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Wind

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.

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Verb group 2

Wander 84% connected

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fi…

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Wander 84% connected

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fi…

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Air 76% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Blast 76% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Boreas 76% connected

The north wind; -- usually a personification.

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Brass 76% connected

An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes cont…

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Breeze 76% connected

Alt. of Breeze fly

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Calm 76% connected

Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility;…

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Chinook 76% connected

One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called…

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Doldrums 76% connected

A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so c…

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Draft 76% connected

Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.

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Draught 76% connected

The act of drawing or pulling

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Easter 76% connected

An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha…

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Easterly 76% connected

Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.

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Gale 76% connected

A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.

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Gust 76% connected

A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.

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Harmattan 76% connected

A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually a…

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Khamsin 76% connected

A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara.

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Languor 76% connected

A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

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Monsoon 76% connected

A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical…

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Norther 76% connected

A wind from the north; esp., a strong and cold north wind in Texas and the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Northerly 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern.

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Northwester 76% connected

A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind.

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Organ 76% connected

An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers…

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Pipe 76% connected

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pi…

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Samiel 76% connected

A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria.

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Simoom 76% connected

Alt. of Simoon

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Simoon 76% connected

A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the p…

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Southeaster 76% connected

A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.

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Souther 76% connected

A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south.

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Southerly 76% connected

Southern.

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Southwester 76% connected

A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.

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Squall 76% connected

A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.

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Thermal 76% connected

Of or pertaining to heat; warm; hot; as, the thermal unit; thermal waters.

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Whistle 76% connected

To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a s…

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Wood 76% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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Zephyr 76% connected

The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.

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Manner of action 11

Ball 76% connected

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

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Clew 76% connected

Alt. of Clue

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Clue 76% connected

A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.

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Coil 76% connected

To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

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Curl 76% connected

To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

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Loop 76% connected

A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

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Reel 76% connected

A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.

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Snake 76% connected

Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.

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Spiral 76% connected

Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.

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Spool 76% connected

A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.

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Trice 76% connected

To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

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Broader term 34

Counsel 76% connected

Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.

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Counseling 76% connected

of Counsel

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Counselling 76% connected

of Counsel

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Direction 76% connected

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

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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…

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Elevate 76% connected

Elevated; raised aloft.

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Enlace 76% connected

To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.

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Entwine 76% connected

To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.

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Exhalation 76% connected

The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.

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Expiration 76% connected

The act of expiring

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Extend 76% 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.

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Fasten 76% connected

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Guidance 76% connected

The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.

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Influence 76% connected

A flowing in or upon; influx.

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Instrument 76% connected

That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical…

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Interlace 76% connected

To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave.

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Intertwine 76% connected

To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace.

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Lace 76% connected

That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in dr…

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Lead 76% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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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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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Reflex 76% connected

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

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Rotation 76% connected

The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a dista…

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Smell 76% connected

To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate ma…

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Talking 76% connected

of Talk

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Tighten 76% connected

To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Twine 76% connected

A twist; a convolution.

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Weather 76% connected

The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorologi…

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Crimper 74% connected

One who, or that which, crimps

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Crimper 74% connected

One who, or that which, crimps

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Curve 74% connected

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

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Curve 74% connected

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

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Key 74% connected

An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lo…

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Key 74% connected

An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lo…

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Roll 74% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Roll 74% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Thread 74% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

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Thread 74% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

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Winder 74% connected

One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.

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Winder 74% connected

One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.

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Entails 1

Turn 72% 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…

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Substance part 1

Air 70% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Component part 3

Bell 70% connected

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound o…

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Embouchure 70% connected

The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.

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Mouthpiece 70% connected

The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.

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Curve 92% connected

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

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fart 92% connected

A noisy release of gas from the digestive system

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Flatus 92% connected

of Flatus

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Hint 92% connected

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.

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Hoist 92% connected

To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.

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Lead 92% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Lift 92% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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malarkey 92% connected

Nonsense or foolish talk

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Meander 92% connected

A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.

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Nose 92% connected

The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, an…

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Nothingness 92% connected

Nihility; nonexistence.

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Roll 92% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Scent 92% connected

To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.

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Steer 92% connected

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

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Thread 92% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

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Tip 92% connected

The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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Twine 92% connected

A twist; a convolution.

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Twist 92% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Wander 92% connected

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fi…

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Weave 92% connected

To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence,…

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Winding 92% connected

of Wind

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Wrap 92% connected

To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

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.

Wreathe 92% connected

To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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