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Eliminate

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Verb group 2

Decimate 84% connected

To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

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Decimate 84% connected

To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

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Broader term 22

Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Crush 76% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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Destroy 76% connected

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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Destruct 76% connected

To destroy.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Discount 76% connected

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt paym…

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Dismiss 76% connected

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

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Disregard 76% connected

Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the a…

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Eject 76% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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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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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Ignore 76% connected

To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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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.

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Shell 76% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Trounce 76% connected

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

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Vanquish 76% connected

To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.

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Waste 76% connected

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

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Manner of action 47

Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Cat 76% connected

An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger th…

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Chuck 76% connected

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Defecate 76% connected

Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Disgorge 76% connected

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in…

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Drown 76% connected

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

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Eject 76% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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Empty 76% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Evacuate 76% connected

To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

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Except 76% connected

To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

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Exclude 76% connected

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as,…

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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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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Extinguish 76% connected

To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…

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Exudate 76% connected

To exude.

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Exude 76% connected

To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.

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Honk 76% connected

The cry of a wild goose.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Obliterate 76% connected

To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

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Omit 76% connected

To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.

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Ooze 76% connected

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

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Pee 76% connected

See 1st Pea.

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Perspire 76% connected

To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.

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Piddle 76% connected

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

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Piss 76% connected

To discharge urine, to urinate.

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Preclude 76% connected

To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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Prune 76% connected

To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune…

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Puddle 76% connected

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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Puke 76% connected

To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.

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Purge 76% connected

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

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Rationalize 76% connected

To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

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Regorge 76% connected

To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.

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Regurgitate 76% connected

To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Retch 76% connected

To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

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Sick 76% connected

Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

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Spew 76% connected

To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

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Spue 76% connected

See Spew.

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Stool 76% connected

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

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Sweat 76% connected

of Sweat

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Transude 76% connected

To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

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Urinate 76% connected

To discharge urine; to make water.

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Void 76% connected

Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

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Vomit 76% connected

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

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Wee 76% connected

A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.

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Derivationally related 14

Annihilation 74% connected

The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the na…

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Annihilation 74% connected

The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the na…

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Annihilator 74% connected

One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.

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Annihilator 74% connected

One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.

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Elimination 74% connected

The act of expelling or throwing off

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Elimination 74% connected

The act of expelling or throwing off

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Excretion 74% connected

The act of excreting.

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Excretion 74% connected

The act of excreting.

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Excretory 74% connected

Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.

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Excretory 74% connected

Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.

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See also 2

Disembarrass 66% connected

To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.

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Disembarrass 66% connected

To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.

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Synonym 9

Annihilate 92% connected

To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.

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Decimate 92% connected

To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Egest 92% connected

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Eradicate 92% connected

To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.

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Excrete 92% connected

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Extinguish 92% connected

To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Obviate 92% connected

To meet in the way.

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Pass 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reject 92% connected

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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