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Substantiate

To make to exist; to make real.

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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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Correspond 76% 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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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Fortify 76% connected

To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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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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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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Strengthen 76% connected

To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.

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Manner of action 12

Back 76% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Demonstrate 76% connected

To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.

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Document 76% connected

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

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Establish 76% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Incarnate 76% connected

Not in the flesh; spiritual.

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Prove 76% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

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Shew 76% connected

See Show.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Validate 76% connected

To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

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Verify 76% connected

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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Vouch 76% connected

To call; to summon.

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Check 74% 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 15% interchangeable

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Check 74% 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 15% interchangeable

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Proof 74% connected

Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

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Proof 74% connected

Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

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Synonym 9

Actualize 92% connected

To make actual; to realize in action.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Affirm 92% connected

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Confirm 92% connected

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Corroborate 92% connected

To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Embody 92% connected

To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatis…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Incarnate 92% connected

Not in the flesh; spiritual.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Realize 92% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sustain 92% connected

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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