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Lard

Bacon; the flesh of swine.

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Amplify 76% connected

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

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Cook 76% connected

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

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Exaggerate 76% connected

To heap up; to accumulate.

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Hyperbolize 76% connected

To speak or write with exaggeration.

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Magnify 76% connected

To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the o…

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Make 76% connected

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

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Overdraw 76% connected

To exaggerate; to overdo.

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Overstate 76% connected

To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate.

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Prepare 76% connected

To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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Ready 76% connected

Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement o…

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Manner of action 1

Glorify 76% connected

To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory.

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Containing substance 4

Grunter 70% connected

One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog.

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Hog 70% connected

A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respec…

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Pig 70% connected

A piggin.

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Squealer 70% connected

One who, or that which, squeals.

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Synonym 5

Aggrandize 92% connected

To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dramatize 92% connected

To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Embellish 92% connected

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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Embroider 92% connected

To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pad 92% connected

A footpath; a road.

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