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Interlope

To run between parties and intercept without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle.

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Interfere 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Intruder 74% connected

One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Intruder 74% connected

One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Arbitrage noun · 78% connection

A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time i…

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Baptist noun · 78% connection

One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be adm…

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Barricade noun · 78% connection

a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

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Booting noun · 78% connection

Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

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Bus network noun · 78% connection

a network topology in which nodes are connected in a daisy chain by a linear sequence of buses.; "In a bus network, every station rece…

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Communalism noun · 78% connection

A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederat…

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Concord noun · 78% connection

An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that th…

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Enthymeme noun · 78% connection

An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; a…

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Equatorial noun · 78% connection

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…

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Forestalled imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Forestall

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Forestalling p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection

of Forestall

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Forstall verb · 78% connection

To forestall.

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Gain noun · 78% connection

To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a…

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Give noun · 78% connection

To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.

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Intercept verb · 78% connection

To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a te…

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Intrude verb · 78% connection

To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on fami…

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Intrusive adjective · 78% connection

Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome.

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Licence noun · 78% connection

excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near" - Will Durant; "the intolerable license…

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