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Vamp

To advance; to travel.

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Broader term 21

Accompaniment 76% connected

That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of…

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Bushel 76% connected

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

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Butterfly 76% connected

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

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Concoct 76% connected

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

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Coquet 76% connected

To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.

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Coquette 76% connected

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

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Dally 76% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

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Doctor 76% connected

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Flirt 76% connected

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

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Hatch 76% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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Mash 76% connected

A mesh.

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Mend 76% connected

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…

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Patch 76% connected

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

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Philander 76% connected

To make love to women; to play the male flirt.

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Piece 76% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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Repair 76% connected

To return.

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Restore 76% connected

To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

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Romance 76% connected

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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Manner of action 4

Concoct 76% connected

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

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Confabulate 76% connected

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

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Mythologize 76% connected

To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.

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Spin 76% connected

To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing o…

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Revamp 74% connected

To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

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Revamp 74% connected

To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

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Tease 74% connected

To comb or card, as wool or flax.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Tease 74% connected

To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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Containing whole 1

Upper 70% connected

Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a…

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Synonym 9

Coquette 92% connected

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fabricate 92% connected

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flirt 92% connected

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Invent 92% connected

To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Manufacture 92% connected

The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Minx 92% connected

A pert or a wanton girl.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Revamp 92% connected

To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tease 92% connected

To comb or card, as wool or flax.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vamper 92% connected

One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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