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Blast

A violent gust of wind.

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Verb group 6

Pip 84% connected

A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…

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Pip 84% connected

A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…

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Shoot 84% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Shoot 84% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Manner of action 7

Blaze 76% connected

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

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Crump 76% connected

Crooked; bent.

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Gun 76% connected

of Gin

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Overshoot 76% connected

To shoot over or beyond.

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Pump 76% connected

A low shoe with a thin sole.

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Snipe 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Bomb 76% connected

A great noise; a hollow sound.

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Bombard 76% connected

A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Criticise 76% connected

To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

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Criticism 76% connected

The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a l…

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Dash 76% connected

To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

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Detonation 76% connected

An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Explosion 76% connected

The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowd…

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Fly 76% connected

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Knock 76% connected

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Noise 76% connected

Sound of any kind.

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Resound 76% connected

To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.

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Shrink 76% connected

To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

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Shrivel 76% connected

To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with…

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Smash 76% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Wind 76% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Wither 76% connected

To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.

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Bluster 76% connected

To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

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Puff 76% connected

A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.

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Water hammer 76% connected

A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the…

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Whiff 76% connected

A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.

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Belt 74% connected

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

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Belt 74% connected

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

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Blare 74% connected

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

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Blare 74% connected

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

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Blaster 74% connected

One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

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Blaster 74% connected

One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

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Blow 74% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Blow 74% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Blowy 74% connected

Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.

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Blowy 74% connected

Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.

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Clap 74% connected

To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

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Clap 74% connected

To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

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Drift 74% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Drift 74% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Smash 74% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Smash 74% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Smasher 74% connected

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

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Smasher 74% connected

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

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Synonym 17

Attack 92% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Bam 92% connected

An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

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Bang 92% connected

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

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Blare 92% connected

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

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Blow 92% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Boom 92% connected

A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

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Clap 92% connected

To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

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Crucify 92% connected

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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Eruption 92% connected

The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust.…

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Fire 92% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Gust 92% connected

A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.

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Nail 92% connected

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

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Pillory 92% connected

A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in f…

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Savage 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

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Shell 92% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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Shoot 92% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Smash 92% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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