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Attain

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

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Manner of action 21

Access 76% connected

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

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Arrive 76% connected

To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by a…

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Average 76% connected

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

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Begin 76% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Breast 76% connected

The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

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Come 76% connected

of Come

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Compass 76% connected

A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

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Culminate 76% connected

To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

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Find 76% 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…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Ground 76% connected

of Grind

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Make 76% connected

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

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Manage 76% connected

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

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Peak 76% connected

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Scale 76% connected

The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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Score 76% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Summit 76% connected

The top; the highest point.

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Surmount 76% connected

To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

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Top 76% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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Broader term 9

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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Arrive 76% connected

To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by a…

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Come 76% connected

of Come

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Find 76% 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…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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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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Regain 76% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

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Succeed 76% connected

To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds sum…

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Win 76% connected

To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to w…

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Derivationally related 4

Attainable 74% connected

Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object.

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Attainable 74% connected

Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Attainment 74% connected

The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.

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Attainment 74% connected

The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.

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Entails 3

Go 72% connected

Gone.

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Move 72% 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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Travel 72% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Synonym 8

Accomplish 92% connected

To complete, as time or distance.

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Achieve 92% connected

To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Discover 92% connected

To uncover.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gain 92% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hit 92% connected

It.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Make 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reach 92% connected

To retch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strike 92% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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