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Cull

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

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Berry 76% connected

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.

Mushroom 76% connected

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitis…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Collect 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deciding 76% connected

of Decide

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Garner 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gather 76% 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 0% interchangeable

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pick 92% connected

To throw; to pitch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Pluck 92% connected

To pull; to draw.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Reject 92% connected

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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