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Verb group 20

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…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Choke 84% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Choke 84% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Croak 84% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Croak 84% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Decease 84% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Decease 84% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

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Exit 84% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Exit 84% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Expire 84% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

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Expire 84% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Fail 84% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Fail 84% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Pass 84% 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…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Pass 84% 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…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Perish 84% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

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Perish 84% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

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Manner of action 13

Abort 76% connected

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Asphyxiate 76% connected

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Crash 76% connected

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

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Drown 76% connected

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

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Fall 76% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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Famish 76% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

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Predecease 76% connected

To die sooner than.

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Starve 76% connected

To die; to perish.

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Stifle 76% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

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Succumb 76% connected

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

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Suffocate 76% connected

Suffocated; choked.

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 18

Ache 76% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cube 76% connected

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cutlery 76% connected

The business of a cutler.

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Cutter 76% connected

One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.

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Disappear 76% connected

To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the appr…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Endure 76% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Languish 76% connected

To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pine 76% connected

Woe; torment; pain.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Vanish 76% connected

To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a shi…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Yearn 76% connected

To pain; to grieve; to vex.

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Yen 76% connected

of Ye

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Narrower term 4

Five 76% connected

Four and one added; one more than four.

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Four 76% connected

One more than three; twice two.

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Six 76% connected

One more than five; twice three; as, six yards.

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Stamp 76% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Derivationally related 8

Death 74% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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Death 74% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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Demise 74% connected

Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal author…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Demise 74% connected

Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal author…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dice 74% connected

Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dice 74% connected

Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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End 74% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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End 74% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 12

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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Choke 92% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Croak 92% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Decease 92% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dice 92% connected

Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exit 92% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Expire 92% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fail 92% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Go 92% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pall 92% connected

Same as Pawl.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pass 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Perish 92% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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