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Bound

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Similar meaning 40

Cased 84% connected

of Case

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Cased 84% connected

of Case

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Certain 84% connected

Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.

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Certain 84% connected

Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.

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Chained 84% connected

of Chain

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Chained 84% connected

of Chain

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Conjugate 84% connected

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

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Conjugate 84% connected

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

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Conjugated 84% connected

of Conjugate

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Conjugated 84% connected

of Conjugate

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Constipated 84% connected

of Constipate

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Constipated 84% connected

of Constipate

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Fettered 84% connected

Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

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Fettered 84% connected

Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

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Half-bound 84% connected

Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.

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Half-bound 84% connected

Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.

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Orientated 84% connected

of Orientate

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Orientated 84% connected

of Orientate

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Pinioned 84% connected

of Pinion

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Pinioned 84% connected

of Pinion

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Rolled 84% connected

of Roll

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Rolled 84% connected

of Roll

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Shackled 84% connected

of Shackle

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Shackled 84% connected

of Shackle

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Sure 84% connected

Certainly knowing and believing; confident beyond doubt; implicity trusting; unquestioning; positive.

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Sure 84% connected

Certainly knowing and believing; confident beyond doubt; implicity trusting; unquestioning; positive.

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Sworn 84% connected

of Swear

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Sworn 84% connected

of Swear

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Tethered 84% connected

of Tether

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Tethered 84% connected

of Tether

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Tied 84% connected

of Tie

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Tied 84% connected

of Tie

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Treated 84% connected

of Treat

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Treated 84% connected

of Treat

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Trussed 84% connected

of Truss

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Trussed 84% connected

of Truss

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Unfree 84% connected

Not free; held in bondage.

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Unfree 84% connected

Not free; held in bondage.

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Wired 84% connected

of Wire

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Wired 84% connected

of Wire

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Narrower term 31

Absoluteness 76% connected

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

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Border 76% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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Bourn 76% connected

Alt. of Bourne

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Bourne 76% connected

A stream or rivulet; a burn.

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Brink 76% connected

The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. A…

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Caper 76% connected

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

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Capriole 76% connected

A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.

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Delimitation 76% connected

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.

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Demarcation 76% connected

The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.

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Edge 76% connected

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Fringe 76% connected

An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but mor…

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Frontier 76% connected

That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country,…

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Knife-edge 76% connected

A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or ot…

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Limit 76% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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Lineation 76% connected

Delineation; a line or lines.

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Margin 76% connected

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

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Maximum 76% connected

The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to dec…

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Mete 76% connected

Meat.

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Outline 76% connected

The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.

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Perimeter 76% connected

The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.

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Periphery 76% connected

The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.

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Pounce 76% connected

A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.

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Rim 76% connected

The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.

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Starkness 76% connected

The quality or state of being stark.

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Threshold 76% connected

The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entr…

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Utmost 76% connected

Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme; as, the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowl…

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Uttermost 76% connected

Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end.

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Utterness 76% connected

The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.

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Verge 76% connected

A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

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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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Confine 76% connected

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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Enclose 76% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

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Extent 76% connected

Extended.

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Extremity 76% connected

The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.

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Jump 76% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Jumping 76% connected

of Jump

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Leap 76% connected

A basket.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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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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Spring 76% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Manner of action 39

Bounce 76% connected

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

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Burst 76% connected

of Burst

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Caper 76% connected

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

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Capriole 76% connected

A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.

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Carom 76% connected

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's b…

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Constrain 76% connected

To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.

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Cramp 76% connected

That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

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Cumber 76% connected

To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruc…

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Curvet 76% connected

A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, s…

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Delimit 76% connected

To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.

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Demarcate 76% connected

To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.

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Encumber 76% connected

To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements…

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Gate 76% connected

A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber,…

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Halter 76% connected

One who halts or limps; a cripple.

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Hamper 76% connected

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which…

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Hop 76% connected

To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

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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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Leapfrog 76% connected

A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.

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Overleap 76% connected

To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore.

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Rebound 76% connected

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

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Recoil 76% connected

To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

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Reduce 76% connected

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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Resile 76% connected

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

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Restrain 76% connected

To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress…

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Ricochet 76% connected

A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of…

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Saltate 76% connected

To leap or dance.

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Scant 76% connected

Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisi…

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Shore 76% connected

of Shear

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Skimp 76% connected

To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.

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Skip 76% connected

A basket. See Skep.

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Skirt 76% connected

The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

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Spring 76% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Stiffen 76% connected

To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

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Strangle 76% connected

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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Tie 76% connected

A knot; a fastening.

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Tighten 76% connected

To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

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Vault 76% connected

An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

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Verge 76% connected

A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

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Border 74% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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Border 74% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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Confinement 74% connected

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

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Confinement 74% connected

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

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Edge 74% connected

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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Edge 74% connected

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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Leap 74% connected

A basket.

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Leap 74% connected

A basket.

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Leaper 74% connected

One who, or that which, leaps.

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Leaper 74% connected

One who, or that which, leaps.

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Margin 74% connected

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

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Margin 74% connected

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

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Resiliency 74% connected

The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

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Resiliency 74% connected

The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

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Resilient 74% connected

Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

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Resilient 74% connected

Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

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Restriction 74% connected

The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.

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Restriction 74% connected

The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.

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Restrictive 74% connected

Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.

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Restrictive 74% connected

Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.

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Saltate 74% connected

To leap or dance.

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Saltate 74% connected

To leap or dance.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Spring 74% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Spring 74% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

See also 6

Approach 66% connected

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Approach 66% connected

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet provides this as a see-also lexical relationship.

Jump 66% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet provides this as a see-also lexical relationship.

Jump 66% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet provides this as a see-also lexical relationship.

Unfree 66% connected

Not free; held in bondage.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Unfree 66% connected

Not free; held in bondage.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet provides this as a see-also lexical relationship.

Synonym 24

Apprenticed 92% connected

of Apprentice

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.

Articled 92% connected

of Article

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.

Bandaged 92% connected

of Bandage

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Border 92% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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.

Bounce 92% connected

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

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.

Boundary 92% connected

That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

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.

Confine 92% connected

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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.

Destined 92% connected

of Destine

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Edge 92% connected

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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.

Indentured 92% connected

of Indenture

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.

Jump 92% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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.

Leap 92% connected

A basket.

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.

Leaping 92% connected

of Leap

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.

Limit 92% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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.

Rebound 92% connected

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

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.

Recoil 92% connected

To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

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.

Resile 92% connected

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

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.

Restrict 92% connected

Restricted.

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.

Reverberate 92% connected

Reverberant.

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.

Ricochet 92% connected

A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of…

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.

Saltation 92% connected

A leaping or jumping.

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.

Spring 92% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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.

Throttle 92% connected

The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

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.

Trammel 92% connected

A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.

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.

Antonym 4

Free 94% 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

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Free 94% 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

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

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