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Introduce

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

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Verb group 4

Familiarize 84% 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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Familiarize 84% 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…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 24

Acquaint 76% connected

Acquainted.

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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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Attach 76% connected

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

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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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Commence 76% connected

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

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Establish 76% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Initiate 76% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Lay 76% connected

of Lie, to recline.

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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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Pioneer 76% connected

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Pose 76% connected

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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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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Project 76% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Propose 76% connected

To set forth.

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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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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Manner of action 34

Catheterize 76% connected

To operate on with a catheter.

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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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Cup 76% connected

A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, c…

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Debut 76% connected

A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

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Embed 76% connected

To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

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Engraft 76% connected

See Ingraft.

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Feed 76% connected

of Fee

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Foist 76% connected

A light and fast-sailing ship.

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Glass 76% connected

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or…

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Graft 76% connected

A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but th…

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Imbed 76% connected

To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

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Immigrate 76% connected

To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.

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Implant 76% connected

To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the princ…

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Inject 76% connected

To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject mo…

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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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Inset 76% connected

To infix.

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Insinuate 76% connected

To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.

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Instill 76% connected

To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed.

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Interlard 76% connected

To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean.

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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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Intersperse 76% connected

To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book.

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Penetrate 76% connected

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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Pioneer 76% connected

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

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Plant 76% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Plug 76% connected

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

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Preamble 76% connected

A introductory portion; an introduction or preface, as to a book, document, etc.; specifically, the introductory part of a statute, which states the…

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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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Prologize 76% connected

To deliver a Prologue.

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Reintroduce 76% connected

To introduce again.

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Sandwich 76% connected

Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.

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Shoot 76% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Slip 76% connected

To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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Track 76% connected

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

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Transplant 76% connected

To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.

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Derivationally related 10

Acquaintance 74% connected

A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Acquaintance 74% connected

A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Innovator 74% connected

One who innovates.

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Innovator 74% connected

One who innovates.

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Introduction 74% connected

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

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Introduction 74% connected

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

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Invention 74% connected

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention…

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Invention 74% connected

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Origination 74% connected

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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Origination 74% connected

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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Synonym 12

Acquaint 92% connected

Acquainted.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Enclose 92% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Enter 92% connected

To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Inaugurate 92% connected

Invested with office; inaugurated.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Inclose 92% connected

To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Infix 92% connected

To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Innovate 92% connected

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Insert 92% connected

To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Precede 92% connected

To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Preface 92% connected

Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary re…

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Premise 92% connected

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Present 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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