Словарь английских синонимов и синонимичных выражений. Том I. A – I. Виктор Евгеньевич Никитин
(of a helmet).
Be beat out, Be exhausted, be fagged, be greatly fatigued.
Be brought to bed, Be confined, lie in, be in child-bed.
Becafico, n. Fig-eater, fig-pecker, greater pettychaps, garden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
Be called, Be named, go by the name of, take the name of, pass under the name of.
Becalm, v. a. 1. Quiet, soothe, calm, tranquillize, pacify, make calm, make tranquil.
2. Detain by a calm (as a ship).
Be cast away, 1. Be thrown aside.
2. Be shipwrecked.
Because, conj. 1. For, since, as, for the cause that, for the reason that, on this account that, inasmuch as.
2. On account, by reason.
Bèche-de-mer, n. [Fr.] Trepang, sea-cucumber, sea-slug.
Beck, n. Nod, bow.
Beckon, v. n. Make a sign, give a signal.
Beckon, v. a. Call by a sign or signal.
Becloud, v. a. Dim, bedim, obscure, darken, cloud.
Become, v. n. 1. Be.
2. Change to, be changed to, be converted into, get to be, come to be.
Become, v. a. Suit, befit, be suitable to, be proper for, be appropriate to.
Becoming, a. 1. Fit, proper, suitable, meet, appropriate, congruous, right, seemly.
2. Comely, graceful, neat, pretty.
Become of, Be the fate of, be the end of, be the final condition of.
Be confined, 1. Be restrained, be shut up, be shut in.
2. Be brought to bed, lie in, be in child-bed.
Bed, n. 1. Couch, berth, resting-place, place to sleep in.
2. Raised plot (of ground).
3. Layer, stratum, seam, vein.
Bed, v. a. Embed.
Bedaub, v. a. Smear, daub, besmear, soil, daub over.
Bedeck, v. a. Adorn, decorate, embellish, beautify, ornament, deck, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, bedizen, set out, set off, trick out.
Bedew, v. a. Moisten, wet, damp, dampen.
Bedim, v. a. Darken, dim, obscure, cloud, becloud.
Bedizen, v. a. Adorn (gaudily), deck, bedeck.
Bedlam, n. Madhouse, lunatic hospital, lunatic asylum, hospital for the insane.
Bedlamite, n. Madman, lunatic, maniac, crazy person, insane person.
Bedouin, n. Nomadic Arab.
Bedridden, a. Confined to the bed.
Beef, n. Flesh of neat-cattle.
Bee-house, n. Apiary, beehive.
Bee-line, n. Straight line, right line, shortest distance, most direct line.
Bee-moth, n. Wax-moth.
Beetle, v. n. Protrude, project, jut, jut out, hang over.
Beetle-head, n. Simpleton, fool, dunce.
Beetle-headed, a. Dull, stupid, obtuse, foolish, senseless, witless, insensible, sluggish, slow of apprehension, void of understanding.
Beeves, n. pl. Neat-cattle.
Befall, v. a. Betide, overtake, happen to.
Befall, v. n. Happen, occur, take place.
Befit, v. a. Suit, fit, become, be suitable or proper for, be appropriate for.
Befitting, a. Becoming, suitable, fit, proper, right, meet, seemly, appropriate, congruous.
Befool, v. a. Infatuate, dupe, deceive, delude, cheat, chouse, trick, diddle, hoax, stultify, hoodwink, circumvent, overreach, beguile, bamboozle, impose upon, practise upon, play upon, make a fool of.
Before, prep. 1. Preceding.
2. Prior to, previous to.
3. In the presence of, face to face with.
4. Near the front of, in front of.
Before, ad. 1. Toward the front.
2. In advance, farther onward.
3. Formerly, in time past, of old.
4. Hitherto, up to that time.
5. Above, in a former part.
Beforehand, ad. Previously, in anticipation, in advance.
Beforehand, a. Forehanded, in comfortable circumstances (as respects property), well off, well to do.
Before the wind, With the wind, in the direction of the wind.
Befoul, v. a. Soil, pollute, daggle, draggle, foul, bemire, dirty.
Befriend, v. a. Favor, encourage, patronize, countenance, assist, help, aid, benefit, act as a friend to, do a good turn for, be kind to.
Beg, v. a. 1. Crave, solicit, beseech, implore, supplicate, conjure, pray for, petition for, seek by petition, ask earnestly.
2. Assume, take for granted, consider as true.
Beg, v. n. Solicit charity, ask alms.
Beget, v. a. 1. Generate, procreate, engender, breed, get, be the father of.
2. Produce, originate, give rise to.
Beggar, n. Mendicant, pauper, starveling, poor or indigent person.
Beggar, v. a. 1. Impoverish, ruin, render poor, reduce to poverty, bring to want.
2. Surpass, exceed, go beyond, be above, put at fault, show to be inadequate.
Beggarly, a. 1. Destitute, indigent, needy, poor.
2. Sorry, mean, abject, base, low, paltry, shabby, vile, scurvy, miserable, contemptible, despicable, pitiful, pitiable, servile, slavish, grovelling, base-minded, low-minded, mean-spirited.
Beggary, n. Poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, want, distress, mendicancy, mendicity.
Begin, v. n. 1. Originate, arise, take rise.
2. Commence, make a beginning, take the first step, break ground, break the ice.
Begin, v. a. Commence, institute, originate, enter upon, set about, set on foot, set in operation.
Beginner, n. Tyro, novice.
Beginning, n. 1. Commencement, outset, opening, start.
2. Origin, source, rise.
Begird, v. a. 1. Gird, bind with a girdle.
2. Surround, encompass, environ, encircle, enclose, engird.
Begone, interj. 1. Depart, go away, haste away, be off, get thee gone.
2. Away, let us go, let us be off.
Begrudge, v. a. Grudge, envy the possession of.
Beguile, v. a. 1. Delude, cheat, deceive, befool.
2. Divert, amuse, entertain, cheer, solace.
Behalf, n. Benefit, advantage, profit, interest, account, behoof.
Be hanged, Come to the gallows.
Behave, v. n. Act, conduct one's self, demean one's self, acquit one's self, behave one's self.
Behave one's self, Behave.
Behavior, n. Deportment (on particular occasions), conduct, bearing, demeanor, carriage, manner, mien, air, port.
Behead, v. a. Decapitate, decollate, deprive of the head.
Beheading, n. Decapitation, decollation.
Behest, n. Command, commandment, mandate, order, precept, injunction, direction, charge, bidding.
Behind, prep. 1. Abaft, at the back of, in the rear of.
2. After, following.
Behind, ad. 1. Backward, back.
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