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The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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Similar meaning 30

Complete 84% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Complete 84% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Deep 84% connected

Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured…

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Deep 84% connected

Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured…

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Dependable 84% connected

Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy.

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Dependable 84% connected

Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy.

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Healthy 84% connected

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.

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Healthy 84% connected

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.

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Reasonable 84% connected

Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.

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Reasonable 84% connected

Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.

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Righteous 84% connected

Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a ri…

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Righteous 84% connected

Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a ri…

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Safe 84% connected

Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from sto…

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Safe 84% connected

Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from sto…

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Secure 84% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Secure 84% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Sensible 84% connected

Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon th…

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Sensible 84% connected

Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon th…

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Solid 84% connected

Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard…

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Solid 84% connected

Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard…

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Stable 84% connected

Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.

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Stable 84% connected

Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.

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Strong 84% connected

Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.

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Strong 84% connected

Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.

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Substantial 84% connected

Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.

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Substantial 84% connected

Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.

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Valid 84% connected

Strong; powerful; efficient.

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Valid 84% connected

Strong; powerful; efficient.

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Aesthesis 76% connected

Sensuous perception.

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Announce 76% connected

To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

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Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Articulate 76% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Denote 76% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Enounce 76% connected

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

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Enunciate 76% connected

To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Happening 76% connected

of Happen

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have 76% connected

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Occurrence 76% connected

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurrent 76% connected

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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Pronounce 76% connected

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Seem 76% connected

To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be…

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Sensation 76% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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Stimulate 76% 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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Water 76% connected

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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Aspirate 76% connected

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

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Beat 76% connected

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Bell 76% connected

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound o…

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Birr 76% connected

To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.

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Bombilation 76% connected

A humming sound; a booming.

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Bombination 76% connected

A humming or buzzing.

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Buzz 76% connected

To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low…

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Chink 76% connected

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

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Chirp 76% connected

To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.

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Chirrup 76% connected

To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.

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Chorus 76% connected

A band of singers and dancers.

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Click 76% connected

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

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Clink 76% connected

To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.

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Clump 76% connected

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

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Consonant 76% connected

Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to.

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Cry 76% connected

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

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Ding 76% connected

To dash; to throw violently.

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Dissonance 76% connected

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

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Drip 76% connected

To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

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Dripping 76% connected

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Drum 76% connected

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with…

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Drumbeat 76% connected

The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.

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Dub 76% connected

To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

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Euphony 76% connected

A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.

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Footfall 76% connected

A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.

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Footstep 76% connected

The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.

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Gargle 76% connected

See Gargoyle.

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Glide 76% connected

The glede or kite.

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Gurgle 76% connected

To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.

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Jangle 76% connected

To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.

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Jingle 76% connected

To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.

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Knock 76% connected

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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Knocking 76% connected

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Murmur 76% connected

A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.

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Murmuration 76% connected

The act of murmuring; a murmur.

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Murmuring 76% connected

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Music 76% connected

The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a…

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Mussitation 76% connected

A speaking in a low tone; mumbling.

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Mutter 76% connected

To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complaints or angry expressions; to grumble; to gro…

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Muttering 76% connected

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Narrow 76% connected

Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.

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Noise 76% connected

Sound of any kind.

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Noisiness 76% connected

The state or quality of being noisy.

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Pat 76% connected

To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.

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Patter 76% connected

To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.

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Peal 76% connected

A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.

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Pealing 76% connected

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Phoneme 76% connected

A sound contrast that can change one word into another.

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Ping 76% connected

The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

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Pop 76% connected

A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.

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Popping 76% connected

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Purr 76% connected

To murmur as a cat. See Pur.

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Quack 76% connected

To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

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Quaver 76% connected

To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

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Racket 76% connected

A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It…

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Rap 76% connected

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

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Rataplan 76% connected

The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.

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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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Ringing 76% connected

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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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Rolling 76% connected

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Semivowel 76% connected

A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y.

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Sigh 76% connected

To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or invol…

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Skirl 76% connected

To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.

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Sonant 76% connected

Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

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Song 76% connected

That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.

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Step 76% connected

To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…

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Strum 76% connected

To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.

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Susurration 76% connected

A whispering; a soft murmur.

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Susurrus 76% connected

The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur.

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Swish 76% connected

To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.

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Tap 76% connected

To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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Tapping 76% connected

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Throbbing 76% connected

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Thrum 76% connected

One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.

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Thud 76% connected

A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow…

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Thump 76% connected

The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.

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Thumping 76% connected

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Tick 76% connected

Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

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Ticking 76% connected

of Tick

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Ting 76% connected

A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.

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Tinkle 76% connected

The common guillemot.

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Tintinnabulation 76% connected

A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.

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Toll 76% connected

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

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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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Toot 76% connected

To stand out, or be prominent.

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Trample 76% connected

To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.

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Trampling 76% connected

of Trample

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Twang 76% connected

A tang. See Tang a state.

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Twitter 76% connected

One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.

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Unison 76% connected

Harmony; agreement; concord; union.

