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Sap

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

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Narrower term 11

Ass 76% connected

A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is pat…

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Buffoon 76% connected

A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.

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Clown 76% connected

A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.

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Cuckoo 76% connected

A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

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Fathead 76% connected

A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.

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goofball 76% connected

A silly or foolish person

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Goose 76% connected

Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.

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Jackass 76% connected

The male ass; a donkey.

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Manna 76% connected

The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.

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Zany 76% connected

A merry-andrew; a buffoon.

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Bludgeon 76% connected

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

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Cave 76% connected

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Deplete 76% connected

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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Eat 76% connected

of Eat

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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Expend 76% connected

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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Simple 76% connected

Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance;…

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Simpleton 76% connected

A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

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Solution 76% connected

The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.

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Undermine 76% connected

To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to u…

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Use 76% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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Sapper 74% connected

One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

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Sapper 74% connected

One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

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Sappy 74% connected

Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.

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Sappy 74% connected

Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.

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Synonym 6

Blackjack 92% connected

exert pressure on someone through threats

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Exhaust 92% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Fool 92% connected

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.

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Saphead 92% connected

A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop.

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Tire 92% connected

A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

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Tomfool 92% connected

A great fool; a trifler.

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