2. barrier, barricade, obstacle, obstruction; stop, block, impediment, hindrance, check, deterrent, hurdle, stumbling block; congestion, jam, blockage, stoppage.
-v. 3. besiege, siege, lay siege to, invest, contain, confine, cordon off; surround, encircle, encompass, hedge in, pen in, shut in.
blockhead, n. dunce, lunkhead, bonehead, knucklehead, fathead, pinhead, numskull, addlepate; fool, tomfool, dope, nincompoop, ninny, lightweight; oaf, boor, lout, dolt, dullard, Inf. chump, lummox, looby, SI. klutz; idiot, simpleton, half-wit, lamebrain, pin-brain, moron, cretin, imbecile; All SI. chump, sap, dumbbell, dingbat, ding-a-ling, meatball, meathead, jerk, booby, boob, noodle, blubberhead, nudnik, schmuck, schlemiel, U.S. schmo.
blond, blonde, adj. light, fair, light-colored, fairskinned, light-toned; fair-headed, light-haired, towheaded, whitish, Archaic, argent; golden-haired, flaxen.
blood, n. 1. fluid, life fluid, Class. Myth, ichor, whole blood; grume, Obs. cruor, gore, plasma; juice, sap, latex, milk.
2. vital principle, vital force, Fr. elan vital, lifeblood, life, being, vitality.
3. temperament, humor, nature, temper, state of mind, mood, spirit; disposition, character, makeup, mettle, constitution.
4. ancestry, lineage, heritage, genealogy, background, family, house; extraction, stock, pedigree, race; descent, derivation, origin, stirps, line; kinship, kindred, consanguinity, cognation, blood ties, blood lines.
5. in cold blood deliberately, premeditatively, intentionally, on purpose, knowingly, Law. with malice aforethought or malice prepense.
bloodless, adj. 1. pale, wan, sickly, colorless, anemic; pallid, sallow, ashen, chalky, pasty; peaked, faint, faded, whey-faced; gaunt, haggard, drawn, emaciated; livid, deathly, deathlike, cadaverous; ghostly., ghastly, grim, white as a ghost or as a sheet.
2. spiritless, languid, dull, listless, sluggish, torpid; phlegmatic, apathetic, indifferent, lackadaisical.
bloodshed, n. slaughter, carnage, butchery, bloodbath, bloodletting; massacre, pogrom, mass-murder, genocide; destruction, decimation, extermination, Rare, trucidation, Rare, internecion; killing, slaying, homicide, murder, manslaughter.
bloodthirsty, adj. 1. murderous, slaughterous, homicidal; ferocious, fierce, savage, ruthless, vicious, fell, truculent; brutal, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, barbarian, hellish, brutish; sadistic, animalistic, cannibalistic, fiendish, ogreish; diabolical, demonic, demoniac, devilish.
2. harsh, grim, severe, unrelenting, grinding, remorseless; merciless, heartless, pitiless; cruel, hardhearted, stony-hearted, marble-hearted; revengeful, vengeful, out for revenge, out for blood.
bloody, adj. 1. bleeding, sanguinolent, Med. phleb-otomical.
2. bloodstained, sanguinary, ensanguined, gory, blood-soaked.
3. slaughterous, murderous, homicidal; feral, brutal, cruel. See - bloodthirsty.
4. hemal, hematal, hematic, sanguineous.
bloom, n. 1. flower, blossom, inflorescence, floweret, floret; efflorescence, flowerage, Bot. anthesis; bud, burgeon, florescence, flowering, blossoming.
2. flush, glow, freshness; luster, gloss, sheen; health, soundness, vigor, strength, prime, heyday.
-v. 3. flower, Archaic, blow, blossom; bud, burgeon, sprout, pullulate.