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Self.

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Verb group 6

Betray 84% connected

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…

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Betray 84% connected

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Deal 84% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Deal 84% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Trade 84% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Trade 84% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Manner of action 30

Auction 76% connected

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

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Auctioneer 76% connected

A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

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Bring 76% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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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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Dump 76% connected

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

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Fetch 76% connected

To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.

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Hawk 76% connected

One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and…

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Huckster 76% connected

A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.

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Market 76% connected

A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and…

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Monger 76% connected

A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.

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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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Peddle 76% connected

To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a l…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pitch 76% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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Prostitute 76% connected

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.

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Push 76% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

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Pyramid 76% connected

A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this s…

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Realize 76% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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Remainder 76% connected

Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.

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Resell 76% connected

To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.

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Retail 76% connected

The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.

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Sacrifice 76% connected

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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Scalp 76% connected

A bed of oysters or mussels.

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Syndicate 76% connected

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

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Trade 76% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Undercut 76% connected

The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

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Undersell 76% connected

To sell the same articles at a lower price than; to sell cheaper than.

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Vend 76% connected

To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vege…

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Wholesale 76% connected

Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.

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Broader term 15

Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Cede 76% connected

To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cost 76% connected

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

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Cozen 76% connected

To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

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Deceive 76% connected

To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Delude 76% connected

To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exchange 76% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Interchange 76% connected

To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly…

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Persuade 76% connected

To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.

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Sale 76% connected

See 1st Sallow.

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Surrender 76% connected

To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy…

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Transact 76% connected

To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.

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Derivationally related 4

Marketer 74% connected

One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Marketer 74% connected

One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.

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Entails 1

Give 72% 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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Synonym 3

Betray 92% connected

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Deal 92% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trade 92% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Buy 94% connected

To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Buy 94% connected

To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a…

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