumstances pushed us all into the virtual world in the blink of an eye. \u2014 Tj Martin, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
      "The first, apparently captured from a smartphone, shows a small spherical object that whisks past the cockpit of a U.S. Navy strike fighter in the blink of an eye. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2022",
      "During the hearing, Bray pointed to footage of a mysterious object zooming by a military aircraft, appearing and disappearing in the blink of an eye. \u2014 Anumita Kaurstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a",
      "Noun",
      "1578, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-134404"
  },
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
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      ": leaf sense 1a(1)",
      ": the leaf of an herb or a grass",
      ": the flat expanded part of a leaf as distinguished from the petiole",
      ": something resembling the blade of a leaf: such as",
      ": the broad flattened part of an oar or paddle",
      ": an arm of a screw propeller, electric fan, or steam turbine",
      ": the broad flat or concave part of a machine (such as a bulldozer or snowplow) that comes into contact with the material to be moved",
      ": a broad flat body part",
      ": scapula",
      ": the flat portion of the tongue immediately behind the tip",
      ": this portion together with the tip",
      ": the cutting part of an implement",
      ": sword",
      ": swordsman",
      ": a dashing lively man",
      ": the runner of an ice skate",
      ": to hit (a ball or shot) with the leading edge of the clubface : skull",
      ": to skate on in-line skates",
      ": a leaf of a plant and especially of a grass",
      ": the broad flat part of a leaf",
      ": something that widens out like the blade of a leaf",
      ": the cutting part of a tool, machine, or weapon",
      ": sword",
      ": the runner of an ice skate",
      ": a broad flat body part (as the shoulder blade)",
      ": the flat portion of the tongue immediately behind the tip",
      ": this portion together with the tip",
      ": a flat working and especially cutting part of an implement (as a scalpel)"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101d",
      "\u02c8bl\u0101d",
      "\u02c8bl\u0101d"
    ],
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      "brand",
      "steel",
      "sword"
    ],
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    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the blade of an ax",
      "dueled with blades rather than guns",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The rock could be as minor as a burr on a blade , but if it wasn\u2019t eliminated or moved out of the way, the entire manufacturing process could be compromised. \u2014 Lance Knight, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
      "Growing up, Ash Smith was the fearless sort \u2014 whether that meant chasing after a 500-pound pig on the family farm or cutting her own hair with just a razor blade . \u2014 oregonlive , 12 June 2022",
      "MacFhionghain held the knife in his right hand with the blade pointed downward over Mendoza, who was on his back and using his right hand to hold onto MacFhionghain\u2019s right wrist, San Francisco Police Commander Paul Yep said. \u2014 Lauren Hern\u00e1ndez, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 May 2022",
      "The root ball will handily balance right on the flat on the blade . \u2014 Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine , 13 May 2022",
      "Any vanilla seeds that get stuck on the blade , transfer them to the jar. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Nov. 2021",
      "This particular package includes a chef\u2019s blade , a carving knife, and a paring knife, each featuring the brand\u2019s signature beechwood handle. \u2014 Helena Madden, ELLE Decor , 26 May 2022",
      "Its barrel is made of Damascus steel with sword- blade details, and the end piece recalls arrow slits. \u2014 Nancy Olson, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
      "Also found was a saw blade , an empty cigarette pack and a cigarette butt. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Runner-Up: Brod & Taylor Classic Knife Sharpener This tool features triple-action tungsten carbide sharpeners that automatically adjust to blade angles between 12 and 20 degrees. \u2014 Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics , 23 Feb. 2019",
      "Burr grinders, as opposed to blade grinders, grind the coffee more evenly and consistently. \u2014 Rachel Marlowe, Vogue , 5 July 2017",
      "Sami Vatanen had a clear shot at goalie Cam Talbot but missed up high, and Andrew Cogliano had a chance to blade a puck out of the air at close range. \u2014 Mark Whicker, Orange County Register , 10 May 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "1959, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-134700"
  },
  "blade angle":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": the angle between the chord of a propeller or rotor blade and a plane normal to the axis of rotation, its value varying along the span and decreasing from root to tip because of blade twist"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-144312"
  },
  "blissed-out":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": experiencing bliss : ecstatic"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blist-\u02c8au\u0307t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1973, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-144704"
  },
  "bladdery":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": resembling a bladder especially in being swollen but empty",
      ": puffy , inflated",
      ": having or characterized by bladders"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blad\u0259r\u0113",
      "-ri"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-151011"
  },
  "blow one's own horn":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to talk about oneself or one's achievements especially in a way that shows pride or too much pride"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-152023"
  },
  "block (off)":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry point the square is temporarily blocked off for the street fair"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-171158"
  },
  "bleed (for)":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "to have sympathy for the young man bleeds for his friend, who just lost his father"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-171808"
  },
  "bloated":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc."
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014d-t\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "exaggerated",
      "hyperbolized",
      "inflated",
      "outsize",
      "outsized",
      "overblown",
      "overdrawn",
      "overweening"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "I felt bloated from eating too much.",
      "a bloated sense of his own importance",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There are many different things that can cause your stomach to become hard and bloated . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 June 2022",
      "Chief Executive Brian Cornell said that Target was taking the action to ensure that the bloated inventory levels don\u2019t cause problems throughout the year. \u2014 Colin Kellaher, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
      "Fans may have embraced the video, but it was regarded by many cultural tastemakers as excessive, indulgent and bloated . \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
      "Either way, a lot of money even by bloated NFL standards. \u2014 Terry Pluto, cleveland , 8 June 2022",
      "The central government\u2019s senior finance officials ordered the bloated property giants to reduce their debt loads. \u2014 Grady Mcgregor And Clay Chandler, Fortune , 3 June 2022",
      "Some say royalties have been replaced by front-loaded, bloated contracts, making flops all the more costly and obscuring creators\u2019 ability to see just how successful their works are. \u2014 New York Times , 28 May 2022",
      "The chain said a lightening quick return by consumers to more normalized spending left it with bloated inventory of items including TV sets that must be marked down to sell. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
      "Now, on June 1, the Fed will start reducing their historically bloated balance sheet. \u2014 Bob Haber, Forbes , 26 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1656, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-172645"
  },
  "blather (on)":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point my attention wandered as she blathered on about her endlessly active social life"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-174202"
  },
  "blissful ignorance":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a state of not knowing and not wanting to know about unhappy things or possible problems"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-182614"
  },
  "blunderbush":{
    "type":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of blunderbush dialectal variant of blunderbuss"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259nd\u0259r\u02ccbu\u0307sh"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-193225"
  },
  "blight":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers)",
      ": an organism (such as an insect or a fungus) that causes blight",
      ": something that frustrates plans or hopes",
      ": something that impairs or destroys",
      ": a deteriorated condition",
      ": to affect (a plant) with a disease or injury marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) : to affect with blight (see blight entry 1 sense 1 )",
      ": to impair the quality or effect of",
      ": to suffer from or become affected with blight",
      ": a disease that makes parts of plants dry up and die",
      ": to injure or destroy by or as if by a blight",
      ": an inflammation of the eye in which the eyelids discharge a thick mucous substance that often seals them up for days and minute granular pustules develop inside the lid"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u012bt",
      "\u02c8bl\u012bt",
      "\u02c8bl\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blemish",
      "blotch",
      "defect",
      "deformity",
      "disfigurement",
      "excrescence",
      "excrescency",
      "fault",
      "flaw",
      "imperfection",
      "mar",
      "mark",
      "pockmark",
      "scar"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the city's spreading urban blight",
      "the expanding urban sprawl is a blight on the countryside",
      "Verb",
      "Builders blighted the land with malls and parking lots.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Its Slavic roots are evident, its jewels of Roman architecture are stunning, its centuries as an Ottoman outpost are recognizable, its remnants of Communist blight are saddening, and its European aspirations are palpable. \u2014 Jordan Mcgillis, National Review , 2 May 2022",
      "According to DeKalb County, a task force was never put in place to address issues at Brannon Hill specifically but a Blight Task Force looks at the status of blight throughout the county and studies the nature of the problem. \u2014 Jozsef Papp, ajc , 9 May 2022",
      "Alas, the system has broken down, leaving a form of blight to sweep the world \u2014 devastating crops and corrupting the animallike machines that were once caretakers of the land. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Feb. 2022",
      "The city, under state law, must bring in a third party to conduct the blight study. \u2014 cleveland , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "In addition to supporting Jacobs\u2019 razing of mostly squalid motels, the city used its blight fund in 2016 to finance the demolition of two vacant motels despite pleas from the community to preserve them as housing. \u2014 Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "In recent years, council members have shown their support for some of Duggan's platform, including the blight bond proposal to raise funds for demolitions of crumbling structures. \u2014 Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press , 4 Nov. 2021",
      "And, just as researchers had hoped, grafting edible pears onto Callery roots produced blight -resistant fruit trees. \u2014 CBS News , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "The neighborhood, which is just west of Martin Luther King Boulevard, has long suffered from blight , and city leaders targeted it for redevelopment more than two decades ago. \u2014 Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "And these avatars certainly capture ABBA\u2019s original exuberance, minus the Jurassic tendencies that tend to blight decades-after-the-fact reunions in the real world. \u2014 Mark Sutherland, Variety , 27 May 2022",
      "Baltimore Housing Commissioner Alice Kennedy praised the mayor for his commitment to blight prevention and pledged to keep working diligently to address the nearly 15,000 vacant houses in Baltimore. \u2014 Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun , 12 May 2022",
      "Challenges are based on worries that the vast arrays of turbines will interfere with fishing, obstruct naval exercises and blight views from summer houses. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "In the clinical world, consistency is king; gaps in data can blight the reliability of any takeaways, or beleaguer analysis. \u2014 Grace Browne, Wired , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Doping allegations continue to blight Russia\u2019s race-walking program\u201417 of its athletes have been banned for doping in the past few years\u2014even as athletes from the program have dominated the world championships and Olympics. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 15 Jan. 2015",
