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Elicit

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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Manner of action 36

Anger 76% connected

Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.

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Bore 76% connected

of Bear

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Bruise 76% connected

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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Discomfit 76% connected

To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.

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Discompose 76% connected

To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.

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Disconcert 76% connected

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

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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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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Gladden 76% connected

To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.

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Heat 76% connected

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

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Hurt 76% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Ignite 76% connected

To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.

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Infatuate 76% connected

Infatuated.

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Inflame 76% connected

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

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Injure 76% connected

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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Interest 76% connected

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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Invite 76% connected

To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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Joy 76% connected

The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the l…

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Offend 76% connected

To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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Overcome 76% connected

of Overcome

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Overpower 76% connected

To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.

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Overtake 76% connected

To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

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Overwhelm 76% 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…

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Prick 76% connected

That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

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Rekindle 76% connected

To kindle again.

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Shake 76% connected

obs. p. p. of Shake.

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Shame 76% connected

A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of t…

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Spite 76% connected

Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.

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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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Stir 76% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Tire 76% connected

A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

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Untune 76% connected

To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Wake 76% connected

The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.

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Whelm 76% connected

To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Broader term 9

Construe 76% connected

To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to ex…

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Deduce 76% connected

To lead forth.

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Deduct 76% connected

To lead forth or out.

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Derive 76% connected

To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into…

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Infer 76% connected

To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

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Interpret 76% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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Make 76% connected

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

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Evocation 74% connected

The act of calling out or forth.

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Evocation 74% connected

The act of calling out or forth.

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Synonym 9

Arouse 92% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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Educe 92% connected

To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter.

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Enkindle 92% connected

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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Evoke 92% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

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Extract 92% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Fire 92% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Kindle 92% connected

To bring forth young.

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Provoke 92% 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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Raise 92% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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