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Verb group 18

Abbreviate 84% connected

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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Abbreviate 84% connected

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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Abridge 84% connected

To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

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Abridge 84% connected

To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

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Burn 84% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Burn 84% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Contract 84% connected

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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Contract 84% connected

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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Edit 84% connected

To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to e…

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Edit 84% connected

To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to e…

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Foreshorten 84% connected

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

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Foreshorten 84% connected

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

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Reduce 84% connected

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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Reduce 84% connected

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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Shorten 84% connected

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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Shorten 84% connected

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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Trim 84% connected

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

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Trim 84% connected

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

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Similar meaning 42

Abridged 84% connected

of Abridge

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Abridged 84% connected

of Abridge

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Castrated 84% connected

of Castrate

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Castrated 84% connected

of Castrate

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Chopped 84% connected

of Chop

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Chopped 84% connected

of Chop

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Clipped 84% connected

of Clip

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Clipped 84% connected

of Clip

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Decreased 84% connected

of Decrease

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Decreased 84% connected

of Decrease

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Dilute 84% connected

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

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Dilute 84% connected

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

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Diluted 84% connected

of Dilute

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Diluted 84% connected

of Dilute

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Hewn 84% connected

of Hew

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Hewn 84% connected

of Hew

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Incised 84% connected

of Incise

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Incised 84% connected

of Incise

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Perforate 84% connected

To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surfa…

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Perforate 84% connected

To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surfa…

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Perforated 84% connected

of Perforate

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Perforated 84% connected

of Perforate

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Pierced 84% connected

of Pierce

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Pierced 84% connected

of Pierce

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Punctured 84% connected

of Puncture

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Punctured 84% connected

of Puncture

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Reduced 84% connected

of Reduce

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Reduced 84% connected

of Reduce

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Severed 84% connected

of Sever

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Severed 84% connected

of Sever

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Sheared 84% connected

of Shear

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Sheared 84% connected

of Shear

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Shredded 84% connected

of Shred

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Shredded 84% connected

of Shred

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Slashed 84% connected

of Slash

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Slashed 84% connected

of Slash

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Sliced 84% connected

of Slice

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Sliced 84% connected

of Slice

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Split 84% connected

of Split

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Split 84% connected

of Split

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Unsexed 84% connected

of Unsex

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Unsexed 84% connected

of Unsex

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Broader term 105

Absence 76% connected

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

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Abuse 76% connected

To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to ma…

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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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Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Canal 76% connected

An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

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Castrate 76% connected

To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Contend 76% connected

To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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Contumely 76% connected

Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.

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Cope 76% connected

A covering for the head.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Decrease 76% connected

To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…

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Design 76% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Diminution 76% connected

The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation…

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Disrupt 76% connected

Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

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Dissolve 76% connected

To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to term…

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Disunite 76% connected

To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

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Divide 76% connected

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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Division 76% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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Drop 76% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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Editing 76% connected

of Edit

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Emasculate 76% connected

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

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Excerpt 76% connected

To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.

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Excerption 76% connected

The act of excerpting or selecting.

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Extinguish 76% connected

To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…

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Extract 76% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Fashion 76% connected

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house,…

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Fell 76% connected

of Fall

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Flip 76% connected

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

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Free 76% connected

Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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Function 76% connected

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

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Furrow 76% connected

A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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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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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Gradation 76% connected

The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.

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Grapple 76% connected

To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.

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Grow 76% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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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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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Insult 76% connected

The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

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Interrupt 76% connected

To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…

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Lesion 76% connected

A hurt; an injury.

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Lessen 76% connected

To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Manage 76% connected

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

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Meat 76% connected

Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an…

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Minify 76% connected

To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.

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Miss 76% connected

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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Mix 76% connected

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Operate 76% connected

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Penetrate 76% connected

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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Percentage 76% connected

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

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Perforate 76% connected

To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surfa…

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Perform 76% connected

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

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Portion 76% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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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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Rebuff 76% connected

Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.

