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Blow

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Verb group 8

Drift 84% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Drift 84% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Float 84% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

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Float 84% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

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Waste 84% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Waste 84% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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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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Amplify 76% connected

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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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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Burst 76% connected

of Burst

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Cocaine 76% connected

A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local…

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Depart 76% connected

To part; to divide; to separate.

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Deplete 76% connected

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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Die 76% connected

of Dice

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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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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Disclose 76% connected

To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.

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Discover 76% connected

To uncover.

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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Divulge 76% connected

To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which…

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Drop 76% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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Eat 76% connected

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Eject 76% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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Exaggerate 76% connected

To heap up; to accumulate.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Exhalation 76% connected

The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.

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Exhale 76% connected

To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Expend 76% connected

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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Expiration 76% connected

The act of expiring

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Expire 76% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

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Expose 76% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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Fail 76% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Gush 76% connected

To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

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Happening 76% connected

of Happen

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Hyperbolize 76% connected

To speak or write with exaggeration.

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Impact 76% connected

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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Lay 76% connected

of Lie, to recline.

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Magnify 76% connected

To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the o…

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Miscarry 76% connected

To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.

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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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Occurrence 76% connected

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurrent 76% connected

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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Overdraw 76% connected

To exaggerate; to overdo.

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Overstate 76% connected

To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate.

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Release 76% connected

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

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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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Rest 76% connected

To arrest.

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Reveal 76% connected

To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

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Send 76% connected

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

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Shape 76% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Sound 76% connected

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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Spend 76% connected

To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

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Spirt 76% connected

Same as Spurt.

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Split 76% connected

of Split

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Spout 76% connected

To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

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Spurt 76% connected

To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Stir 76% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Stroke 76% connected

Struck.

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Surprise 76% connected

The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Uncover 76% connected

To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

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Unwrap 76% connected

To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

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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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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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Narrower term 51

Backhander 76% connected

A backhanded blow.

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Bang 76% connected

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

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Bash 76% connected

To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.

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Belt 76% connected

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

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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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Boot 76% connected

Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

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Box 76% connected

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B.…

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Buffeting 76% connected

of Buffet

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Clip 76% connected

To embrace, hence; to encompass.

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Clout 76% connected

A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

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Concussion 76% connected

A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies.

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Hammer 76% connected

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

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Hammering 76% connected

of Hammer

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Insufflation 76% connected

The act of breathing on or into anything

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Jar 76% connected

A turn. [Only in phrase.]

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Jolt 76% connected

To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

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Jounce 76% connected

To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.

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Kick 76% connected

To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.

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Kicking 76% connected

of Kick

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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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Knockdown 76% connected

A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal.

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Lash 76% connected

The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

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Lick 76% connected

To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.

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Poke 76% connected

A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and…

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Pound 76% connected

To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

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Pounding 76% connected

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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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Punch 76% connected

A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the k…

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Rap 76% connected

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

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Shock 76% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Shot 76% connected

of Shoot

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Slap 76% connected

A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.

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Slug 76% connected

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

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Smack 76% connected

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

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Smacking 76% connected

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Smash 76% connected

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

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Stab 76% connected

To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to sta…

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Stinger 76% connected

One who, or that which, stings.

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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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Swat 76% connected

imp. of Sweat.

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Swing 76% connected

To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

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Tap 76% connected

To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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Thrust 76% connected

Thrist.

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Thump 76% connected

The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.

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Thwack 76% connected

To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump.

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Wallop 76% connected

To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.

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Whack 76% connected

To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.

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Whang 76% connected

A leather thong.

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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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Whip 76% connected

To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

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Whiplash 76% connected

The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

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Manner of action 19

Blast 76% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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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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Breeze 76% connected

Alt. of Breeze fly

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Burn 76% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Chuff 76% connected

A coarse or stupid fellow.

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Crow 76% connected

To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.

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Gasp 76% connected

To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.

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Gloat 76% connected

To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

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Heave 76% connected

To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

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Huff 76% connected

To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.

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Pant 76% connected

To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

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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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Squall 76% connected

A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.

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Storm 76% connected

A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or h…

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Tide 76% connected

Time; period; season.

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Triumph 76% connected

A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.

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Waft 76% connected

To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

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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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Blast 74% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Blast 74% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Blower 74% connected

One who, or that which, blows.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Blower 74% connected

One who, or that which, blows.

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Gusty 74% connected

Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.

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Gusty 74% connected

Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.

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Shock 74% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shock 74% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Stinker 74% connected

One who, or that which, stinks.

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Stinker 74% connected

One who, or that which, stinks.

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Containing whole 4

Combat 70% connected

To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

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Fight 70% connected

To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

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Fighting 70% connected

of Fight

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Scrap 70% connected

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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Blast 92% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Bluster 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Boast 92% connected

To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's se…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bodge 92% connected

A botch; a patch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Botch 92% connected

A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Brag 92% connected

To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boas…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bumble 92% connected

The bittern.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bump 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bungle 92% connected

To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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C 92% connected

The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Coke 92% connected

Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas work…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Drift 92% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Float 92% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fluff 92% connected

Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fumble 92% connected

To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gas 92% connected

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gasconade 92% connected

A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mishandle 92% connected

To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Muff 92% connected

A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Puff 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reversal 92% connected

Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reverse 92% connected

Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Setback 92% connected

Offset, n., 4.

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Shock 92% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Snow 92% connected

A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spoil 92% connected

To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squander 92% connected

To scatter; to disperse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stink 92% connected

To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suck 92% connected

To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swash 92% connected

An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tout 92% connected

To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vaunt 92% connected

To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Waste 92% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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