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Mantrap

A trap for catching trespassers.

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Trap 76% connected

To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Daze 74% connected

To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Daze 74% connected

To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Beauty 92% connected

An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.

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.

Dish 92% connected

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Looker 92% connected

One who looks.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Peach 92% connected

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ravisher 92% connected

One who ravishes (in any sense).

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Smasher 92% connected

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stunner 92% connected

One who, or that which, stuns.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sweetheart 92% connected

A lover of mistress.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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