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Bail

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

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Deliver 76% connected

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Empty 76% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Free 76% connected

Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Guarantee 76% connected

In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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legal system 76% connected

The institutions, rules and processes through which law is made, interpreted and enforced.

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Liberate 76% connected

To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Loose 76% connected

Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Recognizance 76% connected

An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appea…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Unloose 76% connected

To make loose; to loosen; to set free.

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Unloosen 76% connected

To loosen; to unloose.

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Vouch 76% connected

To call; to summon.

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Bailable 74% connected

Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bailable 74% connected

Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bailee 74% connected

The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bailee 74% connected

The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bailment 74% connected

The action of bailing a person accused.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bailment 74% connected

The action of bailing a person accused.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bailor 74% connected

One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

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Bailor 74% connected

One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

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Synonym 2

Bail bond 92% connected

A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bond 92% connected

That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a m…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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