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Unfold

To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.

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Verb group 2

Extend 84% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Extend 84% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 5

Butterfly 76% connected

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Divaricate 76% connected

To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exfoliate 76% connected

To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Grass 76% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Splay 76% connected

To display; to spread.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 5

Deform 76% connected

To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reveal 76% connected

To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Undo 76% connected

To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Unveil 76% connected

To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 6

Extensile 74% connected

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Extensile 74% connected

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Blossom 92% connected

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as,…

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.

Extend 92% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Open 92% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spread 92% connected

of Spread

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stretch 92% connected

To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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