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Allow

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

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Verb group 14

Admit 84% 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 50% interchangeable

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Admit 84% 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 50% interchangeable

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Countenance 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Countenance 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Grant 84% connected

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Grant 84% connected

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Let 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Let 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Permit 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Permit 84% connected

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

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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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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Manner of action 29

Abide 76% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Admit 76% 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 0% interchangeable

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Allowance 76% connected

Approval; approbation.

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Authorize 76% connected

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Brook 76% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Digest 76% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Endure 76% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Favor 76% connected

Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.

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Favour 76% connected

an inclination to approve; "that style is in favor this season"

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Furlough 76% connected

Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Include 76% 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.

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Intromit 76% connected

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

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Legalize 76% connected

To make legal.

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Legitimate 76% connected

Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Legitimize 76% connected

To legitimate.

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Privilege 76% connected

A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stand 76% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Stomach 76% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tolerate 76% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Trust 76% connected

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Vouchsafe 76% connected

To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Afford 76% connected

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords frui…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Allot 76% connected

To distribute by lot.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Assign 76% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

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Calculate 76% connected

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Consent 76% connected

To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

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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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discount 76% connected

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt paym…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Estimate 76% connected

To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Forecast 76% connected

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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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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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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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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Portion 76% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Allowable 74% connected

Praiseworthy; laudable.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Allowable 74% connected

Praiseworthy; laudable.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Allowance 74% connected

Approval; approbation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Allowance 74% connected

Approval; approbation.

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Sanction 74% connected

Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; es…

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Sanction 74% connected

Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; es…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 11

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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Appropriate 92% connected

Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Countenance 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Earmark 92% connected

A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Grant 92% connected

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Leave 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Let 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Permit 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Provide 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reserve 92% connected

To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tolerate 92% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 4

Deny 94% connected

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deny 94% connected

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

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Keep 94% connected

To care; to desire.

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Keep 94% connected

To care; to desire.

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