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Load

A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

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Verb group 4

Extend 84% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Extend 84% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Stretch 84% connected

To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

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Stretch 84% connected

To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

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Narrower term 7

Burthen 76% connected

See Burden.

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Fardel 76% connected

A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden.

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Imposition 76% connected

The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

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Millstone 76% connected

One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

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Overburden 76% connected

To load with too great weight or too much care, etc.

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Overload 76% connected

To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.

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Pill 76% connected

The peel or skin.

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Broader term 21

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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Corrupt 76% connected

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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Deposit 76% connected

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich al…

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Explosive 76% connected

Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Headache 76% connected

Pain in the head; cephalalgia.

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Lay 76% connected

of Lie, to recline.

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Merchandise 76% connected

The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Pose 76% connected

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Product 76% connected

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the product…

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Sedimentation 76% connected

The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Spoil 76% connected

To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Vexation 76% connected

The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

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Ware 76% connected

Wore.

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Weight 76% connected

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially wh…

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Worry 76% connected

To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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Manner of action 9

Doctor 76% connected

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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Overcharge 76% connected

To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.

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Overload 76% connected

To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.

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Pack 76% connected

A pact.

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Recharge 76% connected

To charge or accuse in return.

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Reload 76% connected

To load again, as a gun.

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Sophisticate 76% connected

To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.

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Stack 76% connected

A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a poi…

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Surcharge 76% connected

To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.

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Derivationally related 10

Adulterant 74% connected

That which is used to adulterate anything.

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Adulterant 74% connected

That which is used to adulterate anything.

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Adulterator 74% connected

One who adulterates or corrupts.

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Adulterator 74% connected

One who adulterates or corrupts.

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Burden 74% connected

That which is borne or carried; a load.

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Burden 74% connected

That which is borne or carried; a load.

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Synonym 18

Adulterate 92% connected

To defile by adultery.

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Burden 92% connected

That which is borne or carried; a load.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cargo 92% connected

The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Charge 92% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Consignment 92% connected

The act of consigning; consignation.

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Debase 92% connected

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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Dilute 92% connected

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

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Encumbrance 92% connected

That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.

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Freight 92% connected

That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of…

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Incumbrance 92% connected

A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check.

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Lade 92% connected

To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.

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Laden 92% connected

Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lading 92% connected

of Lade

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Loading 92% connected

of Load

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Lode 92% connected

A water course or way; a reach of water.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Onus 92% connected

A burden; an obligation.

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Shipment 92% connected

The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

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Stretch 92% connected

To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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