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Obtain

To hold; to keep; to possess.

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Verb group 4

Acquire 84% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Acquire 84% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Get 84% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Get 84% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Broader term 5

Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Manner of action 20

Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bum 76% connected

The buttock.

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Cadge 76% connected

To carry, as a burden.

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Derive 76% connected

To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into…

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Excavate 76% connected

To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Extort 76% connected

To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away…

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Extract 76% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Gain 76% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Grab 76% connected

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

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Grub 76% connected

To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

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Kite 76% connected

Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.

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Procure 76% connected

To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Secure 76% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Shop 76% connected

imp. of Shape. Shaped.

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Snag 76% connected

A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.

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Source 76% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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Sponge 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Win 76% connected

To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to w…

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Derivationally related 4

Obtainable 74% connected

Capable of being obtained.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Obtainable 74% connected

Capable of being obtained.

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Obtainment 74% connected

The act or process of obtaining; attainment.

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Obtainment 74% connected

The act or process of obtaining; attainment.

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Synonym 6

Find 92% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Get 92% connected

Jet, the mineral.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hold 92% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Incur 92% connected

To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prevail 92% connected

To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Receive 92% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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