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Change

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 the countenance.

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Commute 84% connected

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an a…

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Commute 84% connected

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an a…

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Convert 84% connected

To cause to turn; to turn.

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Convert 84% connected

To cause to turn; to turn.

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Exchange 84% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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Exchange 84% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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Shift 84% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Shift 84% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Switch 84% connected

A small, flexible twig or rod.

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Switch 84% connected

A small, flexible twig or rod.

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Broader term 35

Abandon 76% connected

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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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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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Cash 76% connected

A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Clothing 76% connected

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Coin 76% connected

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

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Consequence 76% connected

That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.

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Difference 76% connected

The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quali…

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Dress 76% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Effect 76% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Event 76% connected

That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Habiliment 76% connected

A garment; an article of clothing.

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Happening 76% connected

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Issue 76% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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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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Occurrence 76% connected

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurrent 76% connected

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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Outcome 76% connected

That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

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Relation 76% connected

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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Replace 76% connected

To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

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Result 76% connected

To leap back; to rebound.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Thing 76% connected

Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Upshot 76% connected

Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.

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Vesture 76% connected

A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.

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Wear 76% connected

Same as Weir.

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Wearable 76% connected

Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

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Manner of action 596

Accelerate 76% connected

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

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Accommodate 76% connected

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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Accustom 76% connected

To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.

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Acerbate 76% connected

To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.

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Achromatize 76% connected

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

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Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Activate 76% connected

To make active.

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Adapt 76% connected

Fitted; suited.

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Add 76% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Adjust 76% connected

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

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Adopt 76% connected

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…

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Adorn 76% connected

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

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Aerate 76% connected

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.

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Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Age 76% connected

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

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Aggravate 76% connected

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

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Alchemize 76% connected

To change by alchemy; to transmute.

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Alcoholize 76% connected

To reduce to a fine powder.

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Alienate 76% connected

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.

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Allegorize 76% connected

To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

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Alter 76% connected

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

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Alternate 76% connected

Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.

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Amalgamate 76% connected

To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.

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Ameliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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Amend 76% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

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Americanize 76% connected

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

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Angulate 76% connected

Alt. of Angulated

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Animalize 76% connected

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

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Animate 76% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Antiquate 76% connected

To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate.

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Antique 76% connected

Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.

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Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Archaize 76% connected

To make appear archaic or antique.

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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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Arrange 76% connected

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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Arterialize 76% connected

To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.

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Ascend 76% connected

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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Ash 76% connected

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus e…

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Assibilate 76% connected

To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.

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Assimilate 76% connected

To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

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Assume 76% connected

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

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Awaken 76% connected

of Awake

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Barb 76% connected

Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.

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Barbarize 76% connected

To become barbarous.

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Barter 76% connected

To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities tra…

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Beautify 76% connected

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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Become 76% connected

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Bedim 76% connected

To make dim; to obscure or darken.

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Begin 76% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Begrime 76% connected

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

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Bemire 76% connected

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

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Bestialize 76% connected

To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.

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Bestow 76% connected

To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

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Better 76% connected

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Blear 76% connected

Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.

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Blind 76% connected

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

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Blister 76% connected

A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fl…

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Blunt 76% connected

Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

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Blur 76% connected

To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manu…

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Boil 76% connected

To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it…

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Brighten 76% connected

To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.

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Bring 76% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Broaden 76% connected

To grow broad; to become broader or wider.

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Brutalize 76% connected

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

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Bubble 76% connected

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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Burn 76% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Burst 76% connected

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Calcify 76% connected

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

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Camp 76% connected

The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.

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Capacitate 76% connected

To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

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Capitalize 76% connected

To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

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Capture 76% connected

The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.

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Carbonate 76% connected

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.

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Cash 76% connected

A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Cease 76% connected

To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

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Centralize 76% connected

To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Chasten 76% connected

To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Chill 76% connected

A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.

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Chord 76% connected

The string of a musical instrument.

