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Drown

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Choke 76% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Croak 76% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

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Decease 76% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

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Die 76% connected

of Dice

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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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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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Exit 76% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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Expire 76% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

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Extinguish 76% connected

To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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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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Perish 76% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

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Submerge 76% connected

To put under water; to plunge.

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Submerse 76% connected

Submersed.

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Overwhelm 92% connected

To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; t…

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.

Submerge 92% connected

To put under water; to plunge.

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.

Swim 92% connected

To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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