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Dun

A mound or small hill.

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Chromatic 84% connected

Relating to color, or to colors.

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Chromatic 84% connected

Relating to color, or to colors.

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Manner of action 9

Badger 76% connected

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place…

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Beleaguer 76% connected

To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

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Bug 76% connected

A bugbear; anything which terrifies.

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Hamstring 76% connected

One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

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Madden 76% connected

To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

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Oppress 76% connected

To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

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Persecute 76% connected

To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to…

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Pester 76% connected

To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.

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Tease 76% connected

To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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Beset 76% connected

of Beset

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Chevy 76% connected

See Chivy, v. t.

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Chivy 76% connected

To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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Cure 76% connected

Care, heed, or attention.

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Darken 76% connected

To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Harass 76% connected

To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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Harry 76% connected

To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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Molest 76% connected

To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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Mount 76% connected

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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Plague 76% connected

That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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Provoke 76% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Bedevil 92% connected

To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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Crucify 92% connected

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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Fawn 92% connected

A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

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Frustrate 92% connected

Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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Rag 92% connected

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Torment 92% connected

An engine for casting stones.

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