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Assign

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

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Verb group 2

Impute 84% connected

To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Impute 84% connected

To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 42

Accredit 76% connected

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

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Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Allocate 76% connected

To distribute or assign; to allot.

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Allow 76% connected

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

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Anthropomorphize 76% connected

To attribute a human form or personality to.

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Apportion 76% connected

To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to app…

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Appropriate 76% connected

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

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Blame 76% connected

To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Bump 76% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Carnalize 76% connected

To make carnal; to debase to carnality.

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Charge 76% connected

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

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Classify 76% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Credit 76% connected

Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

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Dedicate 76% connected

Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

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Delegate 76% connected

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

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Denominate 76% connected

To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate.

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Depute 76% connected

To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

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Designate 76% connected

Designated; appointed; chosen.

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Detail 76% connected

A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

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Devolve 76% connected

To roll onward or downward; to pass on.

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Earmark 76% connected

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

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Elevate 76% connected

Elevated; raised aloft.

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Externalize 76% connected

To make external; to manifest by outward form.

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Impute 76% connected

To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in…

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Mandate 76% connected

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

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Personate 76% connected

To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

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Personify 76% connected

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Post 76% connected

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

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Project 76% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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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…

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Reassign 76% connected

To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.

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Regiment 76% connected

Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.

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Relegate 76% connected

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

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Repose 76% connected

To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.

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Reserve 76% connected

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

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Sensualize 76% connected

To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.

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Task 76% connected

Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Broader term 20

Administer 76% connected

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Allot 76% connected

To distribute by lot.

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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Appoint 76% connected

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

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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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Charge 76% connected

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

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Choose 76% connected

To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Dispense 76% connected

To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispens…

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Distribute 76% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Employ 76% connected

To inclose; to infold.

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Lot 76% connected

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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Select 76% connected

Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choic…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Use 76% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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Utilize 76% connected

To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.

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Derivationally related 14

Assignable 74% connected

Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.

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Assignable 74% connected

Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Assignee 74% connected

A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privileg…

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Assignee 74% connected

A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privileg…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Assignment 74% connected

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

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Assignment 74% connected

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

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Attributable 74% connected

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

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Attributable 74% connected

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

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Designation 74% connected

The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

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Designation 74% connected

The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

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Grant 74% connected

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

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Grant 74% connected

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

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Synonym 11

Allot 92% connected

To distribute by lot.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Arrogate 92% 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 68% interchangeable

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Ascribe 92% connected

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a boo…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Attribute 92% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Delegate 92% connected

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Depute 92% connected

To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Designate 92% connected

Designated; appointed; chosen.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Impute 92% connected

To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Portion 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Put 92% connected

A pit.

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Specify 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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