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Puddle

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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Verb group 8

Defecate 84% connected

Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

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Defecate 84% connected

Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

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Make 84% connected

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

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Make 84% connected

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

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Stool 84% connected

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

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Stool 84% connected

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

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Urinate 84% connected

To discharge urine; to make water.

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Urinate 84% connected

To discharge urine; to make water.

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Broader term 33

Bundle 76% connected

A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; a…

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Compact 76% connected

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

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Confuse 76% connected

Mixed; confounded.

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Egest 76% connected

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin,…

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Excrete 76% connected

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

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Forge 76% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Jumble 76% connected

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

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Mold 76% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Monkey 76% connected

In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

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Mould 76% connected

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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Pack 76% connected

A pact.

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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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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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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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Plash 76% connected

A small pool of standing water; a puddle.

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Potter 76% connected

One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.

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Putter 76% connected

One who puts or plates.

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Rile 76% connected

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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Roil 76% connected

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Shape 76% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Spatter 76% connected

To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat;…

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Splash 76% connected

To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

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Splatter 76% connected

To spatter; to splash.

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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Swash 76% connected

An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

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Tinker 76% connected

A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.

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Wad 76% connected

Woad.

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Wade 76% connected

Woad.

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Water 76% connected

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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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

Stale 76% connected

The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.

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Wet 76% connected

Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet…

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Derivationally related 2

Puddler 74% connected

One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.

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Puddler 74% connected

One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.

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Synonym 9

Addle 92% connected

Liquid filth; mire.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Make 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Muddle 92% connected

To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pee 92% connected

See 1st Pea.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Piddle 92% connected

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Piss 92% connected

To discharge urine, to urinate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pool 92% connected

A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for wat…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Urinate 92% connected

To discharge urine; to make water.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wee 92% connected

A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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