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Manner of action 27

Abstract 76% connected

Withdraw; separate.

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Bag 76% connected

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

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Cabbage 76% connected

An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The caul…

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Cop 76% connected

The top of a thing; the head; a crest.

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Defalcate 76% connected

To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.

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Embezzle 76% connected

To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezz…

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Filch 76% connected

To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.

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Hook 76% connected

A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for c…

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Hustle 76% connected

To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Loot 76% connected

The act of plundering.

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Misappropriate 76% connected

To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.

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Peculate 76% connected

To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.

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Pilfer 76% connected

To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.

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Pinch 76% connected

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as be…

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Pirate 76% connected

A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to crui…

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Plagiarize 76% connected

To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

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Pluck 76% connected

To pull; to draw.

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Plunder 76% connected

To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.

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Pocket 76% connected

A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

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Purloin 76% connected

To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch.

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Rob 76% connected

The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mi…

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Roll 76% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Rustle 76% connected

To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.

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Sneak 76% connected

To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.

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Swipe 76% connected

A swape or sweep. See Sweep.

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Thieve 76% connected

To practice theft; to steal.

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Assail 76% connected

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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Assault 76% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Buck 76% connected

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

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Bust 76% connected

A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Debauchee 76% connected

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

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Gap 76% connected

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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Libertine 76% connected

A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Round 76% connected

To whisper.

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Rounder 76% connected

One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.

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Rupture 76% connected

The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…

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Shoot 76% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Snipe 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Tear 76% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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Turbulence 76% connected

The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation.

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Turbulency 76% connected

Turbulence.

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Derivationally related 6

Rive 74% connected

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

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Rive 74% connected

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

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Theft 74% connected

The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same;…

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Theft 74% connected

The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same;…

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Thief 74% connected

One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.

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Thief 74% connected

One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.

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Synonym 14

Blood 92% connected

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste produc…

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Countercurrent 92% connected

Running in an opposite direction.

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Profligate 92% connected

Overthrown; beaten; conquered.

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Pull 92% connected

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

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Rake 92% connected

An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which…

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Rakehell 92% connected

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.

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Rend 92% connected

To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oa…

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Rent 92% connected

of Rend

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Rive 92% connected

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

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Roue 92% connected

One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

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Snag 92% connected

A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.

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Split 92% connected

of Split

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Steal 92% connected

A handle; a stale, or stele.

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Tear 92% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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