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Give

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.

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Verb group 40

Abandon 84% connected

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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Abandon 84% connected

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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Afford 84% connected

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords frui…

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Afford 84% connected

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords frui…

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Apply 84% 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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Apply 84% 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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Bequeath 84% connected

To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

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Bequeath 84% connected

To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

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Collapse 84% connected

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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Collapse 84% connected

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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Commit 84% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Commit 84% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Consecrate 84% connected

Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

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Consecrate 84% connected

Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

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Dedicate 84% connected

Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

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Dedicate 84% connected

Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

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Devote 84% connected

To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction…

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Devote 84% connected

To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction…

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Establish 84% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Establish 84% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Generate 84% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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Generate 84% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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Impart 84% connected

To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warm…

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Impart 84% connected

To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warm…

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Leave 84% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Leave 84% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Pay 84% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Pay 84% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Return 84% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Return 84% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Sacrifice 84% connected

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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Sacrifice 84% connected

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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Will 84% connected

The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide t…

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Will 84% connected

The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide t…

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Yield 84% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Yield 84% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Accept 76% connected

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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Accord 76% connected

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

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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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Administer 76% connected

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the…

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Allot 76% connected

To distribute by lot.

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Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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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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Approximate 76% connected

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

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Cater 76% connected

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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Cerebrate 76% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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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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Cogitate 76% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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Communicate 76% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Compensate 76% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

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Consent 76% connected

To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

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Countenance 76% connected

To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Dispense 76% connected

To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispens…

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Distribute 76% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Drink 76% 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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Elasticity 76% connected

The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external…

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Employ 76% connected

To inclose; to infold.

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Estimate 76% connected

To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of…

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Evince 76% connected

To conquer; to subdue.

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Free 76% connected

Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Gauge 76% connected

To measure or determine with a gauge.

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Grant 76% connected

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

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Guess 76% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Hand 76% connected

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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Hap 76% connected

To clothe; to wrap.

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Happen 76% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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Impose 76% connected

To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.

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Indemnify 76% connected

To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.

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Inflict 76% connected

To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to…

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Intercommunicate 76% connected

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Lead 76% 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…

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Lot 76% connected

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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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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Occur 76% connected

To meet; to clash.

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Perform 76% connected

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

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Permit 76% connected

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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Pledge 76% connected

The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between…

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Ply 76% connected

To bend.

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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Proffer 76% connected

To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Recompense 76% connected

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Relinquish 76% connected

To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Repair 76% connected

To return.

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Resign 76% connected

To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; t…

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Salute 76% connected

To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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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…

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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State 76% connected

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

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Stretch 76% connected

To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

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Submit 76% connected

To let down; to lower.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Toast 76% connected

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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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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Utilize 76% connected

To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.

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Utter 76% connected

Outer.

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Visit 76% connected

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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Wassail 76% connected

An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.

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Accord 76% connected

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

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Administer 76% connected

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the…

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Aliment 76% connected

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: suste…

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Allot 76% connected

To distribute by lot.

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Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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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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Award 76% connected

To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrator…

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Bank 76% connected

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

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Bequeath 76% connected

To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

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Bestow 76% connected

To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Breakfast 76% connected

The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.

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Buckle 76% connected

A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or…

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Bung 76% connected

The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Cast 76% connected

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Cater 76% connected

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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Cede 76% connected

To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.

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Combine 76% 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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Commit 76% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Concede 76% connected

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

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Confide 76% connected

To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.

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Consecrate 76% connected

Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

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Contribute 76% connected

To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) f…

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Convey 76% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Corn 76% connected

A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.

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Crop 76% connected

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

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Crumple 76% connected

To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Dedicate 76% connected

Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

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Deliver 76% connected

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…

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Deposit 76% connected

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich al…

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Dine 76% connected

To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.

