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Deliver

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.

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Verb group 6

Bear 84% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Bear 84% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Carry 84% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Carry 84% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Expect 84% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Expect 84% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Manner of action 31

Bail 76% connected

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Calve 76% connected

To bring forth a calf.

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Consign 76% connected

To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of…

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Cub 76% connected

A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.

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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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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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Expect 76% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Farrow 76% connected

A little of pigs.

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Fawn 76% connected

A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

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Foal 76% connected

The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.

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Kitten 76% connected

A young cat.

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Lamb 76% connected

The young of the sheep.

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Land 76% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Litter 76% connected

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

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Pig 76% connected

A piggin.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Pup 76% connected

A young dog; a puppy.

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Relieve 76% connected

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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Repatriate 76% connected

To restore to one's own country.

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Reprieve 76% connected

To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.

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Salvage 76% connected

The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

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Salve 76% connected

Hail!

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Save 76% connected

The herb sage, or salvia.

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Sell 76% connected

Self.

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Serve 76% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Speechify 76% connected

To make a speech; to harangue.

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Twin 76% connected

Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

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Unload 76% connected

To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.

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Whelp 76% connected

One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.

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Bring 76% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Communicate 76% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Convey 76% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Fetch 76% connected

To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Gift 76% connected

Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Hand 76% connected

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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Loft 76% connected

That which is lifted up; an elevation.

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Mouth 76% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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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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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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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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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Save 76% connected

The herb sage, or salvia.

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Speak 76% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Utter 76% connected

Outer.

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Verbalize 76% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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Derivationally related 14

Birth 74% connected

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

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Birth 74% connected

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

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Deliverer 74% connected

One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.

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Deliverer 74% connected

One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.

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Delivery 74% connected

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

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Delivery 74% connected

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

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Exile 74% connected

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's…

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Exile 74% connected

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's…

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Parturition 74% connected

The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.

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Parturition 74% connected

The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.

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Savior 74% connected

One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.

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Savior 74% connected

One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.

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Entails 1

Conceive 72% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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Synonym 14

Bear 92% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Birth 92% connected

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cede 92% connected

To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.

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Deport 92% connected

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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Extradite 92% connected

To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

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have 92% connected

of Have

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Pitch 92% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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Present 92% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Redeem 92% connected

To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

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Render 92% connected

One who rends.

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Rescue 92% connected

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure…

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Return 92% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Save 92% connected

The herb sage, or salvia.

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Surrender 92% connected

To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy…

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