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Drift

A driving; a violent movement.

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Verb group 28

Blow 84% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Blow 84% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Err 84% connected

To wander; to roam; to stray.

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Err 84% connected

To wander; to roam; to stray.

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Float 84% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

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Float 84% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

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Ramble 84% connected

To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ra…

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Ramble 84% connected

To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ra…

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Range 84% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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Range 84% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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Roam 84% connected

To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.

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Roam 84% connected

To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.

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Roll 84% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Roll 84% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Stray 84% connected

To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

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Stray 84% connected

To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

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Swan 84% connected

Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and stro…

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Swan 84% connected

Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and stro…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Tramp 84% connected

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

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Tramp 84% connected

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

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Vagabond 84% connected

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

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Vagabond 84% connected

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

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Wander 84% connected

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fi…

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Wander 84% connected

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fi…

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Broader term 28

Accumulate 76% connected

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

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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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Amass 76% connected

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.

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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…

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Circulate 76% connected

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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Conglomerate 76% connected

Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.

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Crop 76% connected

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

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Cumulate 76% connected

To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Float 76% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

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Force 76% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Gather 76% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Graze 76% connected

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

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Live 76% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Mass 76% connected

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

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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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Passageway 76% connected

A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

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Pasture 76% connected

Food; nourishment.

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Strain 76% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Subsist 76% connected

To be; to have existence; to inhere.

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Survive 76% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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Tendency 76% connected

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

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Tenor 76% connected

A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Vary 76% connected

To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

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Narrower term 5

Drumlin 76% connected

A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

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Gravitation 76% connected

The act of gravitating.

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Leeway 76% connected

The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

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Melioration 76% connected

The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.

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Snowdrift 76% connected

A bank of drifted snow.

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Manner of action 6

Gad 76% connected

The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.

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Gallivant 76% connected

To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.

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Maunder 76% connected

To beg.

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Tide 76% connected

Time; period; season.

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Waft 76% connected

To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

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Derivationally related 14

Blast 74% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Blast 74% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Drive 74% connected

To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

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Drive 74% connected

To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

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Get 74% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Get 74% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Roving 74% connected

of Rove

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Roving 74% connected

of Rove

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Stray 74% connected

To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

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Stray 74% connected

To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

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Strayer 74% connected

One who strays; a wanderer.

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Strayer 74% connected

One who strays; a wanderer.

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Vagabond 74% connected

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

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Vagabond 74% connected

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

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Synonym 21

Blow 92% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Cast 92% connected

of Cast

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Err 92% connected

To wander; to roam; to stray.

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Float 92% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

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Gallery 92% connected

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by…

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Heading 92% connected

of Head

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Impetus 92% connected

A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

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Impulsion 92% connected

The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the…

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Movement 92% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Purport 92% connected

Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

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Ramble 92% connected

To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ra…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Range 92% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Roam 92% connected

To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.

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Roll 92% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rove 92% connected

of Reeve

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Stray 92% connected

To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swan 92% connected

Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and stro…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tramp 92% connected

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

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Trend 92% connected

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

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Vagabond 92% connected

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wander 92% connected

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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