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Remove

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

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Manner of action 138

Abolish 76% connected

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

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Amputate 76% connected

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

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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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Bail 76% connected

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

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Bench 76% connected

A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

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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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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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Burke 76% connected

To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

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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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Can 76% connected

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

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Cancel 76% connected

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

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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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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Cull 76% connected

To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

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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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Decarbonate 76% connected

To deprive of carbonic acid.

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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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Defibrinate 76% connected

To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

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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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Desulphurize 76% connected

To desulphurate; to deprive of sulphur.

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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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Disarm 76% connected

To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.

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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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Discard 76% connected

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

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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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Disengage 76% connected

To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear;…

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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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Dismiss 76% connected

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

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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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Dispose 76% connected

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

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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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Ditch 76% connected

A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach…

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Divest 76% connected

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

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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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Dump 76% connected

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

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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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Estrange 76% connected

To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

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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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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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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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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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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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Fettle 76% connected

To repair; to prepare; to put in order.

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Flense 76% connected

To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

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Flesh 76% connected

The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

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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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Fling 76% connected

To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.

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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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Gut 76% connected

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

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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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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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Invalid 76% connected

Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.

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Kern 76% connected

A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt.

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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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Muck 76% connected

abbreviation of Amuck.

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Obviate 76% connected

To meet in the way.

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Oust 76% connected

See Oast.

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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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Pith 76% connected

The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consis…

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Pull 76% connected

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

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Ream 76% connected

Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

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Resect 76% connected

To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

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Retire 76% connected

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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Sack 76% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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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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Scum 76% connected

The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; als…

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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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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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Terminate 76% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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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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Toss 76% connected

To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

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Tusk 76% connected

Same as Torsk.

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Unbridle 76% connected

To free from the bridle; to set loose.

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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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Unmuzzle 76% connected

To loose from a muzzle; to remove a muzzle from.

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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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Unseat 76% connected

To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.

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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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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 14

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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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Disappear 76% connected

To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the appr…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Distance 76% connected

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separati…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Make 76% connected

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

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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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Shift 76% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Vanish 76% connected

To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a shi…

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Execution 74% connected

The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Execution 74% connected

The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Remotion 74% connected

The act of removing; removal.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Remotion 74% connected

The act of removing; removal.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Removal 74% connected

The act of removing, or the state of being removed.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Removal 74% connected

The act of removing, or the state of being removed.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Slayer 74% connected

One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.

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Slayer 74% connected

One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.

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Causes 1

Move 72% 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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Synonym 11

Absent 92% connected

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dispatch 92% connected

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hit 92% connected

It.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Murder 92% connected

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Off 92% connected

In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pull 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slay 92% connected

To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Transfer 92% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Waste 92% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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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