Influence: alternatives and connections

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

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

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The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.

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

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of Cause

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That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.

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Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

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Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.

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One who, or that which, determines or decides.

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

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That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

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To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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

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The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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

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That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

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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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Same as Poor, the fish.

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To leap back; to rebound.

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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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Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.

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To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.

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exert pressure on someone through threats

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A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied…

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

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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See Color.

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To cut off; to separate.

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To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.

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To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

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To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

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Fixed; solidified.

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

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To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

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To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.

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To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle.

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To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate…

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To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.

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To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with.

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Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles.

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A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

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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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To determine (something) beforehand.

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Foresight.

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To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of.

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The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

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To shape again.

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To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.

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To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

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Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker…

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The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.

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The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.

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The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or cont…

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To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.

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The griffin.

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A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of ot…

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

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The act of impinging.

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Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.

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To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

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The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful…

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The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate direc…

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Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

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The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.

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Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.

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To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

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The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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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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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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A melody; a song.

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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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The office of a leader.

The ability to shape decisions or behaviour.