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Surmount

To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

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Attain 76% connected

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Crush 76% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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Defeat 76% connected

To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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Gain 76% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Overcome 76% connected

of Overcome

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Shell 76% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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Trounce 76% connected

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

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Vanquish 76% connected

To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Better 76% connected

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Bulldog 76% connected

A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.

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Circumvent 76% connected

To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.

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Crush 76% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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Out-Herod 76% connected

To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular.

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Outbrave 76% connected

To excel in bravery o/ in insolence; to defy with superior courage or audacity

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Outcry 76% connected

A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

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Outdraw 76% connected

To draw out; to extract.

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Outgrow 76% connected

To surpass in growing; to grow more than.

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Outmarch 76% connected

To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

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Outpace 76% connected

To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind.

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Outroar 76% connected

To exceed in roaring.

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Outsail 76% connected

To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than.

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Outsell 76% connected

To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.

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Outshine 76% connected

To shine forth.

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Outwear 76% connected

To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.

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Outweigh 76% connected

To exceed in weight or value.

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Outwit 76% connected

To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.

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Overreach 76% connected

To reach above or beyond in any direction.

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Pinnacle 76% connected

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where…

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Shame 76% connected

A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of t…

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Shell 76% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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Trounce 76% connected

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

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Vanquish 76% connected

To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.

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Exceed 92% connected

To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man…

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Master 92% connected

A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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Outdo 92% connected

To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.

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Outgo 92% connected

To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.

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Outstrip 92% connected

To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.

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Overcome 92% connected

of Overcome

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Scale 92% connected

The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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Subdue 92% connected

To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.

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Surpass 92% connected

To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.

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