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Follow

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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Verb group 20

Adopt 84% connected

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…

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Adopt 84% connected

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…

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Comply 84% connected

To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

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Comply 84% connected

To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

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Espouse 84% connected

To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

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Espouse 84% connected

To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

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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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Postdate 84% connected

To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.

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Postdate 84% connected

To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.

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Pursue 84% connected

To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.

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Pursue 84% connected

To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.

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Survey 84% connected

To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.

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Survey 84% connected

To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.

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Trace 84% 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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Trace 84% 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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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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Manner of action 31

Accede 76% connected

To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.

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Accommodate 76% connected

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

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Adhere 76% connected

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

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Ascend 76% connected

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Chase 76% connected

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

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Cox 76% connected

A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.

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Dawdle 76% connected

To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

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Dog 76% connected

A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).

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Enter 76% connected

To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…

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Guard 76% connected

To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; t…

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Haunt 76% connected

To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.

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Heel 76% connected

To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

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Keep 76% connected

To care; to desire.

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Lag 76% connected

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

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Maintain 76% connected

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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Oblige 76% connected

To attach, as by a bond.

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Observe 76% 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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Postdate 76% connected

To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.

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Proctor 76% connected

One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.

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Replace 76% connected

To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

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Shadow 76% connected

Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the ray…

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Stalk 76% connected

The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

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Stick 76% connected

A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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Supersede 76% connected

To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.

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Supplant 76% connected

To trip up.

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Tag 76% connected

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

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Tail 76% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

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Track 76% connected

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

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Trail 76% connected

To hunt by the track; to track.

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Watch 76% 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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Broader term 46

Acquit 76% connected

Acquitted; set free; rid of.

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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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Analyse 76% connected

Alt. of Analyser

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Analyze 76% connected

To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of…

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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Arise 76% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Be 76% connected

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

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Behave 76% connected

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

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Bring 76% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Canvass 76% connected

To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its p…

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Check 76% 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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Choose 76% connected

To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

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Come 76% connected

of Come

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Comport 76% connected

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

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Conduct 76% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Copy 76% connected

An abundance or plenty of anything.

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Deport 76% connected

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Ensue 76% connected

To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake.

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Examine 76% connected

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection o…

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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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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Imitate 76% connected

To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.

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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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Obey 76% connected

To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of.

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Observe 76% 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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Originate 76% connected

To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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Persevere 76% connected

To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influe…

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Persist 76% connected

To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motiv…

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Practice 76% connected

Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of risi…

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Result 76% connected

To leap back; to rebound.

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Rise 76% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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Select 76% connected

Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choic…

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Simulate 76% connected

Feigned; pretended.

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Study 76% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Subscribe 76% connected

To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Understand 76% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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Uprise 76% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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Use 76% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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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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Wreak 76% connected

To reck; to care.

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Chase 74% connected

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

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Chase 74% connected

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

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Chaser 74% connected

One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

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Chaser 74% connected

One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

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Compliancy 74% connected

Compliance; disposition to yield to others.

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Compliancy 74% connected

Compliance; disposition to yield to others.

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Compliant 74% connected

Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.

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Compliant 74% connected

Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.

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Conformation 74% connected

The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

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Conformation 74% connected

The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

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Espousal 74% connected

The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ce…

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Espousal 74% connected

The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ce…

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Follower 74% connected

One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

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Follower 74% connected

One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

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Heir 74% connected

One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or…

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Heir 74% connected

One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or…

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Observance 74% connected

The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and f…

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Observance 74% connected

The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and f…

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Observation 74% connected

The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.

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Observation 74% connected

The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.

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Percipient 74% connected

Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.

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Percipient 74% connected

Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.

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Sequence 74% connected

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

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Sequence 74% connected

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

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Successive 74% connected

Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consec…

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Successive 74% connected

Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consec…

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Successiveness 74% connected

The quality or state of being successive.

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Successiveness 74% connected

The quality or state of being successive.

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Successor 74% connected

One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor;…

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Successor 74% connected

One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor;…

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Accompany 92% connected

To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech wi…

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Adopt 92% connected

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…

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Be 92% connected

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

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.

Come 92% connected

of Come

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Comply 92% connected

To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

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.

Espouse 92% connected

To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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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Postdate 92% connected

To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.

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.

Pursue 92% connected

To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Succeed 92% connected

To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds sum…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Survey 92% connected

To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.

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.

Trace 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Watch 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antedate 94% connected

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Antedate 94% connected

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Lead 94% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Lead 94% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

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