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Formulate

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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Verb group 6

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.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Develop 84% 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…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Develop 84% 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…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Evolve 84% connected

To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Evolve 84% connected

To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 9

Ask 76% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Couch 76% connected

To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dogmatize 76% connected

To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Formularize 76% connected

To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Frame 76% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Redact 76% connected

To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 8

Conjecture 76% connected

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Evince 76% connected

To conquer; to subdue.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hypothecate 76% connected

To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of pos…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Speculate 76% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suppose 76% connected

To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Theorize 76% connected

To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 12

Explication 74% connected

The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Explication 74% connected

The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Expression 74% connected

The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expr…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Expression 74% connected

The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expr…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Formula 74% connected

A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Formula 74% connected

A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Formulation 74% connected

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Formulation 74% connected

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Recipe 74% connected

A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Recipe 74% connected

A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rule 74% 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 15% interchangeable

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Rule 74% 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 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 10

Articulate 92% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Contrive 92% connected

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Develop 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Devise 92% connected

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Excogitate 92% connected

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Explicate 92% connected

Evolved; unfolded.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Forge 92% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Invent 92% connected

To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Phrase 92% connected

A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Word 92% connected

The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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