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Suffer

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Verb group 26

Abide 84% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

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Abide 84% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

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Ache 84% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Ache 84% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Bear 84% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Bear 84% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Brook 84% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

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Brook 84% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

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Digest 84% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Digest 84% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Endure 84% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Endure 84% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Hurt 84% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Hurt 84% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Lose 84% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Lose 84% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Stand 84% connected

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

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Stand 84% connected

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

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Stomach 84% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Stomach 84% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Support 84% 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 50% interchangeable

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Support 84% 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 50% interchangeable

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Tolerate 84% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

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Tolerate 84% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 31

Accept 76% connected

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

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Agonize 76% connected

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

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Ail 76% connected

To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, who…

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Anguish 76% connected

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

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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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Choke 76% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Collapse 76% connected

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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Crack 76% connected

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Cramp 76% connected

That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

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Die 76% connected

of Dice

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Famish 76% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Freeze 76% connected

A frieze.

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Gag 76% connected

To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Grieve 76% connected

Alt. of Greeve

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Hunger 76% connected

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Lose 76% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Prick 76% connected

That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

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Sorrow 76% connected

The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Starve 76% connected

To die; to perish.

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Sting 76% connected

Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

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Strangle 76% connected

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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Stress 76% connected

Distress.

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Suffocate 76% connected

Suffocated; choked.

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Swallow 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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Swelter 76% connected

To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.

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Tolerate 76% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Twinge 76% connected

To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

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Broader term 16

Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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Countenance 76% connected

To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

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Decline 76% connected

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Incline 76% connected

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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Lean 76% connected

To conceal.

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Permit 76% connected

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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Receive 76% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Tend 76% connected

To make a tender of; to offer or tender.

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Worsen 76% connected

To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.

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Derivationally related 4

Ache 74% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Ache 74% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Aching 74% connected

of Ache

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Aching 74% connected

of Ache

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Synonym 16

Abide 92% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

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.

Ache 92% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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.

Bear 92% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Brook 92% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Digest 92% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Endure 92% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Get 92% connected

Jet, the mineral.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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have 92% connected

of Have

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Hurt 92% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lose 92% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Meet 92% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stand 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stomach 92% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

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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Tolerate 92% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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