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Indent

To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

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Broader term 15

Arrange 76% connected

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bend 76% connected

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bind 76% connected

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Deform 76% connected

To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flex 76% connected

To bend; as, to flex the arm.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Notch 76% connected

A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Space 76% connected

Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Twist 76% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Manner of action 1

Recess 76% connected

A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 10

Dent 74% connected

A stroke; a blow.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dent 74% connected

A stroke; a blow.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Incision 74% connected

The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Incision 74% connected

The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Indentation 74% connected

The act of indenting or state of being indented.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Indentation 74% connected

The act of indenting or state of being indented.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Indention 74% connected

Same as Indentation, 4.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Indention 74% connected

Same as Indentation, 4.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Indenture 74% connected

The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Indenture 74% connected

The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entails 1

Hit 72% connected

It.

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Synonym 4

Dent 92% connected

A stroke; a blow.

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.

Indentation 92% connected

The act of indenting or state of being indented.

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.

Indention 92% connected

Same as Indentation, 4.

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.

Indenture 92% connected

The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

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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