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To carry or send back.

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Verb group 8

Advert 84% connected

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

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Advert 84% connected

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

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Allude 84% connected

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the…

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Allude 84% connected

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the…

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Denote 84% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Denote 84% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Touch 84% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Touch 84% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Manner of action 42

Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Appeal 76% connected

To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injust…

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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Ask 76% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Belong 76% connected

To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

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Center 76% connected

A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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Centre 76% connected

To be placed in a center; to be central.

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Cite 76% connected

To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.

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Commend 76% connected

To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation.

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Connect 76% connected

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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Convolute 76% connected

Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Euphemize 76% connected

To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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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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Identify 76% connected

To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider…

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Interest 76% connected

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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Invoke 76% connected

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; a…

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Involve 76% connected

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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Join 76% connected

To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

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Link 76% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Name 76% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

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Necessitate 76% connected

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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Need 76% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Pervert 76% connected

To turnanother way; to divert.

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Postulate 76% connected

Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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Quote 76% connected

To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as,…

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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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Recall 76% connected

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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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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Regard 76% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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Remember 76% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

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Require 76% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Return 76% connected

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

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Slur 76% connected

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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Sophisticate 76% connected

To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Submit 76% connected

To let down; to lower.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Twist 76% connected

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

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Unite 76% connected

To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to…

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Broader term 13

Assort 76% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Class 76% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Classify 76% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Intend 76% connected

To stretch' to extend; to distend.

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Mean 76% connected

To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?

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Name 76% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

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Research 76% connected

Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom.

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Send 76% connected

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Signify 76% connected

To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to exp…

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Sort 76% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Derivationally related 8

Consultation 74% connected

The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Consultation 74% connected

The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.

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Extension 74% connected

The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expa…

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Extension 74% connected

The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expa…

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Referee 74% connected

One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

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Referee 74% connected

One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

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Reference 74% connected

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

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Reference 74% connected

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

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See also 2

Look 66% 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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Look 66% 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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Synonym 10

Advert 92% connected

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cite 92% connected

To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Concern 92% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Consult 92% connected

To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Denote 92% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mention 92% connected

A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Name 92% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pertain 92% connected

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Relate 92% connected

To bring back; to restore.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Touch 92% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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