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Pit

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

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Verb group 6

Mark 84% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Mark 84% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Score 84% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Score 84% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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Blemish 76% connected

To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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Cavity 76% connected

Hollowness.

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Concavity 76% connected

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

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Confront 76% connected

To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.

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Deface 76% connected

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or porti…

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Disfigure 76% connected

To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.

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Enclosure 76% connected

Inclosure. See Inclosure.

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Excavation 76% connected

The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

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Face 76% connected

The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…

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Hole 76% connected

Whole.

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Hollow 76% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Incurvation 76% connected

The act of bending, or curving.

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Pericarp 76% connected

The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Trap 76% connected

To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Manner of action 2

Cicatrize 76% connected

To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.

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Pockmark 76% connected

A mark or pit made by smallpox.

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Narrower term 7

Cockpit 76% connected

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.

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Divot 76% connected

A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel.

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Gehenna 76% connected

The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarde…

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Quicksand 76% connected

Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of…

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Sandpit 76% connected

A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.

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Tartarus 76% connected

The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punish…

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Trou-de-loup 76% connected

A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. T…

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Derivationally related 6

Match 74% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Match 74% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Scrape 74% connected

To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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Scrape 74% connected

To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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Entails 1

Incise 72% connected

To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

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Component part 2

Coalpit 70% connected

A pit where coal is dug.

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Mine 70% connected

See Mien.

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Containing whole 3

House 70% connected

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a d…

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Theater 70% connected

Alt. of Theatre

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Theatre 70% connected

An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in…

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Synonym 14

Cavity 92% connected

Hollowness.

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Colliery 92% connected

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

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Endocarp 92% connected

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

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Fossa 92% connected

A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nost…

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Hell 92% connected

The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.

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Mark 92% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Match 92% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Oppose 92% connected

To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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Perdition 92% connected

Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.

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Pitfall 92% connected

A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind.

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Pock 92% connected

A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.

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Quarry 92% connected

Same as 1st Quarrel.

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Scar 92% connected

A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a pr…

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Stone 92% connected

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded…

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