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Supplement

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.

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Add 76% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Attach 76% connected

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

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Be 76% connected

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

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Component 76% connected

Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

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Comprise 76% connected

To comprehend; to include.

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Constituent 76% connected

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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Constitute 76% connected

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

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Element 76% connected

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…

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Increase 76% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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Increment 76% connected

The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

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Matter 76% connected

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of concep…

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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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Manner of action 2

Annex 76% connected

To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.

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Leverage 76% connected

The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.

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Appendix 76% connected

Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.

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Continuation 76% connected

That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.

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Fitting 76% connected

of Fit

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Sequel 76% connected

That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.

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Derivationally related 14

Appendage 74% connected

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

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Appendage 74% connected

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

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Appendant 74% connected

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.

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Appendant 74% connected

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.

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Appurtenant 74% connected

Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings.

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Appurtenant 74% connected

Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings.

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Pertain 74% connected

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…

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Pertain 74% connected

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…

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Supplementary 74% connected

Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.

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Supplementary 74% connected

Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.

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Entails 5

Furnish 72% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Offer 72% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Provide 72% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Render 72% connected

One who rends.

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Supply 72% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Synonym 7

Accessory 92% connected

Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contrib…

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Addendum 92% connected

A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Affix 92% connected

To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrume…

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Append 92% connected

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Appurtenance 92% connected

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Postscript 92% connected

A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the wo…

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Supplementation 92% connected

The act of supplementing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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