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Overstrain

To strain one's self to excess.

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Extend 76% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Strain 76% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Light noun · 85% connection

(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window"

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Stress noun · 85% connection

(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of a…

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Visible light noun · 85% connection

(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window"

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Visible radiation noun · 85% connection

(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window"

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Meteor noun · 85% connection

a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid…

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Shooting star noun · 85% connection

a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid…

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Sun noun · 85% connection

the rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind"

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Sunlight noun · 85% connection

the rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind"

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Sunshine noun · 85% connection

the rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind"

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Twilight noun · 85% connection

the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

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Aureole noun · 84% connection

the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse

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Corona noun · 84% connection

an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere

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Corposant noun · 84% connection

an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere

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Flake noun · 84% connection

a crystal of snow

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Snowflake noun · 84% connection

a crystal of snow

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Avalanche noun · 78% connection

a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain

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Crack noun · 78% connection

a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive

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Crack cocaine noun · 78% connection

a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive

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Abandon verb · 78% connection

Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.

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Absolute adjective · 78% connection

Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.

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Abstinence noun · 78% connection

The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.

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Amour propre unknown · 78% connection

Self-love; self-esteem.

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Ascetic noun · 78% connection

In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and…

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Auto- unknown · 78% connection

A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.

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Automatical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; --…

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Autonomy noun · 78% connection

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

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Autotheism noun · 78% connection

Deification of one's self; self-worship.

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Bilious adjective · 78% connection

Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an exces…

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Bissextile noun · 78% connection

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5…

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Boast verb · 78% connection

To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belong…

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Brag verb · 78% connection

To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boas…

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