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1. around
adverb. ['ɝˈaʊnd, ɝˈaʊn'] in the area or vicinity.
Antonyms
Etymology
- around (Middle English (1100-1500))
Rhymes with Beat Around The Bush
- smosh
- tush
- push
- kush
- cush
- busch
Sentences with beat-around-the-bush
1. Noun Phrase
Do not beat around the bush or come off as if you are afraid or begging.
2. Noun Phrase
Resist the urge to beat around the bush with your friend.
3. Noun Phrase
There's no way to beat around the bush.
4. Noun Phrase
Be kind, but don't beat around the bush any more.
2. around
adverb. ['ɝˈaʊnd, ɝˈaʊn'] used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction.
Antonyms
Etymology
- around (Middle English (1100-1500))
3. around
adverb. ['ɝˈaʊnd, ɝˈaʊn'] (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct.
Synonyms
Etymology
- around (Middle English (1100-1500))
4. beat
verb. ['ˈbiːt'] come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.
Synonyms
- vanquish
- outdo
- whomp
- outflank
- surmount
- trounce
- cheat
- subdue
- spread-eagle
- mop up
- circumvent
- outperform
- outplay
- chouse
- defeat
- chicane
- screw
- mate
- whip
- outwit
- scoop
- beat out
- get the jump
- best
- have the best
- outfox
- surpass
- get the best
- outscore
- outgo
- win
- overcome
- bat
- get the better of
- shaft
- outsmart
- overreach
- get over
- rout
- eliminate
- pip
- checkmate
- exceed
- worst
- drub
- spreadeagle
- shell
- immobilise
- cream
- outfight
- outstrip
- jockey
- trump
- lick
- outpoint
- crush
- immobilize
- clobber
- outmatch
- walk over
- master
- thrash
- overwhelm
- overpower
- rack up
Etymology
- beten (Middle English (1100-1500))
- beatan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
5. beat
verb. ['ˈbiːt'] give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.
Synonyms
Etymology
- beten (Middle English (1100-1500))
- beatan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
6. bush
noun. ['ˈbʊʃ'] a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems.
Synonyms
- flowering quince
- sunrose
- abelia
- Guevina heterophylla
- Ardisia escallonoides
- raetam
- native pear
- Pistacia lentiscus
- consumption weed
- undershrub
- telegraph plant
- Codiaeum variegatum
- yerba santa
- cotton plant
- Chilean nut
- furze
- Anadenanthera colubrina
- night jessamine
- Dovyalis caffra
- mountain devil
- Euonymus atropurpureus
- ligneous plant
- Juneberry
- Ricinus communis
- lady-of-the-night
- yellow oleander
- amorpha
- needlebush
- dwarf golden chinkapin
- Sarcocephalus latifolius
- coronilla
- American spicebush
- spicebush
- Leycesteria formosa
- spindle tree
- Menziesia pilosa
- strophanthus
- crape jasmine
- Prunus spinosa
- puka
- false tamarisk
- styrax
- shrub
- sand cherry
- Benjamin bush
- coville
- saltwort
- Camellia sinensis
- Embothrium coccineum
- false azalea
- ti
- sweet bells
- wahoo
- Playlobium obtusangulum
- daisybush
- rose acacia
- pachouli
- twist wood
- kali
- jujube
- stagger bush
- Christmas berry
- Photinia arbutifolia
- kidney wort
- Chinese angelica tree
- rhododendron
- minniebush
- Prunus laurocerasus
- white cinnamon tree
- tree mallow
- Piptadenia macrocarpa
- waratah
- papoose root
- fetter bush
- fothergilla
- Streptosolen jamesonii
- caragana
- Apalachicola rosemary
- banksia
- tree lupine
- weigela
- cinquefoil
- Hakea laurina
- Cyrilla racemiflora
- Viburnum dentatum
- night jasmine
- rosebush
- spurge
- black greasewood
- blueberry root
- derris
- Hibiscus farragei
- Adenium obesum
- Argyroxiphium sandwicense
- Prunus pumilla susquehanae
- Pickeringia montana
- Benzoin odoriferum
- batoko palm
- senna
- lomatia
- geebung
- Japan allspice
- Himalaya honeysuckle
- Catha edulis
