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(verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric" |
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Synonyms: pleat |
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Related Words: fold, fold up, turn up |
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(verb) disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water" |
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Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple |
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Related Words: disarrange |
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(verb) erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers" |
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Synonyms: fluff |
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Related Words: loosen |
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(verb) trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody's composure" |
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Related Words: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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(verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" |
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Synonyms: mix, shuffle |
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Related Words: cut, manipulate, reshuffle, riffle |
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(verb) twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked" |
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Synonyms: flick, riffle |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others: "He strut around like a rooster in a hen house." |
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Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger |
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Related Words: pimproll, walk |
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(verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples |
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Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate |
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Related Words: flow |
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(noun) a high tight collar |
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Synonyms: choker, neck ruff, ruff |
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Related Words: collar, fraise, neckband |
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(noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim |
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Synonyms: flounce, frill, furbelow |
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Related Words: adornment, gauffer, goffer, jabot |
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(noun) a noisy fight |
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Synonyms: affray, disturbance, fray |
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Related Words: combat, fight, fighting |
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