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Fill

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Verb group 6

Assume 84% connected

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

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Assume 84% connected

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

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Strike 84% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Strike 84% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Manner of action 55

Accommodate 76% connected

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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Allay 76% connected

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

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Answer 76% connected

To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

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Appease 76% connected

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or o…

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Assuage 76% connected

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisf…

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Bolster 76% connected

A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.

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Brim 76% connected

The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Clog 76% connected

That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.

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Close 76% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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Cloy 76% connected

To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

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Clutter 76% connected

A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.

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Complete 76% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Content 76% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Crowd 76% connected

To push, to press, to shove.

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Deluge 76% connected

A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.…

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Electrify 76% connected

To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.

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Entrench 76% connected

See Intrench.

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Farce 76% connected

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Flood 76% connected

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

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Fulfil 76% connected

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Fulfill 76% connected

To fill up; to make full or complete.

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Heap 76% connected

A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.

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Impregnate 76% connected

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

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Infuse 76% connected

To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

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Ink 76% connected

The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.

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Instill 76% connected

To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed.

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Inundate 76% connected

To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.

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Lade 76% connected

To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.

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Laden 76% connected

Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Load 76% connected

A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

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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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overfill 76% connected

To fill to excess; to surcharge.

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Overload 76% connected

To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.

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Pack 76% connected

A pact.

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Pad 76% connected

A footpath; a road.

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Pall 76% connected

Same as Pawl.

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Populate 76% connected

Populous.

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Prime 76% connected

Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna

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Quell 76% connected

To die.

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Quench 76% connected

To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to que…

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Refill 76% connected

To fill, or become full, again.

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Replenish 76% connected

To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound.

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Satisfy 76% connected

In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full,…

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Saturate 76% connected

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.

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Slake 76% connected

To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.

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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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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Suit 76% connected

The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

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Surcharge 76% connected

To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.

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Swamp 76% connected

Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

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Tincture 76% connected

A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

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Water 76% connected

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Be 76% connected

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

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Bushel 76% connected

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

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Cater 76% connected

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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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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Doctor 76% connected

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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Eat 76% connected

of Eat

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Employ 76% connected

To inclose; to infold.

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Engage 76% connected

To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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Enough 76% connected

Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Hire 76% connected

See Here, pron.

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Ingest 76% connected

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

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Mend 76% connected

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Ply 76% connected

To bend.

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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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Repair 76% connected

To return.

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Restore 76% connected

To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Sufficiency 76% connected

The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.

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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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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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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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Narrower term 1

Cement 76% connected

Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.

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Derivationally related 14

Filler 74% connected

One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.

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Filler 74% connected

One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.

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Fulfillment 74% connected

The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.

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Fulfillment 74% connected

The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.

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Makeweight 74% connected

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

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Makeweight 74% connected

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

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Occupation 74% connected

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use;…

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Occupation 74% connected

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use;…

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Satiate 74% connected

Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.

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Satiate 74% connected

Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.

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Plump 66% connected

Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.

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Plump 66% connected

Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.

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Shade 66% connected

Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between th…

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Shade 66% connected

Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between th…

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Synonym 11

Filling 92% connected

of Fill

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Fit 92% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Fulfil 92% connected

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Fulfill 92% connected

To fill up; to make full or complete.

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Meet 92% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Occupy 92% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Replete 92% connected

Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding.

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Sate 92% connected

To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit.

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Satiate 92% connected

Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.

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Satisfy 92% connected

In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full,…

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

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Antonym 4

Discharge 94% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Discharge 94% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Empty 94% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Empty 94% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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