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Civilize 76% connected

To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.

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Clarify 76% connected

To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.

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Clean 76% connected

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Clinker 76% connected

A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

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Clot 76% connected

A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.

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Cloud 76% connected

A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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Coagulate 76% connected

Coagulated.

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Coarsen 76% connected

To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character.

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Cohere 76% connected

To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.

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Collapse 76% connected

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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Collimate 76% connected

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.

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Colly 76% connected

The black grime or soot of coal.

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Color 76% connected

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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Colour 76% connected

See Color.

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Combust 76% connected

Burnt; consumed.

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Come 76% connected

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Commit 76% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Commix 76% connected

To mix or mingle together; to blend.

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Commute 76% connected

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an a…

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Compensate 76% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

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Complicate 76% connected

Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.

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Concentrate 76% connected

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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Condense 76% connected

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

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Confuse 76% connected

Mixed; confounded.

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Conjugate 76% connected

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

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Contaminate 76% connected

To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.

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Contract 76% connected

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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Contribute 76% connected

To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) f…

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Conventionalize 76% connected

To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.

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Convert 76% connected

To cause to turn; to turn.

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Cook 76% connected

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

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Cool 76% connected

Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.

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Correct 76% connected

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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Correspond 76% connected

To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each othe…

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Corrupt 76% connected

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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Counterchange 76% connected

To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.

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Crack 76% connected

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Crackle 76% connected

To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.

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Crash 76% connected

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

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Craze 76% connected

To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

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Crumble 76% connected

To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

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Crush 76% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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Cry 76% 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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Cure 76% connected

Care, heed, or attention.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Damage 76% connected

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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Darken 76% connected

To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.

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Dawn 76% connected

To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

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Deaden 76% connected

To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers o…

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Debase 76% connected

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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Debauch 76% connected

To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self b…

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Decalcify 76% connected

To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

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Decay 76% connected

To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail;…

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Decentralize 76% connected

To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or conce…

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Decimalize 76% connected

To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency.

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Deconcentrate 76% connected

To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.

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Decorate 76% connected

To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

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Decrease 76% connected

To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…

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Decrepitate 76% connected

To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.

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Deepen 76% connected

To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.

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Deflate 76% connected

To reduce from an inflated condition.

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Deform 76% connected

To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.

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Dehydrogenate 76% connected

To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.

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Delay 76% connected

A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

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Demagnetize 76% connected

To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize.

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Democratize 76% connected

To render democratic.

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Demonize 76% connected

To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.

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Demoralize 76% connected

To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…

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Denationalize 76% connected

To divest or deprive of national character or rights.

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Denaturalize 76% connected

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

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Deodorize 76% connected

To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.

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Deoxidize 76% connected

To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

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Depart 76% connected

To part; to divide; to separate.

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Depolarize 76% connected

To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.

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Deprave 76% connected

To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

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Depress 76% connected

To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Devilize 76% connected

To make a devil of.

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Diabolize 76% connected

To render diabolical.

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Die 76% connected

of Dice

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Differ 76% connected

To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.

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Digest 76% 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.

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Digitize 76% connected

To finger; as, to digitize a pen.

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Dilapidate 76% connected

To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a buildin…

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Dim 76% connected

Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.

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Diphthongize 76% connected

To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.

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Dirty 76% connected

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Disable 76% connected

Lacking ability; unable.

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Disaffect 76% connected

To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness.

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Disappear 76% connected

To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the appr…

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Disarray 76% connected

To throw into disorder; to break the array of.

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Discolor 76% connected

To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolore…

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Discourage 76% connected

To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was…

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Disenable 76% connected

To disable; to disqualify.

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Disintegrate 76% connected

To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, fros…

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Dismiss 76% connected

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

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Disorder 76% connected

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

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Disorganize 76% connected

To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter…

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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Disqualify 76% connected

To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state,…

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Dissimilate 76% connected

To render dissimilar.

