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2.4 blab...
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blab Colloq v. broadcast, tattle, babble, betray, reveal, disclose,
divulge, expose: Don't tell Frieda - she'll blab your secrets
all over town.
blabbermouth
Colloq n. tell-tale, babbler, chatterer, gossip, Colloq blab,
tattle-tale, big-mouth: Oscar is such a blabbermouth that you
can't tell him anything you don't want everyone to know.
black adj. 1 jet, jet-black, coal-black, inky, sooty, swart, swarthy,
raven, ebony, dusky, Literary ebon, hyacinthine: Her hair was
as black as coal. 2 Negro, Negroid, coloured, dark-skinned:
Most of the Black races live near or south of the equator. 3
dark, pitch-black, jet-black, coal-black, Stygian; starless,
moonless: He bundled his coat round himself and walked into the
black night. 4 dark, sombre, dusky, gloomy, menacing,
glowering, louring or lowering, threatening, funereal: The sky
became black with storm clouds. 5 malignant, baleful, baneful,
deadly, deathly, sinister, dismal, hateful, disastrous: It was
a black day when he came into my life. 6 bad, foul, iniquitous,
wicked, evil, diabolical, infernal, hellish, atrocious, awful,
malicious, abominable, outrageous, vicious, villainous,
flagitious, vile, disgraceful, unscrupulous, unconscionable,
unprincipled, blackguardly, knavish, perfidious, insidious,
nefarious, dastardly, treacherous, unspeakable, disgraceful,
shameful, scurvy, criminal, felonious: You have told the
blackest lies about me. 7 angry, wrathful, furious, frowning,
bad-tempered, sulky, resentful, clouded, threatening, glowering:
She gave him a black look and he withered in abject fear.
--v. 8 boycott, embargo, blacklist, ban, interdict: Because of
the dispute over plumbers' wages, the other building-trades
unions have blacked every manufacturer in the business.
blacken v. 1 darken, smudge, begrime: The chimney sweep's face was
blackened with soot. 2 slander, libel, asperse, cast aspersions
on, traduce, smear, sully, soil, besmirch, taint, tarnish,
defame, revile, malign, vilify, discredit, denigrate: His