Occupy: alternatives and connections

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

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To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Taken.

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Taken.

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To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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

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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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To delay; to linger.

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To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Populous.

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Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Taken.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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

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

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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

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To push, to press, to shove.

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To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

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See Intrench.

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To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

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Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.

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To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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of Overrun

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One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.

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One who puts or plates.

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A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…

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To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter.

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The angel fish (Squatina angelus).

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Flax; linen.

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Flax; linen.

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The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use;…

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The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use;…

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One who occupies, or has possession.

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One who occupies, or has possession.

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To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.

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Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a…

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To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

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One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.

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To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain…

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Taken.

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To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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