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Subserve

To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.

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Aid 76% connected

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

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Assist 76% connected

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

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Help 76% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

oewn 2023 0% 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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Subservient 74% connected

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

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Advance verb · 78% connection

To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; t…

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Ancillary adjective · 78% connection

Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.

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Beneficiary adjective · 78% connection

Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent…

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Cohere adjective · 78% connection

To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or…

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Coherency noun · 78% connection

Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a…

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Dependency noun · 78% connection

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

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Discipline verb · 78% connection

To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under order…

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Duteous adjective · 78% connection

Subservient; obsequious.

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Encourage verb · 78% connection

To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to i…

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Enfeoff verb · 78% connection

To give in vassalage; to make subservient.

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Expedient adjective · 78% connection

Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self…

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Forward verb · 78% connection

To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in…

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Foster verb · 78% connection

To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.

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Further adverb · 78% connection

To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist.

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Gustatory adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.

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Heeler noun · 78% connection

A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.

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Helpless adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

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Heteronomy noun · 78% connection

Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

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