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Ascertain

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

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Verb group 28

Assure 84% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Assure 84% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Check 84% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Check 84% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Control 84% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Control 84% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Determine 84% connected

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

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Determine 84% connected

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

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Ensure 84% connected

To make sure. See Insure.

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Ensure 84% connected

To make sure. See Insure.

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Find 84% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Find 84% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Insure 84% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Insure 84% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Learn 84% connected

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

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Learn 84% connected

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

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Mark 84% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Mark 84% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Tick 84% connected

Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

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Tick 84% connected

Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

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Verify 84% connected

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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Verify 84% connected

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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Watch 84% connected

The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…

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Watch 84% connected

The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Demonstrate 76% connected

To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.

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Discover 76% connected

To uncover.

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Establish 76% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Hear 76% connected

To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Learn 76% connected

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

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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…

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Prove 76% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Shew 76% connected

See Show.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Verify 76% connected

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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Manner of action 23

Admeasure 76% connected

To measure.

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Card 76% connected

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game play…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cinch 76% connected

A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Count 76% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Define 76% connected

To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.

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Delimit 76% connected

To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.

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Delineate 76% connected

Delineated; portrayed.

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Enumerate 76% connected

To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a s…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gauge 76% connected

To measure or determine with a gauge.

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Locate 76% connected

To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Numerate 76% connected

To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.

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Price 76% connected

The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or…

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Proof 76% connected

Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

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Rectify 76% connected

To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…

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Refract 76% connected

To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

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Sequence 76% connected

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

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Situate 76% connected

Alt. of Situated

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Specify 76% connected

To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…

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Test 76% connected

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

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Translate 76% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

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Synonym 10

Assure 92% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Check 92% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Control 92% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Determine 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ensure 92% connected

To make sure. See Insure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Find 92% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Insure 92% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Learn 92% connected

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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See 92% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Watch 92% connected

The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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