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Proceed

To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.

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Verb group 6

Continue 84% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Continue 84% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Preserve 84% connected

To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Preserve 84% connected

To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Uphold 84% connected

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Uphold 84% connected

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hap 76% connected

To clothe; to wrap.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Happen 76% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Occur 76% connected

To meet; to clash.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Speak 76% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Manner of action 20

Come 76% connected

of Come

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Drag 76% connected

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Embark 76% connected

To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Endure 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fare 76% connected

To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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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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Jog 76% connected

To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn.

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Last 76% connected

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

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Limp 76% connected

To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.

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Live 76% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Ramble 76% connected

To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ra…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Roar 76% connected

To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.

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Survive 76% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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Trace 76% connected

One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be draw…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Venture 76% connected

An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wander 76% connected

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fi…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Derivationally related 2

Continuation 74% connected

That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Continuation 74% connected

That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Continue 92% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Go 92% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Keep 92% connected

To care; to desire.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Move 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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