rag
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(verb) break into lumps before sorting, as of ore |
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Related Words: break up, fragment, fragmentize |
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(noun) (British) a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students) |
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Related Words: practical joke |
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(verb) play in ragtime, as of a musical piece |
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Related Words: play, render, spiel |
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(noun) a small piece of cloth |
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Synonyms: shred, tag, tag end, tatter |
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Related Words: piece of cloth, pine-tar rag |
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(noun) (British) a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities |
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Related Words: hebdomad, week |
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(noun) music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) |
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Synonyms: ragtime |
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Related Words: ballroom music, dance music, danceroom music |
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(verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure" |
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Synonyms: bait, cod, rally, ride, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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Related Words: banter, barrack, bemock, chaff, flout, gibe, jeer, jolly, kid, mock, scoff |
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(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, esp. by minor irritations: "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" |
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Synonyms: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rile, vex |
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Related Words: antagonise, antagonize, bedevil, beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, crucify, displease, dun, eat into, fret, frustrate, get, grate, harass, harry, hassle, molest, peeve, plague, provoke, rag, rankle, ruffle, tantalize, torment |
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(verb) annoy constantly |
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Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, tantalize, torment |
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Related Words: annoy, badger, beleaguer, bother, bug, devil, get at, get to, gravel, hamstring, harass, irritate, madden, nark, nettle, oppress, persecute, pester, rag, rile, tease, vex |
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(noun) newspaper with half-size pages |
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Synonyms: sheet, tabloid |
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Related Words: newspaper, paper |
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(verb) censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering the stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic |
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Synonyms: bawl out, berate, check, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold |
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Related Words: brush down, castigate, chasten, chastise, chastize, correct, criticise, criticize, objurgate, pick apart, tell off |
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