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Agitate

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

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Verb group 6

Advertise 84% connected

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Advertise 84% connected

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Promote 84% connected

To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Promote 84% connected

To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Push 84% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Push 84% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Advertise 76% connected

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Disturb 76% connected

To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Promote 76% connected

To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Provoke 76% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Push 76% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Trouble 76% connected

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 25

Beat 76% connected

of Beat

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bother 76% connected

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Concuss 76% connected

To shake or agitate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Convulse 76% connected

To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Electrify 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fan 76% connected

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Jiggle 76% connected

To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Joggle 76% connected

To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Palpitate 76% connected

To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Poke 76% connected

A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pother 76% connected

Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Quake 76% connected

To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rattle 76% connected

To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rile 76% connected

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Roil 76% connected

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rumpus 76% connected

A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scramble 76% connected

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Slash 76% connected

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sparge 76% connected

To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Thrash 76% connected

Alt. of Thresh

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Thresh 76% connected

To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash whe…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Toss 76% connected

To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tremble 76% connected

To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tremor 76% connected

A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wiggle 76% connected

To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 10

Agitator 74% connected

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Agitator 74% connected

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shaker 74% connected

A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shaker 74% connected

A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shaking 74% connected

of Shake

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shaking 74% connected

of Shake

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Wag 74% connected

To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Wag 74% connected

To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 16

Budge 92% connected

To move off; to stir; to walk away.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Campaign 92% connected

An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Charge 92% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Commove 92% connected

To urge; to persuade; to incite.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Crusade 92% connected

Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disturb 92% connected

To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Excite 92% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fight 92% connected

To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foment 92% connected

To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Press 92% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Push 92% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rouse 92% connected

To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shake 92% connected

obs. p. p. of Shake.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shift 92% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stir 92% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vex 92% connected

To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Calm 94% connected

Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Calm 94% connected

Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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