      "Tent encampments still blight cities, however, and many voters equate them with crime. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "In my experience, few things blight a career as much as a failed software implementation. \u2014 Mark Robinson, Forbes , 5 Oct. 2021",
      "However, Camilla is also acutely aware of the challenges that blight gardeners\u2019 efforts. \u2014 Victoria Murphy, Town & Country , 19 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1578, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
      "Verb",
      "1695, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-201728"
  },
  "black bag job":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": bag job sense 1"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"from the stereotypical black bag carried on such an operation",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1966, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-202550"
  },
  "blingy":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": characterized by bling : extravagantly flashy or showy"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bli\u014b-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "2003, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-210634"
  },
  "blithesome":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": gay , merry"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u012bth-s\u0259m",
      "\u02c8bl\u012bt\u035fh-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blithe",
      "bright",
      "buoyant",
      "canty",
      "cheerful",
      "cheery",
      "chipper",
      "eupeptic",
      "gay",
      "gladsome",
      "lightsome",
      "sunny",
      "upbeat",
      "winsome"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "dour",
      "gloomy",
      "glum",
      "morose",
      "saturnine",
      "sulky",
      "sullen"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "a blithesome girl who never seems to be sad or angry",
      "a blithesome and silly joke among old friends"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1594, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-222847"
  },
  "blasphemous":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": impiously irreverent : profane"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blas-f\u0259-m\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "impious",
      "irreverent",
      "profane",
      "sacrilegious"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "pious",
      "reverent"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "Catholics used to believe that anyone but a priest touching a consecrated wafer was blasphemous .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Last month, a Christian student was beaten to death and her body set on fire after fellow students accused her of sending blasphemous messages about the Prophet Muhammad in a WhatsApp group conversation. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
      "The tyrant cleric had seen in it only blasphemous portrayals of the prophet Muhammad. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Last year, opposition peaked when Islamist groups demonstrated in major cities, accusing the marchers of using blasphemous slogans \u2014 a crime punishable by death in Pakistan \u2014 accusations of which have provoked lynchings and murders. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "The fight broke out between conservative lawmakers Hassan Riati and Shadi Udwan after insults were exchanged and blasphemous remarks were made, according a source who saw events unfold first-hand. \u2014 Celine Alkhaldi, CNN , 29 Dec. 2021",
      "Naked she-demons stood in a circle, singing blasphemous and profane songs to him. \u2014 The New Yorker , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Turning a classic cocktail into a cloyingly sweet Italian dessert typically packed with candied fruits is blasphemous , right? \u2014 Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "Sunni Muslims, especially of the Barelvi sect, who make up a majority of Pakistan\u2019s population, view depictions of the Prophet Muhammad as blasphemous . \u2014 Salman Masood, New York Times , 1 Nov. 2021",
      "Set in rural India, the film will follow an adolescent girl who struggles to survive through drought, hardship and discrimination as her father is shunned by the majority of the village for engaging in a blasphemous act. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 11 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"see blaspheme ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-021044"
  },
  "blink (at)":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "to dismiss as of little importance the firm conviction that we should never blink at any instances of plagiarism, whether in academia or in commercial publishing"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-031319"
  },
  "blunderbuss":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a muzzle-loading firearm with a short barrel and flaring muzzle to facilitate loading",
      ": a blundering person",
      ": a short gun that has a barrel which is larger at the end and that was used long ago for shooting at close range without taking exact aim"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259n-d\u0259r-\u02ccb\u0259s",
      "\u02c8bl\u0259n-d\u0259r-\u02ccb\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blunderer",
      "botcher",
      "bumbler",
      "bungler",
      "butcher",
      "fumbler",
      "screwup"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "leave it to that blunderbuss to bungle a job that a child could do",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Adding a novel tariff blunderbuss is not likely to make the situation better. \u2014 Timothy Fitzgerald, National Review , 22 Apr. 2021",
      "This would turn antitrust law into a blunderbuss aimed by failing competitors against companies that do a better job of serving consumers. \u2014 Robert H. Bork, National Review , 11 June 2021",
      "Most of the fun lies in appreciating the blunderbuss incompetence of the team, whose errors result in innocent people\u2019s heads getting sliced in two or their viscera getting exploded all over the scenery. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 4 Aug. 2021",
      "Handicapping off-year congressional elections nearly 400 days in advance has proven about as accurate as an eighteenth-century blunderbuss . \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "His blunderbuss diplomacy and a startling proposal to invite Taliban leaders to Camp David unnerved even some of his own advisers. \u2014 Susan Page, USA TODAY , 30 Aug. 2021",
      "Newsom\u2019s strategy is an unimaginative blunderbuss approach \u2014 raising ungodly amounts of cash from billionaires and special interests, and bludgeoning recall proponents as dangerous insurrectionist tools of former President Donald Trump. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 27 Aug. 2021",
      "Past negotiations were just a bunch of negotiators around the table, but now all of the parties have a blunderbuss pointed at their own foot. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 24 Apr. 2021",
      "The orderliness of the Armenian Revolution doesn\u2019t fit the berets-and- blunderbusses image of what a revolution is supposed to look like. \u2014 Tom Ball, The New Republic , 1 July 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"by folk etymology from obsolete Dutch donderbus , from Dutch donder thunder + obsolete Dutch bus gun",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1654, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-042753"
  },
  "Blumea":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a genus of tropical Australasian and African herbs or shrubs (family Compositae) with simple alternate leaves and discoid purple or yellow flower heads"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fcm\u0113\u0259"
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    "history_and_etymology":"New Latin, from Karl L. Blume \u20201862 German botanist",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-074937"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": bloat"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-081517"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": being without bliss"
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      "-l\u0259\u0307s"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-094740"
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    "type":[
      "abbreviation"
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      "bachelor of letters; bachelor of literature"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"Medieval Latin baccalaureus litterarum ",
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-112257"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": bloated , puffy",
      ": to make turgid or swollen",
      ": to cause abdominal distension in",
      ": to fill to capacity or overflowing",
      ": swell",
      ": one that is bloated",
      ": unwarranted or excessive growth or enlargement",
      ": digestive disturbance of ruminant animals and especially cattle marked by accumulation of gas in one or more stomach compartments",
      ": a condition of large dogs marked by distension and usually life-threatening rotation of the stomach",
      ": to make swollen with or as if with fluid",
      ": to make turgid:",
      ": to produce edema in",
      ": to cause or result in accumulation of gas in the digestive tract of",
      ": to cause abdominal distension in",
      ": to become turgid",
      ": a digestive disturbance of ruminant animals and especially cattle marked by accumulation of gas in one or more stomach compartments",
      ": a condition of large dogs marked by distension and usually life-threatening rotation of the stomach",
      ": any flatulent digestive disturbance of domestic animals"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014dt",
      "\u02c8bl\u014dt",
      "\u02c8bl\u014dt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "As is often the case, the scale of the obsession (as well as the responding compulsions) can bloat and expand over time. \u2014 Sadhbh O'sullivan, refinery29.com , 15 Oct. 2021",
      "But that was four years ago, so inflation should bloat those projections a little. \u2014 Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com , 11 June 2021",
      "The compromised hermetic seal may affect can integrity and may cause the cans to leak, bloat or allow bacteria to grow inside the product which could lead to serious illness. \u2014 Mike Wehner, BGR , 18 May 2021",
      "Apple\u2019s macOS does tend to produce a lot of log files and system caches that can bloat and take up a lot of storage space. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 25 Feb. 2021",
      "Timothy has claimed to federal agents and a grand jury that Williams, through Burdett, pressured him to bloat the business write-offs. \u2014 Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com , 8 Jan. 2021",
      "At the center of the government\u2019s case is an allegation that Williams, through Burdett, ordered the tax preparer to bloat Williams' business deductions by more than $700,000 over five years, reducing his tax liability by about $200,000. \u2014 John Simerman, NOLA.com , 25 Nov. 2020",
      "Windows Update will still tend to bloat up the operating system pretty rapidly, and the SxS directory in particular still balloons with legacy versions of code that has been replaced in security upgrades. \u2014 Jim Salter, Ars Technica , 26 June 2020",
      "There\u2019s a herd of dinosaur mobs, bloated with essence, between you and the three-vs-three teamfight. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 27 May 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "However, a research study from the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine suggests that elevated feeders may actually increase your dog\u2019s risk of bloat . \u2014 Lindsay Pevny, Popular Mechanics , 24 June 2022",
      "There's also the matter of the oversized cast, which approaches Avengers levels of bloat . \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 8 June 2022",
      "Several current and former officials described the Russian security service as rife with corruption, beset by bureaucratic bloat and ultimately out of touch. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "The process has also been streamlined by having a small team of a couple dozen people and avoiding the bloat of modern AAA game design. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "Which leads some critics to complain of bloat , while others, like me, feel like the app is full-featured. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "That lengthy digestion can lead to the classic post-burger-and-fries feeling of bloat and gassiness, per the MD Anderson Cancer Center. \u2014 Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "Arizona voters in 1980 placed limits on school spending through a ballot initiative, preventing unrestrained budget bloat . \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "Cutting bloat is one way to help, but closing the commissaries is a hit below the belt. \u2014 WSJ , 16 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Adjective",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above",
      "Verb",
      "1677, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
      "Noun",
