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Accommodate

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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Verb group 6

Contain 84% connected

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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Contain 84% connected

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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Hold 84% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Hold 84% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Manner of action 26

Accept 76% connected

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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Adjust 76% connected

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

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Anglicize 76% connected

To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.

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Barrack 76% connected

A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent…

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Billet 76% connected

A small paper; a note; a short letter.

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Canton 76% connected

A song or canto

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Christianize 76% connected

To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.

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Cultivate 76% connected

To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Domesticate 76% connected

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

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Electrify 76% connected

To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Gear 76% connected

Clothing; garments; ornaments.

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House 76% connected

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a d…

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Keep 76% connected

To care; to desire.

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Naturalize 76% connected

To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

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Orient 76% connected

Rising, as the sun.

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Pitch 76% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Quarter 76% connected

One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, o…

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Seat 76% connected

The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shoehorn 76% connected

Alt. of Shoeing-horn

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Sleep 76% connected

imp. of Sleep. Slept.

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Tailor 76% connected

One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Tame 76% connected

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

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Transcribe 76% connected

To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

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Wire 76% connected

A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a…

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Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Cater 76% connected

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Comply 76% connected

To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

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Domiciliate 76% connected

To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Follow 76% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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Fulfil 76% connected

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Fulfill 76% connected

To fill up; to make full or complete.

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Harmonize 76% connected

To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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House 76% connected

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a d…

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Ply 76% connected

To bend.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Satisfy 76% connected

In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full,…

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Derivationally related 18

Accommodation 74% connected

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.

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Accommodation 74% connected

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.

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Accommodator 74% connected

He who, or that which, accommodates.

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Accommodator 74% connected

He who, or that which, accommodates.

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Adaptable 74% connected

Capable of being adapted.

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Adaptable 74% connected

Capable of being adapted.

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Adapter 74% connected

One who adapts.

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Adapter 74% connected

One who adapts.

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Adaptive 74% connected

Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.

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Adaptive 74% connected

Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.

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Adjustment 74% connected

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.

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Adjustment 74% connected

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.

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Fitter 74% connected

One who fits or makes to fit;

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Fitter 74% connected

One who fits or makes to fit;

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Indebtedness 74% connected

The state of being indebted.

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Indebtedness 74% connected

The state of being indebted.

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Lodging 74% connected

of Lodge

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Lodging 74% connected

of Lodge

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See also 2

Occupy 66% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Occupy 66% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Synonym 9

Adapt 92% connected

Fitted; suited.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Admit 92% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Conciliate 92% connected

To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

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Fit 92% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Hold 92% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lodge 92% connected

A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Oblige 92% connected

To attach, as by a bond.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reconcile 92% connected

To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to r…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suit 92% connected

The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Disoblige 94% connected

To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be…

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Disoblige 94% connected

To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be…

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