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Trend

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

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Verb group 2

Be 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet groups these verbs by closely related meaning.

Be 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet groups these verbs by closely related meaning.

Broader term 10

Appreciation 76% connected

A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Be 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Direction 76% connected

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discernment 76% connected

The act of discerning.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Taste 76% connected

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tendency 76% connected

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Way 76% connected

Away.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Narrower term 2

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,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gravitation 76% connected

The act of gravitating.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 1

Yaw 76% connected

To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 2

Slew 74% connected

of Slay

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Slew 74% connected

of Slay

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 13

Course 92% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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.

Curve 92% connected

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cut 92% connected

of Cut

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Drift 92% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Movement 92% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sheer 92% connected

Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slew 92% connected

of Slay

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slue 92% connected

A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Style 92% 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,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swerve 92% connected

To stray; to wander; to rope.

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.

Tendency 92% connected

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

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.

Veer 92% connected

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

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.

Vogue 92% connected

The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in th…

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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