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Verb flap has 6 senses
- roll, undulate, flap, wave - move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
--1 is one way to move
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
- flap - move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind"
--2 is one way to beat, pound, thump
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Something ----s
- beat, flap - move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
--3 is one way to move, displace
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Something ----s something
- beat, flap - move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"
--4 is one way to move
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Something ----s
- dither, flap, pother - make a fuss; be agitated
--5 is one way to fuss, niggle, fret
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- flap - pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
--6 is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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