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Stop

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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Verb group 4

Block 84% 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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Block 84% 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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Obstruct 84% connected

To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…

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Obstruct 84% connected

To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…

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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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Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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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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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Conclusion 76% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Constraint 76% connected

The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

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Deed 76% connected

Dead.

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Defend 76% connected

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

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Disrupt 76% connected

Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Ending 76% connected

of End

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Finish 76% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Forbid 76% connected

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Foreclose 76% connected

To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

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Forestall 76% connected

To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

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Grab 76% connected

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

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Impede 76% connected

To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

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Impediment 76% connected

That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

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Inaction 76% connected

Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

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Inactivity 76% connected

The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

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Interrupt 76% connected

To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…

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Jam 76% connected

A kind of frock for children.

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Knob 76% connected

A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Obstruct 76% connected

To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…

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Obstructer 76% connected

One who obstructs or hinders.

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Obstruction 76% connected

The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.

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Obstruent 76% connected

Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine.

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Occlude 76% connected

To shut up; to close.

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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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Preclude 76% connected

To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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Prevent 76% connected

To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

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Punctuation 76% connected

The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a s…

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Restraint 76% connected

The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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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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Terminate 76% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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Vary 76% connected

To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

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Manner of action 43

Adjourn 76% connected

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of…

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Arrest 76% connected

To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.

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Bog 76% connected

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

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Brake 76% connected

imp. of Break.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Cheese 76% connected

The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

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Climax 76% connected

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

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Close 76% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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Conclude 76% connected

To shut up; to inclose.

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Crawfish 76% connected

Alt. of Crayfish

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Culminate 76% connected

To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Disappear 76% connected

To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the appr…

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Discontinue 76% connected

To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

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Dismiss 76% connected

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

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Disrupt 76% connected

Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

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Drop 76% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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Embargo 76% connected

An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition…

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Extinguish 76% connected

To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…

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Fail 76% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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Fold 76% connected

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Halt 76% connected

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

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Interrupt 76% connected

To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…

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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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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Quench 76% connected

To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to que…

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Quit 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

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Recess 76% connected

A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

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Rein 76% connected

The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.

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Retire 76% connected

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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Retreat 76% connected

The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Settle 76% connected

A seat of any kind.

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Split 76% connected

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Stall 76% 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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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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Vanish 76% connected

To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a shi…

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Breechblock 76% connected

The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the inser…

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Cessation 76% connected

A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.

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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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Countercheck 76% connected

To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.

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Detent 76% connected

That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.

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Dog 76% connected

A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).

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Doorstop 76% connected

The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

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Iris 76% connected

The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods.

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Pawl 76% connected

A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel…

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Plug 76% connected

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

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Stand 76% connected

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

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Standstill 76% connected

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

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Stopper 76% connected

One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

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Stopple 76% connected

That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.

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Surcease 76% connected

Cessation; stop; end.

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Trip 76% 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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Tripper 76% connected

One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.

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Bar 74% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

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Bar 74% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

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Blockage 74% connected

The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

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Blockage 74% connected

The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

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Closing 74% connected

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Closing 74% connected

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Contain 74% connected

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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Contain 74% connected

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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Death 74% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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Death 74% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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End 74% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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End 74% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Halt 74% connected

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

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Halt 74% connected

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

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Hold 74% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Hold 74% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Point 74% connected

To appoint.

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Point 74% connected

To appoint.

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Stem 74% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Stem 74% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Stoppage 74% connected

The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; th…

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Stoppage 74% connected

The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; th…

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Causes 1

Halt 72% connected

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

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Containing whole 2

Camera 70% connected

A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.

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Organ 70% connected

An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers…

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

Component part 2

Explosion 70% connected

The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowd…

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a member, substance or component part.

Implosion 70% connected

A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a member, substance or component part.

See also 2

Keep 66% connected

To care; to desire.

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Keep 66% connected

To care; to desire.

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Open English WordNet provides this as a see-also lexical relationship.

Synonym 26

Arrest 92% connected

To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Bar 92% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Barricade 92% connected

A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Block 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Blockade 92% connected

The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of th…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Blockage 92% connected

The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Break 92% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Catch 92% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Cease 92% connected

To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Check 92% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Closure 92% connected

The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Contain 92% connected

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Diaphragm 92% connected

A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Discontinue 92% connected

To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

End 92% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Finish 92% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Halt 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Hitch 92% connected

To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Intercept 92% connected

To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will int…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Occlusion 92% connected

The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Period 92% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Point 92% connected

To appoint.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Quit 92% connected

Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Stay 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Stoppage 92% connected

The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; th…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Terminate 92% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Antonym 4

Begin 94% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Begin 94% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

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