      "1836, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-115815"
  },
  "blume":{
    "type":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of blume Scottish variant of bloom"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u1d6bm"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-122302"
  },
  "blue-pencil":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to edit especially by shortening or deletion",
      ": a writing instrument used for editing",
      ": the act or practice of blue-penciling"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc-\u02c8pen(t)-s\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "cancel",
      "cross (out)",
      "dele",
      "delete",
      "edit (out)",
      "elide",
      "kill",
      "scratch (out)",
      "strike (out)",
      "stroke (out)",
      "x (out)"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "1888, in the meaning defined above",
      "Noun",
      "1845, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-131539"
  },
  "bloodbath":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a great slaughter",
      ": a notably fierce, violent, or destructive contest or struggle",
      ": a major economic disaster"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259d-\u02ccbath",
      "-\u02ccb\u00e4th"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "butchery",
      "carnage",
      "death",
      "holocaust",
      "massacre",
      "slaughter"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Thousands of people were murdered in the bloodbath .",
      "one side was so much better armed that the battle quickly turned into a bloodbath",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Its latest warning could portend a promotional bloodbath among retailers this summer. \u2014 Jinjoo Lee, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
      "Netflix released an eight-minute teaser clip of the season last week, showing a bloodbath at the Hawkins National Laboratories \u2014 with a young Eleven at the center of the chaos. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 23 May 2022",
      "Expect horror classics and bloodbath franchises such as Psycho, Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes, Nightmare on Elm Street, Hostel, American Psycho, Joy Ride, Wrong Turn, Sinister, Happy Death Day and many others. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 May 2022",
      "Netflix\u2019s first-quarter earnings report, released Tuesday evening, was a Kill Bill-level bloodbath . \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Nonetheless, that bloodbath (just briefly glimpsed before a long sequence at the one-hour mark) is undeniably a nasty sight that literally turns the sea red. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "That could point to a bloodbath or a disaster to come. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Practice English with the minions from Despicable Me or brush up on your Korean during the Squid Game bloodbath . \u2014 Reece Rogers, Wired , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "Authorities have tried with little success to stop the bloodbath or find a long-term solution to the war on drugs. \u2014 Stefano Pozzebon, CNN , 16 Apr. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1814, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-131553"
  },
  "blinger":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a superlative example of its kind"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bli\u014b\u0259(r)"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "origin unknown"
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    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-134846"
  },
  "blade apple":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": barbados gooseberry"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-134943"
  },
  "black bag":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": blue bag"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-151818"
  },
  "blissom":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": tup",
      ": to be in heat"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "Middle English blissomen , of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse bl\u00e6sma in heat (said of goats); akin to Old Norse bl\u0101sa to blow"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-152851"
  },
  "blow one's own trumpet":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to talk about oneself or one's achievements especially in a way that shows that one is proud or too proud"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-160101"
  },
  "blood bank":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a place where blood is stored so that it later can be given to people who are ill or injured",
      ": a place for storage of or an institution storing blood or plasma",
      ": blood so stored"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-161901"
  },
  "blazer":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": one that blazes",
      ": a sports jacket often with notched collar and patch pockets"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101-z\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "He wore a blue blazer and khaki pants.",
      "a wool skirt and matching blazer",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Polish off your practically perfect look with a ruffled blouse, carpet bag, and tweed blazer that matches Bert's. \u2014 Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping , 24 June 2022",
      "Take Dakota Johnson in her white Area blazer dress, which was cut to perfection, or Quannah Chasinghorse in her tweed, plunging V-neckline Chanel dress. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 20 June 2022",
      "Tales of drug use and salty language throughout are the inverse of Loggins\u2019 image of the blazer -sporting adult contemporary soft-rocker. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 19 June 2022",
      "Cut to Hailey Bieber embracing the blazer dress on two separate jaunts through Manhattan Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 14 June 2022",
      "Never missing a style beat, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge wore one standout outfit after another from a white Alexander McQueen blazer dress to a fuchsia Stella McCartney piece worn for the Jubilee pageant. \u2014 Megan C. Hills, CNN , 6 June 2022",
      "Frequent travelers will find lots of use for the suit or even the blazer alone, which comes in three different colors. \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
      "The duchess looked gorgeous in a recycled white Alexander McQueen blazer dress and a navy fascinator by Philip Treacy while attending the Trooping the Colour parade. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 4 June 2022",
      "Middleton looked positively regal in a white Alexander McQueen blazer dress and complementary blue and white Philip Treacy hat. \u2014 Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour , 2 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-162909"
  },
  "blade back":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": the surface of a propeller or rotor blade that corresponds to the upper surface of a lifting airfoil"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-164238"
  },
  "bleakly":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": exposed and barren and often windswept",
      ": cold , raw",
      ": lacking in warmth, life, or kindliness : grim",
      ": not hopeful or encouraging : depressing",
      ": severely simple or austere",
      ": open to wind or weather",
      ": being cold and raw or cheerless",
      ": not hopeful or encouraging"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0113k",
      "\u02c8bl\u0113k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "black",
      "cheerless",
      "chill",
      "Cimmerian",
      "cloudy",
      "cold",
      "comfortless",
      "dark",
      "darkening",
      "depressing",
      "depressive",
      "desolate",
      "dire",
      "disconsolate",
      "dismal",
      "drear",
      "dreary",
      "dreich",
      "elegiac",
      "elegiacal",
      "forlorn",
      "funereal",
      "gloomy",
      "glum",
      "godforsaken",
      "gray",
      "grey",
      "lonely",
      "lonesome",
      "lugubrious",
      "miserable",
      "morbid",
      "morose",
      "murky",
      "plutonian",
      "saturnine",
      "sepulchral",
      "solemn",
      "somber",
      "sombre",
      "sullen",
      "sunless",
      "tenebrific",
      "tenebrous",
      "wretched"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bright",
      "cheerful",
      "cheering",
      "cheery",
      "comforting",
      "cordial",
      "festive",
      "friendly",
      "gay",
      "heartwarming",
      "sunshiny"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "a bleak outlook for the team for the rest of the season",
      "it was a dark and bleak wintry day",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The outlier, Beyond Sleep, superbly translated by Ina Rilke, is the least bleak and violent, and has a far more appealing\u2014if no less incompetent\u2014hero, a geology graduate student. \u2014 Francine Prose, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
      "Saunders\u2019s short story has a bleak and introspective ending that might not have translated well to screen. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 20 June 2022",
      "The alternative to that, i.e., continuing to be desperate, can be pretty bleak and even for some, traumatic. \u2014 Svetlana Whitener, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "What a bleak and unforgiving view of office culture all these considerations present. \u2014 Chloe Schama, Vogue , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Return to menu President Biden entered office at both a bleak and a hopeful moment in the trajectory of the pandemic. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "Still, the familiar premise\u2014an odd couple thrown together by circumstances\u2014is refreshed, in a paradoxical way, by the bleak and moldering state of Russian transport after the collapse of the Soviet Union. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 27 Jan. 2022",
      "The treeless island looks bleak and nearly deserted. \u2014 Barry Neild, CNN , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "Amid the bleak outlook for glove exports and other global headwinds, the index of Malaysian healthcare stocks has dropped 37% in the past year, with glove manufacturers among the worst performers. \u2014 Anu Raghunathan, Forbes , 8 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "Middle English bleke pale; probably akin to Old English bl\u0101c"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1574, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-182401"
  },
  "Blum":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "L\u00e9on 1872\u20131950 French politician; provisional president (1946\u201347)"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fcm"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-194259"
  },
  "black bamboo":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a small Asian bamboo ( Phyllostachys nigra ) having black branches"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-200659"
  },
  "blithering":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": talking foolishly",
      ": marked by or consisting of foolish or nonsensical words"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blit\u035fh-ri\u014b",
      "\u02c8bli-t\u035fh\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1889, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-210001"
  },
  "blaspheme-vine":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a greenbrier ( Smilax laurifolia ) of the southeastern U.S. with thick coriaceous leaves"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-211707"
  },
  "blood bay":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a dark reddish bay color",
      ": a horse of this color"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-212015"
  },
  "bleaky":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": somewhat bleak"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0113k\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-215801"
  },
  "blood-and-guts":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": marked by great vigor, violence, or fierceness"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0259-d\u1d4an-\u02c8g\u0259ts"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bang-bang",
      "convulsive",
      "cyclonic",
      "explosive",
      "ferocious",
      "fierce",
      "furious",
      "hammer-and-tongs",
      "hot",
      "knock-down, drag-out",
      "knock-down-and-drag-out",
      "paroxysmal",
      "rabid",
      "rough",
      "stormy",
      "tempestuous",
      "tumultuous",
      "turbulent",
      "violent",
      "volcanic"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "nonviolent",
      "peaceable",
      "peaceful"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1975, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-225310"
  },
  "blaze orange":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a very bright orange used in clothing especially by hunters for visibility"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Quested also noted seeing Joseph Biggs meet the Arizona Proud Boys, who wore distinctive blaze orange caps. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 9 June 2022",
      "Thankfully the thick grasses couldn't conceal the blaze orange clothing of others toting shotguns and seeking to answer the same question. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Jan. 2022",