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Voice 76% connected

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quali…

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Vowel 76% connected

A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel…

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Whack 76% connected

To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.

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Whir 76% connected

To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.

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Whirring 76% connected

of Whir

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Whistle 76% connected

To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a s…

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Whistling 76% connected

of Whistle

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Whiz 76% connected

To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.

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Manner of action 90

Babble 76% connected

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

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Bang 76% connected

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Birr 76% connected

To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.

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Blare 76% connected

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Bombilate 76% connected

To hum; to buzz.

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Bombinate 76% connected

To hum; to boom.

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Boom 76% connected

A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

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Bubble 76% connected

A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.

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Buzz 76% connected

To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low…

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Cackle 76% connected

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

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Chatter 76% connected

To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

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Chime 76% connected

See Chine, n., 3.

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Chink 76% connected

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

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Chirk 76% connected

To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.

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Clang 76% connected

To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.

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Clangor 76% connected

A sharp, harsh, ringing sound.

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Clank 76% connected

A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than…

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Click 76% connected

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

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Clink 76% connected

To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.

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Clump 76% connected

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

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Crack 76% connected

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Crash 76% connected

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

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Deafen 76% connected

To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.

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Din 76% connected

Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.

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Drone 76% connected

The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

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Drum 76% connected

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with…

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Echo 76% connected

A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Gong 76% connected

A privy or jakes.

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Grumble 76% connected

To murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.

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Guggle 76% connected

See Gurgle.

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Gurgle 76% connected

To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.

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Honk 76% connected

The cry of a wild goose.

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Hum 76% connected

To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.

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Knell 76% connected

The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound in…

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Knock 76% connected

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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Lap 76% connected

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

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Noise 76% connected

Sound of any kind.

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Patter 76% connected

To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.

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Peal 76% connected

A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.

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Pierce 76% connected

To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

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Ping 76% connected

The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

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Pink 76% connected

A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Pop 76% connected

A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.

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Prepare 76% connected

To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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Purr 76% connected

To murmur as a cat. See Pur.

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Quaver 76% connected

To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

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Rap 76% connected

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

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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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Resound 76% connected

To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.

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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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Ripple 76% connected

An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

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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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Rumble 76% connected

To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.

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Rustle 76% connected

To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.

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Seethe 76% connected

To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh.

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Sing 76% connected

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…

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Skirl 76% connected

To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.

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Slosh 76% connected

Alt. of Sloshy

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Slush 76% connected

Soft mud.

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Snarl 76% connected

To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

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Speak 76% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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Splash 76% connected

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

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Squelch 76% connected

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

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Strum 76% connected

To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.

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Swing 76% connected

To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

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Swish 76% connected

To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.

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Tap 76% connected

To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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Thrum 76% connected

One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.

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Thud 76% connected

A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow…

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Thump 76% connected

The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.

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Thunder 76% connected

The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

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Tick 76% connected

Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

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Ticktack 76% connected

A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.

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Ting 76% connected

A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.

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Tink 76% connected

To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle.

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Tinkle 76% connected

The common guillemot.

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Toot 76% connected

To stand out, or be prominent.

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Trump 76% connected

A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.

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Twang 76% connected

A tang. See Tang a state.

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Vibrate 76% connected

of Vibrate

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Waver 76% connected

To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.

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Whir 76% connected

To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.

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Whistle 76% connected

To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a s…

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Whiz 76% connected

To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.

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Go 74% connected

Gone.

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Go 74% connected

Gone.

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Legality 74% connected

The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law.

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Legality 74% connected

The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law.

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Sounder 74% connected

One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.

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Sounder 74% connected

One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.

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Soundness 74% connected

The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of…

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Soundness 74% connected

The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of…

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Vocalization 74% connected

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

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Vocalization 74% connected

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

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Wisdom 74% connected

The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment…

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Wisdom 74% connected

The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment…

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Causes 1

Go 72% connected

Gone.

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Containing whole 2

Utterance 70% connected

The act of uttering.

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Vocalization 70% connected

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

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Fit 66% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Fit 66% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Healthy 66% connected

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.

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Healthy 66% connected

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.

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Unbroken 66% connected

Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.

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Unbroken 66% connected

Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.

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Wholesome 66% connected

Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.

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Wholesome 66% connected

Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.

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Effectual 92% connected

Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.

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Fathom 92% connected

A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth o…

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Go 92% connected

Gone.

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Good 92% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Healthy 92% connected

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.

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Heavy 92% connected

Having the heaves.

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Intelligent 92% connected

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

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Legal 92% connected

Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Profound 92% connected

Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reasoned 92% connected

of Reason

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strait 92% connected

A variant of Straight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vocalize 92% connected

To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Voice 92% connected

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quali…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Formal equivalent 1

Good 90% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

formal alternatives to good 62% interchangeable less formal

Well-founded, reliable or sensible.

Antonym 4

Quiet 94% connected

In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Quiet 94% connected

In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Unsound 94% connected

Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Unsound 94% connected

Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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