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Collect

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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Due 84% connected

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

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Due 84% connected

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

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Accumulate 76% connected

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

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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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Amass 76% connected

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.

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Compile 76% connected

To put together; to construct; to build.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Hoard 76% connected

See Hoarding, 2.

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Orison 76% connected

A prayer; a supplication.

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Petition 76% connected

A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a perso…

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Prayer 76% connected

One who prays; a supplicant.

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Store 76% connected

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Manner of action 36

Archive 76% connected

The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.

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Bale 76% connected

A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for tr…

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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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Chunk 76% connected

A short, thick piece of anything.

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Clam 76% connected

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the…

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Club 76% connected

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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Corral 76% connected

A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, e…

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Cull 76% connected

To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

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Farm 76% connected

The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

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Fund 76% connected

An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

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Glean 76% connected

To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.

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Harvest 76% connected

The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

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Hive 76% connected

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.

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Lump 76% connected

A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.

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Marshal 76% connected

Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.

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Mobilize 76% connected

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

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Muster 76% connected

Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

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Nest 76% connected

The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

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Nut 76% connected

The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing…

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Oyster 76% connected

Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts,…

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Pearl 76% connected

A fringe or border.

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Pick 76% connected

To throw; to pitch.

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Pluck 76% connected

To pull; to draw.

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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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Rake 76% connected

An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which…

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Rally 76% connected

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

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Reap 76% connected

To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

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Salvage 76% connected

The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

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Save 76% connected

The herb sage, or salvia.

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Scavenge 76% connected

To cleanse, as streets, from filth.

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Scrape 76% connected

To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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Scratch 76% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Shock 76% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Snail 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They…

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Sponge 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

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Summon 76% connected

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

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Aggregation 74% connected

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

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Aggregation 74% connected

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

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Gather 74% connected

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

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Gather 74% connected

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

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Gatherer 74% connected

One who gathers or collects.

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Gatherer 74% connected

One who gathers or collects.

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Accumulate 92% connected

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Amass 92% connected

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cod 92% connected

A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Compile 92% connected

To put together; to construct; to build.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Garner 92% connected

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gather 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hoard 92% connected

See Hoarding, 2.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Distribute 94% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Distribute 94% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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