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A small, flexible twig or rod.

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Verb group 8

Change 84% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Change 84% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Commute 84% connected

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an a…

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Commute 84% connected

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an a…

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Convert 84% connected

To cause to turn; to turn.

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Convert 84% connected

To cause to turn; to turn.

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Exchange 84% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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Exchange 84% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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Broader term 26

Abandon 76% connected

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Controller 76% connected

One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.

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Engage 76% connected

To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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Exchange 76% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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Flog 76% connected

To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

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Fluctuation 76% connected

A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.

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Interchange 76% connected

To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly…

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Lash 76% connected

The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

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Lather 76% connected

Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

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Lock 76% connected

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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Mesh 76% connected

The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Operate 76% connected

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Railroad 76% connected

Alt. of Railway

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Railway 76% connected

A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and s…

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Reverse 76% connected

Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.

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Slash 76% connected

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

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Strap 76% connected

A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.

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Trounce 76% connected

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

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Variation 76% connected

The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation…

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Welt 76% connected

That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it

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Whip 76% connected

To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

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Manner of action 10

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…

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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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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Diphthongize 76% connected

To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.

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Jump 76% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Leap 76% connected

A basket.

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Shift 76% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Surf 76% connected

The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.

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Transition 76% connected

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

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Veer 76% connected

To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.

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Narrower term 11

Birch 76% connected

A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwar…

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Button 76% connected

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

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Cane 76% connected

A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

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Commutator 76% connected

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alter…

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Cutout 76% connected

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Ferule 76% connected

A flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment.

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Push 76% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

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Ratan 76% connected

See Rattan.

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Rattan 76% connected

One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian.…

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Selector 76% connected

One who selects.

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Toggle 76% connected

A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bi…

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Derivationally related 8

Shift 74% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Shift 74% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Trade 74% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Trade 74% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Synonym 16

Alternate 92% connected

Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.

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Change 92% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exchange 92% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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Flip 92% connected

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

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Interchange 92% connected

To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly…

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Permutation 92% connected

The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.

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Replacement 92% connected

The act of replacing.

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Shift 92% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Substitution 92% connected

The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act…

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Swap 92% connected

To strike; -- with off.

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Switching 92% connected

of Switch

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Swop 92% connected

Same as Swap.

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Tack 92% connected

A stain; a tache.

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Throw 92% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Trade 92% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Transposition 92% connected

The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.

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