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Interact

A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.

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Manner of action 37

Accompany 76% connected

To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech wi…

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Affiliate 76% connected

To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

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Assemble 76% connected

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

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Associate 76% connected

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

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Assort 76% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

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Collude 76% connected

To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.

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Combine 76% connected

To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical u…

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Communicate 76% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Condescend 76% connected

To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.

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Connect 76% connected

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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Consort 76% connected

One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

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Conspire 76% connected

To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Dominate 76% connected

To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

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Foregather 76% connected

Same as Forgather.

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Forgather 76% connected

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

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Gather 76% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Intercommunicate 76% connected

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

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Interfere 76% connected

To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.

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Interpose 76% connected

To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.

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Intervene 76% connected

To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

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Invite 76% connected

To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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Manipulate 76% connected

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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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Patronize 76% connected

To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.

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Philander 76% connected

To make love to women; to play the male flirt.

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Predominate 76% connected

To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, lo…

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Prevail 76% connected

To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or…

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Reign 76% connected

Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.

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Relate 76% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Rule 76% connected

That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…

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Socialize 76% connected

To render social.

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Transact 76% connected

To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Womanize 76% connected

To make like a woman; to make effeminate.

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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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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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