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Record 76% connected

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

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Redaction 76% connected

The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.

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Reduction 76% connected

The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder…

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Resolve 76% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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Revilement 76% connected

The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse.

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Ruffle 76% connected

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Seem 76% connected

To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be…

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Selection 76% connected

The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Share 76% connected

The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

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Shift 76% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Shorten 76% connected

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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Shortening 76% connected

of Shorten

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Shot 76% connected

of Shoot

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Shuffle 76% connected

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

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Slight 76% connected

Sleight.

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Step 76% connected

To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…

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Stop 76% 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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Stroke 76% connected

Struck.

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Switch 76% connected

A small, flexible twig or rod.

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Tape 76% connected

A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Transit 76% connected

The act of passing; passage through or over.

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Transition 76% connected

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Vilification 76% connected

The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.

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Weaken 76% connected

To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Write 76% connected

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the charact…

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Bevel 76% connected

Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of suc…

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Bisect 76% connected

To cut or divide into two parts.

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Blast 76% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Bob 76% connected

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's ta…

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Carve 76% connected

To cut.

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Castrate 76% connected

To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

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Chamfer 76% connected

The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.

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Chase 76% connected

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

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Chatter 76% connected

To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

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Check 76% 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,…

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Chip 76% connected

To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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Chop 76% connected

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

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Circumcise 76% connected

To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

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Clip 76% connected

To embrace, hence; to encompass.

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Concentrate 76% connected

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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Condense 76% connected

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

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Cradle 76% connected

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in t…

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Crop 76% connected

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

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Crosscut 76% connected

To cut across or through; to intersect.

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Cube 76% connected

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

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Deflate 76% connected

To reduce from an inflated condition.

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Detract 76% connected

To take away; to withdraw.

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Dice 76% connected

Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.

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Digest 76% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Discerp 76% connected

To tear in pieces; to rend.

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Dissect 76% connected

To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their stru…

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Dock 76% connected

A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.

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Drop 76% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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Expurgate 76% connected

To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

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Fell 76% connected

of Fall

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French 76% connected

Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

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Furrow 76% connected

A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

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Gash 76% connected

To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

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Gore 76% connected

Dirt; mud.

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Hack 76% connected

A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

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Hob 76% connected

The hub of a wheel. See Hub.

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Incise 76% connected

To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

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Indent 76% connected

To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

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Inflate 76% connected

Blown in; inflated.

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Jag 76% connected

A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.

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Julienne 76% connected

A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Knap 76% connected

A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop.

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Lop 76% connected

A flea.

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Manicure 76% connected

A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails.

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Mortise 76% connected

A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.

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Mow 76% connected

A wry face.

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Nick 76% connected

An evil spirit of the waters.

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Nip 76% connected

A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.

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Pare 76% connected

To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

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Pink 76% connected

A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.

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Plane 76% connected

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

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Quench 76% connected

To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to que…

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Rebate 76% connected

To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.

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Retrench 76% connected

To cut off; to pare away.

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Rip 76% connected

A wicker fish basket.

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Saber 76% connected

Alt. of Sabre

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Sabre 76% connected

A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.

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Saw 76% connected

imp. of See.

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Scissor 76% connected

To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.

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Sever 76% connected

To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as,…

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Shave 76% connected

obs. p. p. of Shave.

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Shear 76% connected

To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

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Shorten 76% connected

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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Slash 76% connected

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

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Slice 76% connected

A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

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Slit 76% connected

3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.

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Snick 76% connected

A small cut or mark.

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Snip 76% connected

To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.

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Spill 76% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Subtract 76% connected

To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.

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Tail 76% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

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Tap 76% connected

To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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Thin 76% connected

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

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Tomahawk 76% connected

A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron.

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Trench 76% connected

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

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Trim 76% connected

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

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Trisect 76% connected

To cut or divide into three parts.

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Undercut 76% connected

The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

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Whittle 76% connected

A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.

