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Verb group 4

Function 84% connected

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

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Function 84% connected

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

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Serve 84% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Serve 84% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 30

Accommodation 76% connected

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Aid 76% connected

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

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Assist 76% connected

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

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Assistance 76% connected

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.

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Bringing 76% connected

of Bring

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Care 76% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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Company 76% connected

The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.

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Conjugation 76% connected

the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.

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Copulate 76% connected

Joined; associated; coupled.

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Couple 76% connected

That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

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Coupling 76% connected

of Couple

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Delivery 76% connected

The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

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Employment 76% connected

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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Force 76% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Function 76% connected

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Help 76% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

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Maintenance 76% connected

The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

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Mate 76% connected

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…

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Mating 76% connected

of Mate

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Operate 76% connected

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Pair 76% connected

A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Fou…

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Pairing 76% connected

of Pair

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Personnel 76% connected

The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from materiel.

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Tableware 76% connected

Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.

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Tune 76% connected

A sound; a note; a tone.

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Union 76% connected

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

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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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Narrower term 15

Ace 76% connected

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

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Army 76% connected

A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

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Chapel 76% connected

A subordinate place of worship

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Church 76% connected

A building set apart for Christian worship.

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Devotional 76% connected

Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.

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Facility 76% connected

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

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Fault 76% connected

Defect; want; lack; default.

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Navy 76% connected

A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company.

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None 76% connected

No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.

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Seating 76% connected

of Seat

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Setting 76% connected

of Set

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Socage 76% connected

A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations we…

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Utility 76% connected

The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the u…

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Vesper 76% connected

The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening.

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Manner of action 1

Stand 76% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Derivationally related 2

Serve 74% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Serve 74% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Member part 1

Force 70% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Component part 2

Invocation 70% connected

The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being.

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Supplication 70% connected

The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.

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Synonym 5

Avail 92% connected

To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Help 92% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Overhaul 92% connected

To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Serve 92% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Serving 92% connected

of Serve

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