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Call

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Verb group 26

Cry 84% connected

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

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Cry 84% connected

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

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Exclaim 84% connected

To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, t…

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Exclaim 84% connected

To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, t…

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Hollo 84% connected

Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.

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Hollo 84% connected

Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.

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Name 84% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

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Name 84% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

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Outcry 84% connected

A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

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Outcry 84% connected

A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

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Ring 84% connected

To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

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Ring 84% connected

To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

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Scream 84% connected

To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.

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Scream 84% connected

To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.

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Shout 84% connected

To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.

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Shout 84% connected

To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.

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Squall 84% connected

A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.

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Squall 84% connected

A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.

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Telephone 84% connected

An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.

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Telephone 84% connected

An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.

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Visit 84% connected

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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Visit 84% connected

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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Yell 84% connected

To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.

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Yell 84% connected

To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.

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Broader term 66

Address 76% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Adjudge 76% connected

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

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Arouse 76% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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Ask 76% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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Asking 76% connected

of Ask

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Awaken 76% connected

of Awake

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Bespeak 76% connected

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

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Challenge 76% connected

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…

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Command 76% connected

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

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Conclusion 76% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Decision 76% connected

Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Defer 76% connected

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Determination 76% connected

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Dispute 76% connected

To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wra…

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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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Enjoin 76% connected

To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

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Entice 76% connected

To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to ev…

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Exact 76% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

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Expect 76% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Gainsay 76% connected

To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Guess 76% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Hazard 76% connected

A game of chance played with dice.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Indicate 76% connected

To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

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Instruction 76% connected

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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Label 76% connected

A tassel.

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Lure 76% connected

A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Option 76% connected

The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Postpone 76% connected

To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of…

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Pretend 76% connected

To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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Prorogue 76% connected

To protract; to prolong; to extend.

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Quest 76% connected

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

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Read 76% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Regard 76% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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Remit 76% connected

To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

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Request 76% connected

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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Require 76% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Rouse 76% connected

To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Shelve 76% connected

To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.

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Statement 76% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Stop 76% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Table 76% connected

A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.

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Telephone 76% connected

An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.

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Telephony 76% connected

The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Tempt 76% connected

To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

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Tendency 76% connected

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

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Utter 76% connected

Outer.

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Utterance 76% connected

The act of uttering.

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Venture 76% connected

An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

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View 76% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Visit 76% connected

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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Vocalization 76% connected

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

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Wake 76% connected

The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.

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Waken 76% connected

To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.

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Manner of action 56

Arraign 76% connected

To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

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Augur 76% connected

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenome…

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Baptize 76% connected

To administer the sacrament of baptism to.

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Bet 76% connected

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

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Brand 76% connected

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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Calculate 76% connected

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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Christen 76% connected

To baptize and give a Christian name to.

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Cite 76% connected

To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.

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Double 76% connected

Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.

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Dub 76% connected

To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

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Entitle 76% connected

To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle…

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Forecast 76% connected

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

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Hail 76% connected

Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are calle…

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Halloo 76% connected

A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.

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Hollo 76% connected

Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.

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Howl 76% connected

To utter a loud, protraced, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.

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Hurrah 76% connected

Alt. of Hurra

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Miscall 76% connected

To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.

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Misname 76% connected

To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.

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Mobilize 76% connected

To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.

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Muster 76% connected

Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

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Nickname 76% connected

A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.

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Outbid 76% connected

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Overbid 76% connected

To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of.

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Pipe 76% connected

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pi…

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Post 76% connected

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

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Preempt 76% connected

To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption.

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Prophesy 76% connected

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Rally 76% connected

To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

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Read 76% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Recall 76% connected

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Rename 76% connected

To give a new name to.

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Roar 76% connected

To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.

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Screak 76% connected

To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel.

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Screech 76% connected

To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Shriek 76% connected

To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.

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Shrill 76% connected

Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.

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Squawk 76% connected

To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Summon 76% connected

To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.

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Summons 76% connected

The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.

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Tag 76% connected

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

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Term 76% connected

That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

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Title 76% connected

An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.

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Ululate 76% connected

To howl, as a dog or a wolf; to wail; as, ululating jackals.

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Underbid 76% connected

To bid less than, as when a contract or service is offered to the lowest bidder; to offer to contract, sell, or do for a less price than.

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Vaticinate 76% connected

To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.

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Wager 76% connected

Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

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Wail 76% connected

To choose; to select.

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Whoop 76% connected

The hoopoe.

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Yaup 76% connected

To cry out like a child; to yelp.

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Yawl 76% connected

A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.

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Narrower term 31

Bellow 76% connected

To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

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Bellowing 76% connected

of Bellow

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Bird 76% connected

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

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Catcall 76% connected

A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such…

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Clamor 76% connected

A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.

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Clamoring 76% connected

of Clamor

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Halloo 76% connected

A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.

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Hiss 76% connected

To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a…

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Holla 76% connected

Hollo.

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Hollo 76% connected

Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.

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Holloa 76% connected

Same as Hollo.

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Hoot 76% connected

To cry out or shout in contempt.

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Hosanna 76% connected

A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings.

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Noise 76% connected

Sound of any kind.

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Raspberry 76% connected

The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.

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Recall 76% connected

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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Roar 76% connected

To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.

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Roaring 76% connected

of Roar

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Round 76% connected

To whisper.

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Scream 76% connected

To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.

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Screaming 76% connected

of Scream

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Screech 76% connected

To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.

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Screeching 76% connected

of Screech

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Shouting 76% connected

of Shout

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Shriek 76% connected

To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.

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Shrieking 76% connected

of Shriek

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Snort 76% connected

To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.

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Whoop 76% connected

The hoopoe.

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Yelling 76% connected

of Yell

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Yodel 76% connected

Alt. of Yodle

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Yowl 76% connected

To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell.

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Caller 74% connected

One who calls.

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Caller 74% connected

One who calls.

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Career 74% connected

A race course: the ground run over.

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Career 74% connected

A race course: the ground run over.

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Cry 74% connected

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

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Cry 74% connected

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

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Hollo 74% connected

Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.

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Hollo 74% connected

Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.

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Visit 74% connected

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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Visit 74% connected

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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Visitant 74% connected

One who visits; a guest; a visitor.

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Visitant 74% connected

One who visits; a guest; a visitor.

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Visitor 74% connected

One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.

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Visitor 74% connected

One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.

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Assemble 72% connected

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

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Forgather 72% connected

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

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Gather 72% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Meet 72% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Entails 1

Dial 72% connected

An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; bu…

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Containing whole 2

Span 70% connected

imp. & p. p. of Spin.

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Straddle 70% connected

To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

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See also 4

Invoke 66% connected

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; a…

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Invoke 66% connected

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; a…

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Provoke 66% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Provoke 66% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Synonym 23

Address 92% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Anticipate 92% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Bid 92% connected

of Bid

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Birdcall 92% connected

A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.

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Claim 92% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Cry 92% connected

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

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Forebode 92% connected

To foretell.

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Foretell 92% connected

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

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Hollo 92% connected

Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.

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Name 92% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

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Outcry 92% connected

A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

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Predict 92% connected

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

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Prognosticate 92% connected

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

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Promise 92% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ring 92% connected

To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scream 92% connected

To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shout 92% connected

To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Song 92% connected

That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squall 92% connected

A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Telephone 92% connected

An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Visit 92% connected

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vociferation 92% connected

The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Yell 92% connected

To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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