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Inform

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Manner of action 55

Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Acquaint 76% connected

Acquainted.

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Advise 76% connected

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.

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Announce 76% connected

To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

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Apprise 76% connected

To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of…

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Apprize 76% connected

To appraise; to value; to appreciate.

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Betray 76% connected

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…

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Cover 76% 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.

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Cue 76% connected

The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.

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Denote 76% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

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Denounce 76% connected

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

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Describe 76% connected

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the he…

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Designate 76% connected

Designated; appointed; chosen.

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Disabuse 76% connected

To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.

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Evidence 76% connected

That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the…

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Explain 76% connected

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

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Explicate 76% connected

Evolved; unfolded.

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Familiarize 76% connected

To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of dis…

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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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Indicate 76% connected

To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

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Inoculate 76% connected

To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

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Instruct 76% connected

Arranged; furnished; provided.

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Intend 76% connected

To stretch' to extend; to distend.

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Introduce 76% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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Learn 76% connected

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

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Mean 76% connected

To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?

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Minimize 76% connected

To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.

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Misinform 76% connected

To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.

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Mislead 76% connected

To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

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Narrate 76% connected

To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an accou…

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Notify 76% connected

To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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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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Prove 76% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

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Rat 76% connected

One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…

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Recite 76% connected

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from reco…

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Recount 76% connected

To count or reckon again.

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Regret 76% connected

Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or…

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Remind 76% connected

To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person).

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Remonstrate 76% connected

To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.

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Report 76% connected

To refer.

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Represent 76% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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Shop 76% connected

imp. of Shape. Shaped.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Signify 76% connected

To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to exp…

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Stag 76% connected

The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.

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Swat 76% connected

imp. of Sweat.

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Teach 76% connected

To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or i…

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Testify 76% connected

To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of…

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Undeceive 76% connected

To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake.

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Understate 76% connected

To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.

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Volunteer 76% connected

One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.

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Warn 76% connected

To refuse.

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Broader term 5

Alter 76% connected

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

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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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Communicate 76% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Intercommunicate 76% connected

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

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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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Derivationally related 18

Informant 74% connected

One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies.

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Informant 74% connected

One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies.

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Information 74% connected

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

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Information 74% connected

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

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Informative 74% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Informative 74% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Informatory 74% connected

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive.

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Informatory 74% connected

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive.

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Instructive 74% connected

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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Instructive 74% connected

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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Rat 74% connected

One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…

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Rat 74% connected

One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…

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Witness 74% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

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Witness 74% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

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