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To cover again.

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Verb group 6

Find 84% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Find 84% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Recuperate 84% connected

To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Recuperate 84% connected

To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Regain 84% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Regain 84% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 5

Access 76% connected

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Percolate 76% connected

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Perk 76% connected

To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rally 76% connected

To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

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Rebound 76% connected

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

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Broader term 11

Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ameliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Better 76% connected

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Improve 76% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Meliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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Regress 76% connected

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Retrovert 76% connected

To turn back.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Return 76% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Revert 76% connected

To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 2

Recuperation 74% connected

Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Recuperation 74% connected

Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entails 2

Preserve 72% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Save 72% connected

The herb sage, or salvia.

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Synonym 7

Convalesce 92% connected

To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Find 92% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reclaim 92% connected

To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recoup 92% connected

Alt. of Recoupe

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recuperate 92% connected

To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Regain 92% connected

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Retrieve 92% connected

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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