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Chuck

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

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Abandon 76% connected

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

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Caress 76% connected

An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.

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Egest 76% connected

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Excrete 76% connected

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

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Fare 76% connected

To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

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Fondle 76% connected

To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.

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Loft 76% connected

That which is lifted up; an elevation.

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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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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Narrower term 1

Collet 76% connected

An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.

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Component part 3

Blade 70% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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Jaw 70% connected

One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

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Shoulder 70% connected

The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bo…

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Containing whole 2

Drill 70% connected

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

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Lathe 70% connected

Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Ke…

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Synonym 17

Cast 92% connected

of Cast

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Cat 92% connected

An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger th…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disgorge 92% connected

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ditch 92% connected

A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Grub 92% connected

To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

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Honk 92% connected

The cry of a wild goose.

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Pat 92% connected

To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.

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Puke 92% connected

To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Purge 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Regorge 92% connected

To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Regurgitate 92% connected

To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

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Retch 92% connected

To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sick 92% connected

Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spew 92% connected

To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spue 92% connected

See Spew.

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Toss 92% connected

To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

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Vomit 92% connected

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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