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Dispense 76% connected

To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispens…

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Distribute 76% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Donate 76% connected

To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

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Dower 76% connected

That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

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Endow 76% connected

To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to f…

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Enfeoff 76% connected

To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment.

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Entrust 76% connected

See Intrust.

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Extend 76% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Fee 76% connected

property; possession; tenure.

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Flop 76% connected

To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

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Fodder 76% connected

A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.

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Free 76% connected

Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Grant 76% connected

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

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Graze 76% connected

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

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Heap 76% connected

A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.

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Infect 76% connected

Infected. Cf. Enfect.

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Inject 76% connected

To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject mo…

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Introduce 76% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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Intrust 76% connected

To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain…

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Lactate 76% connected

A salt of lactic acid.

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Lease 76% connected

To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.

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Leave 76% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Lend 76% connected

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Loan 76% connected

A loanin.

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Lot 76% connected

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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Lunch 76% connected

A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.

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Nourish 76% connected

To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

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Nurse 76% connected

One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles a…

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Open 76% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

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Overfeed 76% connected

To feed to excess; to surfeit.

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Pacify 76% connected

To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify…

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Pasture 76% connected

Food; nourishment.

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Ply 76% connected

To bend.

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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Proffer 76% connected

To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Quote 76% connected

To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as,…

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Raffle 76% connected

A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dic…

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Range 76% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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Regurgitate 76% connected

To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Relinquish 76% connected

To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Rent 76% connected

of Rend

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Repay 76% connected

To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.

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Requite 76% connected

To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to p…

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Resign 76% connected

To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; t…

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Return 76% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Scavenge 76% connected

To cleanse, as streets, from filth.

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Sink 76% connected

To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and…

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Slip 76% connected

To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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Slop 76% connected

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

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Slump 76% connected

The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

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Sneak 76% connected

To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.

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Spare 76% connected

To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.

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Submit 76% connected

To let down; to lower.

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Suck 76% connected

To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

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Suckle 76% connected

A teat.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Surrender 76% connected

To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy…

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Swill 76% connected

To wash; to drench.

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Tender 76% connected

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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Tip 76% connected

The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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Tread 76% connected

To set the foot; to step.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Trust 76% connected

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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Vest 76% connected

An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.

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Vow 76% connected

A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity; an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, f…

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Will 76% connected

The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide t…

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Allegiance 74% connected

The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or…

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Allegiance 74% connected

The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or…

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Bestower 74% connected

One that bestows.

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Bestower 74% connected

One that bestows.

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Gift 74% connected

Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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Gift 74% connected

Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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Giving 74% connected

of Give

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Giving 74% connected

of Give

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Grantee 74% connected

The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.

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Grantee 74% connected

The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.

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Granter 74% connected

One who grants.

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Granter 74% connected

One who grants.

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Sacrifice 74% connected

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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Sacrifice 74% connected

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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Subscriber 74% connected

One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

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Subscriber 74% connected

One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

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Eat 72% connected

of Eat

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have 72% connected

of Have

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Hold 72% connected

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

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Refund 66% connected

To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

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Refund 66% connected

To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

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Synonym 32

Afford 92% connected

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords frui…

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Apply 92% 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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Break 92% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Collapse 92% connected

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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Commit 92% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Consecrate 92% connected

Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

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Contribute 92% connected

To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) f…

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Dedicate 92% connected

Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

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Devote 92% connected

To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction…

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Establish 92% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Feed 92% connected

of Fee

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Founder 92% connected

One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

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Generate 92% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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Gift 92% connected

Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Grant 92% connected

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hand 92% connected

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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have 92% connected

of Have

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Hold 92% connected

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

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.

Impart 92% connected

To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warm…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Leave 92% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Make 92% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pass 92% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pay 92% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Present 92% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reach 92% connected

To retch.

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Render 92% connected

One who rends.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Return 92% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sacrifice 92% connected

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spring 92% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Springiness 92% connected

The state or quality of being springly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Throw 92% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Yield 92% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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