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Exit

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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Verb group 10

Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Die 84% connected

of Dice

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Die 84% connected

of Dice

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Fail 84% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Fail 84% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Leave 84% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Leave 84% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Manner of action 18

Abort 76% connected

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Arise 76% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Asphyxiate 76% connected

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Depart 76% connected

To part; to divide; to separate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fall 76% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Famish 76% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Predecease 76% connected

To die sooner than.

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Rise 76% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Starve 76% connected

To die; to perish.

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Stifle 76% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

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Succumb 76% connected

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suffocate 76% connected

Suffocated; choked.

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Undock 76% connected

To take out of dock; as, to undock a ship.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Uprise 76% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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Yield 76% 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…

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Broader term 10

Death 76% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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Decease 76% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Departure 76% connected

Division; separation; putting away.

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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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Expiry 76% connected

Expiration.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Going 76% connected

of Go

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Leaving 76% connected

of Leave

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Narrower term 1

Outfall 76% connected

The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 17

Choke 92% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Croak 92% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Decease 92% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Departure 92% connected

Division; separation; putting away.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Die 92% connected

of Dice

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Expiration 92% connected

The act of expiring

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Expire 92% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Go 92% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Going 92% connected

of Go

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Issue 92% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Leave 92% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Loss 92% connected

The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Outlet 92% connected

The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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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Passing 92% connected

of Pass

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Perish 92% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Release 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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