Words in english starting with B

• beat-up — Adjective – English ～ damaged by blows or hard usage; "a battered old car"; "the beaten-up old Ford"
• bang-up — Adjective – English ～ very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"; "we had a grand old time"
• beaten-up — Adjective – English ～ damaged by blows or hard usage; "a battered old car"; "the beaten-up old Ford"
• belly-up — Adjective – English ～ financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up"
• buttoned-up — Adjective – English ～ (British colloquial) not inclined to conversation
• buttoned-up — Adjective – English ～ conservative in professional manner; "employers are looking for buttoned-up types"
• bundled-up — Adjective – English ～ dressed warmly; "bundled-up sailors and soldiers"
• built-up — Adjective – English ～ peopled with settlers; "the built-up areas"
• bucked up — Adjective – English ～ inspired with confidence; "felt bucked up by his success"
• balls-up — Noun – English ～ something badly botched or muddled
• booze-up — Noun – English ～ revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
• blowing up — Noun – English ～ a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him"
• bringing up — Noun – English ～ helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
• bust-up — Noun – English ～ a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship)
• bust-up takeover — Noun – English ～ a leveraged buyout in which the target company's assets are sold to repay the loan that financed the takeover
• bear down upon — Verb – English ～ sail towards another vessel, of a ship
• bear upon — Verb – English ～ have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
• build upon — Verb – English ～ be based on; of theories and claims, for example; "What's this new evidence based on?"
• battle of Valmy — Noun – English ～ the French defeated the Austrian and Prussian troops in 1792 (with a famous cannonade from the French artillery)
• book value — Noun – English ～ the value at which an asset is carried on a balance sheet; equals cost minus accumulated depreciation

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