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Develop

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.

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Verb group 36

Acquire 84% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Acquire 84% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Arise 84% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Arise 84% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Educate 84% connected

To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…

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Educate 84% connected

To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…

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Evolve 84% connected

To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

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Evolve 84% connected

To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

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Formulate 84% connected

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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Formulate 84% connected

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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Germinate 84% connected

To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.

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Germinate 84% connected

To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.

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Get 84% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Get 84% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Groom 84% connected

A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.

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Groom 84% connected

A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.

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Grow 84% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Grow 84% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Modernize 84% connected

To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

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Modernize 84% connected

To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

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Originate 84% connected

To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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Originate 84% connected

To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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Prepare 84% connected

To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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Prepare 84% connected

To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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Produce 84% 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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Produce 84% 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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Rise 84% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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Rise 84% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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Train 84% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Train 84% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Uprise 84% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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Uprise 84% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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Manner of action 45

Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Age 76% connected

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

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Bloom 76% connected

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

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Blossom 76% connected

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as,…

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Bud 76% connected

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flowe…

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Build 76% connected

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Come 76% connected

of Come

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Differentiate 76% connected

To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to…

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Discipline 76% connected

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, menta…

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Drill 76% connected

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

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Elaborate 76% connected

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…

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Emerge 76% connected

To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from…

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Evolve 76% connected

To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

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Feather 76% connected

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

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Fledge 76% connected

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

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Flower 76% connected

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

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Foliate 76% connected

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

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Follow 76% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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Grow 76% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Incubate 76% connected

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

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Leaf 76% connected

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…

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Make 76% connected

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

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Maturate 76% connected

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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Mature 76% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Outgrow 76% connected

To surpass in growing; to grow more than.

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Pod 76% connected

A bag; a pouch.

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Progress 76% connected

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

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Pupate 76% connected

To become a pupa.

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Regrow 76% connected

To grow again.

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Settle 76% connected

A seat of any kind.

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Solarize 76% connected

To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.

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Spike 76% connected

A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

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Spring 76% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Sprout 76% connected

To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.

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Stock 76% connected

The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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Stool 76% connected

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

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Swell 76% connected

To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the le…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Tiller 76% connected

One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

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Train 76% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Unfold 76% connected

To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.

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Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Ameliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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Amend 76% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

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Become 76% connected

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Better 76% connected

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Complicate 76% connected

Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.

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Conjecture 76% connected

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Elaborate 76% connected

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…

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Expand 76% connected

To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

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Generate 76% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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Grow 76% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Hap 76% connected

To clothe; to wrap.

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Happen 76% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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Hypothecate 76% connected

To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of pos…

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Improve 76% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

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Instruct 76% connected

Arranged; furnished; provided.

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Learn 76% connected

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

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Meliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Occur 76% connected

To meet; to clash.

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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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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Refine 76% connected

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…

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Speculate 76% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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Superimpose 76% connected

To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.

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Superpose 76% connected

To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.

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Suppose 76% connected

To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…

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Teach 76% connected

To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or i…

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Theorize 76% connected

To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

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Developer 74% connected

One who, or that which, develops.

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Developer 74% connected

One who, or that which, develops.

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Development 74% connected

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an ima…

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Development 74% connected

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an ima…

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Education 74% connected

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act o…

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Education 74% connected

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act o…

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Educative 74% connected

Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.

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Educative 74% connected

Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.

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Exploitation 74% connected

The act of exploiting or utilizing.

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Exploitation 74% connected

The act of exploiting or utilizing.

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Formulation 74% connected

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

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Formulation 74% connected

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

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Growth 74% connected

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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Growth 74% connected

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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Inception 74% connected

Beginning; commencement; initiation.

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Inception 74% connected

Beginning; commencement; initiation.

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Instauration 74% connected

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.

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Instauration 74% connected

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.

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Instruction 74% connected

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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Instruction 74% connected

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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Origination 74% connected

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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Origination 74% connected

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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Originative 74% connected

Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.

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Originative 74% connected

Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Source 74% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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Source 74% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Causes 1

Grow 72% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 17

Acquire 92% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Arise 92% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Break 92% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Educate 92% connected

To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Evolve 92% connected

To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Explicate 92% connected

Evolved; unfolded.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Formulate 92% connected

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Germinate 92% connected

To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Get 92% connected

Jet, the mineral.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Grow 92% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Modernize 92% connected

To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Originate 92% connected

To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prepare 92% connected

To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Produce 92% 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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rise 92% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Train 92% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Uprise 92% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Near synonym 1

Improve 86% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

general 66% interchangeable

Develop overlaps with improve, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

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