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Involve

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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Verb group 6

Claim 84% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Claim 84% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Exact 84% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Exact 84% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 16

Absorb 76% connected

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Admit 76% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Complicate 76% connected

Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.

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Concern 76% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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Elaborate 76% connected

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Engage 76% connected

To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Engross 76% connected

To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

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Feature 76% connected

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Include 76% connected

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Occupy 76% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Pertain 76% connected

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Refine 76% connected

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Relate 76% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Touch 76% connected

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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Manner of action 22

Behoove 76% connected

To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

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Behove 76% connected

and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.

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Carry 76% connected

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

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Compel 76% connected

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

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Cost 76% connected

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

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Depend 76% connected

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

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Deserve 76% connected

To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Drag 76% connected

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Embroil 76% connected

To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in diffic…

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Entangle 76% connected

To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exact 76% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Govern 76% connected

To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Implicate 76% connected

To infold; to fold together; to interweave.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Merit 76% connected

The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mire 76% connected

An ant.

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Occupy 76% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Sweep 76% connected

To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sw…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Tangle 76% connected

To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Involvement 74% connected

The act of involving, or the state of being involved.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Involvement 74% connected

The act of involving, or the state of being involved.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Participation 74% connected

The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Participation 74% connected

The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 10

Affect 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ask 92% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Demand 92% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Imply 92% connected

To infold or involve; to wrap up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Necessitate 92% connected

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Need 92% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Postulate 92% connected

Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Regard 92% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Require 92% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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