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Dissolve 76% connected

To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to term…

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Distil 76% connected

See Distill.

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Distill 76% connected

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.

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Disturb 76% connected

To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

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Diversify 76% connected

To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.

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Divide 76% connected

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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Dizzy 76% connected

Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct.

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Domesticate 76% connected

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Dress 76% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Drift 76% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Drop 76% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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Dry 76% connected

Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid o…

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Dull 76% connected

Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

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Edit 76% connected

To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to e…

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Effeminize 76% connected

To make effeminate.

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Elaborate 76% connected

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…

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Elevate 76% connected

Elevated; raised aloft.

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Embellish 76% connected

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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Empty 76% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Emulsify 76% connected

To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely di…

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Enable 76% connected

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

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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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Energize 76% connected

To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

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Envenom 76% connected

To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as…

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Equal 76% connected

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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Equalize 76% connected

To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.

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Equate 76% connected

To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to me…

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Estrange 76% connected

To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

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Eternalize 76% connected

To make eternal.

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Eternize 76% connected

To make eternal or endless.

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Etherealize 76% connected

To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.

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Etiolate 76% connected

To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

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Europeanize 76% connected

To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.

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Evaporate 76% connected

To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.

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Even 76% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

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Evolve 76% connected

To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

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Exacerbate 76% connected

To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.

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Exasperate 76% connected

Exasperated; imbittered.

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Exchange 76% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Exempt 76% connected

Cut off; set apart.

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Expand 76% connected

To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Extend 76% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Externalize 76% connected

To make external; to manifest by outward form.

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Fail 76% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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Fall 76% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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Fasten 76% connected

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

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Fat 76% connected

A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

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Fatten 76% connected

To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

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Fecundate 76% connected

To make fruitful or prolific.

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Felt 76% connected

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Feminize 76% connected

To make womanish or effeminate.

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Fertilize 76% connected

To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Find 76% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Finish 76% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Flatten 76% connected

To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

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Flavor 76% connected

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

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Flavour 76% connected

(physics) the six kinds of quarks

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Flip 76% connected

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

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Flocculate 76% connected

To aggregate into small lumps.

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Fly 76% connected

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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Fold 76% connected

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Fortify 76% connected

To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.

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Foul 76% connected

A bird.

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Founder 76% connected

One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

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Free 76% 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…

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Freeze 76% connected

A frieze.

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Frenchify 76% connected

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.

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Freshen 76% connected

To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

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Full 76% connected

Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anythin…

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Gelatinize 76% connected

To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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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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Glass 76% connected

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or…

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Glaze 76% connected

To become glazed of glassy.

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Glorify 76% connected

To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Grace 76% connected

The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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Gradate 76% connected

To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.

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Gratify 76% connected

To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.

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Grime 76% connected

Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

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Grow 76% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Gum 76% connected

The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

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Habituate 76% connected

To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.

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Halt 76% connected

3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.

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Harden 76% connected

To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

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Harmonize 76% connected

To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Heat 76% connected

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

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Hide 76% connected

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

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Honeycomb 76% connected

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

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Hue 76% connected

Color or shade of color; tint; dye.

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Humanize 76% connected

To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.

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Humble 76% connected

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

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Hush 76% connected

To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

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Hydrate 76% connected

A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.

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Hydrolyse 76% connected

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Hydrolyze 76% connected

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Immaterialize 76% connected

To render immaterial or incorporeal.

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Immerse 76% connected

Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

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Immortalize 76% connected

To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.

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Impact 76% connected

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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Impart 76% connected

To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warm…

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Improve 76% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

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Incapacitate 76% connected

To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.

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Increase 76% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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Incur 76% connected

To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable o…

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Indispose 76% connected

To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.

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Individualize 76% connected

The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality.

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Indurate 76% connected

Hardened; not soft; indurated.

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Inflate 76% connected

Blown in; inflated.

