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bunt

noun

1 bunt

baseball The act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat.

2 bunt

Disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores.

synonym: stinking smut.

3 bunt

Similar to Tilletia caries.

synonyms: stinking smut, Tilletia foetida.

4 bunt

Fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores.

synonym: Tilletia caries.

verb

1 bunt

Hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance.

synonym: drag a bunt.

2 bunt

To strike, thrust or shove against.

synonym: butt.

Roget 276: give an impetus etc. n.; impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: advance, assault, beak, bear, bear upon, bearing, boost, bowl, brush, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, butt, butt against, chuck, cram, crowd, dab ... show more.

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