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Fuddle

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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Verb group 10

Disconcert 84% connected

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

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Disconcert 84% connected

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

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Drink 84% connected

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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Drink 84% connected

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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Flurry 84% connected

A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.

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Flurry 84% connected

A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.

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Tope 84% connected

A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.

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Tope 84% connected

A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.

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Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Disorder 76% connected

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

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Disorderliness 76% connected

The state of being disorderly.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Impact 76% connected

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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Inebriate 76% connected

To make drunk; to intoxicate.

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Ingest 76% connected

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

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Intoxicate 76% connected

Intoxicated.

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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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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Manner of action 29

Amaze 76% connected

To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

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Baffle 76% connected

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Bewilder 76% connected

To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

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Bib 76% connected

A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.

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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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Claret 76% connected

The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name is also given t…

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Demoralize 76% connected

To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…

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Disorient 76% connected

To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.

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Disorientate 76% connected

To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth.

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flummox 76% connected

To bewilder or confuse someone

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Gravel 76% connected

Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Inebriate 76% connected

To make drunk; to intoxicate.

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Mystify 76% connected

To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

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Nonplus 76% connected

A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.

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Perplex 76% connected

To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.

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Port 76% connected

A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.

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Pose 76% connected

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Puzzle 76% connected

Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…

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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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Souse 76% connected

A corrupt form of Sou.

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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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Stupefy 76% connected

To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

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Tank 76% connected

A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

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Tipple 76% connected

To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently…

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Vex 76% connected

To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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Wine 76% connected

The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it…

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Narrower term 1

Rummage 76% connected

A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowag…

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Synonym 13

Bedevil 92% connected

To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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Befuddle 92% connected

To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

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Booze 92% connected

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.

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Clutter 92% connected

A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.

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Confound 92% connected

To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

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Confuse 92% connected

Mixed; confounded.

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Drink 92% connected

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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Fox 92% connected

A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…

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Jumble 92% connected

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

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Muddle 92% connected

To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

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Smother 92% connected

To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to…

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Throw 92% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Welter 92% connected

To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.

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