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Abort

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

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Broader term 19

Choke 76% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Conclusion 76% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Croak 76% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

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Decease 76% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

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Die 76% connected

of Dice

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Eject 76% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Ending 76% connected

of End

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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Exit 76% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Expire 76% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Perish 76% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Terminate 76% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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Termination 76% connected

The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

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Manner of action 1

Miscarry 76% connected

To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.

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Derivationally related 6

Abortion 74% connected

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriag…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Abortion 74% connected

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriag…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Abortive 74% connected

Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.

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Abortive 74% connected

Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.

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Miscarriage 74% connected

Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.

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Miscarriage 74% connected

Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.

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Entails 1

Conceive 72% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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