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To cut off; to separate.

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Manner of action 21

Adjudicate 76% connected

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

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Adjust 76% connected

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

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Choose 76% connected

To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

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Decree 76% connected

An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be d…

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Govern 76% connected

To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Mensurate 76% connected

To measure.

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Orient 76% connected

Rising, as the sun.

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Orientate 76% connected

To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.

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Purpose 76% connected

That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure…

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Regularize 76% connected

To cause to become regular; to regulate.

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Regulate 76% connected

To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

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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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Rule 76% connected

That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…

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Seal 76% connected

Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.

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Select 76% connected

Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choic…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Try 76% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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Will 76% connected

The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide t…

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Cerebrate 76% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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Cogitate 76% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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Determine 76% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Influence 76% connected

A flowing in or upon; influx.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Mold 76% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Mould 76% connected

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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Regulate 76% connected

To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

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Shape 76% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Terminate 76% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Derivationally related 8

Decisive 74% connected

Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

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Decisive 74% connected

Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

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Determination 74% connected

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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Determination 74% connected

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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Judge 74% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Judge 74% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Entails 2

Debate 72% connected

To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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Deliberate 72% connected

Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in det…

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Causes 1

Determine 72% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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Synonym 4

Adjudicate 92% connected

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Determine 92% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Resolve 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Settle 92% connected

A seat of any kind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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