- palma christi
- Malosma laurina
- forsythia
- Pyxidanthera barbulata
- Parkinsonia aculeata
- Hakea leucoptera
- palma christ
- shiny lyonia
- Leitneria floridana
- red angel's trumpet
- bearberry
- Schizophragma hydrangeoides
- twistwood
- woody pear
- Aralia spinosa
- dog laurel
- Caulophyllum thalictrioides
- mock azalia
- salt tree
- sloe
- alpine totara
- wicopy
- juniper bush
- tree tomato
- Ziziphus jujuba
- Russian cactus
- Acalypha virginica
- gooseberry
- Brugmansia suaveolens
- indigo
- laurel cherry
- pincushion hakea
- Kiggelaria africana
- minnie bush
- Platylobium formosum
- corkwood
- Scotch gale
- staff tree
- Gaultheria shallon
- marmalade bush
- potato tree
- Kochia scoparia
- blackthorn
- flame bush
- Combretum bracteosum
- tamarisk
- white alder
- mesquite
- bushman's poison
- Adam's apple
- kei apple bush
- Conradina glabra
- American angelica tree
- Oregon grape
- shallon
- Epigaea repens
- saltbush
- smoke bush
- Lycium carolinianum
- Lagerstroemia indica
- Chile hazel
- Brassaia actinophylla
- Lyonia lucida
- Colutea arborescens
- butterfly bush
- pepper shrub
- belvedere
- privet
- leucothoe
- desert willow
- hoary golden bush
- buddleia
- kudu lily
- African hemp
- sabicu
- pitcher sage
- leadwort
- cajan pea
- wayfaring tree
- goldenbush
- guelder rose
- capsicum pepper plant
- kapuka
- sand myrtle
- mock privet
- Erythroxylon truxiuense
- camellia
- Mahonia nervosa
- Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
- boxthorn
- gorse
- shadblow
- pepper
- philadelphus
- pigeon pea
- negro peach
- winter hazel
- daphne
- honeysuckle
- rockrose
- shrublet
- slipper spurge
- cushion flower
- Xylomelum pyriforme
- sea eryngium
- needle-wood
- Christmasberry
- Myricaria germanica
- sea holly
- pinwheel flower
- Hazardia cana
- rose
- wych hazel plant
- witch hazel plant
- columnea
- lilac
- Prunus susquehanae
- Telopea Oreades
- frangipani
- five-finger
- joint fir
- crowberry
- desert rose
- Pieris japonica
- swamp oak
- Acocanthera spectabilis
- crampbark
- Thevetia peruviana
- pixie
- laurel sumac
- butcher's broom
- mesquit
- bracelet wood
- crepe myrtle
- Astroloma humifusum
- three-seeded mercury
- Canella-alba
- Xylosma congestum
- black bead
- guinea flower
- Anthyllis barba-jovis
- Pogostemon cablin
- Viminaria denudata
- Salsola soda
- switch-ivy
- Fabiana imbricata
- catjang pea
- pyxie
- bush hibiscus
- Mahonia aquifolium
- Acocanthera oblongifolia
- Bauhinia monandra
- Jerusalem thorn
- Cestrum diurnum
- Chilopsis linearis
- hiccup nut
- Aralia elata
- trailing arbutus
- Ochna serrulata
- corkwood tree
- patchouly
- stinking bean trefoil
- Anagyris foetida
- witch alder
- Lyonia ligustrina
- Chamaedaphne calyculata
- fuchsia
- mule fat
- daisy-bush
- Halimodendron halodendron
- wax myrtle
- Lindera benzoin
- catclaw
- Chrysolepis sempervirens
- kalmia
- Georgia bark
- Pyracantha
- lentisk
- Ledum groenlandicum
- smoke tree
- Ziziphus lotus
- Dalmatian laburnum
- Brugmansia arborea
- dhal
- maikoa
- Baccharis viminea
- Ulex europaeus
- buckler mustard
- Radyera farragei
- leatherleaf
- fetterbush
- mimosa
- cranberry tree
- pepper bush
- broom
- Tasman dwarf pine
- mountain andromeda
- protea
- salal
- horsebean
- rooibos
- honey bell
- coffee rose
- Chinese angelica
- Guevina avellana
- mastic
- barilla
- Indigofera tinctoria
- milk thistle
- white titi
- Lepechinia calycina
- cat's-claw
- climbing hydrangea
- sun rose
- red gram
- Diervilla sessilifolia
- Salsola kali
- Brazilian potato tree
- Chiococca alba
- flowering shrub
- cranberry bush
- Paliurus spina-christi
- European cranberry bush
- elder
- Loiseleuria procumbens
- Griselinia lucida
- Hercules'-club
- marsh tea
- hiccough nut
