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Loaf

Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.

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Bread 76% connected

To spread.

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Breadstuff 76% connected

Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.

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Idle 76% connected

Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.

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Laze 76% connected

To be lazy or idle.

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Slug 76% connected

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

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Stagnate 76% connected

To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnat…

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Wait 76% connected

To watch; to observe; to take notice.

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Narrower term 1

Haslet 76% connected

The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog.

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Lurch 76% connected

To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.

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Prowl 76% connected

To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty.

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Component part 1

Heel 70% connected

To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

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Synonym 8

Bum 92% connected

The buttock.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Linger 92% connected

To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Loiter 92% connected

To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Loll 92% connected

To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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lollygag 92% connected

To spend time aimlessly or lazily

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lounge 92% connected

To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lurk 92% connected

To lie hid; to lie in wait.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tarry 92% connected

Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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