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Yaw 76% connected

To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

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Brisket 76% connected

That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoul…

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Chine 76% connected

A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.

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Chop 76% connected

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

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Clip 76% connected

To embrace, hence; to encompass.

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Clipping 76% connected

of Clip

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Confit 76% connected

Same as Comfit.

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Dissection 76% connected

The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

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Gash 76% connected

To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

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Incision 76% connected

The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.

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Joint 76% connected

The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or ju…

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Leg 76% connected

A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and…

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Loin 76% connected

That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings t…

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Neck 76% connected

The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.

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Nick 76% connected

An evil spirit of the waters.

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Notch 76% connected

A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.

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Rack 76% connected

Same as Arrack.

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Rib 76% connected

One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

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Roast 76% connected

To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces wit…

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Saddle 76% connected

A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, a…

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Scission 76% connected

The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Severance 76% connected

The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation.

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Severing 76% connected

of Sever

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Shank 76% connected

See Chank.

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Shearing 76% connected

of Shear

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Shin 76% connected

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.

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Shoulder 76% connected

The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bo…

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Side 76% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Sirloin 76% connected

A loin of beef, or a part of a loin.

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Slash 76% connected

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

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Slicing 76% connected

of Slice

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Snick 76% connected

A small cut or mark.

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Snip 76% connected

To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.

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Steak 76% connected

A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; -- also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle…

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Tenderloin 76% connected

A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas m…

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Trim 76% connected

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

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Trimming 76% connected

of Trim

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Undercut 76% connected

The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

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Derivationally related 14

Cutlery 74% connected

The business of a cutler.

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Cutlery 74% connected

The business of a cutler.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Cutter 74% connected

One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.

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Cutter 74% connected

One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.

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Sting 74% connected

Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

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Sting 74% connected

Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Strike 74% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Strike 74% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Containing whole 6

Booty 70% connected

That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.

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Loot 70% connected

The act of plundering.

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Pillage 70% connected

The act of pillaging; robbery.

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Plunder 70% connected

To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.

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Prize 70% connected

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

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Swag 70% connected

To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.

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See also 6

Curb 66% connected

To bend or curve

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Curb 66% connected

To bend or curve

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Dig 66% connected

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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Dig 66% connected

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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Disrupt 66% connected

Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

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Disrupt 66% connected

Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

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Synonym 45

Abbreviate 92% connected

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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Abridge 92% connected

To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Burn 92% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Contract 92% connected

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Curve 92% connected

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cutting 92% connected

of Cut

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Deletion 92% connected

Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dilute 92% connected

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disregard 92% connected

Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Edit 92% connected

To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to e…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Emasculated 92% connected

of Emasculate

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Excision 92% connected

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foreshorten 92% connected

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gash 92% connected

To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Geld 92% connected

Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gelded 92% connected

of Geld

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Hack 92% connected

A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ignore 92% connected

To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Issue 92% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mown 92% connected

of Mow

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Prune 92% connected

To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rationalize 92% connected

To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reduce 92% connected

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sheer 92% connected

Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shorten 92% connected

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Skip 92% connected

A basket. See Skep.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slash 92% connected

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slashed 92% connected

of Slash

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Slew 92% connected

of Slay

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Slice 92% connected

A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slue 92% connected

A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Snub 92% connected

To sob with convulsions.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stinger 92% connected

One who, or that which, stings.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swerve 92% connected

To stray; to wander; to rope.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swing 92% connected

To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tailor 92% connected

One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Thin 92% connected

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Thinned 92% connected

of Thin

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Track 92% connected

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trend 92% connected

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trim 92% connected

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trimmed 92% connected

of Trim

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Undercut 92% connected

The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Veer 92% connected

To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Weakened 92% connected

of Weaken

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Antonym 4

Rough 94% connected

Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.

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Rough 94% connected

Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.

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Uncut 94% connected

Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been sepa…

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Uncut 94% connected

Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been sepa…

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