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5. call someone's bluff take one up on, take a dare, accept a challenge, take up the gauntlet,

blunder, n. 1. mistake, error, flaw, fault, inaccuracy; botch, abortion, miscarriage, fiasco, fizzle, foozle, fumble, Sl. screwup; misunderstanding, misconception; inadvertence, omission, oversight, slip, Inf. slip-up, Sl. boo-boo, Sl. goof, Sl. boner; folly, stupidity, foolishness.
2. imprudence, impropriety, indiscretion, faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, solecism; malapropism, spoonerism, howler, Sl. blooper, slip of the lip, slip of the tongue, slip of the pen, Freudian slip.
-v. 3. flounder, stumble, bungle, slip, Sl. goof or goof up, Inf. flub; err, slip up, make a mistake; miscalculate, misjudge, misreckon, miscount, mistake; fail, miss, miscarry, abort, miss the mark; fumble, boggle, botch or botch up, mess up, hash up, Sl. screw up, muff, blow it, foozle, put one's foot in one's mouth,

blunt, adj. 1. dull, rounded, not sharp, unpointed, edgeless, unsharpened, thick.
2. abrupt, curt, short, brusque; frank, candid, open, direct, outspoken, plain-spoken; plain, downright, unvarnished, straightforward; bluff, burly, brash, bold, brazen, barefaced, insolent, impudent; sharp, keen, trenchant, acrimonious, caustic, stinging, cutting, biting, piercing, stringent; brutal, cruel; churlish, bearish, gruff; inconsiderate, tactless, blustering; rude, uncivil, unceremonious, ungracious, discourteous, impolite, unmannerly.
3. dull, dim-witted, stupid, slow, thick, stolid, dense; insensitive, obtuse, unperceiving; unseeing, unobserv-ing, inattentive.
-v. 4. dull, round, soften, take the edge off of.
5. numb, stupefy, deaden, obtund; weaken, impair, devitalize; anesthetize, tranquilize, pacify, appease, soothe, mollify.

blur, v. 1. smear, besmear, smirch, smudge; sully, dirty, soil, stain, smutch, begrime; bedaub, daub all over, blot, splotch, spot, blemish, splash, bespatter; blotch, mar, deface.
2. obscure, befog, obfuscate, make indistinct, dim, bedim; (all of the eyes) blur, tear, water, cry; cloud, becloud, overcast, overshadow, adumbrate, cast a gloom over, shadow, shade; eclipse, blot out, conceal, hide, screen, veil, shroud, mask, cover, cloak, curtain; overlay, overspread, blanket, envelop, surround, enclose.
3. dull, numb, anesthetize, make insensible, deaden, kill.
-n. 4. smudge, smear, dirty mark, spot, stain, soil, smutch, blot, splotch, blotch, blemish; dirt, grime, filth.
5. blurredness, blear, indistinctness, dimness; cloudiness, fog, foginess, obscurity, obscureness, gloom, darkness, shadows, shade.

blurt, v. gush, blab, utter suddenly, ejaculate, exclaim, spout, call out; reveal, disclose, speak out of turn, let slip, give away the game, Inf. spill the beans, Inf. let the cat out of the bag. See - babble (def. 4). blush, v. 1. redden, color, flush, turn red or scarlet, crimson, mantle, glow. -n. 2. reddening, color, flush, rosiness, ruddiness; tint, hue, hint, suggestion,

bluster, v. 1. spout, blast, roar, trumpet; gasp, wheeze, huff, puff, pant.
2. swagger, strut, roister, harangue, Sl. blow hard, Sl. blow, Sl. talk big; throw one's weight around, be overbearing, lord it over, give [s.o.] a hard time, bully, badger.