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To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Verb group 8

Fix 84% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Fix 84% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Get 84% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Get 84% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Give 84% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Give 84% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Sacrifice 84% connected

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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Sacrifice 84% connected

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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Broader term 26

Abide 76% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

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Be 76% connected

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

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Brook 76% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

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Cerebrate 76% connected

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

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Cogitate 76% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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Communicate 76% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Digest 76% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Earn 76% connected

See Ern, n.

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Endure 76% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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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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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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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Intercommunicate 76% connected

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Realize 76% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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Repay 76% connected

To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.

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Requite 76% connected

To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to p…

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Settle 76% connected

A seat of any kind.

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Stand 76% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Stomach 76% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Think 76% connected

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

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Tolerate 76% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

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Manner of action 34

Bribe 76% connected

A gift begged; a present.

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Buy 76% connected

To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a…

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Compensate 76% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

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Contribute 76% connected

To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) f…

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Corrupt 76% connected

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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Defray 76% connected

To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.

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Disburse 76% connected

To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.

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Drop 76% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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Expend 76% connected

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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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.

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Finance 76% connected

The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available mo…

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Foot 76% connected

The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing,…

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Indemnify 76% connected

To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.

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Liquidate 76% connected

To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to deter…

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Net 76% connected

To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Overpay 76% connected

To pay too much to; to reward too highly.

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Pick 76% connected

To throw; to pitch.

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Prefer 76% connected

To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer…

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Prepay 76% connected

To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.

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Recompense 76% connected

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

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Redeem 76% connected

To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

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Refund 76% connected

To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

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Remit 76% connected

To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

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Remunerate 76% connected

To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor.

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Repair 76% connected

To return.

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Repay 76% connected

To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.

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Return 76% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Spend 76% connected

To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

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Subsidize 76% connected

To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money;…

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Tithe 76% connected

A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy f…

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Underpay 76% connected

To pay inadequately.

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Narrower term 1

Found 76% connected

of Find

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Derivationally related 12

Compensation 74% connected

The act or principle of compensating.

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Compensation 74% connected

The act or principle of compensating.

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Payee 74% connected

The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or direc…

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Payee 74% connected

The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or direc…

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Payer 74% connected

One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

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Payer 74% connected

One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

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Payment 74% connected

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

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Payment 74% connected

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

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Recompense 74% connected

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

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Recompense 74% connected

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

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See also 4

Fund 66% connected

An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

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Fund 66% connected

An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

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Redeem 66% connected

To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

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Redeem 66% connected

To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

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Synonym 9

Bear 92% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Compensate 92% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Devote 92% connected

To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction…

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Earnings 92% connected

of Earning

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Give 92% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Remuneration 92% connected

The act of remunerating.

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Salary 92% connected

Saline

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Wage 92% connected

To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.

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Yield 92% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Antonym 2

Default 94% connected

A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the govern…

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Default 94% connected

A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the govern…

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