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Bumping
- verb -
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
- dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind"
- knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"
- remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
Bunging
- verb - close with a cork or stopper
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"
Bunking
- verb - avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
- provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs"
Bunting
- verb - a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.
- any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
- hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance
- to strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns"
Buoying
- verb - float on the surface of water
- keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"
- mark with a buoy
Burking
- verb - get rid of, silence, or suppress; "burke an issue"
- murder without leaving a trace on the body
Burling
- verb - remove the burls from cloth
Burning
- verb - a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin
- a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
- burn at the stake; "Witches were burned in Salem"
- burn with heat, fire, or radiation; "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"
- burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"
- cause to burn or combust; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"
- cause to undergo combustion; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil"
- create by duplicating data; "cut a disk"; "burn a CD"
- destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
- execution by electricity
- execution by fire
- feel hot or painful; "My eyes are burning"
- fee
Burping
- verb - a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth
- expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table"