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Mould

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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Verb group 4

Process 84% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Process 84% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Work 84% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Work 84% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Adhere 76% connected

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Cleave 76% connected

To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.

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Cling 76% connected

To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually foll…

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Cohere 76% connected

To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.

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Container 76% connected

One who, or that which, contains.

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Dessert 76% connected

A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

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Dirt 76% connected

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of di…

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Dish 76% connected

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

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Earmark 76% connected

A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

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Forge 76% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Fungus 76% connected

Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools,…

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Mold 76% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Sculpture 76% connected

The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, t…

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Shape 76% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Soil 76% connected

To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…

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Solid 76% connected

Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard…

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Spoiling 76% connected

of Spoil

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Stick 76% connected

A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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Sweet 76% connected

Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet orang…

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Manner of action 37

Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Carve 76% connected

To cut.

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Chip 76% connected

To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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Coil 76% connected

To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

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Decide 76% connected

To cut off; to separate.

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Disincline 76% connected

To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.

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Dispose 76% connected

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

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Grind 76% 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.

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Hill 76% connected

A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.

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Incline 76% connected

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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Index 76% connected

That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

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Indispose 76% connected

To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.

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Layer 76% connected

One who, or that which, lays.

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Machine 76% connected

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmi…

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Miscreate 76% connected

Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles.

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Model 76% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Mold 76% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Mound 76% connected

A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmount…

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Pace 76% connected

A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

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Predetermine 76% connected

To determine (something) beforehand.

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Preform 76% connected

To form beforehand, or for special ends.

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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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Puddle 76% connected

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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Recast 76% connected

To throw again.

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Remold 76% connected

Alt. of Remould

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Remould 76% connected

To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.

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Reshape 76% connected

To shape again.

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Roughcast 76% connected

To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.

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Sculpture 76% connected

The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, t…

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Sinter 76% connected

Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.

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Smut 76% connected

Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such 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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Swage 76% connected

See Assuage.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Time 76% connected

Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Narrower term 4

form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Matrix 76% connected

The womb.

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Mucor 76% connected

A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.

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Pig 76% connected

A piggin.

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Cast 74% connected

of Cast

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Cast 74% connected

of Cast

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Embodiment 74% connected

The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.

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Embodiment 74% connected

The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.

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Model 74% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Model 74% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Mold 74% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Mold 74% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Mouldy 74% connected

Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.

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Mouldy 74% connected

Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.

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Pattern 74% connected

Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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Pattern 74% connected

Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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Shaper 74% connected

One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.

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Shaper 74% connected

One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.

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Shaping 74% connected

of Shape

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Shaping 74% connected

of Shape

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Synonym 16

Cast 92% connected

of Cast

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Determine 92% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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Forge 92% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

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form 92% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Influence 92% connected

A flowing in or upon; influx.

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Mildew 92% connected

A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

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Model 92% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Modeling 92% connected

of Model

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Modelling 92% connected

of Model

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Mold 92% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Molding 92% connected

of Mould

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Moulding 92% connected

of Mould

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Regulate 92% connected

To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

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Shape 92% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Stamp 92% connected

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

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Work 92% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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