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Pertain

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.

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Verb group 6

Advert 84% connected

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

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Advert 84% connected

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

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Allude 84% connected

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the…

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Allude 84% connected

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Touch 84% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Touch 84% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 21

Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ask 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Be 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Belong 76% connected

To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

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Center 76% connected

A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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Centre 76% connected

To be placed in a center; to be central.

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Connect 76% connected

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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Demand 76% connected

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;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hold 76% connected

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

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Interest 76% connected

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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Involve 76% connected

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

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Link 76% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Necessitate 76% connected

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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Need 76% connected

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

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Postulate 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Regard 76% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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Require 76% connected

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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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Unite 76% connected

To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 1

Belong 76% connected

To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Appurtenant 74% connected

Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Appurtenant 74% connected

Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Supplement 74% connected

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Supplement 74% connected

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Appertain 92% connected

To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Concern 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Refer 92% connected

To carry or send back.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Relate 92% connected

To bring back; to restore.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Touch 92% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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