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Fuse

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

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Manner of action 7

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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Conjugate 76% connected

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

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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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Narrower term 1

Breaker 76% connected

One who, or that which, breaks.

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Broader term 10

Equip 76% connected

To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide wi…

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Flux 76% connected

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

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Ignitor 76% connected

One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.

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Light 76% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Lighter 76% connected

One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.

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Liquefy 76% 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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Melt 76% connected

See 2d Milt.

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Outfit 76% connected

A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; thin…

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Derivationally related 4

Fusible 74% connected

CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.

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Fusible 74% connected

CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.

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Fusion 74% connected

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

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Fusion 74% connected

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

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Entails 1

Heat 72% connected

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

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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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Flux 92% connected

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

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Fusee 92% connected

A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.

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Fuze 92% connected

A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.

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Immix 92% connected

To mix; to mingle.

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Merge 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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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Primer 92% connected

One who, or that which, primes

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Priming 92% connected

of Prime

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Antonym 2

Defuse 94% connected

To disorder; to make shapeless.

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Defuse 94% connected

To disorder; to make shapeless.

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