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Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Inseminate 76% connected

To sow; to impregnate.

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Inspissate 76% connected

To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.

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Insulate 76% connected

To make an island of.

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Intensify 76% connected

To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

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Interchange 76% connected

To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly…

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Internationalize 76% connected

To make international; to cause to affect the mutual relations of two or more nations; as, to internationalize a principle of law, or a philanthropic…

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Introvert 76% connected

To turn or bend inward.

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Invalidate 76% connected

To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an…

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Invert 76% connected

To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of…

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Islamize 76% connected

To conform, or cause to conform, to the religion of Islam.

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Jump 76% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Lace 76% connected

That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in dr…

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Land 76% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Launder 76% connected

A washerwoman.

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Leap 76% connected

A basket.

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Leave 76% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Legitimate 76% connected

Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession…

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Lend 76% connected

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.

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Lessen 76% connected

To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…

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Liberalize 76% connected

To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.

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Liberate 76% connected

To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind…

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Lighten 76% connected

To descend; to light.

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Liquefy 76% connected

To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

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Liquidize 76% connected

To render liquid.

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Loose 76% connected

Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

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Loosen 76% connected

To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a…

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Lower 76% connected

Compar. of Low, a.

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Lubricate 76% connected

To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.

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Madden 76% connected

To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

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Magnetize 76% connected

To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Mark 76% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Market 76% connected

A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and…

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Mat 76% connected

A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

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Match 76% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Matte 76% connected

A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and call…

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Mature 76% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Mechanize 76% connected

To cause to be mechanical.

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Meliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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Mellow 76% connected

Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.

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Melt 76% connected

See 2d Milt.

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Merge 76% connected

To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

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Metamorphose 76% connected

To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.

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Mildew 76% connected

A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

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Mince 76% connected

To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.

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Mingle 76% connected

To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse…

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Minify 76% connected

To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.

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Misdirect 76% connected

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

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Mix 76% connected

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…

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Moderate 76% connected

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

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Modernize 76% connected

To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

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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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Modulate 76% connected

To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.

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Mold 76% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Mould 76% connected

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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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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Muddy 76% connected

Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

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Mythologize 76% connected

To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.

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Narrow 76% connected

Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.

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Nationalize 76% connected

To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a…

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Naturalize 76% connected

To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

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Neutralize 76% connected

To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.

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Nick 76% connected

An evil spirit of the waters.

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Obfuscate 76% connected

Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.

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Objectify 76% connected

To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective.

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Obliterate 76% connected

To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

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Obnubilate 76% connected

To cloud; to obscure.

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Obscure 76% connected

Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.

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Obsolesce 76% connected

To become obsolescent.

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Obtain 76% connected

To hold; to keep; to possess.

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Occult 76% connected

Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown.

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Opalize 76% connected

To convert into opal, or a substance like opal.

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Open 76% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

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Orientalize 76% connected

to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

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Ornament 76% connected

That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

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Ossify 76% connected

To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.

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Overcloud 76% connected

To cover or overspread with clouds; to becloud; to overcast.

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Overload 76% connected

To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.

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Overturn 76% connected

To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

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Oxidate 76% connected

To oxidize.

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Oxidize 76% connected

To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent.

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Oxygenize 76% connected

To oxidize.

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Paganize 76% connected

To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism.

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Pall 76% connected

Same as Pawl.

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Parallel 76% connected

Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Patent 76% connected

Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

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Perplex 76% connected

To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.

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Personalize 76% connected

To make personal.

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Pervert 76% connected

To turnanother way; to divert.

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Plump 76% connected

Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.

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Plunge 76% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

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Poison 76% connected

Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a dea…

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Polarize 76% connected

To communicate polarity to.

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Port 76% connected

A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.

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Prepare 76% connected

To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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Prim 76% connected

The privet.

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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Profane 76% connected

Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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Promote 76% connected

To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance…

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Proof 76% connected

Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

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Prostrate 76% connected

Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.

