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Flush

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

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Even 84% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

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Even 84% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

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Rich 84% connected

Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; aff…

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Rich 84% connected

Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; aff…

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Broader term 24

Color 76% connected

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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Colour 76% connected

See Color.

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Course 76% connected

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

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Discolor 76% connected

To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolore…

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Douse 76% connected

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

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Dowse 76% connected

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

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Drench 76% connected

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

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Excitement 76% connected

The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

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Exhilaration 76% connected

The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.

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Feed 76% connected

of Fee

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Flowing 76% connected

of Flow

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Glow 76% connected

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

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Healthiness 76% connected

The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

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Irrigate 76% connected

To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Reflex 76% connected

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

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Rinse 76% connected

To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Soak 76% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Sop 76% connected

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

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Souse 76% connected

A corrupt form of Sou.

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Symptom 76% connected

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

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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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Manner of action 5

Grade 76% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Perfuse 76% connected

To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.

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Strickle 76% connected

An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

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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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Suffuse 76% connected

To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.

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Narrower term 1

Springtide 76% connected

The time of spring; springtime.

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Derivationally related 6

Bloom 74% connected

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

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Bloom 74% connected

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

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Sluice 74% connected

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood ga…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sluice 74% connected

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood ga…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sluiceway 74% connected

An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubb…

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Sluiceway 74% connected

An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubb…

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Causes 4

Course 72% connected

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

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Feed 72% connected

of Fee

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Flow 72% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Run 72% connected

of Run

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Synonym 28

Affluent 92% connected

Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

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.

Bang 92% connected

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bloom 92% connected

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Blossom 92% connected

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Blush 92% connected

To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Boot 92% connected

Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Charge 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Crimson 92% connected

A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Efflorescence 92% connected

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

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Even 92% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flower 92% connected

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gush 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Heyday 92% connected

An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Kick 92% connected

To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Level 92% connected

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Loaded 92% connected

of Load

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Moneyed 92% connected

Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Peak 92% connected

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prime 92% connected

Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Purge 92% connected

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Redden 92% connected

To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rosiness 92% connected

The quality of being rosy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rush 92% connected

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scour 92% connected

To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sluice 92% connected

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood ga…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Substantial 92% connected

Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Thrill 92% connected

A warbling; a trill.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wealthy 92% connected

Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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