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Discharge

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Manner of action 46

Abort 76% connected

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

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Blast 76% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Bleed 76% connected

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Breathe 76% connected

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

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Cannon 76% connected

of Cannon

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Cashier 76% connected

One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantil…

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Demobilize 76% connected

To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.

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Disembroil 76% connected

To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.

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Disentangle 76% connected

To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement;…

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Disinvolve 76% connected

To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.

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Disperse 76% connected

To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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Divest 76% connected

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

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Dot 76% connected

A marriage portion; dowry.

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Dust 76% connected

Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portion…

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Egest 76% connected

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin,…

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Ejaculate 76% connected

To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.

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Eject 76% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Eruct 76% connected

Alt. of Eructate

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Excrete 76% connected

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

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Expectorate 76% connected

To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

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Fester 76% connected

To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.

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Fusillade 76% connected

A simultaneous discharge of firearms.

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Hemorrhage 76% connected

Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

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Liberate 76% connected

To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind…

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Maturate 76% connected

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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Ovulate 76% connected

Containing an ovule or ovules.

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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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Pop 76% connected

A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.

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Purge 76% connected

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

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Relieve 76% connected

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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Scatter 76% connected

To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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Shoot 76% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Spew 76% connected

To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

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Sprinkle 76% connected

To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.

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Squirt 76% connected

To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.

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Suppurate 76% connected

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

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Vindicate 76% connected

To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.

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Volley 76% connected

A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.

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Wharf 76% connected

A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually ex…

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Whitewash 76% connected

Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair.

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Accomplish 76% connected

To complete, as time or distance.

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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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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Conclusion 76% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Deliver 76% 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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Distribute 76% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Emanation 76% connected

The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.

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Emission 76% connected

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission…

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Ending 76% connected

of End

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Flowing 76% connected

of Flow

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Fulfil 76% connected

Open the dictionary entry to review the exact meaning.

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Fulfill 76% connected

To fill up; to make full or complete.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Happening 76% connected

of Happen

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Label 76% connected

A tassel.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Obviate 76% connected

To meet in the way.

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Occurrence 76% connected

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurrent 76% connected

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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Pronounce 76% connected

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Relinquish 76% connected

To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

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Relinquishing 76% connected

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Relinquishment 76% connected

The act of relinquishing.

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Shooting 76% connected

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Shot 76% connected

of Shoot

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Spread 76% connected

of Spread

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Termination 76% connected

The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

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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…

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Narrower term 37

Catamenia 76% connected

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

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Conge 76% connected

The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.

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Congee 76% connected

See Conge, Conge.

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Corona 76% connected

A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

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Corposant 76% connected

St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.

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Detonation 76% connected

An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.

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Effluvium 76% connected

Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from disease…

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Ejaculation 76% connected

The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.

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Elimination 76% connected

The act of expelling or throwing off

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Eruption 76% connected

The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust.…

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Escape 76% connected

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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Evacuation 76% connected

The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.

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Excreting 76% connected

of Excrete

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Excretion 76% connected

The act of excreting.

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Exemption 76% connected

The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, e…

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Explosion 76% connected

The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowd…

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Exudate 76% connected

To exude.

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Exudation 76% connected

The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded.

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Gun 76% connected

of Gin

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Immunity 76% connected

Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of t…

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Jet 76% connected

Same as 2d Get.

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Leak 76% connected

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.

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Leakage 76% connected

A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

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Menses 76% connected

The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

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Menstruation 76% connected

The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

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Menstruum 76% connected

Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.

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Outflow 76% connected

A flowing out; efflux.

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Removal 76% connected

The act of removing, or the state of being removed.

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Rheum 76% connected

A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.

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Spirt 76% connected

Same as Spurt.

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Spurt 76% connected

To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.

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Squirt 76% connected

To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.

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Superannuation 76% connected

The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude.

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Transudation 76% connected

The act or process of transuding.

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Voiding 76% connected

of Void

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Empty 74% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Empty 74% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Exhaust 74% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Exhaust 74% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Expulsion 74% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Expulsion 74% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Fire 74% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Fire 74% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Firing 74% connected

The act of disharging firearms.

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Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Firing 74% connected

The act of disharging firearms.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Forego 74% connected

To quit; to relinquish; to leave.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Forego 74% connected

To quit; to relinquish; to leave.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Liberation 74% connected

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Liberation 74% connected

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Release 74% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Release 74% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Entails 2

Evaluate 72% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Open English WordNet records that the source verb entails the related action.

Judge 72% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Open English WordNet records that the source verb entails the related action.

Causes 1

Fire 72% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Open English WordNet records a causal relationship between these meanings.

Synonym 29

Acquit 92% connected

Acquitted; set free; rid of.

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.

Arc 92% connected

A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse.

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.

Assoil 92% connected

To set free; to release.

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.

Clear 92% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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.

Complete 92% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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.

Dismissal 92% connected

Dismission; discharge.

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.

Dismission 92% connected

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

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.

Dispatch 92% connected

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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.

Drop 92% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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.

Eject 92% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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.

Emission 92% connected

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission…

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.

Empty 92% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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.

Exculpate 92% connected

To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.

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.

Exhaust 92% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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.

Exonerate 92% connected

To unload; to disburden; to discharge.

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.

Expel 92% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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.

Expelling 92% connected

of Expel

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.

Fire 92% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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.

Firing 92% connected

The act of disharging firearms.

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.

Free 92% connected

Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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.

Liberation 92% connected

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

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.

Release 92% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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.

Run 92% connected

of Run

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.

Sack 92% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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.

Sacking 92% connected

of Sack

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.

Spark 92% connected

A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.

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.

Unload 92% connected

To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.

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.

Venting 92% connected

of Vent

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.

Waiver 92% connected

The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

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.

Antonym 6

Charge 94% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Charge 94% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Draft 94% connected

Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Draft 94% connected

Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Fill 94% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Fill 94% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

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