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Purge 76% connected

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

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Purify 76% connected

To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metal…

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Radiate 76% connected

To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.

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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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Ramify 76% connected

To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

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Ransom 76% connected

The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.

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Rarefy 76% connected

To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.

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Rationalize 76% connected

To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

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Ready 76% connected

Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement o…

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Recede 76% connected

To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

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Receive 76% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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Reclaim 76% connected

To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

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Recombine 76% connected

To combine again.

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Recommend 76% connected

To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a fav…

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Reconstruct 76% connected

To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.

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Rectify 76% connected

To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…

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Redact 76% connected

To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

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Redeem 76% connected

To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

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Redress 76% connected

To dress again.

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Reduce 76% connected

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

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Reestablish 76% connected

To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health.

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Refine 76% connected

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…

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Reform 76% connected

To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to am…

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Refresh 76% connected

To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew…

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Regress 76% connected

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".

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Reinstate 76% connected

To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king…

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Rejuvenate 76% connected

To render young again.

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Relax 76% connected

To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Relieve 76% connected

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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Remodel 76% connected

To model or fashion anew; to change the form of.

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Reorient 76% connected

Rising again.

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Replace 76% connected

To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

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Repress 76% connected

To press again.

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Restore 76% connected

To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

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Resume 76% connected

A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.

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Retard 76% connected

To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of…

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Reticulate 76% connected

Alt. of Reticulated

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Reverse 76% connected

Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.

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Revolutionize 76% connected

To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government.

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Right 76% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Ripen 76% connected

To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.

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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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Roll 76% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Round 76% connected

To whisper.

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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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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Rusticate 76% connected

To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.

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Sanctify 76% connected

To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.

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Saponify 76% connected

To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition;…

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Satisfy 76% connected

In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full,…

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Saturate 76% connected

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.

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Sauce 76% connected

A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint…

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Schematize 76% connected

To form a scheme or schemes.

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Scramble 76% connected

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

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Season 76% connected

One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., ca…

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Sell 76% connected

Self.

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Sensitize 76% connected

To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

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Sentimentalize 76% connected

To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Sequester 76% connected

To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take pos…

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Settle 76% connected

A seat of any kind.

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Sexualize 76% connected

To attribute sex to.

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Shade 76% connected

Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between th…

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Shake 76% connected

obs. p. p. of Shake.

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Shallow 76% connected

Not deep; having little depth; shoal.

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Shape 76% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Sharpen 76% connected

To make sharp.

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Shear 76% connected

To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

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Shift 76% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Shoal 76% connected

A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.

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Shorten 76% connected

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Simplify 76% connected

To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.

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Smoothen 76% connected

To make smooth.

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Smut 76% connected

Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

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Sober 76% connected

Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.

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Socialize 76% connected

To render social.

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Soften 76% connected

To make soft or more soft.

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Soil 76% connected

To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…

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Solarize 76% connected

To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.

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Solemnize 76% connected

To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.

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Specialize 76% connected

To mention specially; to particularize.

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Speed 76% connected

Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

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Spice 76% connected

Species; kind.

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Spike 76% connected

A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

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Spiritualize 76% connected

To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spir…

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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Sputter 76% connected

To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

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Stagnate 76% connected

To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnat…

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Stain 76% connected

To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Steepen 76% connected

To become steep or steeper.

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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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Still 76% connected

Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.

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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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Straighten 76% connected

To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

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Stratify 76% connected

To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

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Strengthen 76% connected

To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.

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String 76% connected

A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larg…

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Sub 76% connected

A subordinate; a subaltern.

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Subdue 76% connected

To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.

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Sublimate 76% connected

To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

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Sublime 76% connected

Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.

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Substitute 76% connected

One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else

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Subtilize 76% connected

To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

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Subvert 76% connected

To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

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Suffuse 76% connected

To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.

