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Flux

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

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Manner of action 20

Absorb 76% connected

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.

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Accrete 76% connected

To grow together.

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Admix 76% connected

To mingle with something else; to mix.

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Alloy 76% connected

Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury…

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Cockle 76% connected

A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of…

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Condense 76% connected

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

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Conjugate 76% connected

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

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Dissolve 76% connected

To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to term…

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Distil 76% connected

See Distill.

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Distill 76% connected

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.

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Fuse 76% connected

To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

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Gauge 76% connected

To measure or determine with a gauge.

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Melt 76% connected

See 2d Milt.

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Riffle 76% connected

A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is…

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Ripple 76% connected

An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

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Ruffle 76% connected

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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Thaw 76% connected

To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.

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Transpire 76% connected

To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.

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Undulate 76% connected

Same as Undulated.

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Unfreeze 76% connected

To thaw.

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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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Chemical 76% connected

Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical ch…

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Density 76% connected

The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.

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Field 76% connected

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

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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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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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Pathology 76% connected

The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

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Rate 76% connected

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Coalition 74% connected

The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.

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Coalition 74% connected

The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.

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Fluxion 74% connected

The act of flowing.

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Fluxion 74% connected

The act of flowing.

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Immix 74% connected

To mix; to mingle.

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Immix 74% connected

To mix; to mingle.

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Liquefaction 74% connected

The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.

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Liquefaction 74% connected

The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.

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Liquefiable 74% connected

Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.

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Liquefiable 74% connected

Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.

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Liquefy 74% connected

To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

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Liquefy 74% connected

To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

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Synonym 13

Blend 92% connected

To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguis…

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Coalesce 92% connected

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

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Combine 92% connected

To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical u…

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Commingle 92% connected

To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.

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Conflate 92% connected

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

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Flow 92% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Fluxion 92% connected

The act of flowing.

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Fuse 92% connected

To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

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Immix 92% connected

To mix; to mingle.

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Liquefy 92% connected

To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

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magnetic field 92% connected

The region around a magnet or current where magnetic forces act.

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Merge 92% connected

To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

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Mix 92% connected

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…

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