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Separate

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Similar meaning 22

Apart 84% connected

Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.

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Apart 84% connected

Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.

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Asunder 84% connected

Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places.

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Asunder 84% connected

Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places.

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Detached 84% connected

of Detach

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Detached 84% connected

of Detach

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Discrete 84% connected

Separate; distinct; disjunct.

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Discrete 84% connected

Separate; distinct; disjunct.

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Disjoint 84% connected

Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.

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Disjoint 84% connected

Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.

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Disjunct 84% connected

Disjoined; separated.

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Disjunct 84% connected

Disjoined; separated.

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Distinct 84% connected

Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.

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Distinct 84% connected

Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.

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Isolable 84% connected

Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state; as, gold is isolable.

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Isolable 84% connected

Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state; as, gold is isolable.

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Isolated 84% connected

of Isolate

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Isolated 84% connected

of Isolate

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Segregated 84% connected

of Segregate

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Segregated 84% connected

of Segregate

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Separated 84% connected

of Separate

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Separated 84% connected

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Verb group 6

Branch 84% connected

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

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Branch 84% connected

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

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Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Ramify 84% connected

To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

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Ramify 84% connected

To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

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Broader term 21

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Article 76% connected

A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various to…

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Categorize 76% connected

To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

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Cease 76% connected

To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

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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…

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Differentiate 76% connected

To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to…

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Discontinue 76% connected

To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

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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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Distinguish 76% connected

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

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Diverge 76% connected

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or d…

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Garment 76% connected

Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.

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Identify 76% connected

To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider…

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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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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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Quit 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

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Secern 76% connected

To separate; to distinguish.

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Severalize 76% connected

To distinguish.

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Stop 76% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Manner of action 104

Avulse 76% connected

To pluck or pull off.

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Bifurcate 76% connected

Alt. of Bifurcated

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Bore 76% connected

of Bear

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Burst 76% connected

of Burst

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Bust 76% connected

A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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Calve 76% connected

To bring forth a calf.

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Canton 76% connected

A song or canto

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Card 76% connected

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game play…

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Catalog 76% connected

Catalogue.

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Catalogue 76% connected

A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of b…

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Chip 76% connected

To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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Contradistinguish 76% connected

To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.

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Contrast 76% connected

To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.

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Count 76% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Crack 76% connected

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Crush 76% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Decompose 76% connected

To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring…

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Demarcate 76% connected

To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.

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Detach 76% connected

To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man…

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Dialyze 76% connected

To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis.

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Dichotomize 76% connected

To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

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Diffract 76% connected

To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light.

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Disadvantage 76% connected

Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or inj…

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Disarticulate 76% connected

To sunder; to separate, as joints.

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Disassociate 76% connected

To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate.

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Discerp 76% connected

To tear in pieces; to rend.

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Disconnect 76% connected

To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.

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Discriminate 76% connected

Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

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Disfavor 76% connected

Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

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Disjoin 76% connected

To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.

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Disjoint 76% connected

Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.

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Dismember 76% connected

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

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Dispel 76% connected

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusion…

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Disperse 76% connected

To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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Dissipate 76% connected

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

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Dissociate 76% connected

To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

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Disunite 76% connected

To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

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Divorce 76% connected

A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically…

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Drill 76% connected

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

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Extract 76% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Filter 76% connected

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matte…

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Filtrate 76% connected

To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.

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Fractionate 76% connected

To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.

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Fracture 76% connected

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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Fragment 76% connected

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

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Gerrymander 76% connected

To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advant…

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Gin 76% connected

Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.

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Grade 76% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Individualize 76% connected

The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality.

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Insulate 76% connected

To make an island of.

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Isolate 76% connected

To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.

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Joint 76% connected

The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or ju…

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

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Label 76% connected

A tassel.

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Ladder 76% connected

A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds…

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Lot 76% connected

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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Macerate 76% connected

To make lean; to cause to waste away.

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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Paragraph 76% connected

Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character /,…

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Parcel 76% connected

A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

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Partition 76% connected

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.

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Pigeonhole 76% connected

A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartm…

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Polarize 76% connected

To communicate polarity to.

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Puncture 76% connected

The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.

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Rail 76% connected

An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

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Reduce 76% connected

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Run 76% connected

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Rupture 76% connected

The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…

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Scatter 76% connected

To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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Secede 76% connected

To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from…

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Sectionalize 76% connected

To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.

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Segment 76% connected

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange;…

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Segregate 76% connected

Separate; select.

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Sequester 76% connected

To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take pos…

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Sever 76% connected

To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as,…

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Severalize 76% connected

To distinguish.

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Sex 76% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Sieve 76% connected

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow…

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Sift 76% connected

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

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Size 76% connected

Six.

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Sliver 76% connected

To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.

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Smash 76% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Splinter 76% connected

To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.

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Split 76% connected

of Split

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Stamp 76% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Stereotype 76% connected

A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, use…

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Strain 76% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Stratify 76% connected

To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

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Subdivide 76% connected

To divide the parts of (anything) into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided.

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Tear 76% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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Tease 76% connected

To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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Triangulate 76% connected

To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured.

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Trifurcate 76% connected

Alt. of Trifurcated

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Twig 76% connected

To twitch; to pull; to tweak.

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Unitize 76% connected

To reduce to a unit, or one whole; to form into a unit; to unify.

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Wash 76% connected

To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Zone 76% connected

A girdle; a cincture.

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Derivationally related 20

Breach 74% connected

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Breach 74% connected

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Distinction 74% connected

A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Distinction 74% connected

A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Divisible 74% connected

Capable of being divided or separated.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Divisible 74% connected

Capable of being divided or separated.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Division 74% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Division 74% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Partition 74% connected

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.

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Partition 74% connected

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Separation 74% connected

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Separation 74% connected

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Separative 74% connected

Causing, or being to cause, separation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Separative 74% connected

Causing, or being to cause, separation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Separator 74% connected

One who, or that which, separates.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Separator 74% connected

One who, or that which, separates.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Watershed 74% connected

The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Watershed 74% connected

The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entails 1

Compare 72% connected

To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to b…

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Causes 2

Divide 72% connected

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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Part 72% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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See also 14

Fall 66% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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Fall 66% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Independent 66% connected

Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.

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Independent 66% connected

Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.

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Individual 66% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Individual 66% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Other 66% connected

Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).

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Other 66% connected

Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).

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Single 66% connected

One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.

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Single 66% connected

One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.

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Attribute 2

Separation 66% connected

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.

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Separation 66% connected

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.

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Synonym 22

Assort 92% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Branch 92% connected

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Break 92% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Class 92% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Classify 92% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Differentiate 92% connected

To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Discriminate 92% connected

Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disjoined 92% connected

of Disjoin

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dissever 92% connected

To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Distinguish 92% connected

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disunite 92% connected

To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Divide 92% connected

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fork 92% connected

An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curve…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Furcate 92% connected

Alt. of Furcated

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Part 92% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ramify 92% connected

To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reprint 92% connected

To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Secern 92% connected

To separate; to distinguish.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Severalize 92% connected

To distinguish.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sort 92% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Split 92% connected

of Split

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tell 92% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Joint 94% connected

The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or ju…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Joint 94% connected

The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or ju…

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