      "The blaze orange of hunters this weekend wasn't the only color indicating a new season had arrived in Wisconsin. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 21 Nov. 2021",
      "In Wisconsin the improvements are largely linked to a hunter education program that began in 1967 and regulations such as a blaze orange requirement during dun deer seasons. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 Nov. 2021",
      "His bright white smile popped against his blaze orange robes. \u2014 Michael Easter, Outside Online , 13 May 2021",
      "The cumulative experience of that blaze orange and camouflage army is considerable, to say the least. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Nov. 2020",
      "Two young fellows, dressed in red and blaze orange , clearly deer hunters, got out. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Mar. 2021",
      "The two men were not hunting together and the victim was not wearing blaze orange , according to the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office. \u2014 CBS News , 1 Dec. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1958, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-001726"
  },
  "blaze a trail":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to show a trail with marks on trees",
      ": to be the first one to do something and to show others how to do it"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-005905"
  },
  "bloodberry":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a tropical American herb ( Rivina humilis ) with racemes of red berries resembling those of pokeweed"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-015640"
  },
  "blown three-mold":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": produced by blow molding in a mold of two or more pieces and designed to simulate hand-cut glass"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-024154"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": somewhat blue : having a tinge of blue"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc-ish"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Drifting clouds of drippy fog swirled through the ancient oaks, incense cedars and stately pines, and the roadside clusters of bluish -purple lupines glistened from the beads of accumulating mist. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 May 2022",
      "In other rooms, workers pack pouches, swabs and solution into bluish -purple boxes labeled BinaxNow. \u2014 Brianna Abbott, WSJ , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "Scientists already knew that Neptune and Uranus get their general bluish appearance from the methane in their atmosphere, which absorbs incoming sunlight\u2019s red hues, leaving blues and greens for our eyes to see. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 7 June 2022",
      "The neighborhood of Fatih, with its beautiful 15th-century Ottoman mosque of low domes and pointed minarets sheathed in bluish lead, and its delicate linden and plane trees, had turned into a little Syria. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
      "Female trees which get pollinated produce clusters of olive-like fruits that turn a bluish black in the fall and are a favorite of birds. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 1 May 2022",
      "At first, Augusta caddies wore a bluish denim uniform with a green cap and a yellow button, before transitioning to the traditional white uniform in the early 1950s for Masters play. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "While the audience members settle into their seats, a sheer, bluish scrim stretches from the ceiling to the edge of the stage. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "Over Zoom, Kelleher showed off a bluish photo of Xylome\u2019s proprietary yeast strain, developed from an oil-producing species called Lipomyces starkeyi. \u2014 James Dinneen, Wired , 8 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-030720"
  },
  "bloodbird":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": an Australian honeyeater ( Myzomela sanguinolenta ) having the head, neck, breast, and back bright scarlet, the wings and tail black, and the under parts buff"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-041839"
  },
  "bloated clay":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": clay caused to swell naturally or by gas-forming additives and used especially as insulation in concrete because of its porosity and lightness"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "bloated entry 2"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-042523"
  },
  "blown pattern":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": the unevenly distributed pattern of shotgun pellets that results from the charge of shot overtaking the front wadding of the shell and being disrupted in flight"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-043747"
  },
  "blue pelt":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a pelt taken before priming is complete"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "so called from the bluish tinge of the leather side"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-051941"
  },
  "blowhard":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart , windbag"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014d-\u02cch\u00e4rd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "babbler",
      "blabber",
      "blabbermouth",
      "cackler",
      "chatterbox",
      "chatterer",
      "conversationalist",
      "gabbler",
      "gasbag",
      "jabberer",
      "jay",
      "magpie",
      "motormouth",
      "prattler",
      "talker",
      "windbag"
    ],
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    "examples":[
      "a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard",
      "a blowhard who always had to act like she was better than anyone else",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "His actions bespeak a prime-time TV blowhard who understands how objectionable his rhetoric has become. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
      "That\u2019s the argument, anyway\u2014and it\u2019s advanced by athletes, coaches, cable-news pundits, blowhard musicians, and more. \u2014 Jason Feifer, Men's Health , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "The man\u2019s an oblivious, ignorant, overconfident blowhard . \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "Stan plays the character as an entitled blowhard who ignites Gauthier\u2019s class fury and masculine jealousy. \u2014 Doreen St. F\u00e9lix, The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "Jesse, a hedonist blowhard who\u2019s mulling a takeover; Kelvin (Adam Devine), an earnest youth minister; and Judy (the incredible Edi Patterson), the lone daughter, undervalued by Eli because of her gender. \u2014 Doreen St. F\u00e9lix, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
      "In the Czech Republic the right-wing blowhard Prime Minister Andrej Babis recently lost narrowly against a coalition of center-left and center-right parties. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 15 Oct. 2021",
      "An ambitious, boastful, obnoxious blowhard takes a totally unnecessary swipe at Jaimie Lannister, a knight whose sword hand was amputated. \u2014 Andrew Pulrang, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021",
      "While Jean sees himself as a courageous soldier who dares to criticize powerful lords, Jacques sees him as an imprudent blowhard who barges into action without thinking. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 13 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1848, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-062049"
  },
  "blood and thunder":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": violence and uproar such as characterizes melodrama"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-070730"
  },
  "blightbird":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": any of several silvereyes of Australia and New Zealand that feed freely on various insect pests"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-094653"
  },
  "bliss out":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "verb, transitive + intransitive"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to experience bliss or ecstasy",
      ": to cause (someone) to experience bliss or ecstasy : to make (someone) blissfully happy"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1973, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-101638"
  },
  "blowhole":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a hole in metal caused by a bubble of gas captured during solidification",
      ": a nostril in the top of the head of a cetacean and especially a whale",
      ": a hole or fissure in rocks along a shore through which incoming waves force air to rush upward or water to spout intermittently"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014d-\u02cch\u014dl"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Someone had hacked off its flukes, and another person, or perhaps the same one, had stuck a cigar butt in its blowhole . \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
      "After that, the orcas jumped onto the whale's blowhole to exhaust the animal and prevent it from breathing. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "During the session, VanderVelde spotted water spouting out of a whale's blowhole in the ocean about 200 yards from the shore, per KAKE. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "Again through manipulation and dissection, the researchers figured out that when the animal was ready to swallow its latest meal, the oral plug shifted upward to protect the upper respiratory tract, including the nasal cavities and blowhole . \u2014 New York Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "Ascend their tails to get to the blowhole on their heads, then get launched a great distance upwards to escape a tricky situation. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "During dives, the blowhole is sealed by a nasal plug that opens when the animal surfaces. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Aug. 2021",
      "Baleen whales have two openings in their blowhole , while toothed whales have one. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Aug. 2021",
      "The parts aren\u2019t exactly alike, but both animals have a dorsal fin and a blowhole . \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 20 Apr. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1691, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-112353"
  },
  "blitter":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": the common Old World snipe ( Capella gallinago )"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blit\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "perhaps alteration of bleater"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-115402"
  },
  "blood-and-feather-dressed":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": new york dressed"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-121904"
  },
  "blasphemy":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God",
      ": the act of claiming the attributes of a deity",
      ": irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable",
      ": the crime of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God or a religion and its doctrines and writings and especially God as perceived by Christianity and Christian doctrines and writings"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blas-f\u0259-m\u0113",
      "\u02c8blas-f\u0259-m\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "defilement",
      "desecration",
      "impiety",
      "irreverence",
      "profanation",
      "sacrilege"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "adoration",
      "glorification",
      "worship"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "She was condemned by the church for uttering blasphemies .",
      "in the 17th century the Quakers were persecuted for beliefs and practices that older churches regarded as blasphemies",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Brandishing bloodstained cleavers, two men warn Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about inflaming religious tensions in India and vow to avenge acts of blasphemy . \u2014 Niha Masih, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
      "But their comments had already drawn accusations of blasphemy in some Middle Eastern countries, leaving New Delhi struggling to contain the fallout. \u2014 Leila Sackur, NBC News , 9 June 2022",
      "For example, in Pakistan, at least 16 individuals accused of blasphemy were sentenced to death in 2021. \u2014 Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
      "Park aficionados, for instance, will certainly hear some words that would have once been blasphemy to echo in Epcot. \u2014 Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022",
      "While some contemporary readers may associate blasphemy laws primarily with Muslim cultures, similar codes have obtained, at various times, in Maryland and Madrid, Holland and Hong Kong. \u2014 Graham Hillard, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "The dominant religious reasoning of the time argued that if plagues were sent by God, then to work against them was blasphemy . \u2014 Peter Manseau, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "In office, my father had sought clemency for a poor Christian woman accused of blasphemy . \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
      "The prosecutor in this case claims to support religious freedom, but her attempt to wield Finnish statute as a secular blasphemy law says otherwise. \u2014 Kelsey Koberg, Fox News , 18 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "see blaspheme"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-122841"
