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Establish

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Verb group 10

Generate 84% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Generate 84% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Give 84% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Give 84% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Return 84% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Return 84% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Yield 84% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Yield 84% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 14

Affirm 76% connected

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Confirm 76% connected

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Corroborate 76% connected

To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Initiate 76% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Install 76% connected

To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Make 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Open 76% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Originate 76% connected

To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pioneer 76% connected

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Substantiate 76% connected

To make to exist; to make real.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sustain 76% connected

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 16

Appoint 76% connected

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ascertain 76% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Build 76% connected

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Constitute 76% connected

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Contradict 76% connected

To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Determine 76% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Find 76% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Introduce 76% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mark 76% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Name 76% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Nominate 76% connected

To mention by name; to name.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pacify 76% connected

To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Prove 76% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Set 76% connected

of Set

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stultify 76% connected

To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 6

Basis 74% connected

The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Basis 74% connected

The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Constitution 74% connected

The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Constitution 74% connected

The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Establishment 74% connected

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Establishment 74% connected

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 15

Base 92% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Build 92% connected

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Constitute 92% connected

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Demonstrate 92% connected

To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Found 92% connected

of Find

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Give 92% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ground 92% connected

of Grind

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Install 92% connected

To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Institute 92% connected

Established; organized; founded.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Launch 92% connected

To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Make 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Plant 92% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prove 92% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shew 92% connected

See Show.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Show 92% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Near synonym 1

Show 82% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

general 58% interchangeable

Establish overlaps with show, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Stronger synonym 1

Show 92% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

academic reporting verbs 62% interchangeable softer

Use when evidence supports a well-founded conclusion.

Antonym 4

Abolish 94% connected

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Abolish 94% connected

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Confute 94% connected

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Confute 94% connected

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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