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Touch

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Verb group 24

Advert 84% connected

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

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Advert 84% connected

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

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Allude 84% connected

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the…

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Allude 84% connected

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the…

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Concern 84% 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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Concern 84% 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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Converge 84% connected

To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

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Converge 84% connected

To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

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Equal 84% connected

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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Equal 84% connected

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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Equalize 84% connected

To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.

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Equalize 84% connected

To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.

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Equate 84% connected

To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to me…

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Equate 84% connected

To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to me…

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Match 84% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Match 84% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Meet 84% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Meet 84% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Pertain 84% 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 84% 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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Refer 84% connected

To carry or send back.

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Refer 84% connected

To carry or send back.

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Relate 84% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Relate 84% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Manner of action 102

Abut 76% connected

To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

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Adhere 76% connected

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

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Adjoin 76% connected

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

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Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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Ask 76% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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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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Bedevil 76% connected

To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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Befuddle 76% connected

To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

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Belong 76% connected

To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

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Border 76% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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Bother 76% connected

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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Brush 76% connected

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purpos…

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Buss 76% connected

A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.

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Butt 76% connected

Alt. of But

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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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Chafe 76% connected

To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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Cleave 76% connected

To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.

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Cling 76% connected

To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually foll…

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Cohere 76% connected

To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.

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Color 76% connected

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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Colour 76% connected

See Color.

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Complexion 76% connected

The state of being complex; complexity.

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Confound 76% connected

To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

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Confuse 76% connected

Mixed; confounded.

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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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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Discommode 76% connected

To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

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Disoblige 76% connected

To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be…

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Distort 76% connected

Distorted; misshapen.

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Edge 76% connected

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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Endanger 76% connected

To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

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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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Environ 76% connected

To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Expose 76% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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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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Finger 76% connected

One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.

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Fox 76% connected

A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…

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Fray 76% connected

Affray; broil; contest; combat.

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Fret 76% connected

See 1st Frith.

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Fuddle 76% connected

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Henna 76% connected

A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered l…

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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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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Hug 76% connected

To cower; to crouch; to curl up.

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Impress 76% connected

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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Incommode 76% connected

To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

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Inconvenience 76% connected

The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of t…

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Influence 76% connected

A flowing in or upon; influx.

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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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Involve 76% connected

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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Join 76% connected

To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

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Kiss 76% connected

To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.

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Link 76% connected

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

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March 76% connected

The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

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Mouth 76% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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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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Necessitate 76% connected

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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Need 76% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Osculate 76% connected

To kiss.

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Palm 76% connected

The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.

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Peril 76% connected

Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

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Postulate 76% connected

Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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Press 76% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Queer 76% connected

At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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Receive 76% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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Redound 76% connected

To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.

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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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Repercuss 76% connected

To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate.

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Require 76% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Ring 76% connected

To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

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Rub 76% connected

To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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Scratch 76% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Scupper 76% connected

An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

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Skim 76% connected

To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; t…

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Skirt 76% connected

The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

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Stick 76% connected

A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Stroke 76% connected

Struck.

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Subject 76% connected

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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Surround 76% connected

To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

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Tag 76% connected

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Thumb 76% connected

The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.

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Tincture 76% connected

A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

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Tinge 76% connected

To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities…

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Toe 76% connected

One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Trouble 76% connected

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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Unite 76% connected

To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to…

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Violate 76% connected

To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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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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Adeptness 76% connected

The quality of being adept; skill.

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Adroitness 76% connected

The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.

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Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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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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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Be 76% connected

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

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Care 76% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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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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Color 76% connected

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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Colour 76% connected

See Color.

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Communicating 76% connected

of Communicate

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Communication 76% connected

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Compete 76% connected

To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize…

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Comprehend 76% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Contact 76% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Contend 76% connected

To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Deed 76% connected

Dead.

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Deftness 76% connected

The quality of being deft.

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Facility 76% connected

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

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Fashion 76% connected

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house,…

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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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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Hint 76% connected

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.

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Impinging 76% connected

of Impinge

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Impress 76% connected

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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Ingest 76% connected

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

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Manage 76% connected

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

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Manner 76% connected

Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

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Mode 76% connected

Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

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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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Perceive 76% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

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Perception 76% connected

The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discer…

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Proffer 76% connected

To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.

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Proposition 76% connected

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.

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Quickness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Striking 76% connected

of Strike

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Suggest 76% connected

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

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Suggestion 76% connected

The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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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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Vie 76% connected

To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

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Way 76% connected

Away.

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Narrower term 37

Brush 76% connected

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purpos…

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Buss 76% connected

A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.

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Capstone 76% connected

A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Contact 76% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Copestone 76% connected

A stone for coping. See Coping.

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Creepiness 76% connected

An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.

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Dab 76% connected

A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.

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Dig 76% connected

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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Fingering 76% connected

of Finger

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Grab 76% connected

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

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Grazing 76% connected

of Graze

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Grope 76% connected

To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

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Handling 76% connected

of Handle

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Hitting 76% connected

of Hit

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Jab 76% connected

To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.

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Kiss 76% connected

To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.

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Lap 76% connected

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

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Lick 76% connected

To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.

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Manipulation 76% connected

The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful…

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Osculation 76% connected

The act of kissing; a kiss.

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Palpation 76% connected

Act of touching or feeling.

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Pat 76% connected

To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.

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Shaving 76% connected

of Shave

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Skimming 76% connected

of Skim

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Snatch 76% connected

To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.

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Snuff 76% connected

The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.

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Striking 76% connected

of Strike

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Stroke 76% connected

Struck.

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Stroking 76% connected

The act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke.

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Tag 76% connected

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

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Tap 76% connected

To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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Tickle 76% connected

To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too…

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Tickling 76% connected

of Tickle

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Titillation 76% connected

The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation.

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Adjunctive 74% connected

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

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Adjunctive 74% connected

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

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Allusion 74% connected

A figurative or symbolical reference.

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Allusion 74% connected

A figurative or symbolical reference.

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Allusive 74% connected

Figurative; symbolical.

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Allusive 74% connected

Figurative; symbolical.

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Contact 74% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Contact 74% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Disturbance 74% connected

An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercis…

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Disturbance 74% connected

An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercis…

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Feel 74% 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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Feel 74% 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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Junction 74% connected

The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

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Junction 74% connected

The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

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Match 74% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Match 74% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Stir 74% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Stir 74% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Entails 2

Denote 72% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

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Refer 72% connected

To carry or send back.

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See also 2

Heat 66% connected

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

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Heat 66% connected

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

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Synonym 32

Adjoin 92% connected

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

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Advert 92% connected

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

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Affect 92% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Allude 92% connected

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the…

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Concern 92% 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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Contact 92% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Disturb 92% connected

To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

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Equal 92% connected

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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Feeling 92% connected

of Feel

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Ghost 92% connected

The spirit; the soul of man.

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Hint 92% connected

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.

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Impact 92% connected

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Jot 92% connected

An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. Bit, n.

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Match 92% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Meet 92% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mite 92% connected

A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.

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Partake 92% connected

To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with othe…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pertain 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pinch 92% connected

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as be…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reach 92% connected

To retch.

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Refer 92% connected

To carry or send back.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Relate 92% connected

To bring back; to restore.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rival 92% connected

A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

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Signature 92% connected

A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.

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Speck 92% connected

The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

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Spot 92% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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.

Stir 92% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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.

Tinct 92% connected

Tined; tinged.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tinge 92% connected

To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities…

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.

Tint 92% connected

A slight coloring.

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Touching 92% connected

of Touch

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Trace 92% connected

One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be draw…

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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