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Slop

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

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Verb group 6

Disgorge 84% connected

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Disgorge 84% connected

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Shed 84% connected

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Shed 84% connected

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Spill 84% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Spill 84% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Clay 76% connected

A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down an…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Feed 76% connected

of Fee

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Lade 76% connected

To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Laden 76% connected

Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ladle 76% connected

A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mud 76% connected

Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pad 76% connected

A footpath; a road.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Plod 76% connected

To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Provender 76% connected

Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sentimentalism 76% connected

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tramp 76% connected

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Trudge 76% connected

To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Release 74% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Release 74% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sloppy 74% connected

Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sloppy 74% connected

Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Spill 74% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Spill 74% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Spiller 74% connected

One who, or that which, spills.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Spiller 74% connected

One who, or that which, spills.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Spillway 74% connected

A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Spillway 74% connected

A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Swill 74% connected

To wash; to drench.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Swill 74% connected

To wash; to drench.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 10

Mire 92% connected

An ant.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mush 92% connected

Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slosh 92% connected

Alt. of Sloshy

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spill 92% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Splash 92% connected

To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Splatter 92% connected

To spatter; to splash.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squelch 92% connected

To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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squish 92% connected

To crush or flatten something, often producing a squelching sound

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swill 92% connected

To wash; to drench.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Treacle 92% connected

A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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