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Soak

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.

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Verb group 2

Tweak 84% connected

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.

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Tweak 84% connected

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.

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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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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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Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Booze 76% connected

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Cheat 76% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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Chisel 76% connected

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a m…

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Consign 76% connected

To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of…

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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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Fuddle 76% connected

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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Heat 76% connected

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

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Immerse 76% connected

Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

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Impregnate 76% connected

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

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Lavation 76% connected

A washing or cleansing.

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Plunge 76% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

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Saturate 76% connected

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.

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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…

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Washing 76% connected

of Wash

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Wet 76% connected

Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet…

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Manner of action 17

Bate 76% connected

Strife; contention.

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Bedraggle 76% connected

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.

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Befuddle 76% connected

To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

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Brew 76% connected

To boil or seethe; to cook.

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Brine 76% connected

Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor result…

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Draggle 76% connected

To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.

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Extort 76% connected

To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away…

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Flush 76% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Fuddle 76% connected

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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Gouge 76% connected

A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, wi…

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Infuse 76% connected

To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

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Rack 76% connected

Same as Arrack.

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Ret 76% connected

See Aret.

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Sluice 76% connected

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood ga…

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Squeeze 76% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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Steep 76% connected

Bright; glittering; fiery.

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Wring 76% connected

To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.

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Derivationally related 20

Drunkenness 74% connected

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.

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Drunkenness 74% connected

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.

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Imbue 74% connected

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

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Imbue 74% connected

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

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Inebriation 74% connected

The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success.

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Inebriation 74% connected

The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Pawn 74% connected

See Pan, the masticatory.

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Pawn 74% connected

See Pan, the masticatory.

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Rummy 74% connected

Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

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Rummy 74% connected

Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

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Soakage 74% connected

The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.

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Soakage 74% connected

The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.

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Tipsiness 74% connected

The state of being tipsy.

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Tipsiness 74% connected

The state of being tipsy.

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Torrent 74% connected

A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.

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Torrent 74% connected

A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.

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Entails 2

Bill 72% connected

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

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Charge 72% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Synonym 19

Douse 92% connected

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

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Dowse 92% connected

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

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Drench 92% connected

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

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Fleece 92% connected

The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

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Hock 92% connected

A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.

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Hook 92% connected

A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for c…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Imbue 92% connected

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

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Inebriate 92% connected

To make drunk; to intoxicate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Intoxicate 92% connected

Intoxicated.

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Overcharge 92% connected

To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.

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Pawn 92% connected

See Pan, the masticatory.

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Pluck 92% connected

To pull; to draw.

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Plume 92% connected

A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.

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Rob 92% connected

The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soakage 92% connected

The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soaking 92% connected

of Soak

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Sop 92% connected

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

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Souse 92% connected

A corrupt form of Sou.

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Surcharge 92% connected

To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.

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