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Copulate

Joined; associated; coupled.

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Manner of action 17

Bang 76% connected

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

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Bed 76% connected

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction fro…

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Breed 76% connected

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

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Bugger 76% connected

One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Deflower 76% connected

Same as Deflour.

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Hump 76% connected

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

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Love 76% connected

A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderne…

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Mount 76% connected

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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Nick 76% connected

An evil spirit of the waters.

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Ruin 76% connected

The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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Screw 76% connected

A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to l…

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Serve 76% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Service 76% connected

Alt. of Service

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Tread 76% connected

To set the foot; to step.

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Conjoin 76% connected

To join together; to unite.

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Join 76% connected

To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

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Derivationally related 2

Copulation 74% connected

The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

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Copulation 74% connected

The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

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Synonym 3

Couple 92% connected

That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mate 92% connected

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pair 92% connected

A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Fou…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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