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Rear

Early; soon.

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Back 84% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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Back 84% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 16

Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Build 76% connected

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

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Care 76% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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Construct 76% connected

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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Elevate 76% connected

Elevated; raised aloft.

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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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Formation 76% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Make 76% connected

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

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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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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Seem 76% connected

To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be…

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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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Straighten 76% connected

To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

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Manner of action 11

Bristle 76% connected

A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

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Cradle 76% connected

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in t…

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Fledge 76% connected

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

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Foster 76% connected

To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

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Hulk 76% connected

The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.

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Loom 76% connected

See Loon, the bird.

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Pitch 76% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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Predominate 76% connected

To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, lo…

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Prick 76% connected

That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

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Tower 76% connected

A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

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Uprise 76% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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Narrower term 8

Nape 76% connected

The back part of the neck.

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Nucha 76% connected

The back or upper part of the neck; the nape.

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Poop 76% connected

See 2d Poppy.

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Quarter 76% connected

One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, o…

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Rearward 76% connected

The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively.

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Scruff 76% connected

Scurf.

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Stern 76% connected

The black tern.

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Tail 76% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

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Derivationally related 4

Back 74% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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Back 74% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Erection 74% connected

The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act…

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Erection 74% connected

The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act…

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Containing whole 3

Body 70% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Torso 70% connected

The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

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Trunk 70% connected

The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

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See also 2

Bring 66% 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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Bring 66% 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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Synonym 24

Arse 92% connected

The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

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Ass 92% connected

A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is pat…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Back 92% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Backside 92% connected

The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

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Behind 92% connected

On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.

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Bottom 92% connected

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

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Bum 92% connected

The buttock.

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Butt 92% connected

Alt. of But

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Can 92% connected

an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]

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Erect 92% connected

Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.

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Fundament 92% connected

Foundation.

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Lift 92% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Nates 92% connected

The buttocks.

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Nurture 92% connected

The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.

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Parent 92% connected

One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.

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Posterior 92% connected

Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Raise 92% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rearward 92% connected

The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rise 92% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rump 92% connected

The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Seat 92% connected

The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

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Stern 92% connected

The black tern.

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Tail 92% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

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Tush 92% connected

An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it.

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Antonym 4

Head 94% 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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Head 94% 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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Raze 94% connected

A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

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Raze 94% connected

A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

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