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Pull

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

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Verb group 8

Curl 84% connected

To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

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Curl 84% connected

To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

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Draw 84% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Draw 84% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Extract 84% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Extract 84% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Retract 84% connected

To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.

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Retract 84% connected

To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.

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Abduct 76% connected

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

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Adduct 76% connected

To draw towards a common center or a middle line.

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Amputate 76% connected

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

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Arrest 76% connected

To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.

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Aspirate 76% connected

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

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Attract 76% connected

To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.

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Bail 76% connected

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

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Bone 76% connected

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, bl…

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Bring 76% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Brush 76% connected

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purpos…

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Bur 76% connected

Alt. of Burr

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Burl 76% connected

To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.

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Burr 76% connected

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also,…

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Cancel 76% connected

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

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Cart 76% connected

A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Circumcise 76% connected

To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

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Clean 76% connected

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Condense 76% connected

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

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Cream 76% connected

The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from w…

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Crumb 76% connected

A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

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Decalcify 76% connected

To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

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Decarbonize 76% connected

To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood.

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Decarburize 76% connected

To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

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Decorticate 76% connected

To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.

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Defuse 76% connected

To disorder; to make shapeless.

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Dehorn 76% connected

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.

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Delete 76% connected

To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

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Delve 76% connected

To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.

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Depilate 76% connected

To strip of hair; to husk.

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Dig 76% connected

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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Disburden 76% connected

To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.

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Discase 76% connected

To strip; to undress.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Disembowel 76% connected

To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.

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Dislodge 76% connected

To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislo…

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Dismantle 76% connected

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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Disrobe 76% connected

To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of…

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Divest 76% connected

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

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Drag 76% connected

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Dredge 76% connected

Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iro…

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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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Eliminate 76% connected

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

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Empty 76% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Enucleate 76% connected

To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.

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Eviscerate 76% connected

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

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Excavate 76% connected

To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

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Exenterate 76% connected

To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes.

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Expectorate 76% connected

To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

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Extirpate 76% connected

To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumo…

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Extract 76% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Fan 76% connected

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

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Flick 76% connected

To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.

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Free 76% connected

Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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Gather 76% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Gut 76% connected

A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

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Hale 76% connected

Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.

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Harvest 76% connected

The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

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Haul 76% connected

To pull or draw with force; to drag.

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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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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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Hull 76% connected

The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

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Husk 76% connected

The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears…

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Jerk 76% connected

To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.

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Lade 76% connected

To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.

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Laden 76% connected

Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.

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Ladle 76% connected

A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.

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Leach 76% connected

See 3d Leech.

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Muck 76% connected

abbreviation of Amuck.

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Peel 76% connected

A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

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Pick 76% connected

To throw; to pitch.

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Pit 76% connected

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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Pluck 76% connected

To pull; to draw.

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Ream 76% connected

Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

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Recommit 76% connected

To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

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Resect 76% connected

To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

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Retract 76% connected

To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.

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Scale 76% connected

The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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Scalp 76% connected

A bed of oysters or mussels.

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Scavenge 76% connected

To cleanse, as streets, from filth.

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Scoop 76% connected

A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

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Seed 76% connected

of Seed

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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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Shell 76% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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Shuck 76% connected

A shock of grain.

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Skim 76% connected

To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; t…

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Spoon 76% connected

See Spoom.

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Stem 76% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Stone 76% 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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Stretch 76% connected

To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

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String 76% connected

A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larg…

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Strip 76% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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Suction 76% connected

The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.

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Thread 76% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Tip 76% connected

The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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Tug 76% connected

To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.

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Tusk 76% connected

Same as Torsk.

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Tweak 76% connected

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.

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Twist 76% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Twitch 76% connected

To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand;…

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Unburden 76% connected

To relieve from a burden.

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Uncase 76% connected

To take out of a case or covering; to remove a case or covering from; to uncover.

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Unclothe 76% connected

To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.

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Undock 76% connected

To take out of dock; as, to undock a ship.

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Undress 76% connected

To divest of clothes; to strip.

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Unfriend 76% connected

One not a friend; an enemy.

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Unhinge 76% connected

To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.

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Unpack 76% connected

To separate and remove, as things packed; to open and remove the contents of; as, to unpack a trunk.

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Unsaddle 76% connected

To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.

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Unsheathe 76% connected

To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword.

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Unstring 76% connected

To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.

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Unveil 76% connected

To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

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Wash 76% connected

To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…

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Weed 76% connected

A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

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Winch 76% connected

To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.

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Winnow 76% connected

To separate chaff from grain.

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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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Wrench 76% connected

Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

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Yank 76% connected

A jerk or twitch.

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Broader term 37

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.

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Actuation 76% connected

A bringing into action; movement.

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Advantage 76% connected

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantag…

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Aspiration 76% connected

The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.

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Bust 76% connected

A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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Device 76% connected

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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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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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Drive 76% connected

To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

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Effort 76% connected

An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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Exertion 76% connected

The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort…

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Force 76% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Harm 76% connected

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Hurt 76% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Inhalation 76% connected

The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.

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Injure 76% connected

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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Injury 76% connected

Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…

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Inspiration 76% connected

The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the ches…

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Intake 76% connected

The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

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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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Propulsion 76% connected

The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.

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Rein 76% connected

The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.

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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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Row 76% connected

Rough; stern; angry.

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Rupture 76% connected

The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…

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Side 76% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Strip 76% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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Sweat 76% connected

of Sweat

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Tear 76% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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trauma 76% connected

Serious emotional harm caused by a distressing event.

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Travail 76% connected

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

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Vantage 76% connected

superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.

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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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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Narrower term 14

Draft 76% connected

Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.

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Drag 76% connected

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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Draught 76% connected

The act of drawing or pulling

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Drawing 76% connected

of Draw

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Excision 76% connected

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

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Extirpation 76% connected

The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from…

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Haul 76% connected

To pull or draw with force; to drag.

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Haulage 76% connected

Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.

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Jerk 76% connected

To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.

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Pluck 76% connected

To pull; to draw.

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Sprain 76% connected

To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without lux…

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Traction 76% connected

The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.

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Tug 76% connected

To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.

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Derivationally related 10

Draw 74% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Draw 74% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Puller 74% connected

One who, or that which, pulls.

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Puller 74% connected

One who, or that which, pulls.

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Withdrawal 74% connected

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

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Withdrawal 74% connected

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

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Containing whole 2

Smoke 70% connected

The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal,…

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Smoking 70% connected

of Smoke

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Synonym 22

Attract 92% connected

To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.

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Clout 92% connected

A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

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Commit 92% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Deplumate 92% connected

Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

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Deplume 92% connected

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

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Displume 92% connected

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

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Drag 92% connected

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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Draw 92% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Extract 92% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Perpetrate 92% connected

To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a fou…

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Pluck 92% connected

To pull; to draw.

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Puff 92% connected

A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pulling 92% connected

of Pull

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Remove 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rend 92% connected

To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oa…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rip 92% connected

A wicker fish basket.

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Rive 92% connected

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

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Tear 92% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Twist 92% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Withdraw 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wrench 92% connected

Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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