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Salvage

The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

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Collect 76% connected

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Commodity 76% connected

Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.

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Deliver 76% connected

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deliverance 76% connected

The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.

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Delivery 76% connected

The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

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Garner 76% connected

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

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Gather 76% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Good 76% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Holding 76% connected

of Hold

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Rescue 76% connected

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure…

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Saving 76% connected

of Save

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Relieve 74% connected

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Relieve 74% connected

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Salve 74% connected

Hail!

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Salve 74% connected

Hail!

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Synonym 4

Relieve 92% connected

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Salve 92% connected

Hail!

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Save 92% connected

The herb sage, or salvia.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scavenge 92% connected

To cleanse, as streets, from filth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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