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Denounce

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

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Announce 76% connected

To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

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Criticise 76% connected

To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

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Denote 76% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

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Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Knock 76% connected

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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Label 76% connected

A tassel.

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Condemn 76% connected

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

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Decry 76% connected

To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.

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Fulminate 76% connected

To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

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Objurgate 76% connected

To chide; to reprove.

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Rail 76% connected

An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

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Reprobate 76% connected

Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.

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Denunciation 74% connected

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.

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Denunciation 74% connected

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.

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Informer 74% connected

One who informs, animates, or inspires.

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Informer 74% connected

One who informs, animates, or inspires.

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Synonym 8

Betray 92% connected

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Brand 92% connected

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Grass 92% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

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Mark 92% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rat 92% connected

One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…

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Shop 92% connected

imp. of Shape. Shaped.

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Stag 92% connected

The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.

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Stigmatize 92% connected

To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.

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