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Contain

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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Verb group 12

Accommodate 84% connected

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

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Accommodate 84% connected

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

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Admit 84% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Admit 84% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Bear 84% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Bear 84% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Carry 84% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Carry 84% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Hold 84% connected

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

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Hold 84% connected

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

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Manner of action 17

Abnegate 76% connected

To deny and reject; to abjure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bate 76% connected

Strife; contention.

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Confine 76% connected

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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Conquer 76% connected

To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by fo…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Counteract 76% connected

To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract g…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Countercheck 76% connected

To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.

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Crucify 76% connected

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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Damp 76% connected

Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.

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Deny 76% connected

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

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Enclose 76% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

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Mortify 76% connected

To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

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Retain 76% connected

To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.

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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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Suppress 76% connected

To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

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Thermostat 76% connected

A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing…

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Train 76% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Broader term 12

Calculate 76% connected

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

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Cipher 76% connected

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

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Compute 76% connected

To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.

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Cypher 76% connected

See Cipher.

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Defend 76% connected

To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Hold 76% connected

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

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Include 76% connected

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

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Keep 76% connected

To care; to desire.

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Reckon 76% connected

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

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Restrain 76% connected

To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress…

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Curb 74% connected

To bend or curve

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Curb 74% connected

To bend or curve

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Hold 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hold 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Stop 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Stop 74% 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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Synonym 12

Arrest 92% connected

To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bear 92% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Carry 92% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Check 92% 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,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Comprise 92% connected

To comprehend; to include.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Control 92% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Curb 92% connected

To bend or curve

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hold 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Incorporate 92% connected

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Moderate 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stop 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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