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Tamper

One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

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Interfere 76% connected

To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Interpose 76% connected

To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Intervene 76% connected

To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manipulate 76% connected

To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tool 76% connected

An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stemmer 76% connected

One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).

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Tamp 74% connected

In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Tamp 74% connected

In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fiddle 92% connected

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Meddle 92% connected

To mix; to mingle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Monkey 92% connected

In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tamp 92% connected

In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion…

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.

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