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Conjure

To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.

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Verb group 4

Evoke 84% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Evoke 84% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Provoke 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Provoke 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 6

Beshrew 76% connected

To curse; to execrate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bless 76% connected

To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Curse 76% connected

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Damn 76% connected

To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Imprecate 76% connected

To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Maledict 76% connected

Accursed; abominable.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 3

Plead 76% connected

of Plead

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Plot 76% connected

A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Summon 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 2

Cabal 74% connected

Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Cabal 74% connected

Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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See also 2

Bring 66% 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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bring 66% 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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 14

Adjure 92% connected

To charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to en…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Arouse 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Beseech 92% connected

To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bid 92% connected

of Bid

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cabal 92% connected

Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Complot 92% connected

A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Conspire 92% connected

To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Entreat 92% connected

To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Evoke 92% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Invoke 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Machinate 92% connected

To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Press 92% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Raise 92% 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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stir 92% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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