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Litter

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Birth 76% connected

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Conveyance 76% connected

The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.

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Deliver 76% connected

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Rubbish 76% connected

Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scrap 76% connected

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Straw 76% connected

To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.

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Strew 76% connected

To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to str…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Transport 76% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Trash 76% connected

That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

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Narrower term 3

Palanquin 76% connected

An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two pro…

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Sedan 76% connected

A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stretcher 76% connected

One who, or that which, stretches.

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Synonym 1

Bedding 92% connected

of Bed

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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