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Bald

Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

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Bare 84% connected

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Bare 84% connected

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Hairless 84% connected

Destitute of hair.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Hairless 84% connected

Destitute of hair.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Open 84% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Open 84% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Overt 84% connected

Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Overt 84% connected

Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.

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Grow 76% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Baldness 74% connected

The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Baldness 74% connected

The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Barefaced 92% connected

With the face uncovered; not masked.

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.

Denudate 92% connected

To denude.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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