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Brook

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

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Ache 84% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Ache 84% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Hurt 84% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Hurt 84% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Suffer 84% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Suffer 84% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 3

Accept 76% connected

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 5

Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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Countenance 76% connected

To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Permit 76% connected

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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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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Brooklet 76% connected

A small brook.

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Synonym 10

Abide 92% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bear 92% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Creek 92% connected

A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Digest 92% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Endure 92% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stand 92% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stomach 92% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suffer 92% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Support 92% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tolerate 92% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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