  },
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    "type":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of bloak variant spelling of bloke"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-161215"
  },
  "blisteringly":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": extremely intense or severe",
      ": very rapid"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bli-st(\u0259-)ri\u014b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "acute",
      "almighty",
      "deep",
      "dreadful",
      "excruciating",
      "explosive",
      "exquisite",
      "fearful",
      "fearsome",
      "ferocious",
      "fierce",
      "frightful",
      "furious",
      "ghastly",
      "hard",
      "heavy",
      "heavy-duty",
      "hellacious",
      "intense",
      "intensive",
      "keen",
      "profound",
      "terrible",
      "vehement",
      "vicious",
      "violent"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "light",
      "moderate",
      "soft"
    ],
    "examples":[
      "a hockey player with a blistering slap shot",
      "even after a blistering attack from the enemy, the fortress held",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Knapp and Alper are smart to surround Ren\u00e9e with a larger-than-expected backing band of seven players, three of whom make up a blistering horn section, anchored by the steady, admirably understated guitar played by Brendan Saadat. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 19 May 2022",
      "Granted, the economy just grew at a blistering 6.9% annual rate in the fourth quarter, but many things have changed since then, including two more months so far in 2022 of continuing high inflation. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "Inflation has proven to be one of the most blistering features of the pandemic recovery, one that weighs directly on households across the country. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "The coup\u00e9 can rocket from zero to 62 mph in 2.8 second and has a blistering top speed of 220.5 mph. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "The game was tied 21-21 at half, but the Malemutes went on a blistering 13-0 run over the first half of the third quarter, taking command of the game. \u2014 Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "Playing their fourth game in four days, the seventh-seeded Hokies (23-12) clinched a berth in next week\u2019s NCAA Tournament with a stunning 82-67 win Saturday over top-seeded Duke behind a blistering offensive performance from Hunter Cattoor. \u2014 David Thompson, USA TODAY , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "But his most blistering critiques also are directed at Trump and efforts by Abbott and Paxton to stop cities, counties and school districts from enforcing mandates on masks, vaccinations and testing. \u2014 Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Behind a balanced scoring attack and a blistering first-half run, Noblesville defeated Franklin, 76-52, to secure the IHSAA Class 4A girls basketball championship, its first since 1987. \u2014 Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star , 27 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1708, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-220354"
  },
  "blue-chip":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a stock issue of high investment quality that usually pertains to a substantial well-established company and enjoys public confidence in its worth and stability",
      ": a company that offers such stocks",
      ": a business or undertaking with an outstanding record or likelihood of profitability",
      ": one that is outstanding: such as",
      ": an outstandingly worthwhile or valuable property or asset",
      ": an athlete rated as excellent or as an excellent prospect",
      ": a stock issue of high investment quality that usually pertains to a substantial well-established company and enjoys public confidence in its worth and stability"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "With ratings down across cable, Mr. Licht has told colleagues that strengthening CNN\u2019s reputation as a fair-minded news outfit will help attract blue chip advertisers. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
      "The fund manager at the center of the controversy saw its stock sink 5.3%, underperforming declines in the broader German blue chip index DAX. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 31 May 2022",
      "The blue chip index jumped 618.34 points, or nearly 2%, to 31,880.24. \u2014 NBC News , 23 May 2022",
      "In tennis, a blue chip is one of the very best players. \u2014 Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 May 2022",
      "Oregon has added another blue chip prospects to its 2023 recruiting class. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 13 May 2022",
      "There is a limited supply of blue chip works in the world and collectors \u2014 as well as auction houses \u2014 remain hungry for inventory. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2022",
      "Boeing needed a high profile blue chip customer win and no doubt the commercial terms are exceptionally advantageous for IAG. \u2014 John Strickland, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "Wirecard, founded in 1999, began by processing payments for gambling and pornography websites before becoming a fintech star and a member of Germany\u2019s blue chip DAX index. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1892, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-221415"
  },
  "blackband":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": the mineral siderite when occurring mixed with clay, sand, and considerable carbonaceous matter and frequently being associated with coal"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-040029"
  },
  "blahs":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": silly or pretentious chatter or nonsense",
      ": a feeling of boredom, lethargy, or general dissatisfaction",
      ": lacking interest : dull , boring",
      "[perhaps influenced in meaning by blas\u00e9 ]"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "applesauce",
      "balderdash",
      "baloney",
      "boloney",
      "beans",
      "bilge",
      "blarney",
      "blather",
      "blatherskite",
      "blither",
      "bosh",
      "bull",
      "bunk",
      "bunkum",
      "buncombe",
      "claptrap",
      "codswallop",
      "crapola",
      "crock",
      "drivel",
      "drool",
      "fiddle",
      "fiddle-faddle",
      "fiddlesticks",
      "flannel",
      "flapdoodle",
      "folderol",
      "falderal",
      "folly",
      "foolishness",
      "fudge",
      "garbage",
      "guff",
      "hogwash",
      "hokeypokey",
      "hokum",
      "hoodoo",
      "hooey",
      "horsefeathers",
      "humbug",
      "humbuggery",
      "jazz",
      "malarkey",
      "malarky",
      "moonshine",
      "muck",
      "nerts",
      "nonsense",
      "nuts",
      "piffle",
      "poppycock",
      "punk",
      "rot",
      "rubbish",
      "senselessness",
      "silliness",
      "slush",
      "stupidity",
      "taradiddle",
      "tarradiddle",
      "tommyrot",
      "tosh",
      "trash",
      "trumpery",
      "twaddle"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "She had a bad case of the blahs .",
      "gave me the usual blah that my manuscript did not meet their current publishing needs but thanks for considering them",
      "Adjective",
      "The hotel room was totally blah .",
      "She sat on the couch all day watching television and feeling blah .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "This isn't some Amazon drama stretching one episode of story into eight episodes of blah . \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 11 May 2022",
      "Although this Outlander is way better than the third generation, the end result is still blah at best. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "That felt like some pretty blah thinking at the time. \u2014 Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Could the tyranny of the blah , stuffy tuxedo finally be coming to an end? \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "But despite using the best whitening toothpastes on the market, the color has always been a little blah . \u2014 Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Sure, the challenges were a bit blah , but still, a rousing and triumphant success. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 9 Dec. 2021",
      "Nearly 20,000 people came to Target Field on an overcast, blah -weather Wednesday to watch the baseball equivalent of an irritating song being played on repeat. \u2014 Chip Scoggins, Star Tribune , 7 July 2021",
      "High on the Hog comes to mind as a recent creative success\u2014but that its ratio of blah offerings to genuine winners is all off. \u2014 Kate Knibbs, Wired , 6 July 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The inside is clean and neat, but the front yard is so blah ! \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Aug. 2021",
      "But driving to MetLife Stadium is a nightmare and the stadium itself is pretty blah . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 July 2021",
      "That's not to say that this first taste will be totally blah . \u2014 Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com , 13 May 2021",
      "Your daily matchas and teas at home can feel so blah nowadays. \u2014 Kiana Murden, CNN Underscored , 30 Mar. 2021",
      "These last few weeks have left me feeling a bit blah . \u2014 Katie Laughridge, chicagotribune.com , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "The vets on this team are pretty blah , limited pieces such as Dennis Smith, Julius Randle, Omari Spellman, Elfrid Payton and Kevin Knox, who don't fit. \u2014 J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star , 22 Dec. 2020",
      "Wearing the same style of face mask every day can feel so blah . \u2014 Kiana Murden, CNN Underscored , 9 July 2020",
      "The most helpful shopping ideas right now are coming from blah big box stores like Walmart and Lowe\u2019s. \u2014 Shira Ovide, New York Times , 26 May 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "Noun",
      "imitative"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "1918, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Adjective",
      "1922, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-105319"
  },
  "blue-chipper":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": blue chip"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc-\u02ccchi-p\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1953, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-120507"
  },
  "blinged-out":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": wearing or embellished with flashy jewelry or features"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bli\u014bd-\u02c8au\u0307t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "2000, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-120652"
  },
  "bladder wrack":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a common rockweed ( Fucus vesiculosus ) used in preparing kelp and as a manure"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "first_known_use":[
      "1803, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-125228"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
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      ": a tropical vine ( Clitoria ternatea ) with pinnate leaves and bright-blue yellow-centered flowers"
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "examples":[],
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-132600"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": flashy jewelry worn especially as an indication of wealth or status",
      ": expensive and ostentatious possessions"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bli\u014b"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Manicurist Stephanie Staunton doesn't shy away from providing her clientele with a little bling . \u2014 Jennet Jusu, Allure , 27 May 2022",
      "Embellishments, bling , embroidery, and general over-the-top-ness were all fair game. \u2014 Jamila Stewart, Vogue , 23 May 2022",
      "The singular bling features an eye-catching jagged strap, a bezel encrusted with 26 round white diamonds and an interlocking chain lining one side. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 2 June 2022",
      "Georgia football\u2019s national championship rings went public on Saturday with the seniors and others who moved on from the Bulldogs showing off their new bling . \u2014 Marc Weiszer, USA TODAY , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "For sheer jaw-dropping bling , no wrist could compete with what DJ Khaled sported at the Academy Awards. \u2014 Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "Minaj drops her lines while standing inside a provocative pink balloon cave and posing with supersoaker water guns, sharing a cone with her pal, parting his hair and admiring his bling . \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Yes, some enjoy having a goal to work towards\u2014and the bling that comes along with it. \u2014 Christine Yu, Outside Online , 3 Jan. 2019",
      "Featuring an array of spectacular bling , the #HandInHand virtual sale will raise money to fight food poverty caused by the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 14 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "imitative"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1999, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-153659"
