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Deed

Dead.

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Narrower term 64

Abidance 76% connected

The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).

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Acquiring 76% connected

of Acquire

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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Actuation 76% connected

A bringing into action; movement.

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Assessment 76% connected

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

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Assumption 76% connected

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

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Causation 76% connected

The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.

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Causing 76% connected

of Cause

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Communication 76% connected

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Deed poll 76% connected

A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or poll…

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Delivery 76% connected

The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

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Departure 76% connected

Division; separation; putting away.

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Derivation 76% connected

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

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Discovery 76% connected

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

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Disinterment 76% connected

The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

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Disposal 76% connected

The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Distribution 76% connected

The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate am…

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Effectuation 76% connected

Act of effectuating.

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Egress 76% connected

The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.

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Egression 76% connected

The act of going; egress.

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Emergence 76% connected

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.

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Enfeoffment 76% connected

The act of enfeoffing.

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Equalization 76% connected

The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.

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Exhumation 76% connected

The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.

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Find 76% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Forfeit 76% connected

Injury; wrong; mischief.

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Forfeiture 76% connected

The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.

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Getting 76% connected

of Get

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Going 76% connected

of Go

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Hinderance 76% connected

Same as Hindrance.

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Hindrance 76% connected

The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.

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Hire 76% connected

See Here, pron.

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Implementation 76% connected

Turning a plan or policy into actual practice.

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Inactivity 76% connected

The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

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Interference 76% connected

The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of…

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Judgement 76% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgment 76% connected

The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, wh…

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Leaning 76% connected

of Lean

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Leaving 76% connected

of Leave

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Legitimation 76% connected

The act of making legitimate.

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Leveling 76% connected

of Level

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motivation 76% connected

The reasons and energy that drive someone to act.

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Proclamation 76% connected

The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication.

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Production 76% connected

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

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Promulgation 76% connected

The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel.

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Propulsion 76% connected

The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.

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Recovery 76% connected

The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

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Rejection 76% connected

Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.

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Residence 76% connected

The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a…

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Residency 76% connected

Residence.

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Retrieval 76% connected

The act retrieving.

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Sacrifice 76% connected

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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Stay 76% connected

A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Thos…

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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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Stoppage 76% connected

The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; th…

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Touching 76% connected

of Touch

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Uncovering 76% connected

of Uncover

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Waste 76% connected

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

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Wear 76% connected

Same as Weir.

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Wearing 76% connected

of Wear

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Event 76% connected

That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

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Instrument 76% connected

That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical…

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Act 92% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Title 92% connected

An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.

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