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Verb group 14

Affect 84% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Affect 84% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Blast 84% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Blast 84% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Impress 84% connected

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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Impress 84% connected

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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Move 84% 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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Move 84% 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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Pip 84% connected

A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…

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Pip 84% connected

A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…

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Shoot 84% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Shoot 84% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Strike 84% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Strike 84% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Manner of action 112

Access 76% connected

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

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Arrive 76% connected

To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by a…

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Backhand 76% connected

A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

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Bang 76% connected

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

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Bash 76% connected

To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.

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Bat 76% connected

A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

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Bean 76% connected

A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.

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Belt 76% connected

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

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Blast 76% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Bludgeon 76% connected

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

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Boom 76% connected

A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

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Bottom 76% connected

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

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Bounce 76% connected

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

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Box 76% connected

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B.…

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Brain 76% connected

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous…

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Breast 76% connected

The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

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Broadside 76% connected

The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.

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Buff 76% connected

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed i…

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Buffet 76% connected

A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.

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Bump 76% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Bunker 76% connected

A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.

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Bunt 76% connected

A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

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Burke 76% connected

To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

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Cannon 76% connected

of Cannon

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Chop 76% connected

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

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Clap 76% connected

To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

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Clash 76% connected

To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

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Club 76% connected

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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Collide 76% connected

To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.

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Come 76% connected

of Come

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Connect 76% connected

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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Crack 76% connected

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Croquet 76% connected

An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the gro…

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Cudgel 76% connected

A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.

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Culminate 76% connected

To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Double 76% connected

Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.

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Down 76% connected

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

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Dribble 76% connected

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

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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;…

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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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Find 76% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Fly 76% connected

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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Foul 76% connected

A bird.

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Fustigate 76% connected

To cudgel.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Glance 76% connected

A sudden flash of light or splendor.

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Grass 76% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

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Ground 76% connected

of Grind

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Heel 76% connected

To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

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Hole 76% connected

Whole.

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Hook 76% connected

A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for c…

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Kick 76% connected

To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Kneecap 76% connected

The kneepan.

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Knock 76% connected

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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Land 76% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Loft 76% connected

That which is lifted up; an elevation.

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Nail 76% connected

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

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Peak 76% connected

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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Ping 76% connected

The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

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Pitch 76% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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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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Plug 76% connected

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

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Poke 76% connected

A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and…

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Pommel 76% connected

A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form

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Pop 76% connected

A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.

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Pound 76% connected

To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

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Pull 76% connected

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

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Pummel 76% connected

Same as Pommel.

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Punch 76% connected

A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the k…

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Racket 76% connected

A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It…

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Retaliate 76% connected

To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]

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Scale 76% connected

The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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Shank 76% connected

See Chank.

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Shell 76% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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Shoot 76% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Single 76% connected

One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.

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Slam 76% connected

To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.

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Slice 76% connected

A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

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Slug 76% connected

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

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Smack 76% connected

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

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Smash 76% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Smite 76% connected

To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the…

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Snap 76% connected

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

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Snick 76% connected

A small cut or mark.

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Sock 76% connected

A plowshare.

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Spang 76% connected

To spangle.

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Spat 76% connected

imp. of Spit.

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Stroke 76% connected

Struck.

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Stub 76% connected

The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a…

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Stun 76% connected

To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.

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Summit 76% connected

The top; the highest point.

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Surmount 76% connected

To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

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Swat 76% connected

imp. of Sweat.

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Swig 76% connected

To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.

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Swipe 76% connected

A swape or sweep. See Sweep.

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Thud 76% connected

A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow…

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Thump 76% connected

The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.

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Thwack 76% connected

To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump.

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Toe 76% connected

One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.

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Top 76% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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Triple 76% connected

Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.

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Undercut 76% connected

The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

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Volley 76% connected

A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.

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Wallop 76% connected

To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.

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Whack 76% connected

To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.

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Whang 76% connected

A leather thong.

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Whap 76% connected

Alt. of Whop

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Whop 76% connected

To throw one's self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over.

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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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Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Approach 76% connected

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

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Arrive 76% connected

To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by a…

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Assail 76% connected

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Come 76% connected

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Connection 76% connected

The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.

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Connexion 76% connected

Connection. See Connection.

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Contact 76% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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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…

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Dose 76% connected

The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

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Effort 76% connected

An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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Execution 76% connected

The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

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Exploit 76% connected

A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

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Feat 76% connected

An act; a deed; an exploit.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Impact 76% connected

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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Impel 76% connected

To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.

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Impinging 76% connected

of Impinge

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Injure 76% connected

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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Joining 76% connected

of Join

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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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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Murder 76% connected

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

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Occur 76% connected

To meet; to clash.

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Propel 76% connected

To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

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Slaying 76% connected

of Slay

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Striking 76% connected

of Strike

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Succeed 76% connected

To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds sum…

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Success 76% connected

Act of succeeding; succession.

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Touching 76% connected

of Touch

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Win 76% connected

To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to w…

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Narrower term 10

Bunt 76% connected

A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

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Contusion 76% connected

The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.

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Crash 76% connected

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

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Fly 76% connected

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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Header 76% connected

One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.

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Hopper 76% connected

One who, or that which, hops.

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Safety 76% connected

The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.

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Screamer 76% connected

Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, and the suborder Palamedeae. They have two spines on each wing, a…

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Sleeper 76% connected

One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.

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Smash 76% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Derivationally related 6

Hitter 74% connected

One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.

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Hitter 74% connected

One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.

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Strike 74% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Strike 74% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Entails 7

Aim 72% connected

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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Direct 72% 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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Go 72% connected

Gone.

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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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Take 72% connected

Taken.

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Train 72% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Travel 72% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Synonym 19

Attain 92% connected

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

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Bang 92% connected

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

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Collision 92% connected

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

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Dispatch 92% connected

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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Gain 92% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Hitting 92% connected

of Hit

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Make 92% connected

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

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Murder 92% connected

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

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Off 92% connected

In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:

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Pip 92% connected

A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…

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Reach 92% connected

To retch.

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Remove 92% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Shoot 92% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Slay 92% connected

To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.

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Smash 92% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Smasher 92% connected

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

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Strike 92% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Striking 92% connected

of Strike

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Stumble 92% connected

To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

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