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  "black-banded snake":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a small brownish back-fanged snake ( Coniophanes imperialis ) with three black bands extending along its back and sides that is native to Mexico and southern Texas"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-161947"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a person who wears a blue coat: such as",
      ": a Union soldier during the American Civil War",
      ": police officer"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc-\u02cck\u014dt"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1583, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-170143"
  },
  "bladderwort family":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": lentibulariaceae"
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-231843"
  },
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": any of a genus ( Utricularia of the family Lentibulariaceae, the bladderwort family) of chiefly aquatic plants having leaves with tiny saclike structures to trap small invertebrates"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bla-d\u0259r-\u02ccw\u0259rt",
      "-\u02ccw\u022frt"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But flowers with pollen concealed within their petals, such as the common bladderwort , decreased their UV pigment as temperatures went up\u2014regardless of whether ozone levels changed. \u2014 Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS , 28 Sep. 2020",
      "In puddle-deep tracks next to the levees the endless squiggles of Florida bladderwort , an aquatic plant, kept looking like snakes, and weren\u2019t. \u2014 Gena Steffens, Smithsonian , 11 July 2019",
      "In puddle-deep tracks next to the levees the endless squiggles of Florida bladderwort , an aquatic plant, kept looking like snakes, and weren\u2019t. \u2014 Gena Steffens, Smithsonian , 11 July 2019",
      "The zoo will also have carnivorous plants such as Venus flytrap, pitcher plant and bladderwort . \u2014 James Ewinger, cleveland.com , 24 May 2017",
      "Throughout its evolutionary history, the bladderwort acquired its curated genetic possessions in a couple of ways. \u2014 Joanna Klein, New York Times , 19 May 2017",
      "Another unusual resident of Mud Pond is the lesser bladderwort , found at only three other sites in New Jersey. \u2014 USA TODAY , 12 May 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1776, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220703-012552"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a fluid-filled elevation of the epidermis \u2014 compare water blister",
      ": an enclosed raised spot (as in paint or the surface of baked dough) resembling a blister",
      ": an agent (such as lewisite) that causes blistering",
      ": a fungal disease of plants marked by raised patches on the leaves",
      ": any of various structures that bulge out (such as a gunner's compartment on a bomber)",
      ": to become affected with a blister",
      ": to raise a blister on",
      ": lambaste sense 2",
      ": to defeat (a competitor) decisively",
      ": to hit (a ball, shot, etc.) very powerfully",
      ": a small raised area of the skin filled with a watery liquid",
      ": a swelling (as in paint) that looks like a blister of the skin",
      ": to develop a blister or blisters",
      ": to cause blisters on",
      ": a fluid-filled elevation of the epidermis \u2014 compare water blister",
      ": an agent that causes blistering",
      ": to become affected with blisters",
      ": to raise a blister on"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bli-st\u0259r",
      "\u02c8bli-st\u0259r",
      "\u02c8blis-t\u0259r"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "She developed a blister on her heel where her shoe rubbed against it.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In some of the new cases, monkeypox has caused people to develop what looks like a pimple or blister , rather than a widespread rash, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in a briefing. \u2014 Aria Bendix, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
      "Sock liners help prevent blister formation by reducing chafing in places like the toes or heels, areas in direct contact with your hiking shoes or hiking boots. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
      "The disease eventually progresses into a rash and lesions that blister and scab over. \u2014 Katherine Dillinger, CNN , 29 May 2022",
      "Otherwise, roast poblanos in oven under broiler, turning to char and blister on all sides, a few minutes, until skin is nicely browned but chiles are not too soft and tender. \u2014 Kim Sun\u00e9e, Anchorage Daily News , 5 May 2022",
      "In September of that same season, Roberts removed Rich Hill from a game after seven perfect innings and 89 pitches, wary of a blister problem Hill was enduring at the time. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "An unidentified male and a female stole blister -prevention tape, a DVD, vitamin B12 capsules and enhanced absorption soft gels at about 12:30 p.m. Nov. 25 from CVS, 14372 Snow. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Two blister packs of fertility supplements lie next to them, covering a third packet which has torn foil and capsules missing. \u2014 Lydia Morrish, Wired , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "But now some of those blisters had a dent in the center known as umbilication (because the blister resembles a navel). \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The disease later progresses into a rash and lesions that can blister and scab over all over the body -- usually lasting two to four weeks. \u2014 Heather Chen, CNN , 22 June 2022",
      "The rash itself usually doesn\u2019t blister or bleed, but in many cases, the skin may peel. \u2014 Lauren Caruso, Allure , 17 Aug. 2021",
      "A few minutes are enough to blister their skins and boost the flavor of the blend. \u2014 Casey Barber, CNN , 6 July 2021",
      "Women gasp for air when the laces are pulled taught; others blister around the edges of the garment. \u2014 Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 Dec. 2020",
      "Violence and racial unrest continue to blister the country. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Sep. 2020",
      "The Washington Post reported that Baghdad's record-breaking heat is so bad that metal door handles can blister skin. \u2014 Mark Olalde, USA TODAY , 14 Aug. 2020",
      "Toss and allow other side of peas to blister for an additional 2 to 3 minutes. \u2014 Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press , 7 Aug. 2020",
      "Tear gas them, rubber bullet them, spray them with chemical water and blister their butts. \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 1 June 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "Noun",
      "Middle English blister, blester , probably from Old English *bl\u0233ster, *bl\u01e3ster ; akin to Old Norse bl\u0101str swelling, Old English bl\u01e3st blast"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220703-184559"
  },
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    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "William 1754\u20131817 English naval officer"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u012b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220703-184634"
  },
  "blow in":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to arrive casually or unexpectedly"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1882, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220703-184943"
  },
  "blight canker":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a phase of fire blight characterized by cankers"
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220703-201514"
  },
  "blaze-up":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": flare-up"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "from blaze up , verb"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-075105"
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  "bluing":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a preparation used in laundering to counteract yellowing of white fabrics"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc-i\u014b"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1652, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-075745"
  },
  "blabby":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": one that blabs : tattletale",
      ": idle or excessive talk : chatter",
      ": to talk idly or thoughtlessly",
      ": to reveal a secret especially by indiscreet chatter",
      ": to reveal especially without reserve or discretion",
      ": to reveal a secret",
      ": to talk too much"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8blab",
      "\u02c8blab"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "babble",
      "cackle",
      "chaffer",
      "chat",
      "chatter",
      "chin",
      "converse",
      "gab",
      "gabble",
      "gas",
      "jabber",
      "jaw",
      "kibitz",
      "kibbitz",
      "natter",
      "palaver",
      "patter",
      "prate",
      "prattle",
      "rap",
      "rattle",
      "run on",
      "schmooze",
      "shmooze",
      "talk",
      "twitter",
      "visit"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Don't tell Mary. She'll blab it all over town.",
      "\u201cHow did she find out about the surprise party?\u201d \u201cTom blabbed .\u201d",
      "He kept blabbing on and on about politics.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Lots of people just blab on about personal things to me, but this is a medical office. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "On cue, the CDC's latest update is being met with the usual tomato-throwing response from the anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-logic members of the blab -o-sphere who have declared the CDC hopelessly lost, unscientific and waffling. \u2014 Kent Sepkowitz, CNN , 2 Aug. 2021",
      "Will the former National Security Advisor and right-wing nightmare answer a subpoena and blab to the house committee on Thursday? \u2014 Lynn Yaeger, Vogue , 3 Nov. 2019",
      "Doing this will: kick your blab habit; conquer your fear of rejection (worst case, you get rejected for being yourself, far better than being loved for faking it); and render your what-to-tell question moot. \u2014 Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman , 19 Mar. 2018",
      "Want to hear a scientist blab about his latest project? \u2014 Steven Strom, Ars Technica , 7 Feb. 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "More to the point, what kind of guy would blab to the world on TV about the level of his losses? \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 Oct. 2021",
      "Just remember to take advice from real experts -- not from someone blabbing on Instagram or Facebook or tweeting junk to us. \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 20 Mar. 2020",
      "The chat can go on for as long as the chattiest participant wants to blab on. \u2014 Nicole Nguyen, WSJ , 25 Mar. 2020",
      "Toby should not have blabbed about being in love with Nadal. \u2014 Han Ong, The New Yorker , 23 Mar. 2020",
      "But that\u2019s not the end of the bad vibes, as Victoria F. is mad that Alayah had been reading online spoilers during her ever-so-brief time off the show, and Alayah has been blabbing about the Chase Rice connection. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 Feb. 2020",
      "His climactic loop in a helicopter after blabbing about it for the first part of the movie is the equivalent of an old drunk at the bar reenacting his game-winning high school touchdown. \u2014 Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica , 10 Jan. 2020",
      "Alexa is all too happy to blab all the details about what\u2019s in those packages to anyone in the house who asks. \u2014 Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com , 10 Dec. 2019",
      "Boisterous lunch customers pack tables, blabbing in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Greek and English. \u2014 Seth Kugel, New York Times , 1 July 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "Noun",
      "Middle English blabbe ; akin to Middle English blaberen"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[
      "Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-082351"
  },
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    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": humbug , claptrap , raillery",
      ": to talk pretentiously and usually inaccurately : lie boastfully"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00e4g",
      "-\u0227g",
      "\""
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "Noun",
      "French"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-084001"
  },
  "bloodalp":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a male bullfinch"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "blood + alp (bullfinch)"
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    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-084208"
  },
  "bladebone":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": scapula",
      ": a cut of meat containing part of the bladebone"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-090221"
  },
  "blood and iron":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": reliance on and use of force",
      ": the use of military power rather than normal diplomatic means"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "translation of German blut und eisen"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-130330"
  },
