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Annex

To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.

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Addition 76% connected

The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Affix 76% connected

To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrume…

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Append 76% connected

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Arrogate 76% connected

To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Assume 76% connected

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

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Improver 76% connected

One who, or that which, improves.

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Seize 76% connected

To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Supplement 76% connected

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.

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Usurp 76% connected

To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 1

Colonize 76% connected

To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.

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Narrower term 1

Ell 76% connected

A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell…

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Containing whole 2

Building 70% connected

of Build

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

Edifice 70% connected

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehou…

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

Synonym 2

Extension 92% connected

The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expa…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Wing 92% connected

One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the cas…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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