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Mash

A mesh.

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Broader term 7

Feed 76% connected

of Fee

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Fragment 76% connected

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

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Press 76% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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Provender 76% connected

Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.

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Speak 76% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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Suspension 76% connected

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Manner of action 9

Mill 76% connected

A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

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Pestle 76% connected

An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.

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Pulp 76% connected

A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter.

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Stamp 76% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Telescope 76% connected

An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

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Tread 76% connected

To set the foot; to step.

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Vamp 76% connected

To advance; to travel.

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Wanton 76% connected

Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.

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Wring 76% connected

To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.

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Scratch 76% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Derivationally related 10

Comminute 74% connected

To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the…

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Comminute 74% connected

To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the…

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Crush 74% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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Crush 74% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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Romance 74% connected

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…

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Romance 74% connected

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…

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Squeeze 74% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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Squeeze 74% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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Squeezer 74% connected

One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer.

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Squeezer 74% connected

One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer.

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Synonym 15

Bray 92% connected

To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.

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Butterfly 92% connected

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Comminute 92% connected

To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Coquet 92% connected

To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.

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Coquette 92% connected

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

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Crunch 92% connected

To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Crush 92% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dally 92% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flirt 92% connected

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Grind 92% connected

To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Philander 92% connected

To make love to women; to play the male flirt.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Romance 92% connected

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squash 92% connected

An American animal allied to the weasel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squeeze 92% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squelch 92% connected

To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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