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Slip

To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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Broader term 39

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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Anchorage 76% connected

The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.

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Artefact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Artifact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Block 76% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Bloomer 76% connected

A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.

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Blunder 76% connected

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

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Botch 76% connected

A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

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Bungle 76% connected

To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

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Coast 76% connected

The side of a thing.

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Decline 76% connected

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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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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Enclose 76% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

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Error 76% connected

A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

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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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Evasion 76% connected

The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

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Fault 76% connected

Defect; want; lack; default.

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Forget 76% connected

To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Glide 76% connected

The glede or kite.

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Hand 76% connected

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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Inclose 76% connected

To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…

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Insert 76% connected

To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…

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Introduce 76% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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Misadventure 76% connected

Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

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Mischance 76% connected

Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.

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Mishap 76% connected

Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.

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Mistake 76% connected

To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

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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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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Sheet 76% connected

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

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Slide 76% connected

To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

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Smoothness 76% connected

Quality or state of being smooth.

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Stalk 76% connected

The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

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Stem 76% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Worsen 76% connected

To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.

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Younker 76% connected

A young person; a stripling; a yonker.

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Youth 76% connected

of Youth

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Manner of action 7

Backslide 76% connected

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

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Lapse 76% connected

A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to…

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Misjudge 76% connected

To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.

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Misremember 76% connected

To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.

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Skid 76% connected

A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a…

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Stumble 76% connected

To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

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Submarine 76% connected

Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.

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Narrower term 17

Band 76% connected

A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or con…

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Cramp 76% connected

That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

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Cramp iron 76% connected

See Cramp, n., 2.

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Fall 76% 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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Lead 76% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Leading 76% connected

of Lead

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Mullion 76% connected

A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc.

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Quickset 76% connected

A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.

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Reef 76% connected

A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.

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Ribbon 76% connected

A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

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Ring 76% connected

To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

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Screed 76% connected

A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.

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Spill 76% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Stay 76% connected

A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Thos…

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Tab 76% connected

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

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Tape 76% connected

A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.

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Tumble 76% connected

To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

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Evade 74% connected

To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pur…

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Evade 74% connected

To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pur…

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Miscue 74% connected

A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.

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Miscue 74% connected

A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.

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Skid 74% connected

A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a…

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Skid 74% connected

A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a…

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Slippery 74% connected

Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; gli…

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Slippery 74% connected

Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; gli…

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Stealth 74% connected

The act of stealing; theft.

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Stealth 74% connected

The act of stealing; theft.

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Strap 70% connected

A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.

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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…

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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…

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Stumble 66% connected

To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

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Stumble 66% connected

To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

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Synonym 31

Berth 92% connected

Convenient sea room.

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Case 92% connected

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cove…

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Chemise 92% connected

A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.

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Cutting 92% connected

of Cut

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Dislocate 92% connected

To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of join…

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Eluding 92% connected

of Elude

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Elusion 92% connected

Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.

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Err 92% connected

To wander; to roam; to stray.

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faux pas 92% connected

A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.

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Gaucherie 92% connected

An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

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Luxate 92% connected

Luxated.

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Miscue 92% connected

A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.

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Mistake 92% connected

To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

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Moorage 92% connected

A place for mooring.

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Mooring 92% connected

of Moor

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Pillowcase 92% connected

A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.

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Shift 92% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Shimmy 92% connected

A chemise.

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Skid 92% connected

A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a…

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Slew 92% connected

of Slay

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Slick 92% connected

See Schlich.

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Slickness 92% connected

The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.

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Slide 92% connected

To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

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Slipperiness 92% connected

The quality of being slippery.

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Slue 92% connected

A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

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Sneak 92% connected

To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.

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Solecism 92% connected

An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from th…

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Splay 92% connected

To display; to spread.

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Steal 92% connected

A handle; a stale, or stele.

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Strip 92% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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Trip 92% connected

To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.

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