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Hale

Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.

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Healthy 84% connected

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Healthy 84% connected

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 8

Bludgeon 76% connected

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bouse 76% connected

To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.

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Bowse 76% connected

To carouse; to bouse; to booze.

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Dragoon 76% connected

Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.

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Drive 76% connected

To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Railroad 76% connected

Alt. of Railway

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Terrorize 76% connected

To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation.

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Underrun 76% connected

To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.

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Compel 76% connected

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Obligate 76% connected

To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.

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Oblige 76% connected

To attach, as by a bond.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Derivationally related 12

Drag 74% connected

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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Drag 74% connected

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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Force 74% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Force 74% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Power 74% connected

Same as Poor, the fish.

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Power 74% connected

Same as Poor, the fish.

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Puller 74% connected

One who, or that which, pulls.

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Puller 74% connected

One who, or that which, pulls.

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Trawler 74% connected

One who, or that which, trawls.

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Trawler 74% connected

One who, or that which, trawls.

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Wholeness 74% connected

The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.

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Wholeness 74% connected

The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.

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Causes 2

Act 72% 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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Move 72% 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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Synonym 8

Cart 92% connected

A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.

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Coerce 92% connected

To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Drag 92% connected

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Force 92% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Haul 92% connected

To pull or draw with force; to drag.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pressure 92% connected

The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squeeze 92% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Whole 92% connected

Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar s…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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