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A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Actuation 76% connected

A bringing into action; movement.

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Alter 76% connected

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

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Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Assail 76% connected

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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Assault 76% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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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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Climb 76% connected

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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Descent 76% connected

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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Dive 76% connected

To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.

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Drop 76% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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Enter 76% 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…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Increase 76% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Miss 76% connected

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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Mount 76% connected

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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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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Neglect 76% connected

Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to di…

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Omit 76% connected

To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.

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Overleap 76% connected

To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore.

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Overlook 76% connected

To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to…

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Participate 76% connected

Acting in common; participating.

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Plunge 76% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

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Pretermit 76% connected

To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

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Propulsion 76% connected

The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.

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Reflex 76% connected

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

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Rise 76% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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Seem 76% connected

To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be…

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Shift 76% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Switch 76% connected

A small, flexible twig or rod.

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Transition 76% connected

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Vary 76% connected

To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

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Wax 76% connected

To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.

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Boggle 76% connected

To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.

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Bounce 76% connected

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

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Bound 76% connected

of Bind

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Burst 76% connected

of Burst

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Caper 76% connected

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

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Capriole 76% connected

A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.

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Curvet 76% connected

A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, s…

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Hop 76% connected

To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

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Leapfrog 76% connected

A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.

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Overleap 76% connected

To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore.

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Rebound 76% connected

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

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Recoil 76% connected

To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

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Resile 76% connected

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

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Ricochet 76% connected

A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of…

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Saltate 76% connected

To leap or dance.

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Shy 76% connected

Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.

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Skip 76% connected

A basket. See Skep.

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Spring 76% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Vault 76% connected

An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

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Bounce 76% connected

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

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Bound 76% connected

of Bind

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Capriole 76% connected

A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.

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Flinch 76% connected

To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shr…

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Header 76% connected

One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.

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Hop 76% connected

To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

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Hurdle 76% connected

A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gate…

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Leap 76% connected

A basket.

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Leaping 76% connected

of Leap

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Saltation 76% connected

A leaping or jumping.

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Spring 76% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Vault 76% connected

An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

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Wince 76% connected

To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.

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Bounder 74% connected

One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.

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Bounder 74% connected

One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.

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Chute 74% connected

A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a whee…

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Chute 74% connected

A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a whee…

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Leap 74% connected

A basket.

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Leap 74% connected

A basket.

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Parachute 74% connected

A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.

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Parachute 74% connected

A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.

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Causes 3

Leap 72% connected

A basket.

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Spring 72% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Entails 3

Descend 72% connected

To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall;…

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Fall 72% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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Glide 72% connected

The glede or kite.

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Synonym 13

Alternate 92% connected

Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.

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Bound 92% connected

of Bind

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Chute 92% connected

A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a whee…

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Derail 92% connected

To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.

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Jumping 92% connected

of Jump

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Leap 92% connected

A basket.

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Parachute 92% connected

A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.

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Rise 92% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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Saltation 92% connected

A leaping or jumping.

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Skip 92% connected

A basket. See Skep.

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Spring 92% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Start 92% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Startle 92% connected

To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.

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