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. One Sioux Falls father:

   I don't think I'd want my 16-year-old boy in the bathroom with a transgender student if that student had a radically different look, like someone who changed from a girl to a boy and might have a beard now.

3. 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.

4. Captain Prado:

   Che Guevara presented a pitiful figure, dirty, smelly and run-down, che Guevara ’d been on the run for months. Che Guevara hair was long, messy and matted, and Che Guevara beard bushy.

5. Don Felder:

   I especially enjoyed some of the old hairstyles, with my hair down to my shoulders and a beard. And Henley's nickname used to be 'Furry Basketball' because he had that fro. It was fun to just look at what was going on in that era and how we presented ourselves on stage.