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Stand

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Verb group 10

Ache 84% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Ache 84% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Hurt 84% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Hurt 84% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Resist 84% connected

To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

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Resist 84% connected

To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

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Suffer 84% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Suffer 84% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Manner of action 8

Accept 76% connected

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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Align 76% connected

To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

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Array 76% connected

Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Queue 76% connected

A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.

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Ramp 76% connected

To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.

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Swallow 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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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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Broader term 38

Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Booth 76% connected

A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.

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Botany 76% connected

The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which…

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Continue 76% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

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Countenance 76% connected

To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

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Defence 76% connected

See Defense.

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Defend 76% connected

To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

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Defense 76% connected

Alt. of Defence

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Fight 76% connected

To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

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Flora 76% connected

The goddess of flowers and spring.

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Halt 76% connected

3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Lay 76% connected

of Lie, to recline.

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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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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Oppose 76% connected

To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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Permit 76% connected

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Platform 76% connected

A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.

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Pose 76% connected

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Posture 76% connected

The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; espe…

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Remain 76% connected

To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtract…

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Resist 76% connected

To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

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Rest 76% connected

To arrest.

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Serve 76% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Service 76% connected

Alt. of Service

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Stance 76% connected

A stanza.

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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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Stop 76% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Table 76% connected

A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.

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Vegetation 76% connected

The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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Withstand 76% connected

To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or argument…

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Narrower term 14

Angle 76% connected

The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.

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Barbecue 76% connected

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

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Bier 76% connected

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

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Carrier 76% connected

One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

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Complexion 76% connected

The state of being complex; complexity.

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Hatrack 76% connected

A hatstand; hattree.

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Hayrack 76% connected

A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.

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Landscape 76% connected

A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

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lectern 76% connected

See Lecturn.

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Repulsion 76% connected

The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.

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Slant 76% connected

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

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Staddle 76% connected

Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.

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Tripod 76% connected

Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.

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Trivet 76% connected

A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod.

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Derivationally related 12

Fend 74% connected

A fiend.

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Fend 74% connected

A fiend.

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Posture 74% connected

The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; espe…

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Posture 74% connected

The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; espe…

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Resistant 74% connected

Making resistance; resisting.

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Resistant 74% connected

Making resistance; resisting.

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Stance 74% connected

A stanza.

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Stance 74% connected

A stanza.

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Stander 74% connected

One who stands.

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Stander 74% connected

One who stands.

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Entails 3

Arise 72% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Rise 72% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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Uprise 72% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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Containing whole 4

Arena 70% connected

The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered w…

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Bowl 70% connected

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

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Park 70% connected

A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.

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Stadium 70% connected

A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. I…

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Spit 70% connected

A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.

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See also 4

Correspond 66% connected

To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each othe…

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Correspond 66% connected

To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each othe…

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Withstand 66% connected

To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or argument…

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Withstand 66% connected

To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or argument…

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Synonym 17

Abide 92% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

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Base 92% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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Bear 92% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Brook 92% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

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Digest 92% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Endure 92% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Fend 92% connected

A fiend.

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Pedestal 92% connected

The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the di…

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Rack 92% connected

Same as Arrack.

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Resist 92% connected

To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

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Stall 92% connected

A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for on…

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Standpoint 92% connected

A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are c…

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Standstill 92% connected

A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.

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Stomach 92% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

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Suffer 92% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Support 92% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Tolerate 92% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

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Antonym 4

Sit 94% connected

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

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Sit 94% connected

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

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