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Bury

A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's

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Broader term 16

Conceal 76% connected

To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deposit 76% connected

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich al…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Embed 76% connected

To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Enclose 76% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Engraft 76% connected

See Ingraft.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hide 76% connected

To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Imbed 76% connected

To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Implant 76% connected

To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the princ…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Inclose 76% connected

To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Lay 76% connected

of Lie, to recline.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Lose 76% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Plant 76% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Posit 76% connected

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Situate 76% connected

Alt. of Situated

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 5

Countersink 76% connected

To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, e…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Repress 76% connected

To press again.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Set 76% connected

of Set

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suppress 76% connected

To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Unlearn 76% connected

To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Burial 74% connected

A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Burial 74% connected

A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entails 1

Cover 72% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 7

Entomb 92% connected

To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Forget 92% connected

To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Immerse 92% connected

Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Inhume 92% connected

To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Inter 92% connected

To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sink 92% connected

To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swallow 92% 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 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Remember 94% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Remember 94% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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