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Shake

obs. p. p. of Shake.

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Verb group 4

Sway 84% connected

To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.

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Sway 84% connected

To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.

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Acknowledgement 76% connected

a statement acknowledging something or someone; "she must have seen him but she gave no sign of acknowledgment"; "the preface contained an acknowledg…

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Acknowledgment 76% connected

The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.

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Agitation 76% connected

The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after…

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Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Arouse 76% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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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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Drink 76% connected

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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Elicit 76% connected

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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Enkindle 76% connected

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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Escape 76% connected

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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Evoke 76% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Gesticulate 76% connected

To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.

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Gesture 76% connected

Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

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Kindle 76% connected

To bring forth young.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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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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Note 76% connected

To butt; to push with the horns.

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Provoke 76% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Reflex 76% connected

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

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Tone 76% connected

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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Vibrate 76% connected

of Vibrate

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Weaken 76% connected

To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…

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Manner of action 41

Affright 76% connected

To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.

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Animate 76% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Arouse 76% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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Concuss 76% connected

To shake or agitate.

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Convulse 76% connected

To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony…

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Elate 76% connected

Lifted up; raised; elevated.

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Enliven 76% connected

To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.

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Exalt 76% connected

To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Fan 76% connected

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

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Fright 76% connected

A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

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Frighten 76% connected

To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

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Fuel 76% connected

Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

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Inspire 76% connected

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

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Invigorate 76% connected

To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

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Invite 76% connected

To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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Jiggle 76% connected

To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.

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Joggle 76% connected

To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

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Palpitate 76% connected

To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of…

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Quake 76% connected

To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.

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Rattle 76% connected

To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

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Roll 76% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Scare 76% connected

To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.

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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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Slash 76% connected

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

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Sparge 76% connected

To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.

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Swag 76% connected

To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.

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Tempt 76% connected

To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

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Thrash 76% connected

Alt. of Thresh

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Thresh 76% connected

To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash whe…

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Thrill 76% connected

A warbling; a trill.

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Tickle 76% connected

To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too…

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Titillate 76% connected

To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.

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Toss 76% connected

To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

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Totter 76% connected

To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.

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Tremble 76% connected

To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.

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Tremor 76% connected

A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.

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Uplift 76% connected

To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

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Vibrate 76% connected

of Vibrate

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Wiggle 76% connected

To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, th…

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Malt 76% connected

Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in…

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Malted 76% connected

of Malt

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Shingle 74% connected

Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

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Shingle 74% connected

Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

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Sway 74% connected

To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.

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Sway 74% connected

To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.

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Tremble 74% connected

To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.

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Tremble 74% connected

To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.

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Trill 74% connected

To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

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Trill 74% connected

To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

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Waggle 74% connected

To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.

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Waggle 74% connected

To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.

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Wamble 74% connected

To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.

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Wamble 74% connected

To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.

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Agitate 92% connected

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

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Excite 92% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Rock 92% connected

See Roc.

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Shingle 92% connected

Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

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Shiver 92% connected

One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.

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Stimulate 92% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Stir 92% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Sway 92% connected

To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.

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Tremble 92% connected

To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trill 92% connected

To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

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Wag 92% connected

To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the…

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Waggle 92% connected

To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.

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