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Effectuate

To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

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Manner of action 13

Accomplish 76% connected

To complete, as time or distance.

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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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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Fulfil 76% connected

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Fulfill 76% connected

To fill up; to make full or complete.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Hasten 76% connected

To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Precipitate 76% connected

Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.

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Rush 76% connected

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

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Serve 76% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Derivationally related 4

Effect 74% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Effect 74% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Implementation 74% connected

Turning a plan or policy into actual practice.

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Implementation 74% connected

Turning a plan or policy into actual practice.

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Causes 4

Hap 72% connected

To clothe; to wrap.

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Happen 72% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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Occur 72% connected

To meet; to clash.

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Pass 72% 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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Synonym 1

Effect 92% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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