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Harp

A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

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Broader term 8

Ingeminate 76% connected

Redoubled; repeated.

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Iterate 76% connected

Uttered or done again; repeated.

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Reiterate 76% connected

To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat.

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Repeat 76% connected

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.

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Restate 76% connected

To state anew.

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Retell 76% connected

To tell again.

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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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Narrower term 1

Lyre 76% connected

A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

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Derivationally related 4

Harper 74% connected

A player on the harp; a minstrel.

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Harper 74% connected

A player on the harp; a minstrel.

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Harpist 74% connected

A player on the harp; a harper.

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Harpist 74% connected

A player on the harp; a harper.

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Entails 2

Pluck 72% connected

To pull; to draw.

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Tweak 72% connected

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.

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Synonym 2

Dwell 92% connected

To delay; to linger.

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.

Harmonica 92% connected

A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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