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Leap

A basket.

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Manner of action 18

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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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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Narrower term 4

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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Elevation 76% connected

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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Pounce 76% connected

A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.

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Broader term 15

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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Distance 76% connected

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separati…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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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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Jump 76% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Jumping 76% connected

of Jump

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Make 76% connected

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

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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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Shift 76% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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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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Derivationally related 8

Bound 74% connected

of Bind

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Bound 74% connected

of Bind

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Jump 74% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Jump 74% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Spring 74% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Spring 74% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Causes 3

Jump 72% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Spring 72% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Synonym 6

Bounce 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bound 92% connected

of Bind

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Jump 92% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Leaping 92% connected

of Leap

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Saltation 92% connected

A leaping or jumping.

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Spring 92% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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