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Induce

To lead in; to introduce.

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Broader term 8

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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Conclude 76% connected

To shut up; to inclose.

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Effect 76% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Effectuate 76% connected

To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

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Generate 76% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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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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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Reason 76% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Manner of action 44

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Back 76% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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Begin 76% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Bring 76% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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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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Commence 76% connected

To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

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Compel 76% connected

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Decide 76% connected

To cut off; to separate.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Displease 76% connected

To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at.…

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Encourage 76% connected

To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help…

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Fly 76% connected

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

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Fruit 76% connected

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; --…

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Hold 76% connected

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

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Incite 76% connected

To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

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Inspire 76% connected

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

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Instigate 76% connected

To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime.

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Itch 76% connected

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

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Jump 76% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Keep 76% connected

To care; to desire.

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Lead 76% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Leap 76% connected

A basket.

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Maintain 76% connected

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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Make 76% connected

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

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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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.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Persuade 76% connected

To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.

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Prod 76% connected

A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

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Prompt 76% connected

A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.

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Protuberate 76% connected

To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out.

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Remove 76% connected

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

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Solicit 76% connected

To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

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Sound 76% connected

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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Stampede 76% connected

A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or…

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Suborn 76% connected

To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

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Derivationally related 8

Causative 74% connected

Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.

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Causative 74% connected

Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.

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Cause 74% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Cause 74% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Causing 74% connected

of Cause

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Causing 74% connected

of Cause

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Induction 74% connected

The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

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Induction 74% connected

The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

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See also 2

Bring 66% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Bring 66% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Synonym 8

Cause 92% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Get 92% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Hasten 92% connected

To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

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have 92% connected

of Have

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Induct 92% connected

To bring in; to introduce; to usher in.

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Make 92% connected

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

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Rush 92% connected

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

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Stimulate 92% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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