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Incubate

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

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Verb group 6

Breed 84% connected

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Breed 84% connected

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Cover 84% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Cover 84% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Hatch 84% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Hatch 84% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 4

Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Multiply 76% connected

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Procreate 76% connected

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reproduce 76% connected

To produce again.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Incubation 74% connected

A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Incubation 74% connected

A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entails 1

Sit 72% connected

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

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Synonym 3

Brood 92% connected

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

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.

Cover 92% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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.

Hatch 92% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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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