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To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

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Verb group 4

Interpret 84% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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Interpret 84% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 23

Alter 76% connected

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

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Ascertain 76% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

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Be 76% connected

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

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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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Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Determine 76% connected

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

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Equal 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Find 76% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ingeminate 76% connected

Redoubled; repeated.

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Iterate 76% connected

Uttered or done again; repeated.

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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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Paraphrase 76% connected

A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller e…

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Reiterate 76% connected

To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat.

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Repeat 76% connected

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.

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Restate 76% connected

To state anew.

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Retell 76% connected

To tell again.

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Reword 76% connected

To repeat in the same words; to reecho.

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Transmit 76% connected

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…

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Transport 76% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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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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Manner of action 4

Gloss 76% connected

Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

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Latinize 76% connected

To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.

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Mistranslate 76% connected

To translate erroneously.

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Retranslate 76% connected

To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.

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Derivationally related 10

Displacement 74% connected

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Displacement 74% connected

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Interpreter 74% connected

One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Interpreter 74% connected

One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Translation 74% connected

The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the transla…

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Translation 74% connected

The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the transla…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Understandable 74% connected

Capable of being understood; intelligible.

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Understandable 74% connected

Capable of being understood; intelligible.

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Synonym 5

Interpret 92% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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.

Read 92% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Render 92% connected

One who rends.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Transform 92% connected

To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Understand 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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