Synonyms for beard
bɪərdbeard

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1. beard, face fungus, whiskersnoun

   the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

   Synonyms:
   beard, whiskers, byssus, face fungus

2. beardnoun

   a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses

   Synonyms:
   whiskers, byssus, face fungus

3. beardnoun

   a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)

   Synonyms:
   whiskers, byssus, face fungus

4. beardnoun

   hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals

   Synonyms:
   whiskers, byssus, face fungus

5. byssus, beardverb

   tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface

   Synonyms:
   byssus, whiskers, beard, face fungus

6. beardverb

   go along the rim, like a beard around the chin

   "Houses bearded the top of the heights"

Matched Categories

1. • Hair
   • Person
   • Rim

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1. beardverb

   Synonyms:
   defy, challenge, dare, take or pluck by the beard, oppose to the face

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1. beardnoun

   Synonyms:
   whiskers, goatee, mustache, awn, arista (beard of grain)

2. beardverb

   Synonyms:
   defy, encounter, oppose

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1. List of paraphrases for "beard":

   barbe, lihya, shave, goatee, bearded, stubble, boring

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1. Georgia Hull:

   She can’t chew, and she’s eating mashed up foods and drinking through a straw. But we’re getting there. they are absolutely amazing and we can’t manage without them, she said. It saved an awful lot of time for us that day in getting her to hospital. We’ve got a lot of fundraising going on for the air ambulance as a result of this. The guy who drove Georgia from the track to meet the air ambulance, he has had a long beard for 20 years and at the Royal Cornwall Show he is shaving it off to raise funds.

2. P. G. Wodehouse:

   At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter a fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.

3. Jordan Binnington:

   What a boss, hes playing great. And his beard looks pretty good on him too.

4. Jeremy Collins:

   He was standing there and I came and stood right next to him, and for some reason turned. In my mind's eye I stripped off the beard, and saw the Foreign Service officer I had seen in Washington, D.C. I just impulsively said, 'You're Brad Bishop, aren't you?' And he began trembling and shaking and said 'Oh God, no' and turned around. I have no doubt it was him.

5. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon:

   People are starting to need a haircut, you see more beard trimmers and hair color and things like that. It's interesting to watch the dynamic play out.