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Elude

To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.

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Amaze 76% connected

To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

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Avoid 76% connected

To empty.

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Baffle 76% connected

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Bewilder 76% connected

To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

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Escape 76% connected

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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flummox 76% connected

To bewilder or confuse someone

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Gravel 76% connected

Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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Mystify 76% connected

To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

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Nonplus 76% connected

A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.

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Perplex 76% connected

To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.

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Pose 76% connected

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Puzzle 76% connected

Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…

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Stick 76% connected

A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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Stupefy 76% connected

To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

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Vex 76% connected

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

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Manner of action 5

Beg 76% connected

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

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Defy 76% connected

To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

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Quibble 76% connected

A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

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Refuse 76% connected

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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Resist 76% connected

To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

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Elusive 74% connected

Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.

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Elusive 74% connected

Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.

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Hedge 74% connected

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrub…

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Hedge 74% connected

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrub…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hedging 74% connected

of Hedge

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Hedging 74% connected

of Hedge

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Synonym 10

Bilk 92% connected

To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a credito…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Circumvent 92% connected

To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dodge 92% connected

To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Duck 92% connected

A pet; a darling.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Escape 92% connected

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Evade 92% connected

To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pur…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fudge 92% connected

A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hedge 92% connected

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrub…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Parry 92% connected

To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Skirt 92% connected

The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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