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| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | cream, pick | The best people or things in a group |
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| 2 | cream | The part of milk containing the butterfat | |
| 3 | cream, ointment, emollient | Toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | |
| VERB | 1 | cream | Make creamy by beating |
| 2 | cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick | Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | |
| 3 | cream | Put on cream, as on one's face or body | |
| 4 | cream, skim, skim off, cream off | Remove from the surface | |
| 5 | cream | Add cream to one's coffee, for example |
| Sounds | kriy'm |
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| Rhymes | academe, agleam, beam, and 35 more rhymes in iym... |
| Meaning | The best people or things in a group. |
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| Examples | "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War" |
| Synonyms | pick |
| Broader | elite, elite group |
| Meaning | The part of milk containing the butterfat. |
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| Broader | dairy product |
| Narrower | clotted cream, Devonshire cream; double creme, heavy whipping cream; heavy cream; light cream, coffee cream, single cream; sour cream, soured cream; whipping cream, light whipping cream |
| Adjectives | creamy; creamy |
| Verbs | cream; cream |
| Meaning | Toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin. |
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| Synonyms | ointment, emollient |
| Broader | toiletry, toilet article |
| Narrower | cold cream, coldcream, face cream, vanishing cream; hand cream; lanolin; nard, spikenard; sunscreen, sunblock, sun blocker |
| Verbs | cream |
| Meaning | Make creamy by beating. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "Cream the butter" |
| Category | cooking, cookery, preparation |
| Broader | beat, scramble |
| Nouns | cream |
| Meaning | Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Synonyms | bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick |
| Similar to | thrash, thresh, lam, flail |
| Broader | beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| Meaning | Put on cream, as on one's face or body. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "She creams her face every night" |
| Broader | put on, apply |
| Nouns | cream |
| Meaning | Remove from the surface. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "skim cream from the surface of milk" |
| Synonyms | skim, skim off, cream off |
| Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw |
| See also | cream off |
| Meaning | Add cream to one's coffee, for example. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Broader | modify |
| Nouns | cream |
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