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Organize

To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.

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Arrange 76% connected

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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Care 76% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Initiate 76% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Join 76% connected

To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Manage 76% connected

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

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Pioneer 76% connected

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Manner of action 18

Arrange 76% connected

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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Embattle 76% connected

To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Interlock 76% connected

To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.

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Lay 76% connected

of Lie, to recline.

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Mesh 76% connected

The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.

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Mount 76% connected

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Rationalize 76% connected

To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

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Regiment 76% connected

Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.

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Reorganize 76% connected

To organize again or anew; as, to reorganize a society or an army.

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Sandwich 76% connected

Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.

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Settle 76% connected

A seat of any kind.

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Spatchcock 76% connected

See Spitchcock.

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Syndicate 76% connected

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

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Territorialize 76% connected

To enlarge by extension of territory.

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Contriver 74% connected

One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.

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Contriver 74% connected

One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.

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Orchestration 74% connected

The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

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Orchestration 74% connected

The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

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Organization 74% connected

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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Organization 74% connected

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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Synonym 7

Coordinate 92% connected

Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.

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Devise 92% connected

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

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Direct 92% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Engineer 92% connected

A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

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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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Machinate 92% connected

To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.

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Prepare 92% connected

To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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Disorganize 94% connected

To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter…

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Disorganize 94% connected

To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter…

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