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burbly
  • s  uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm
    a novel told in burbly panting tones
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burdened
  • v  weight down with a load
  • v  impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
  • a  bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities
    she always felt burdened by the load of paper work
  • s  bearing a physically heavy weight or load
    tree limbs burdened with ice
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burdensome
  • s  not easily borne; wearing; I only had to greet the guests"
    the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return
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bureaucratic
  • a  of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy
    his bureaucratic behavior annoyed his colleagues
    a bureaucratic nightmare
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burglarious
  • a  involving or resembling burglary
    burglarious tools
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buried
  • v  cover from sight
    Afghani women buried under their burkas
  • v  place in a grave or tomb
    Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square
  • v  place in the earth and cover with soil
    They buried the stolen goods
  • v  enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
  • v  embed deeply
    He buried his head in her lap
  • v  dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
  • a  placed in a grave
    the hastily buried corpses
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burked
  • v  murder without leaving a trace on the body
  • v  get rid of, silence, or suppress
  • s  suppressed quietly or indirectly
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burled
  • v  remove the burls from cloth
  • s  (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl
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