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Exist

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Verb group 10

Endure 84% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Endure 84% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Last 84% connected

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

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Last 84% connected

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

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Live 84% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Live 84% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Survive 84% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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Survive 84% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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Manner of action 84

Abound 76% connected

To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Adorn 76% connected

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

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Bake 76% connected

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Beautify 76% connected

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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Begin 76% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Belong 76% connected

To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Breathe 76% connected

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

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Broil 76% connected

A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.

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Clean 76% connected

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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Coexist 76% connected

To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with.

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Cohabit 76% connected

To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.

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Come 76% connected

of Come

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Comprise 76% connected

To comprehend; to include.

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Consist 76% connected

To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist…

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Constitute 76% connected

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

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Continue 76% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

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Count 76% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Deck 76% connected

To cover; to overspread.

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Decorate 76% connected

To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

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Distribute 76% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Diverge 76% connected

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or d…

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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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Drift 76% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Drown 76% connected

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

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Dwell 76% connected

To delay; to linger.

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Embellish 76% connected

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Endanger 76% connected

To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Grace 76% connected

The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Hoodoo 76% connected

One who causes bad luck.

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Imperil 76% connected

To bring into peril; to endanger.

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Indwell 76% connected

To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession.

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Inhabit 76% connected

To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

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Jeopardize 76% connected

To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.

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Jumble 76% connected

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

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Lead 76% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Lie 76% connected

See Lye.

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Live 76% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Lubricate 76% connected

To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.

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Matter 76% connected

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of concep…

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Menace 76% connected

The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

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Mingle 76% connected

To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse…

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Miss 76% connected

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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Need 76% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Obtain 76% connected

To hold; to keep; to possess.

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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;…

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Peril 76% connected

Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

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Preexist 76% connected

To exist previously; to exist before something else.

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Press 76% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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Prevail 76% connected

To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or…

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Rage 76% connected

Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

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Relate 76% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Remain 76% connected

To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtract…

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Represent 76% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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Require 76% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Retard 76% connected

To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of…

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Sell 76% connected

Self.

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Shine 76% connected

To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by…

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Stay 76% connected

A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Thos…

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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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Stink 76% connected

To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.

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Subsist 76% connected

To be; to have existence; to inhere.

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Suck 76% connected

To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

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Survive 76% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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Swim 76% connected

To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in…

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Terminate 76% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Threaten 76% connected

To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeab…

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Top 76% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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Transplant 76% connected

To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.

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Trend 76% connected

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

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Underlie 76% connected

To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.

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Want 76% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Wash 76% connected

To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…

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Weigh 76% connected

A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.

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Broader term 1

Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Derivationally related 2

Being 74% connected

of Be

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Being 74% connected

of Be

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Synonym 4

Be 92% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Live 92% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Subsist 92% connected

To be; to have existence; to inhere.

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Survive 92% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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