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Superannuate 76% connected

To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity.

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Supercharge 76% connected

To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.

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Supple 76% connected

Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.

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Surf 76% connected

The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.

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Suspend 76% connected

To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

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Swap 76% connected

To strike; -- with off.

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Sweeten 76% connected

To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

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Swing 76% connected

To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

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Switch 76% connected

A small, flexible twig or rod.

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Swop 76% connected

Same as Swap.

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Symmetrize 76% connected

To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

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Synchronize 76% connected

To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

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Synthesize 76% connected

To combine by synthesis; to unite.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Tame 76% connected

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

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Temper 76% connected

To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to…

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Tender 76% connected

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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Tense 76% connected

One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…

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Terminate 76% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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Territorialize 76% connected

To enlarge by extension of territory.

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Thicken 76% connected

To make thick (in any sense of the word).

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Tighten 76% connected

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

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Trade 76% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Transfigure 76% connected

To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.

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Transform 76% connected

To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.

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Transition 76% connected

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

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Translate 76% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

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Transmute 76% connected

To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.

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Transpire 76% connected

To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.

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Transpose 76% connected

To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or proposi…

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Uglify 76% connected

To disfigure; to make ugly.

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Ulcerate 76% connected

To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.

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Undergo 76% connected

To go or move below or under.

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Undo 76% connected

To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

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Undulate 76% connected

Same as Undulated.

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Unfit 76% connected

To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; a…

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Unify 76% connected

To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.

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Unite 76% connected

To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to…

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Unloose 76% connected

To make loose; to loosen; to set free.

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Unloosen 76% connected

To loosen; to unloose.

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Unmake 76% connected

To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate.

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Unsex 76% connected

To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

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Untie 76% connected

To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.

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Untune 76% connected

To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

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Urbanize 76% connected

To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish.

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Utilize 76% connected

To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.

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Validate 76% connected

To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

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Vanish 76% connected

To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a shi…

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Variegate 76% connected

To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.

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Veil 76% connected

Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar…

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Ventilate 76% connected

To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a…

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Vesiculate 76% connected

Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.

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Visualize 76% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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Vitalize 76% connected

To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.

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Vitiate 76% connected

To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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Vitrify 76% connected

To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.

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Vivify 76% connected

To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.

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Void 76% connected

Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

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Volatilize 76% connected

To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.

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Vulcanize 76% connected

To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization.

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Vulgarize 76% connected

To make vulgar, or common.

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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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Warm 76% connected

Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.

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Weaken 76% connected

To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…

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Wet 76% connected

Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet…

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Widen 76% connected

To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.

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Womanize 76% connected

To make like a woman; to make effeminate.

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Worsen 76% connected

To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Acceleration 76% connected

The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an accelerat…

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Adjustment 76% connected

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.

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Adulteration 76% connected

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.

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Alteration 76% connected

The act of altering or making different.

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Avulsion 76% connected

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.

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Birth 76% connected

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Breakup 76% connected

the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)

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Commutation 76% connected

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

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Conversion 76% connected

The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

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Damage 76% connected

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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Death 76% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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Decease 76% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

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Decrease 76% connected

To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…

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Deformation 76% connected

The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.

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Depolarization 76% connected

The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.

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Detachment 76% connected

The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.

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Development 76% connected

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an ima…

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Difference 76% connected

The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quali…

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Diversification 76% connected

The act of making various, or of changing form or quality.

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Easing 76% connected

of Ease

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Entail 76% connected

That which is entailed.

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Exchange 76% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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Expiry 76% connected

Expiration.

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Filtration 76% connected

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

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Fluctuation 76% connected

A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.

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Flux 76% connected

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

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Gradient 76% connected

Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.

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Harm 76% connected

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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Impairment 76% connected

The state of being impaired; injury.

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Increase 76% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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Lessening 76% connected

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Metrification 76% connected

Composition in metrical form; versification.

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Moderation 76% connected

The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.