  "blow-in card":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a card printed typically with a subscription offer or advertisement that is inserted loosely by a machine using air pressure between the pages of a magazine"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1974, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-133739"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": the quality or state of being bloated"
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-135915"
  },
  "bluecoat boy":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a student at a bluecoat school"
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-141538"
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  "black-banded sunfish":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a small yellowish gray sunfish ( Mesogonistius chaetodon ) with vertical black bars that is sometimes kept in the aquarium"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-145336"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": either of two large chiefly West Indian parrot fishes ( Scarus caeruleus and Sparisoma chrysopterum )",
      ": either of two Australian labrid food fishes ( Choerodon ommopterus and C. cyanodus )"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-162633"
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  "black-backed woodpecker":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a three-toed woodpecker ( Picoides arcticus ) native to forests of the northern U.S. and Canada that is black above and white below with dark barring on the flanks, a white facial stripe, and in the male a yellow crown"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1828, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-170457"
  },
  "blaauw wildebeest":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": brindled gnu"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u014d-"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "obsolete Afrikaans (now blouwildebees ), literally, blue wildebeest"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-171044"
  },
  "blue panic":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a robust glabrous leafy perennial grass ( Panicum antidotale ) of southeastern U.S. with spikelets that are black at maturity"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-172450"
  },
  "blood alley":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": an alley used in the game of marbles that is spotted or streaked with red"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-173246"
  },
  "black bass":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": any of a genus ( Micropterus ) of freshwater sunfishes native to eastern and central North America and including the largemouth bass and smallmouth bass"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Fishermen have been observing more warm-water fish like black bass migrating northward into New England waters, while lobster populations have crashed in southern New England and Gulf of Maine shrimp populations have been depleted. \u2014 David Sharp, BostonGlobe.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Fishing regulations for black bass vary from lake to lake. \u2014 Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "Spotted, largemouth and smallmouth are the three species of black bass . \u2014 Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "The warden found an ice chest with six tilapia, one black bass and a cast net. \u2014 John Goodspeed, San Antonio Express-News , 29 Dec. 2021",
      "Predatory fish \u2014 which build up methylmercury by eating other fish \u2014 include: all species of black bass and gar, striped bass, white bass, hybrid striped bass, walleye, sauger, saugeye, flathead catfish, muskellunge and northern pike. \u2014 Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com , 19 Aug. 2021",
      "The kits will feature prime filet mignon, wild black bass , Scottish salmon and more that people can cook easily at home. \u2014 Veronica Hinke, chicagotribune.com , 16 Dec. 2020",
      "Each dinner includes your choice of starter, a traditional turkey plate, six-hour osso buco or pan-roasted black bass . \u2014 Jenn Harris Senior Food Writer, Los Angeles Times , 10 Nov. 2020",
      "Plus there's an abundance of warm-water fishing opportunities in the clear lakes created by these dams for everything from black bass to stripers to walleye. \u2014 Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online , 24 Oct. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1789, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-182503"
  },
  "blind-your-eyes":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": an Australian tree ( Excoecaria agallocha )"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "so called from its volatile juice"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-192627"
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      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-192805"
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      "noun"
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      "blackening of the senator's good name disgusted voters",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Temple leaves the tail shell on the end of the shrimp to protect the tender tip in the blackening process. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2021",
      "Drizzle lime juice over tilapia, season with 1/2 tsp salt, and dip in blackening seasoning. \u2014 Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day , 31 Mar. 2020",
      "Like Dorian Gray\u2019s portrait, his face registered the blackening of Walt\u2019s soul. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 11 Oct. 2019",
      "He and manager Dave Bristol went at it one day at the yard, with the manager blackening The Count\u2019s eye. \u2014 Gary Peterson, The Mercury News , 5 Sep. 2019",
      "Fenolio came across an academic journal with a paper about a particular species of frog that had faced similar deaths \u2014 a blackening and drying of the skin followed by a quick demise. \u2014 Josh Baugh, ExpressNews.com , 8 July 2019",
      "The floors were free from the blackening caused by fire. \u2014 National Geographic , 26 Mar. 2019",
      "Any blackening or a brown shade on the switch or outlet is cause for concern. \u2014 Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics , 29 Apr. 2016",
      "But then slowly, as the guests began to arrive, our multiracial viewing party started to get the sense that this wasn\u2019t going to be like any other royal wedding in history: The blackening of Windsor was upon us. \u2014 Attica Locke, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2018"
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    "first_known_use":[
      "circa 1909, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-193653"
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      "noun"
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      ": a cheese marked with veins of greenish-blue mold",
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u00fc-\u02c8ch\u0113z"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Gorgonzola blue cheese is an ideal dressing for risotto. \u2014 Silvia Marchetti, CNN , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "What's better than a wedge salad with blue cheese and crisp bacon? \u2014 Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
      "That said, there is quite a difference in flavor and consistency between, for example, a lemon vinaigrette and blue cheese dressing. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "The previous winner was an organic blue cheese , Rogue River Blue, the first-ever American champion in these awards. \u2014 CNN , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "Get the salad with pecans, pear dressing, and blue cheese ice cream. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 12 May 2022",
      "The dinner box for two has an appetizer of focaccia, fig jam, prosciutto, blue cheese and arugula; a burrata salad; an entr\u00e9e of New York strip of sea bass; and a dessert pastry box. \u2014 Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "The dinner includes baked spinach and feta tart, an asparagus and wild leek soup and a salad of organic lettuce topped with Asian pears, Oregon blue cheese , and pecans. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 10 Apr. 2022",
      "But all the key elements are here: crisp iceberg lettuce, a scrumptious buttermilk blue cheese dressing, cherry tomatoes, warm bacon bits, fresh dill. \u2014 Kitty Greenwald, WSJ , 13 Apr. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":[
      "1787, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-202027"
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      ": hognose snake"
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      "so called from its habit of distending the surface of its head before striking"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-222945"
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      "noun"
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      ": a common South African jackal ( Canis mesomelas ) with a dark dorsal saddle mark"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-225210"
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      "noun"
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      "Middle English, from Old English blegen ; akin to Middle Low German bleine blain, Old English bl\u0101wan to blow"
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      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-231014"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": blood glue"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-234624"
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      "noun"
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      ": a stock issue of high investment quality that usually pertains to a substantial well-established company and enjoys public confidence in its worth and stability",
      ": a company that offers such stocks",
      ": a business or undertaking with an outstanding record or likelihood of profitability",
      ": one that is outstanding: such as",
      ": an outstandingly worthwhile or valuable property or asset",
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      ": a stock issue of high investment quality that usually pertains to a substantial well-established company and enjoys public confidence in its worth and stability"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Seider, 21, is an integral part of the rebuild, a blue chip defenseman with size, smarts and leadership. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022",
      "Oregon has added a second blue chip safety to its 2023 recruiting class. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 22 June 2022",
      "Casino gambling, sort of, with a major Toledo painting as the blue chip . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022",
      "With ratings down across cable, Mr. Licht has told colleagues that strengthening CNN\u2019s reputation as a fair-minded news outfit will help attract blue chip advertisers. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
      "The fund manager at the center of the controversy saw its stock sink 5.3%, underperforming declines in the broader German blue chip index DAX. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 31 May 2022",
      "The blue chip index jumped 618.34 points, or nearly 2%, to 31,880.24. \u2014 NBC News , 23 May 2022",
      "In tennis, a blue chip is one of the very best players. \u2014 Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 May 2022",
      "Oregon has added another blue chip prospects to its 2023 recruiting class. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 13 May 2022"
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    "first_known_use":[
      "1892, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-005554"
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      "noun"
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      ": one that blinks with or as if with weak eyes",
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      "blink entry 1 + -ard"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-010653"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a tube through which a projectile (such as a dart) may be impelled by the force of the breath",
      ": a tube from which a dart may be shot by the force of the breath"
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      "1800, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-015924"
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      "noun"
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      ": the open sea"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "First by stealth, then by degrees, and now by great leaps, China is building a blue water navy and a network of bases to extend its military and political influence. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
      "One photo, however, features a sliver of greenery and blue water from Lake Michigan right next to the Summerfest grounds and its parking lot. \u2014 Jordan Tilkens, Journal Sentinel , 3 June 2022",
      "Kehlani\u2019s highly anticipated third album blue water road, will be released on April 29th\u2013pre-order it here! \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "The track will appear on her third album, blue water road, which will be released on April 29. \u2014 Izzy Col\u00f3n, SPIN , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Horses in crystal blue water , white sand beaches, rum and sugar served in a coconut: this is the idyllic promise of Jamaica, the 3rd largest island in the Caribbean and one frequented by more than 4 million tourists a year. \u2014 Beck Bamberger, Forbes , 14 May 2022",
