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Broader term 13

Course 76% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Crowd 76% connected

To push, to press, to shove.

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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Feed 76% connected

of Fee

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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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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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Rain 76% connected

Reign.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Manner of action 15

Decant 76% connected

To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.

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Dribble 76% connected

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

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Drip 76% connected

To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

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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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Effuse 76% connected

Poured out freely; profuse.

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Gush 76% connected

To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

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Regurgitate 76% connected

To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

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Shed 76% connected

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…

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Sheet 76% connected

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

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Sluice 76% connected

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood ga…

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Spill 76% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Spirt 76% connected

Same as Spurt.

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Spout 76% connected

To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

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Spurt 76% connected

To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.

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Transfuse 76% connected

To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.

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Derivationally related 2

Waterspout 74% connected

A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

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Waterspout 74% connected

A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

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Causes 4

Course 72% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Feed 72% connected

of Fee

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Flow 72% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Run 72% connected

of Run

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Synonym 6

Decant 92% connected

To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.

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Pelt 92% connected

The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pullulate 92% connected

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stream 92% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swarm 92% connected

To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Teem 92% connected

To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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