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Repair

To return.

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Verb group 4

Revive 84% connected

To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

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Revive 84% connected

To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 21

Ameliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Amend 76% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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Arouse 76% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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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Brace 76% connected

That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Correct 76% connected

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Country 76% connected

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Energize 76% connected

To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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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Improvement 76% connected

The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Meliorate 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rectify 76% connected

To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Right 76% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Status 76% connected

State; condition; position of affairs.

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Narrower term 7

Care 76% connected

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

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Darning 76% connected

of Darn

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Maintenance 76% connected

The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

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Patching 76% connected

of Patch

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Reconstruction 76% connected

The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.

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Restitution 76% connected

The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.

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Restoration 76% connected

The act of restoring or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reestablishment; as, the restora…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 13

Cobble 76% connected

A fishing boat. See Coble.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Darn 76% connected

To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fiddle 76% connected

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Heel 76% connected

To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

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Patch 76% connected

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Piece 76% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Revamp 76% connected

To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

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Sole 76% connected

Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea v…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tinker 76% connected

A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Vamp 76% connected

To advance; to travel.

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Derivationally related 4

Fix 74% connected

Fixed; solidified.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fix 74% connected

Fixed; solidified.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Resort 74% connected

Active power or movement; spring.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Resort 74% connected

Active power or movement; spring.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 26

Amend 92% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Animate 92% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bushel 92% connected

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Compensate 92% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Doctor 92% connected

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fix 92% connected

Fixed; solidified.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fixing 92% connected

of Fix

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fixture 92% connected

That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Haunt 92% connected

To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Indemnify 92% connected

To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mend 92% connected

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mending 92% connected

of Mend

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Quicken 92% connected

To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reanimate 92% connected

To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recompense 92% connected

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recreate 92% connected

To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rectify 92% connected

To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Remediate 92% connected

Remedial.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Remedy 92% connected

That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for t…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Renovate 92% connected

To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reparation 92% connected

The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, re…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Resort 92% connected

Active power or movement; spring.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Restore 92% connected

To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Revive 92% connected

To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Revivify 92% connected

To cause to revive.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vivify 92% connected

To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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