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Verb group 6

Corrode 84% connected

To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic…

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Corrode 84% connected

To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic…

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Rust 84% connected

The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film…

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Rust 84% connected

The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film…

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Manner of action 59

Abuse 76% connected

To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to ma…

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Banquet 76% connected

A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Bolt 76% connected

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resem…

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Breakfast 76% connected

The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.

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Browse 76% connected

The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.

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Burn 76% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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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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Devour 76% connected

To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

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Dine 76% connected

To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.

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Drain 76% connected

To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

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Englut 76% connected

To swallow or gulp down.

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Engorge 76% connected

To gorge; to glut.

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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Fare 76% connected

To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

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Feast 76% connected

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Finish 76% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Forage 76% connected

The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.

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Glut 76% connected

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

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Gluttonize 76% connected

To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize.

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Gobble 76% connected

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.

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Gorge 76% connected

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

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Gormandize 76% connected

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.

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Graze 76% connected

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

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Guttle 76% connected

To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

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Indulge 76% connected

To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain

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Ingurgitate 76% connected

To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle.

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Junket 76% connected

A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

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Lunch 76% connected

A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.

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Luxuriate 76% connected

To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

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Mess 76% connected

Mass; church service.

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Misuse 76% connected

To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.

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Nibble 76% connected

To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.

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Overeat 76% connected

To gnaw all over, or on all sides.

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Overgorge 76% connected

To gorge to excess.

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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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Pasture 76% connected

Food; nourishment.

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Peck 76% connected

The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.

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Pervert 76% connected

To turnanother way; to divert.

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Pick 76% connected

To throw; to pitch.

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Picnic 76% connected

Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members par…

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Piece 76% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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Pig 76% connected

A piggin.

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Range 76% 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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Raven 76% connected

A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is…

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Ruminate 76% connected

To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.

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Sap 76% connected

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

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Satiate 76% connected

Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.

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Snack 76% connected

A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.

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Spare 76% connected

To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.

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Spend 76% connected

To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

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Squander 76% connected

To scatter; to disperse.

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Suckle 76% connected

A teat.

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Tire 76% connected

A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

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Victual 76% connected

Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.

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Waste 76% connected

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

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Wolf 76% connected

Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most d…

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Damage 76% connected

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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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…

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Expend 76% connected

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Ingest 76% connected

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

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Spend 76% connected

To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Vex 76% connected

To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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Worry 76% connected

To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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Eater 74% connected

One who, or that which, eats.

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Eater 74% connected

One who, or that which, eats.

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Eating 74% connected

of Eat

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Eating 74% connected

of Eat

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Feed 74% connected

of Fee

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Feed 74% connected

of Fee

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Feeder 74% connected

One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.

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Feeder 74% connected

One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.

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Chew 72% connected

To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

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Jaw 72% connected

One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

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Manducate 72% connected

To masticate; to chew; to eat.

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Masticate 72% connected

To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.

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Swallow 72% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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Synonym 8

Consume 92% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Corrode 92% connected

To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic…

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Deplete 92% connected

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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Exhaust 92% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Expend 92% connected

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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Feed 92% connected

of Fee

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Rust 92% connected

The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film…

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Use 92% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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