- Hakea lissosperma
- burning bush
- California redbud
- poison pea
- xylosma
- currant bush
- Viburnum trilobum
- crystal tea
- stingaree-bush
- Styphelia triflora
- carissa
- Plumbago europaea
- castor-oil plant
- cupflower
- haw
- Madagascar plum
- Lavatera arborea
- Acocanthera oppositifolia
- Graptophyllum pictum
- feijoa bush
- Eryngium maritimum
- sweet fern
- shadbush
- Prunus cuneata
- arbutus
- Solandra guttata
- wineberry
- Retama raetam
- Halimodendron argenteum
- daisy bush
- Cytisus ramentaceus
- Desmodium gyrans
- Chilean firebush
- Ruscus aculeatus
- pigeon-pea plant
- Myrica gale
- Leucothoe racemosa
- Comptonia peregrina
- Indian rhododendron
- Viburnum lantana
- Chile nut
- box
- ramontchi
- Baccharis pilularis
- Cineraria maritima
- flannel bush
- groundberry
- heath
- tagasaste
- Kolkwitzia amabilis
- Croton tiglium
- Petteria ramentacea
- Cytesis proliferus
- hamelia
- coral bush
- tumbleweed
- Japanese allspice
- Ardisia crenata
- mountain grape
- oleaster
- governor plum
- Ardisia paniculata
- indigo plant
- trapper's tea
- needle bush
- California beauty
- Cycloloma atriplicifolium
- tree poppy
- Sparmannia africana
- Mysore thorn
- castor bean plant
- common flat pea
- slipper plant
- huckleberry
- tollon
- spice bush
- devil's walking stick
- andromeda
- Styphelia humifusum
- retem
- Podocarpus nivalis
- southern arrow wood
- native holly
- Erythroxylon coca
- Pseudowintera colorata
- Caesalpinia sepiaria
- tamarillo
- chaparral broom
- moose-wood
- allspice
- grevillea
- staggerbush
- kelpwort
- Solanum wrightii
- gooseberry bush
- Euonymus americanus
- Leiophyllum buxifolium
- poison bush
- Nero's crown
- helianthemum
- cotton
- hydrangea
- ropebark
- Oregon holly grape
- sweet gale
- Cercis occidentalis
- Schefflera actinophylla
- Labrador tea
- lily-of-the-valley tree
- holly-leaves barberry
- semaphore plant
- boxwood
- makomako
- Jacquinia keyensis
- Dalea spinosa
- cranberry heath
- Viminaria juncea
- Jupiter's beard
- woody plant
- mountain fetterbush
- mayflower
- chanal
- crepe flower
- Flacourtia indica
- kei apple
- Jacquinia armillaris
- wych hazel
- Biscutalla laevigata
- feijoa
- coralberry
- lotus tree
- Senecio cineraria
- German tamarisk
- matrimony vine
- Chilean rimu
- ordeal tree
- mastic tree
- wild rosemary
- Lambertia formosa
- Griselinia littoralis
- ground-berry
- suffrutex
- Cajanus cajan
- bush honeysuckle
- frangipanni
- Indian currant
- caper
- Datura arborea
- camelia
- hediondilla
- silver-bush
- Cestrum nocturnum
- needle wood
- sea holm
- Syrian bean caper
- toyon
- he-huckleberry
- sow thistle
- Christ's-thorn
- blueberry bush
- purple pea
- chanar
- Geoffroea decorticans
- patchouli
- Lupinus arboreus
- guinea gold vine
- winter sweet
- Sarcocephalus esculentus
- honey-flower
- crepe jasmine
- capsicum
- Aristotelia racemosa
- mountain rimu
- witch hazel
- Ribes grossularia
- Thevetia neriifolia
- Medinilla magnifica
- Sarcobatus vermiculatus
- Lysiloma sabicu
- Santolina chamaecyparissus
- Microstrobos niphophilus
- alpine azalea
- Viburnum prunifolium
- Genista raetam
- Chilean flameflower
- sumach
- dusty miller
- bryanthus
- elderberry bush
- Baccharis halimifolia
- bridal-wreath
- Aspalathus linearis
- thorn apple
- Chinese holly
- shrubbery
- winged pigweed
- barbasco
- pichi
- gastrolobium
- hovea
- spiraea
- Grewia asiatica
- whin
- Datura sanguinea
- Russian tumbleweed
- dombeya
- Comptonia asplenifolia
- Zygophyllum fabago
- Francoa ramosa
- beauty bush
- summer sweet
- cotoneaster
- black haw
- Templetonia retusa
- squaw root
- candlewood
- glandular Labrador tea
- Rhus laurina
- flowering hazel
- Lepidothamnus laxifolius
- subshrub
- Menziesia ferruginea
