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Send

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

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Broader term 8

Air 76% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Bare 76% connected

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Transmit 76% connected

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Transport 76% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Manner of action 26

Barge 76% connected

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Contrive 76% connected

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

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Despatch 76% connected

Same as Dispatch.

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Dispatch 76% connected

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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Divert 76% connected

To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its u…

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Fort 76% connected

A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisa…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Forward 76% connected

An agreement; a covenant; a promise.

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Garrison 76% connected

A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.

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Hospitalize 76% connected

To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.

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Interrogate 76% connected

To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.

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Locate 76% connected

To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

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Mail 76% connected

A spot.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Project 76% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Railroad 76% connected

Alt. of Railway

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Redirect 76% connected

Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Register 76% connected

A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.

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Route 76% connected

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

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Satellite 76% connected

An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.

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Site 76% connected

The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 12

Consignment 74% connected

The act of consigning; consignation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Consignment 74% connected

The act of consigning; consignation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sender 74% connected

One who sends.

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Sender 74% connected

One who sends.

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Shipment 74% connected

The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shipment 74% connected

The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shipper 74% connected

One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shipper 74% connected

One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Transportation 74% connected

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Transportation 74% connected

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.

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Causes 1

Air 72% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 13

Air 92% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Beam 92% connected

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Broadcast 92% connected

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Charge 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Commit 92% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Direct 92% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mail 92% connected

A spot.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Place 92% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Post 92% connected

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ship 92% connected

Pay; reward.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Station 92% connected

The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Transmit 92% connected

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Transport 92% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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