      "See if this isn\u2019t so, as your gaze segues smoothly across black outlines among greenery, blue water and sky, and orangish flesh. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
      "All come with a backdrop of stunning towering mountains, the rustle of the wind through the trees and the allure of an endless expanse of clear blue water merging with the sky. \u2014 Lisa Morrow, CNN , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "So, according to Gurman, the next iPad Pro is set to put clear blue water between it and the new Air. \u2014 David Phelan, Forbes , 27 Mar. 2022"
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    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1582, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-023120"
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      "noun"
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      ": blister beetle"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-033753"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": cat's-claw sense 1b"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-051438"
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      "Definition of blaauwbok variant spelling of blaubok"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-080038"
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  "bleach-out process":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":[
      ": any of several processes of color photography in which light-sensitive dyes are bleached directly by the action of light"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-090406"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":[
      ": having a blade or blades"
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      "\u02c8bl\u0101-d\u0259d"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "With a 25-foot wingspan and about 24 feet in length, the Meteor was equipped with a 1,000 horsepower Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp engine and a three- bladed Hamilton Standard propeller. \u2014 Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 June 2022",
      "Some anglers are also catching bigger walleye trolling the large profile double- bladed spinner rigs and nightcrawler. \u2014 D'arcy Egan, cleveland , 23 June 2022",
      "According to the investigation, ground resonance events are a phenomenon of multi- bladed helicopters caused by the blades rotating off the aircraft\u2019s center of gravity. \u2014 Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 May 2022",
      "Effective and easy to use, this electric razor is an excellent alternative to a manual bladed razor \u2014 and there\u2019s no risk of cutting yourself either. \u2014 Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com , 27 Nov. 2021",
      "And custom six- bladed propellers designed to minimize noise and vibration while maximizing performance and efficiency. \u2014 Bill Springer, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
      "In turf grass, early flowering crocus can flourish and spread, especially in fine- bladed lawns. \u2014 Adrian Higgins, Washington Post , 20 Sep. 2021",
      "When the family tried to back away and threw objects at Zurcher-Wood to keep her back, police said the suspect threatened them with the bladed weapons and used racial slurs before running away. \u2014 Fox News , 24 Aug. 2021",
      "Zoysia is a fine- bladed , low-growing, heat-tolerant grass that is more environmentally friendly than the more common turf-type tall fescue. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 July 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1600, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-090916"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
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      ": a blundering person"
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    "history_and_etymology":[
      "probably alteration (influenced by blunder entry 1 ) of dunderhead"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-101112"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": blue gas"
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    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-102225"
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  "Blagoveshchensk":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
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    "definitions":[
      "city on the Amur River in Russia in Asia population 214,000"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccbl\u0259-g\u0259-\u02c8vy\u0101sh-ch\u0259n(t)sk"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-103812"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
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      ": the open sea"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "First by stealth, then by degrees, and now by great leaps, China is building a blue water navy and a network of bases to extend its military and political influence. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
      "One photo, however, features a sliver of greenery and blue water from Lake Michigan right next to the Summerfest grounds and its parking lot. \u2014 Jordan Tilkens, Journal Sentinel , 3 June 2022",
      "Kehlani\u2019s highly anticipated third album blue water road, will be released on April 29th\u2013pre-order it here! \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "The track will appear on her third album, blue water road, which will be released on April 29. \u2014 Izzy Col\u00f3n, SPIN , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Horses in crystal blue water , white sand beaches, rum and sugar served in a coconut: this is the idyllic promise of Jamaica, the 3rd largest island in the Caribbean and one frequented by more than 4 million tourists a year. \u2014 Beck Bamberger, Forbes , 14 May 2022",
      "See if this isn\u2019t so, as your gaze segues smoothly across black outlines among greenery, blue water and sky, and orangish flesh. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
      "All come with a backdrop of stunning towering mountains, the rustle of the wind through the trees and the allure of an endless expanse of clear blue water merging with the sky. \u2014 Lisa Morrow, CNN , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "So, according to Gurman, the next iPad Pro is set to put clear blue water between it and the new Air. \u2014 David Phelan, Forbes , 27 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1582, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-104932"
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  "blue palmetto":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a dwarf fan palm ( Rhapidophyllum hystrix ) of the southern U.S. having a creeping stem that is clothed with fibrous leaf sheaths and occasional spines and leaves that are long-stalked and somewhat glaucous"
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    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-110151"
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  "blink back tears":{
    "type":[
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      ": to prevent oneself from crying or to make tears go away by blinking"
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    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-110432"
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  "blister beetle":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a beetle (such as the Spanish fly) used medicinally dried and powdered to raise blisters on the skin",
      ": any of a family (Meloidae) of soft-bodied beetles whose blood contains cantharidin",
      ": any of various beetles (as the Spanish fly) that are used medicinally dried and powdered to raise blisters on the skin",
      ": any of numerous soft-bodied beetles (family Meloidae)"
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1771, in the meaning defined above"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-114624"
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  "Blaine":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name",
      "geographical name"
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    "definitions":[
      "James Gillespie 1830\u20131893 American statesman",
      "city in eastern Minnesota north of Saint Paul population 57,186"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101n",
      "\u02c8bl\u0101n"
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    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-115347"
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  "black bean":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a black kidney bean commonly used in Latin American cuisine",
      ": a black soybean commonly used usually fermented in east Asian cuisine"
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Black beans, corn, avocado and tangy spices combine for a delicious and hearty black bean salad from The Spruce Eats. \u2014 Jennifer Mcclellan, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
      "Picnic baskets, at $30 each, come in two varieties: an apple turkey sandwich, Mason jar Caprese salad and a bag of chips; or a black bean burger wrap, Mason jar Caprese salad and a bag of chips. \u2014 Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant , 25 May 2022",
      "Skip the chips and have a small cup of gazpacho or black bean soup as an appetizer instead. \u2014 Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "Offerings expanded to chicken, turkey and vegetarian selections, as well as black bean soup and fresh-baked pastelitos. \u2014 Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "The star ingredient in these black bean recipes is important to all kinds of people. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "Popular items from the pop-up days will transfer over to the new restaurant, including smoky black bean burgers, crispy empanadas and curry chickpea rice bowls. \u2014 Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Dec. 2021",
      "The gluten-free chef contributed to MasterChef's #AtHomeWith series in 2020 by sharing a black bean soup recipe. \u2014 Rachel Schonberger, EW.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "These baked wings are an absolute flavor bomb, with a sauce made from hoisin, ketchup, tamari, gochujang, Dijon mustard and black bean chili sauce \u2014 or the last bits of all those jars hanging around your fridge door. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1569, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-115432"
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    "type":[
      "geographical name"
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    "definitions":[
      "town northwest of Montreal in southern Quebec, Canada population 53,510"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8bl\u0101n-\u02ccvil",
      "ble\u207f-\u02c8v\u0113l"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-120257"
  },
  "blue water lily":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": blue lotus",
      ": a blue-flowered African water lily ( Nymphaea capensis zanzibariensis )"
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-121110"
  },
  "blowing agent":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a substance (such as sodium bicarbonate) that produces gas used in making expanded cellular or spongy products (as of rubber)"
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-125223"
  },
  "blow gas":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": gas leaving the generator during a blow period in the manufacture of water gas":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105335"
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  "black bear":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the common North American bear ( Ursus americanus ) ranging in color from brown or typical black to white":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The panoramic view and the black bear are sure sightings. \u2014 Brenda Yenke, cleveland , 2 June 2022",
      "According to the Taylor County Sheriff's Office, the black bear was an adult female and a cub was seen running off as the bear ventured toward the family's home. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 23 May 2022",
      "In the video, a small black bear is seen running along the cement wall in the Redmond back yard. \u2014 Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
      "The black bear was found in southern Utah over the summer, but is on her way to independence back in the wild. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "But an enormous black bear is on its hind legs, ten feet away, aggressively swiping at the food pack dangling from a low tree branch at our campsite. \u2014 Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online , 20 May 2019",
      "An additional felony poaching charge has been filed against the prominent Utah hunting guide who was prosecuted earlier this month for illegally using bait to help Donald Trump Jr. kill a black bear in Carbon County in 2018. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 28 May 2022",
      "In 1925, Haribo began producing black licorice treats, including sticks, wheels and\u2014of course\u2014a black bear known as the Schwarzb\u00e4r. \u2014 Michele Herrmann, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 May 2022",
      "Based on a true story reported in the New York Times, the story revolves around a drug runner who\u2019s plane crashes with a load of cocaine that\u2019s found by a black bear , who eats it. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 3 May 2022"
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