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Bolt

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.

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Broader term 19

Abandonment 76% connected

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

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Bar 76% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

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Desertion 76% connected

The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully…

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Eat 76% connected

of Eat

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Flee 76% connected

To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, makin…

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Fly 76% connected

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

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Forsaking 76% connected

of Forsake

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Furl 76% connected

To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, s…

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Haste 76% connected

Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

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Hurry 76% connected

To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

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Leave 76% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Lightning 76% connected

A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the eart…

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Lock 76% connected

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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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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Roll 76% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Rush 76% connected

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

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Rushing 76% connected

of Rush

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Screw 76% connected

A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to l…

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Swallow 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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Kingbolt 76% connected

A vertical iron bolt, by which the forward axle and wheels of a vehicle or the trucks of a railroad car are connected with the other parts.

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Levant 76% connected

Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

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Absquatulate 74% connected

To take one's self off; to decamp.

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Absquatulate 74% connected

To take one's self off; to decamp.

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Dash 74% connected

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

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Dash 74% connected

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

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Gobbler 74% connected

A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.

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Gobbler 74% connected

A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.

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Component part 3

Clinch 70% connected

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

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Head 70% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Shank 70% connected

See Chank.

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Containing whole 2

Lock 70% connected

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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Rifle 70% connected

To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

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Pertains to 1

Stiff 66% connected

Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.

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Synonym 12

Abscond 92% connected

To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.

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Absquatulate 92% connected

To take one's self off; to decamp.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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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Dash 92% connected

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

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Decamp 92% connected

To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.

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Gobble 92% connected

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.

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Rigidly 92% connected

In a rigid manner; stiffly.

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Slap 92% connected

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

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Slapdash 92% connected

In a bold, careless manner; at random.

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Smack 92% connected

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

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Stiffly 92% connected

In a stiff manner.

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Thunderbolt 92% connected

A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.

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Antonym 2

Unbolt 94% connected

To remove a bolt from; to unfasten; to unbar; to open.

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Unbolt 94% connected

To remove a bolt from; to unfasten; to unbar; to open.

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