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Bubble

A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.

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Verb group 2

Gurgle 84% connected

To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.

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Gurgle 84% connected

To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 19

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Arise 76% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Breathe 76% connected

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Covering 76% connected

of Cover

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Fancy 76% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Fantasy 76% connected

Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.

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Globule 76% connected

A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Illusion 76% connected

An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Phantasy 76% connected

See Fantasy, and Fancy.

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Rise 76% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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Scheme 76% connected

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

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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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Strategy 76% connected

The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

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Uprise 76% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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Manner of action 5

Effervesce 76% connected

To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.

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Fizz 76% connected

To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.

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Foam 76% connected

The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agi…

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Froth 76% connected

The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

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Sparkle 76% connected

A little spark; a scintillation.

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Narrower term 2

Foam 76% connected

The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agi…

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Froth 76% connected

The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

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Derivationally related 6

Babble 74% connected

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

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Babble 74% connected

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

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Bubbly 74% connected

Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.

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Bubbly 74% connected

Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.

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Gurgle 74% connected

To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Gurgle 74% connected

To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 6

Babble 92% connected

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Belch 92% connected

To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Eruct 92% connected

Alt. of Eructate

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Guggle 92% connected

See Gurgle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gurgle 92% connected

To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ripple 92% connected

An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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