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Truckle

A small wheel or caster.

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Broader term 6

Bed 76% connected

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction fro…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blandish 76% connected

To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flatter 76% connected

One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Relent 76% connected

To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Soften 76% connected

To make soft or more soft.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Kowtow 74% connected

The same as Kotow.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Kowtow 74% connected

The same as Kotow.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Truckler 74% connected

One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Truckler 74% connected

One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 6

Bootlick 92% connected

A toady.

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.

Fawn 92% connected

A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

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.

Kotow 92% connected

The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degre…

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.

Kowtow 92% connected

The same as Kotow.

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.

Toady 92% connected

A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trundle 92% connected

A round body; a little wheel.

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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