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Modification 76% connected

The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…

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Motility 76% connected

Capability of motion; contractility.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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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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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Mutation 76% connected

Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.

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Nascency 76% connected

State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.

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Nationalization 76% connected

The act of nationalizing, or the state of being nationalized.

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Nativity 76% connected

The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.

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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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Reduction 76% connected

The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Relief 76% connected

The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Relocation 76% connected

A second location.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Retardation 76% connected

The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reversal 76% connected

Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Revolution 76% connected

The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Satisfaction 76% connected

The act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied; gratification of desire; contentment in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting fr…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scintillation 76% connected

The act of scintillating.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Secularization 76% connected

The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to la…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Separation 76% connected

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shift 76% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shimmer 76% connected

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Simplification 76% connected

The act of simplifying.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Slowing 76% connected

of Slow

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sparkling 76% connected

of Sparkle

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sublimation 76% connected

The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Substitution 76% connected

The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Surprise 76% connected

The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Switch 76% connected

A small, flexible twig or rod.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Switching 76% connected

of Switch

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Transformation 76% connected

The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Transition 76% connected

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Transmutation 76% connected

The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Turning 76% connected

of Turn

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Twinkle 76% connected

To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Vagary 76% connected

A wandering or strolling.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Variation 76% connected

The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Variegation 76% connected

The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 14

Alter 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Alter 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Alterable 74% connected

Capable of being altered.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Alterable 74% connected

Capable of being altered.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Alteration 74% connected

The act of altering or making different.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Alteration 74% connected

The act of altering or making different.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Exchange 74% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Exchange 74% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Modification 74% connected

The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Modification 74% connected

The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Transfer 74% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Transfer 74% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 14

Alter 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Alteration 92% connected

The act of altering or making different.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Commute 92% connected

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Convert 92% connected

To cause to turn; to turn.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Deepen 92% connected

To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exchange 92% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Interchange 92% connected

To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Modification 92% connected

The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Modify 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shift 92% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Switch 92% connected

A small, flexible twig or rod.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Transfer 92% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Variety 92% connected

The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vary 92% connected

To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Near synonym 10

Transform 88% connected

To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.

general 70% interchangeable

Transform overlaps with change, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Alter 84% connected

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

words for change 55% interchangeable

Change a feature without necessarily changing the whole.

Evolve 84% connected

To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

words for change 55% interchangeable

Develop gradually over time.

Modify 84% 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…

words for change 55% interchangeable

Curated member of Words for change.

Revise 84% connected

To look at again for the detection of errors; to reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a tr…

words for change 55% interchangeable

Change after review, often in writing or plans.

Convert 82% connected

To cause to turn; to turn.

general 58% interchangeable

Convert overlaps with change, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Evolve 82% connected

To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

gradual 42% interchangeable more formal

Evolve suggests gradual development rather than a single intervention.

The model changed. / The model evolved.
Vary 80% connected

To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

general 54% interchangeable

Vary overlaps with change, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Shift 78% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

general 50% interchangeable

Shift overlaps with change, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Stronger synonym 3

Reform 92% connected

To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to am…

words for change 62% interchangeable stronger

Improve a system through structured change.

Transform 92% connected

To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.

words for change 62% interchangeable stronger

Change something fundamentally in form or character.

Transform 90% connected

To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.

scale 48% interchangeable more formal stronger

Transform suggests deep or fundamental change.

Change the organisation. / Transform the organisation.

Softer synonym 1

Modify 88% 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…

words for change 62% interchangeable softer

Make a limited or controlled adjustment.

Formal equivalent 2

Modify 88% 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…

adjustment 70% interchangeable more formal

Modify suggests a deliberate partial adjustment.

Change the process. / Modify the process.
Alter 86% connected

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

general 76% interchangeable more formal

Alter means to make or become different, often without complete replacement.

Change the design. / Alter the design.

Antonym 2

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