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Delivery

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

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Broader term 15

Act 76% 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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Birth 76% 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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Conveyance 76% connected

The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.

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Conveyancing 76% connected

The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one perso…

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Conveying 76% connected

of Convey

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Deed 76% connected

Dead.

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Nascency 76% connected

State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.

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Nativity 76% connected

The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.

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Recovery 76% connected

The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

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Retrieval 76% connected

The act retrieving.

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Style 76% 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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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Transport 76% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Transportation 76% connected

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.

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Narrower term 38

Address 76% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Bailment 76% connected

The action of bailing a person accused.

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Balk 76% connected

A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.

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Ball 76% connected

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

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Bender 76% connected

One who, or that which, bends.

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Bullet 76% connected

A small ball.

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Caesarean 76% connected

Alt. of Caesarian

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Caesarian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars; imperial.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Cesarean 76% connected

Alt. of Cesarian

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Cesarian 76% connected

Same as Caesarean, Caesarian.

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Consignment 76% connected

The act of consigning; consignation.

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Curve 76% connected

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

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Duster 76% connected

One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.

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Elocution 76% connected

Utterance by speech.

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Heater 76% connected

One who, or that which, heats.

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Hummer 76% connected

One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.

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Inflection 76% connected

The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.

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Midwifery 76% connected

The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.

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Modulation 76% connected

The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.

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Passage 76% connected

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man o…

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Post 76% connected

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

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Prosody 76% connected

That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

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Reclamation 76% connected

The act or process of reclaiming.

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Reformation 76% connected

The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious o…

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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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Salvation 76% connected

The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.

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Service 76% connected

Alt. of Service

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Serving 76% connected

of Serve

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Shibboleth 76% connected

A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, cal…

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Sinker 76% connected

One who, or that which, sinks.

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Smoke 76% connected

The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal,…

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Spitball 76% connected

Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

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Spitter 76% connected

One who ejects saliva from the mouth.

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Surrender 76% 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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Tone 76% connected

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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Tongue 76% connected

an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

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Derivationally related 6

Bear 74% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Bear 74% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Deliver 74% connected

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…

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Deliver 74% connected

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…

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Pitch 74% 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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Pitch 74% 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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Containing whole 3

Accouchement 70% connected

Delivery in childbed

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Childbearing 70% connected

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.

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Childbirth 70% connected

The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.

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Synonym 7

Bringing 92% connected

of Bring

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Deliverance 92% connected

The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.

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Livery 92% connected

The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

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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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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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Saving 92% connected

of Save

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Speech 92% connected

The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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Progress 84% connected

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

words for progress 55% interchangeable

Completion or provision of an agreed result.

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