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Verb group 18

Ascertain 84% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Ascertain 84% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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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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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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Determine 84% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Determine 84% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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Find 84% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Find 84% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Notice 84% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Notice 84% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Observe 84% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Observe 84% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Witness 84% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Witness 84% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

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Broader term 12

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.

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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Conceive 76% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Determine 76% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Find 76% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Perceive 76% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Regain 76% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Set 76% connected

of Set

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sight 76% connected

The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

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Spy 76% connected

To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 29

Ascertain 76% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Babble 76% connected

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Betray 76% 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 0% interchangeable

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Bewray 76% connected

To soil. See Beray.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blab 76% connected

To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blackwash 76% connected

A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Confide 76% connected

To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discern 76% connected

To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Distinguish 76% connected

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ferret 76% connected

An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a na…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Out 76% connected

In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation wh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Peach 76% connected

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Perceive 76% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Recognize 76% connected

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rediscover 76% connected

To discover again.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reveal 76% connected

To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sense 76% connected

A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the bod…

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Sing 76% connected

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Spring 76% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tattle 76% connected

To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Trace 76% connected

One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be draw…

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Derivationally related 10

Discoverer 74% connected

One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Discoverer 74% connected

One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Discovery 74% connected

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Discovery 74% connected

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Expose 74% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Expose 74% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Exposure 74% connected

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or cont…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Exposure 74% connected

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or cont…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Notice 74% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Notice 74% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entails 7

Assort 72% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Class 72% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Classify 72% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Comprehend 72% connected

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

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Perceive 72% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Separate 72% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sort 72% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Causes 1

Break 72% 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 0% interchangeable

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See also 2

Pluck 66% connected

To pull; to draw.

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Pluck 66% connected

To pull; to draw.

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Synonym 21

Attain 92% connected

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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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Describe 92% connected

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the he…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Detect 92% connected

Detected.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disclose 92% connected

To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Distinguish 92% connected

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Divulge 92% connected

To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Expose 92% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Find 92% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hear 92% connected

To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Identify 92% connected

To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Key 92% connected

An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lo…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Learn 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Name 92% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Notice 92% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Observe 92% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reveal 92% connected

To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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See 92% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strike 92% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Uncover 92% connected

To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Unwrap 92% connected

To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Near synonym 1

Act 84% 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.

persuasive action words 55% interchangeable

Invites exploration and curiosity.

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