- Adenium multiflorum
- Brunfelsia americana
- mutisia
- rock rose
- poison arrow plant
- New Zealand wine berry
- cassava
- Bassia scoparia
- blueberry
- highbush cranberry
- butterfly flower
- honeyflower
- East Indian rosebay
- Salsola kali tenuifolia
- Caulophyllum thalictroides
- paloverde
- othonna
- Quercus vaccinifolia
- greasewood
- dog hobble
- cranberry
- casava
- Lepidothamnus fonkii
- lavender cotton
- Diervilla lonicera
- coyote brush
- Leucothoe fontanesiana
- jasmine
- bush poppy
- cyrilla
- Pieris floribunda
- European cranberrybush
- pink fivecorner
- Aristotelia serrata
- silverbush
- fool's huckleberry
- naranjilla
- umbrella tree
- forestiera
- cotton-seed tree
- angel's trumpet
- groundsel tree
- glasswort
- Chamaecytisus palmensis
- Larrea tridentata
- fire thorn
- serviceberry
- tea
- screw tree
- strawberry bush
- bitter pea
- governor's plum
- Desmodium motorium
- Caesalpinia decapetala
- Ledum palustre
- Aspalathus cedcarbergensis
- chaparral pea
- Telopea speciosissima
- fire bush
- pavonia
- Dirca palustris
- Aralia stipulata
- Sphacele calycina
- Wintera colorata
- crape myrtle
- caricature plant
- spindleberry
- Leucothoe editorum
- trumpet flower
- clianthus
- Russian thistle
- gardenia
- phalsa
- Melastoma malabathricum
- Chilean hazelnut
- pyracanth
- glory pea
- moosewood
- squawroot
- Hermannia verticillata
- cannabis
- Pithecellodium unguis-cati
- croton
- flame pea
- Robinia hispida
- Irish gorse
- Lyonia mariana
- rauwolfia
- Viburnum recognitum
- Dacridium laxifolius
- creosote bush
- day jessamine
- Viburnum opulus
- Solanum macranthum
- Brugmansia sanguinea
- spiceberry
- marlberry
- redwood penstemon
- fire-bush
- service tree
- hemp
- bitter-bark
- Solanum quitoense
- Batis maritima
- honeybells
- crepe gardenia
- maleberry
- wild peach
- barberry
- spindleberry tree
- juniper
- joewood
- privet andromeda
- coyote bush
- Mahernia verticillata
- Chimonanthus praecox
- native cranberry
- needle-bush
- Canella winterana
- Eriodictyon californicum
- coca
- velvet-leaf
- Cordyline terminalis
- shumac
- firethorn
- buckthorn
- bean trefoil
- impala lily
- coca plant
- Japanese angelica tree
- currant
- Heteromeles arbutifolia
- artemisia
- bladder senna
- Clethra alnifolia
- velvetleaf
- sumac
- Datura suaveolens
- cherry laurel
- needlewood
- sweet pepperbush
- bird's-eye bush
- ephedra
- flannelbush
- rauvolfia
- calliandra
- huckleberry oak
- pea tree
- bridal wreath
- bean caper
- Japanese andromeda
- Ribes uva-crispa
- spirea
- moss locust
- fever tree
- Weigela florida
- Prunus pumila
- wild cinnamon
- papooseroot
- lavender
- manzanita
- blolly
- Ilex cornuta
- flat pea
- chalice vine
- Codariocalyx motorius
- West Indian snowberry
- arrow wood
- American cranberry bush
- Tabernaemontana divaricate
- hollygrape
- yucca
- mountain azalea
- mallow
- western redbud
- bristly locust
- mucuna
- silversword
- dahl
- Australian heath
- stephanotis
- blue cohosh
- red shrubby penstemon
- summer cypress
- pixy
- Pinckneya pubens
- groundsel bush
- hawthorn
- jujube bush
- Acocanthera venenata
- leatherwood
Etymology
- busch (Middle English (1100-1500))
7. beat
verb. ['ˈbiːt'] hit repeatedly.
Antonyms
Etymology
- beten (Middle English (1100-1500))
- beatan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
8. beat
verb. ['ˈbiːt'] move rhythmically.
Etymology
- beten (Middle English (1100-1500))
- beatan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
9. bush
noun. ['ˈbʊʃ'] dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes.
Antonyms
Etymology
- busch (Middle English (1100-1500))
10. bush
noun. ['ˈbʊʃ'] a large wilderness area.
Antonyms
Etymology
- busch (Middle English (1100-1500))