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To move or travel very quickly

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Arise 76% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ascending 76% connected

of Ascend

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ascension 76% connected

The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ascent 76% connected

The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hurry 76% connected

To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rise 76% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rising 76% connected

of Rise

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Speed 76% connected

Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Uprise 76% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Billow 76% connected

A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.

Wallow 76% connected

To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Soar 92% connected

To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.

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.

Surge 92% connected

A spring; a fountain.

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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