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Darn

To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

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Bushel 76% connected

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Doctor 76% connected

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ineptitude 76% connected

The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mend 76% connected

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Repair 76% connected

To return.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Restore 76% connected

To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sewing 76% connected

of Sew

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stitchery 76% connected

Needlework; -- in contempt.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 6

Darner 74% connected

One who mends by darning.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Darner 74% connected

One who mends by darning.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Patch 74% connected

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Patch 74% connected

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entails 2

Sew 72% connected

Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stitch 72% connected

A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Damn 92% connected

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

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.

Hoot 92% connected

To cry out or shout in contempt.

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.

Mend 92% connected

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…

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.

Patch 92% connected

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

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.

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