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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 person.

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Verb group 38

Acquire 84% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Acquire 84% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Ascertain 84% connected

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

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Ascertain 84% connected

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

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Check 84% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Check 84% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Determine 84% connected

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

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Determine 84% connected

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

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Feel 84% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Feel 84% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Get 84% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Get 84% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Hear 84% connected

To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.

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Hear 84% connected

To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.

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Learn 84% connected

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

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Learn 84% connected

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

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Notice 84% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

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Notice 84% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

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Observe 84% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

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Observe 84% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

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Regain 84% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

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Regain 84% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

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Retrieve 84% connected

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

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Retrieve 84% connected

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

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Rule 84% connected

That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…

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Rule 84% connected

That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Watch 84% connected

The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…

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Watch 84% connected

The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…

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Witness 84% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

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Witness 84% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

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Manner of action 31

Access 76% connected

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

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Admeasure 76% connected

To measure.

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Attain 76% connected

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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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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Define 76% connected

To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.

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Delimit 76% connected

To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.

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Delineate 76% connected

Delineated; portrayed.

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Discern 76% connected

To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.

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Discover 76% connected

To uncover.

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Distinguish 76% connected

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

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Enumerate 76% connected

To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a s…

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Ferret 76% connected

An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a na…

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Gauge 76% connected

To measure or determine with a gauge.

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Locate 76% connected

To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Numerate 76% connected

To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.

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Recognize 76% connected

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

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Rectify 76% connected

To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…

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Refract 76% connected

To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Sense 76% connected

A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the bod…

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Sequence 76% connected

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

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Situate 76% connected

Alt. of Situated

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Specify 76% connected

To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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Strike 76% 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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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Trace 76% connected

One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be draw…

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Translate 76% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

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Broader term 33

Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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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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Attain 76% connected

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

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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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Comprehend 76% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Conceive 76% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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Conclude 76% connected

To shut up; to inclose.

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Deed 76% connected

Dead.

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Demonstrate 76% connected

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

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Encounter 76% connected

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

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Establish 76% connected

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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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Gain 76% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Grow 76% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Insight 76% connected

A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Label 76% connected

A tassel.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Maturate 76% connected

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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Mature 76% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Meet 76% 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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Perceive 76% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

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Pronounce 76% connected

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

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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…

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Reason 76% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Shew 76% connected

See Show.

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Show 76% 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…

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Sight 76% connected

The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

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Spy 76% connected

To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.

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Catching 76% connected

of Catch

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Detection 76% connected

The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a pl…

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Determination 76% connected

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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Espial 76% connected

The act of espying; notice; discovery.

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Finding 76% connected

of Find

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Spotting 76% connected

of Spot

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Spying 76% connected

of Spy

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tracing 76% connected

of Trace

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Bump 74% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Bump 74% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Conclusion 74% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Conclusion 74% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Determination 74% connected

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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Determination 74% connected

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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Discoverer 74% connected

One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.

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Discoverer 74% connected

One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.

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Feel 74% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Feel 74% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Finder 74% connected

One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for th…

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Finder 74% connected

One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for th…

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Restitution 74% connected

The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.

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Restitution 74% connected

The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.

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Ruling 74% connected

of Rule

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Ruling 74% connected

of Rule

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Synonym 23

Ascertain 92% connected

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

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Bump 92% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Chance 92% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

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Detect 92% connected

Detected.

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Determine 92% connected

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

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Discover 92% connected

To uncover.

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Discovery 92% connected

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

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Encounter 92% connected

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

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Feel 92% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Get 92% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Happen 92% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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.

Incur 92% connected

To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable o…

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.

Notice 92% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

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.

Observe 92% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Obtain 92% connected

To hold; to keep; to possess.

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.

Receive 92% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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.

Recover 92% connected

To cover again.

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.

Regain 92% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

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.

Retrieve 92% connected

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

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.

Rule 92% connected

That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…

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.

See 92% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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.

Uncovering 92% connected

of Uncover

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.

Witness 92% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

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.

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Lose 94% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Lose 94% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

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