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Verb group 10

Condense 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Condense 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Distill 84% connected

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Distill 84% connected

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Extract 84% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Extract 84% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Purify 84% connected

To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metal…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Purify 84% connected

To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metal…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Sublimate 84% connected

To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Sublimate 84% connected

To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 14

Ameliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Amend 76% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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.

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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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exudate 76% connected

To exude.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exude 76% connected

To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flux 76% connected

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Improve 76% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Liquefy 76% connected

To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Make 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Meliorate 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ooze 76% connected

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Transude 76% connected

To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 4

Moonshine 76% connected

The light of the moon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Purge 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rectify 76% connected

To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 14

Distillate 74% connected

The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Distillate 74% connected

The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Distillation 74% connected

The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Distillation 74% connected

The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Distillery 74% connected

The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Distillery 74% connected

The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Distillment 74% connected

Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Distillment 74% connected

Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Extractible 74% connected

Capable of being extracted.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Extractible 74% connected

Capable of being extracted.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Extraction 74% connected

The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Extraction 74% connected

The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sublimate 74% connected

To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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

Sublimate 74% connected

To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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

Synonym 5

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

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.

Distill 92% connected

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.

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.

Extract 92% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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.

Purify 92% connected

To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metal…

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.

Sublimate 92% connected

To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

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.

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