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Pioneer

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

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Manner of action 21

Activate 76% connected

To make active.

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Actuate 76% connected

To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.

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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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Attempt 76% connected

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

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Constitute 76% connected

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

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Devise 76% 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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Establish 76% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Found 76% connected

of Find

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Innovate 76% connected

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act.

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Institute 76% connected

Established; organized; founded.

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Introduce 76% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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Machinate 76% 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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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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Organize 76% connected

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;…

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Plant 76% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Prepare 76% 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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Spark 76% connected

A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.

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Stage 76% connected

A floor or story of a house.

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Trigger 76% connected

A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

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Trip 76% connected

To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.

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Undertake 76% connected

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

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Narrower term 1

Backwoodsman 76% connected

A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States.

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Broader term 9

Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Colonist 76% connected

A member or inhabitant of a colony.

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Conceiver 76% connected

One who conceives.

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Explore 76% connected

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

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Innovate 76% connected

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act.

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Introduce 76% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Originator 76% connected

One who originates.

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Settler 76% connected

One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.

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See also 2

Open 66% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

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Open 66% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

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Synonym 2

Initiate 92% 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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Innovator 92% connected

One who innovates.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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