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Herd

Haired.

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Broader term 7

Concourse 76% connected

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crowd 76% connected

To push, to press, to shove.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Keep 76% connected

To care; to desire.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Multitude 76% connected

A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Throng 76% connected

of Thring

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Manner of action 2

Overcrowd 76% connected

To crowd too much.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wrangle 76% connected

To argue; to debate; to dispute.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 8

Crowd 74% connected

To push, to press, to shove.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Crowd 74% connected

To push, to press, to shove.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Drover 74% connected

One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Drover 74% connected

One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Ruck 74% connected

A roc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Ruck 74% connected

A roc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Member part 5

Cattle 70% connected

Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cows 70% connected

of Cow

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Kine 70% connected

of Cow

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Oxen 70% connected

of Ox

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Sheep 70% connected

Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.

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Synonym 2

Crowd 92% connected

To push, to press, to shove.

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.

Ruck 92% connected

A roc.

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.

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