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Sense; meaning; significance.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Term 76% connected

That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

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Manner of action 2

Foredoom 76% connected

To doom beforehand; to predestinate.

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Reprobate 76% connected

Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.

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Narrower term 4

Interrogation 76% connected

The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.

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Interrogative 76% connected

Denoting a question; expressed in the form of a question; as, an interrogative sentence; an interrogative pronoun.

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Life 76% connected

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

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Question 76% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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Condemnation 74% connected

The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.

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Condemnation 74% connected

The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.

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Disapprobation 74% connected

The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.

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Disapprobation 74% connected

The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.

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Doom 74% connected

Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

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Doom 74% connected

Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

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sentential 74% connected

Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation.

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sentential 74% connected

Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation.

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Entails 1

Convict 72% connected

Proved or found guilty; convicted.

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Open English WordNet records that the source verb entails the related action.

Component part 2

Clause 70% connected

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

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Constituent 70% connected

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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Synonym 5

Condemn 92% connected

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

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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.

Condemnation 92% connected

The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Conviction 92% connected

The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Doom 92% connected

Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Time 92% connected

Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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