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Verb group 2

Broader term 28

Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Boost 76% connected

To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.

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Cater 76% connected

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Enclose 76% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

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Encourage 76% connected

To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help…

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Enrich 76% connected

To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

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Exploit 76% connected

A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

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Food 76% connected

What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; alim…

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Further 76% connected

To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther.

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have 76% connected

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Inclose 76% connected

To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…

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Ingest 76% connected

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

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Insert 76% connected

To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…

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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.

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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…

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Nutrient 76% connected

Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Ply 76% connected

To bend.

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Promote 76% connected

To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance…

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Regale 76% connected

A prerogative of royalty.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Manner of action 48

Aliment 76% connected

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: suste…

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Breakfast 76% connected

The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.

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Browse 76% connected

The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.

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Circulate 76% connected

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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Corn 76% connected

A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.

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Crop 76% connected

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

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Dine 76% connected

To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.

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Drain 76% connected

To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

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Dribble 76% connected

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

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Dung 76% connected

of Ding

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Eddy 76% connected

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

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Filter 76% connected

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matte…

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Flush 76% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Fodder 76% connected

A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.

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Forage 76% connected

The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.

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Graze 76% connected

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

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Gush 76% connected

To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

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Gutter 76% connected

A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

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Inject 76% connected

To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject mo…

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Jet 76% connected

Same as 2d Get.

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Lactate 76% connected

A salt of lactic acid.

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Lunch 76% connected

A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.

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Nitrify 76% connected

To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.

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Nourish 76% connected

To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

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Nurse 76% connected

One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles a…

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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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Overfeed 76% connected

To feed to excess; to surfeit.

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Pasture 76% connected

Food; nourishment.

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Pour 76% connected

Poor.

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Purl 76% connected

To decorate with fringe or embroidery.

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Range 76% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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Raven 76% connected

A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is…

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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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Scavenge 76% connected

To cleanse, as streets, from filth.

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Seep 76% connected

Alt. of Sipe

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Slop 76% connected

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

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Spill 76% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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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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Suckle 76% connected

A teat.

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Surge 76% connected

A spring; a fountain.

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Swill 76% connected

To wash; to drench.

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Swirl 76% connected

To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.

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Tide 76% connected

Time; period; season.

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Trickle 76% connected

To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

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Waste 76% connected

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

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Whirl 76% connected

To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

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Whirlpool 76% connected

An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center,…

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Birdseed 76% connected

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

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Cud 76% connected

That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

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Ensilage 76% connected

The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo,…

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Fodder 76% connected

A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.

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Mash 76% connected

A mesh.

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Mast 76% connected

The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.

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Silage 76% connected

Short for Ensilage.

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Slop 76% connected

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

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Swill 76% connected

To wash; to drench.

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Derivationally related 18

Alimentation 74% connected

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

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Alimentation 74% connected

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

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Confluent 74% connected

Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.

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Confluent 74% connected

Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.

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Eat 74% connected

of Eat

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Eat 74% connected

of Eat

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Eating 74% connected

of Eat

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Eating 74% connected

of Eat

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Feast 74% connected

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

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Feast 74% connected

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

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Flow 74% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Flow 74% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Quarry 74% connected

Same as 1st Quarrel.

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Quarry 74% connected

Same as 1st Quarrel.

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Causes 1

Eat 72% connected

of Eat

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Synonym 9

Course 92% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Eat 92% connected

of Eat

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Feast 92% connected

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

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Fertilize 92% connected

To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.

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Flow 92% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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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…

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Prey 92% connected

Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.

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Provender 92% connected

Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.

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Run 92% connected

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Antonym 2

Famish 94% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

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Famish 94% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

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