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Adjudicate

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

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Manner of action 3

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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Court-martial 76% connected

A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Decide 76% connected

To cut off; to separate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Determine 76% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 10

Bench 74% connected

A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bench 74% connected

A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Judge 74% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Judge 74% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Judgement 74% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Judgement 74% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Settlement 74% connected

The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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Settlement 74% connected

The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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Settler 74% connected

One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.

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Settler 74% connected

One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.

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Decide 92% connected

To cut off; to separate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Judge 92% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Resolve 92% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Settle 92% connected

A seat of any kind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Try 92% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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