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To let down; to lower.

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Broader term 12

Accept 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Advise 76% connected

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gift 76% connected

Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Propose 76% connected

To set forth.

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Succumb 76% connected

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suggest 76% connected

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

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Undergo 76% connected

To go or move below or under.

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 5

Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Relegate 76% connected

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Return 76% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Subject 76% connected

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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Test 76% connected

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

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Derivationally related 14

Compliance 74% connected

The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Compliance 74% connected

The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entry 74% connected

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city;…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entry 74% connected

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city;…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Submission 74% connected

The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedienc…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Submission 74% connected

The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedienc…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Submissive 74% connected

Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.

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Submissive 74% connected

Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.

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Submitter 74% connected

One who submits.

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Submitter 74% connected

One who submits.

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Subservient 74% connected

Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Subservient 74% connected

Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Taker 74% connected

One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.

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Taker 74% connected

One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.

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Entails 1

Surrender 72% connected

To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 11

Accede 92% connected

To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bow 92% connected

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Defer 92% connected

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Posit 92% connected

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Present 92% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reconcile 92% connected

To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to r…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Relegate 92% connected

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Render 92% connected

One who rends.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Resign 92% connected

To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; t…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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State 92% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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