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Straddle

To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

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Be 76% connected

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

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Comprise 76% connected

To comprehend; to include.

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Constitute 76% connected

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

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Guess 76% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Imagine 76% connected

To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Motility 76% connected

Capability of motion; contractility.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Opine 76% connected

To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.

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Option 76% connected

The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

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Perspective 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

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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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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Represent 76% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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Suppose 76% connected

To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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View 76% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Manner of action 1

Spread-eagle 76% connected

Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.

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Derivationally related 2

Span 74% connected

imp. & p. p. of Spin.

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Span 74% connected

imp. & p. p. of Spin.

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Component part 2

Call 70% connected

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

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Put 70% connected

A pit.

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Synonym 2

Range 92% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Span 92% connected

imp. & p. p. of Spin.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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