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Admit

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; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

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Verb group 18

Accept 84% connected

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

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Accept 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Allow 84% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Allow 84% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Contain 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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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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Include 84% connected

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Include 84% connected

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Intromit 84% connected

To send in or put in; to insert or introduce.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Intromit 84% connected

To send in or put in; to insert or introduce.

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Leave 84% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Leave 84% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Provide 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Provide 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 11

Accept 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Adjudge 76% connected

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Countenance 76% connected

To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Permit 76% connected

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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Serve 76% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Manner of action 17

Attorn 76% connected

To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the es…

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Avouch 76% connected

To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.

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Avow 76% connected

To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Concede 76% connected

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

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Confess 76% connected

To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.

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Grudge 76% connected

To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Induct 76% connected

To bring in; to introduce; to usher in.

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Initiate 76% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Involve 76% connected

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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Profess 76% connected

To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.

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Readmit 76% connected

To admit again; to give entrance or access to again.

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Repatriate 76% connected

To restore to one's own country.

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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.

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Sleep 76% connected

imp. of Sleep. Slept.

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Squeal 76% connected

To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.

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Sustain 76% connected

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 8

Acknowledgment 74% connected

The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Acknowledgment 74% connected

The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Admission 74% connected

The act or practice of admitting.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Admission 74% connected

The act or practice of admitting.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Admissive 74% connected

Implying an admission; tending to admit.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Admissive 74% connected

Implying an admission; tending to admit.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 8

Accept 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Accommodate 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Acknowledge 92% connected

To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Allow 92% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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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Include 92% connected

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Intromit 92% connected

To send in or put in; to insert or introduce.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Exclude 94% connected

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exclude 94% connected

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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