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Dash

To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

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Verb group 10

Buck 84% connected

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

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Buck 84% connected

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

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Charge 84% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Charge 84% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Shoot 84% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Shoot 84% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Smash 84% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Smash 84% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Tear 84% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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Tear 84% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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Broader term 28

Baffle 76% connected

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

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Bilk 76% connected

To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a credito…

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Cross 76% connected

A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

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Elegance 76% connected

Alt. of Elegancy

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Foil 76% connected

To tread under foot; to trample.

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Frustrate 76% connected

Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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Haste 76% connected

Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

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Hasten 76% connected

To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

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Hie 76% connected

To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.

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Hotfoot 76% connected

In haste; foothot.

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Hurl 76% connected

To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.

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Hurry 76% connected

To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

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Hurtle 76% connected

To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.

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Intimidate 76% connected

To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.

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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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Punctuation 76% connected

The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a s…

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Queer 76% connected

At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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Race 76% connected

To raze.

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Running 76% connected

of Run

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Rush 76% connected

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

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Rushing 76% connected

of Rush

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Scotch 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

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Speed 76% connected

Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

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Spoil 76% connected

To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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Thwart 76% connected

Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

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Manner of action 2

Blast 76% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Plunge 76% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

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Narrower term 1

Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Derivationally related 10

Belt 74% connected

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

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Belt 74% connected

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

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Bolt 74% connected

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resem…

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Bolt 74% connected

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resem…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hyphen 74% connected

A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next…

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Hyphen 74% connected

A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Smasher 74% connected

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

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Smasher 74% connected

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

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Containing whole 1

Morse 70% connected

The walrus. See Walrus.

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Synonym 16

Bolt 92% connected

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resem…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Crash 92% connected

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dart 92% connected

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

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Daunt 92% connected

To overcome; to conquer.

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Elan 92% connected

Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

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Flash 92% connected

To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

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Hyphen 92% connected

A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pall 92% connected

Same as Pawl.

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Panache 92% connected

A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.

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Scare 92% connected

To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.

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Scoot 92% connected

To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scud 92% connected

To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shoot 92% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Smash 92% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sprint 92% connected

To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.

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Style 92% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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