Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bunt

4 senses of bunt

Sense 1
bunt -- ((baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat)
       => hit, hitting, striking -- (the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit")

Sense 2
bunt, stinking smut -- (disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores)
       => smut -- (destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores)

Sense 3
bunt, stinking smut, Tilletia foetida -- (similar to Tilletia caries)
       => smut, smut fungus -- (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)

Sense 4
bunt, Tilletia caries -- (fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores)
       => smut, smut fungus -- (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bunt

2 senses of bunt

Sense 1
bunt, drag a bunt -- (hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance)
       => hit -- (cause to move by striking; "hit a ball")

Sense 2
butt, bunt -- (to strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns")
       => strike -- (deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead")