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Think

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Advisement 76% connected

Counsel; advice; information.

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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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Anticipate 76% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Be 76% connected

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

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Believe 76% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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Center 76% connected

A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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Centre 76% connected

To be placed in a center; to be central.

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Cerebrate 76% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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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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Cogitate 76% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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Conceive 76% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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Concentrate 76% connected

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Deliberation 76% connected

The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.

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Envisage 76% connected

To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Expect 76% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Focus 76% connected

A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

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Ideate 76% connected

The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

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Imagine 76% connected

To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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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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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Pore 76% connected

One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

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Rivet 76% connected

A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…

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Weighing 76% connected

of Weigh

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Manner of action 76

Aim 76% connected

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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Associate 76% connected

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

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Await 76% connected

To watch for; to look out for.

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Bethink 76% connected

To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronou…

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Block 76% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Center 76% connected

A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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Centre 76% connected

To be placed in a center; to be central.

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Colligate 76% connected

To tie or bind together.

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Concentrate 76% connected

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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Concern 76% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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Conclude 76% connected

To shut up; to inclose.

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Connect 76% connected

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Contemplate 76% connected

To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to stud…

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Count 76% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Decide 76% connected

To cut off; to separate.

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Design 76% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Determine 76% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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Devote 76% connected

To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction…

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Differ 76% connected

To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.

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Disagree 76% connected

To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

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Dissent 76% connected

To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

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Esteem 76% connected

To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Excogitate 76% connected

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

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Expect 76% connected

To wait for; to await.

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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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Focus 76% connected

A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

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Forget 76% connected

To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Insist 76% connected

To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

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Interest 76% connected

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

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Link 76% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Meditate 76% connected

To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.

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Mull 76% connected

A thin, soft kind of muslin.

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Muse 76% connected

A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

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Occupy 76% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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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.

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Philosophize 76% connected

To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existenc…

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Ponder 76% connected

To weigh.

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Pore 76% connected

One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

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Propose 76% connected

To set forth.

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Purport 76% connected

Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

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Purpose 76% connected

That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure…

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Rationalize 76% connected

To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

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Realize 76% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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Reason 76% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Recall 76% connected

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Recognize 76% connected

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

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Recollect 76% connected

To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

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Reflect 76% connected

To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…

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Refresh 76% connected

To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew…

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Regard 76% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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Relate 76% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Remember 76% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

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Repute 76% connected

To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.

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Retrieve 76% connected

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

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Review 76% connected

To view or see again; to look back on.

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Rivet 76% connected

A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…

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Ruminate 76% connected

To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.

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See 76% connected

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

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Speculate 76% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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Straddle 76% connected

To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

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Study 76% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Suspect 76% connected

Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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Understand 76% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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View 76% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Wait 76% connected

To watch; to observe; to take notice.

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Weigh 76% connected

A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.

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Worry 76% connected

To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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Cerebrate 74% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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Cerebrate 74% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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Cerebration 74% connected

Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.

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Cerebration 74% connected

Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.

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Conjecture 74% connected

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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Conjecture 74% connected

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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Guesser 74% connected

One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.

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Guesser 74% connected

One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.

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Guesswork 74% connected

Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

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Guesswork 74% connected

Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

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Intellection 74% connected

A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itsel…

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Intellection 74% connected

A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itsel…

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Thought 74% connected

of Think

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Thought 74% connected

of Think

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Synonym 16

Believe 92% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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Cerebrate 92% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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Cogitate 92% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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Conceive 92% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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Consider 92% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Guess 92% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Imagine 92% connected

To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

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Intend 92% connected

To stretch' to extend; to distend.

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Mean 92% connected

To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?

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Opine 92% connected

To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.

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Recall 92% connected

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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.

Reckon 92% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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.

Recollect 92% connected

To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

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.

Remember 92% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

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.

Retrieve 92% connected

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

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.

Suppose 92% connected

To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…

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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Consider 92% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

general 78% interchangeable

Consider overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Reflect 90% connected

To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…

general 74% interchangeable

Reflect overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Reason 88% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

general 70% interchangeable

Reason overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Believe 86% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

general 66% interchangeable

Believe overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Infer 84% connected

To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

general 62% interchangeable

Infer overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Contemplate 82% connected

To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to stud…

general 58% interchangeable

Contemplate overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Assess 80% connected

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

general 54% interchangeable

Assess overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Judge 78% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

general 50% interchangeable

Judge overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

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