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A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

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Verb group 4

Dive 84% connected

To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Dive 84% connected

To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Plunge 84% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Plunge 84% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Copy 76% connected

An abundance or plenty of anything.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Defecation 76% connected

The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Depot 76% connected

A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discard 76% connected

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dispose 76% connected

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Drop 76% 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 0% interchangeable

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Entrepot 76% connected

A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in tra…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fling 76% connected

To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Laxation 76% connected

The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sell 76% connected

Self.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Site 76% connected

The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Storage 76% connected

The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Store 76% connected

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Storehouse 76% connected

A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Toss 76% connected

To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Midden 76% connected

A dunghill.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dumpy 74% connected

Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dumpy 74% connected

Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Grass 74% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Grass 74% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Plunge 74% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Plunge 74% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Plunger 74% connected

One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Plunger 74% connected

One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Deck 92% connected

To cover; to overspread.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ditch 92% connected

A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Floor 92% connected

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Plunge 92% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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