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Digest

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Verb group 6

Ache 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Ache 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Hurt 84% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Hurt 84% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Suffer 84% 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.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Suffer 84% 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.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 26

Abbreviate 76% connected

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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Abridge 76% connected

To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Apprehend 76% connected

To take or seize; to take hold of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Collection 76% connected

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Compass 76% connected

A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

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Compendium 76% connected

A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a c…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Comprehend 76% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Contract 76% connected

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Countenance 76% connected

To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Decompose 76% connected

To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring…

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Dig 76% connected

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Disintegrate 76% connected

To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, fros…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Foreshorten 76% connected

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

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Grasp 76% connected

To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Periodical 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.

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Permit 76% connected

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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Process 76% connected

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

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Reduce 76% connected

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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Shorten 76% connected

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Systematize 76% connected

To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Systemize 76% connected

To reduce to system; to systematize.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Manner of action 7

Accept 76% connected

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Capsule 76% connected

a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily,…

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Predigest 76% connected

To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.

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Stomach 76% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Swallow 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Telescope 76% connected

An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 14

Abidance 74% connected

The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Abidance 74% connected

The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Concentrate 74% connected

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Concentrate 74% connected

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Concentration 74% connected

The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Concentration 74% connected

The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Digester 74% connected

One who digests.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Digester 74% connected

One who digests.

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Digestible 74% connected

Capable of being digested.

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Digestible 74% connected

Capable of being digested.

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Digestion 74% connected

The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Digestion 74% connected

The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Digestive 74% connected

Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.

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Digestive 74% connected

Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.

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Entails 4

Consume 72% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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have 72% connected

of Have

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Ingest 72% connected

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

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Take 72% connected

Taken.

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Synonym 12

Abide 92% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bear 92% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Brook 92% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Compilation 92% connected

The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Concentrate 92% connected

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Condense 92% connected

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Endure 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stand 92% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stomach 92% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suffer 92% 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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Support 92% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tolerate 92% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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