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Object

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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Narrower term 66

Antipathy 76% connected

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.

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Bugbear 76% connected

Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dan…

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Business 76% connected

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Center 76% connected

A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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Centre 76% connected

To be placed in a center; to be central.

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Charm 76% connected

A melody; a song.

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Commemorative 76% connected

Tending or intended to commemorate.

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Curio 76% connected

Any curiosity or article of virtu.

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Curiosity 76% connected

The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.

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Discard 76% connected

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Earth 76% connected

The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in d…

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Execration 76% connected

The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.

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Filler 76% connected

One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.

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Film 76% connected

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

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Finding 76% connected

of Find

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Floater 76% connected

One who floats or swims.

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Formation 76% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Grail 76% connected

A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.

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Ground 76% connected

of Grind

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Growth 76% connected

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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Hail 76% connected

Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are calle…

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Hallucination 76% connected

The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Hobgoblin 76% connected

A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow.

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Hoodoo 76% connected

One who causes bad luck.

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Ice 76% connected

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, britt…

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Infatuation 76% connected

The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.

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Keepsake 76% connected

Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.

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Land 76% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Location 76% connected

The act or process of locating.

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Lot 76% connected

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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Love 76% connected

A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderne…

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Makeweight 76% connected

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

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Moon 76% connected

The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to…

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Neighbor 76% connected

A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.

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Neighbour 76% connected

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Oddity 76% connected

The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.

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Paring 76% connected

of Pare

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Passion 76% connected

A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ betwee…

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Peculiarity 76% connected

The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Portion 76% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Prop 76% connected

A shell, used as a die. See Props.

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Rarity 76% connected

The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.

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Relic 76% connected

That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant.

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Ribbon 76% connected

A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

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Shiner 76% connected

That which shines.

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Snake 76% connected

Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.

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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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Souvenir 76% connected

That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Thing 76% connected

Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Thread 76% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

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Token 76% connected

Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant est…

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Trifle 76% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

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Triviality 76% connected

The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.

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Unit 76% connected

A single thing or person.

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Vagabond 76% connected

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

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Vehicle 76% connected

That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance;…

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Wall 76% connected

A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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Web 76% connected

A weaver.

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Whole 76% connected

Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar s…

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Manner of action 8

Carp 76% connected

To talk; to speak; to prattle.

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Cavil 76% connected

To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.

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Challenge 76% connected

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…

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Chicane 76% connected

The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; tr…

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Demur 76% connected

To linger; to stay; to tarry.

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Except 76% connected

To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

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Mind 76% connected

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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Remonstrate 76% connected

To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.

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Computing 76% connected

of Compute

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Constituent 76% connected

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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Content 76% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Disapprove 76% connected

To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprov…

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Dislike 76% connected

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Goal 76% connected

The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race…

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Reject 76% connected

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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Objectify 74% connected

To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective.

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Objectify 74% connected

To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective.

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Objection 74% connected

The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.

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Objection 74% connected

The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.

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Objector 74% connected

One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.

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Objector 74% connected

One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.

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Synonym 3

Aim 92% connected

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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Objective 92% connected

Of or pertaining to an object.

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Target 92% connected

A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

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