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affiance
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banns
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a public announcement of a proposed marriage
related words >
Gretna Green wedding
,
affiance
,
banns of matrimony
,
betrothal
,
betrothment
,
bridal
,
bridal suite
,
bridechamber
,
chuppah
,
church wedding
,
civil ceremony
,
civil wedding
,
elopement
,
engagement
,
epithalamium
,
espousal
,
espousals
,
espousement
,
forced marriage
,
handfasting
,
honeymoon
,
hymen
,
hymeneal
,
hymeneal rites
,
marriage
,
marriage contract
,
nuptial apartment
,
nuptial mass
,
nuptial song
,
nuptials
,
plighted faith
,
plighted troth
,
prothalamium
,
saffron veil
,
shotgun wedding
,
spousals
,
troth
,
wedding
,
wedding canopy
,
wedding song
,
wedding veil
troth
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related words >
adherence
,
adhesion
,
affiance
,
allegiance
,
assurance
,
assure
,
attachment
,
avouch
,
avouchment
,
banns
,
banns of matrimony
,
become engaged
,
betroth
,
betrothal
,
betrothing
,
betrothment
,
bona fides
,
bond
,
bonne foi
,
constancy
,
contract
,
contract an engagement
,
countersign
,
devotedness
,
devotion
,
engage
,
engagement
,
espousal
,
faith
,
faithfulness
,
fealty
,
fidelity
,
firmness
,
good faith
,
guarantee
,
handfasting
,
homage
,
loyalty
,
make a promise
,
marriage contract
,
oath
,
parole
,
pledge
,
plight
,
plighted faith
,
plighted troth
,
promise
,
publish the banns
,
solemn declaration
,
staunchness
,
steadfastness
,
swear
,
tie
,
true blue
,
trueness
,
underwrite
,
vouch
,
vow
,
warrant
,
warranty
,
word
,
word of honor
espousal
collapse
related words >
Gretna Green wedding
,
acceptance
,
adoption
,
advocacy
,
affiance
,
affiliation
,
aid
,
approval
,
banns
,
banns of matrimony
,
betrothal
,
betrothing
,
betrothment
,
bridal
,
bridal suite
,
bridechamber
,
chuppah
,
church wedding
,
civil ceremony
,
civil wedding
,
elopement
,
embracement
,
embracing
,
engagement
,
epithalamium
,
espousals
,
espousement
,
forced marriage
,
handfasting
,
honeymoon
,
hymen
,
hymeneal
,
hymeneal rites
,
marriage
,
marriage contract
,
mating
,
nuptial apartment
,
nuptial mass
,
nuptial song
,
nuptials
,
plighted faith
,
plighted troth
,
promotion
,
prothalamium
,
saffron veil
,
shotgun wedding
,
spousal
,
spousals
,
support
,
troth
,
union
,
wedding
,
wedding canopy
,
wedding song
,
wedding veil
engage
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get caught; "make sure the gear is engaged"
keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support"
carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"
ask to represent; of legal counsel; "I'm retaining a lawyer"
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absorb
,
absorb the attention
,
accept obligation
,
affiance
,
agree
,
agree to
,
answer for
,
appeal
,
approach
,
arrest
,
assault
,
assay
,
attack
,
attempt
,
attend to business
,
attract
,
bargain
,
bargain for
,
battle
,
be answerable for
,
be attractive
,
be responsible for
,
be security for
,
beckon
,
become engaged
,
bespeak
,
betroth
,
bind
,
book
,
brief
,
bring
,
busy
,
captivate
,
capture
,
carry
,
catch
,
catch up in
,
chance
,
charm
,
clash with
,
coact
,
combat
,
commit
,
compact
,
concern
,
contract
,
contract an engagement
,
contract for
,
cooperate
,
covenant
,
decide
,
determine
,
devote
,
dispose
,
do a deal
,
do battle
,
dovetail
,
draw
,
draw in
,
embark on
,
embarrass
,
employ
,
enchant
,
encounter
,
engage in
,
engage in battle
,
engage the attention
,
engage the mind
,
engage the thoughts
,
engross
,
engross the mind
,
engross the thoughts
,
enlist
,
enmesh
,
entangle
,
enter into
,
enthrall
,
essay
,
exercise
,
face
,
fascinate
,
fetch
,
fight
,
get to do
,
give battle
,
go bail for
,
grab
,
grapple with
,
grip
,
guarantee
,
have an understanding
,
hire
,
hold
,
hold spellbound
,
hold the interest
,
hypnotize
,
imbue
,
immerse
,
implicate
,
incline
,
indenture
,
induce
,
influence
,
interact
,
interchange
,
interest
,
interest in
,
interlace
,
interlock
,
intermesh
,
interplay
,
intertwine
,
interweave
,
interwork
,
invite
,
involve
,
involve the interest
,
join battle
,
join battle with
,
join issue
,
lead
,
lift a finger
,
lure
,
make a deal
,
make an attempt
,
make an effort
,
meet
,
mesh
,
mesmerize
,
mind the store
,
monopolize
,
mortise
,
obligate
,
obsess
,
occupy
,
occupy the attention
,
offer
,
partake in
,
participate in
,
pass
,
pass the time
,
pledge
,
plight
,
preengage
,
preoccupy
,
procure
,
promise
,
prompt
,
publish the banns
,
put on
,
recruit
,
rent
,
reserve
,
retain
,
secure
,
shake hands on
,
sign on
,
sign up
,
sign up for
,
soak
,
spellbind
,
spend
,
spend the time
,
stipulate
,
strike
,
suck into
,
summon
,
sway
,
take into employment
,
take on
,
take part in
,
take the vows
,
take up
,
tangle
,
tantalize
,
tease
,
tempt
,
tickle
,
tie
,
tie up
,
titillate
,
troth
,
try
,
try conclusions
,
undertake
,
venture
,
venture on
,
venture upon
,
whet the appetite
plight
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a solemn pledge of fidelity
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adverse circumstances
,
adversity
,
affiance
,
affliction
,
aggravation
,
annoyance
,
assurance
,
assure
,
avouch
,
avouchment
,
baffle
,
bafflement
,
bearings
,
become engaged
,
betroth
,
bewilderment
,
bind
,
blight
,
bother
,
box
,
breakers ahead
,
bummer
,
cardhouse
,
care
,
case
,
catch-22
,
cause for alarm
,
circumstance
,
circumstances
,
clutch
,
complication
,
condition
,
confoundment
,
confusion
,
contract
,
contract an engagement
,
corner
,
countersign
,
covenant
,
crisis
,
cross
,
crunch
,
curse
,
danger
,
dangerous ground
,
difficulties
,
difficulty
,
dilemma
,
discomposure
,
disconcert
,
disconcertedness
,
disconcertion
,
disconcertment
,
disturbance
,
downer
,
embarrassing position
,
embarrassment
,
emergency
,
endangerment
,
engage
,
engagement
,
enigma
,
estate
,
extremity
,
faith
,
fine how-do-you-do
,
fix
,
footing
,
gaping chasm
,
gathering clouds
,
guarantee
,
hard knocks
,
hard life
,
hard lot
,
hardcase
,
hardship
,
hazard
,
hell to pay
,
hobble
,
hole
,
hot water
,
house of cards
,
how-do-you-do
,
imbroglio
,
imperilment
,
irritation
,
jam
,
jeopardy
,
location
,
lot
,
make a promise
,
menace
,
mess
,
mix
,
modality
,
mode
,
morass
,
mystery
,
nonplus
,
oath
,
parlous straits
,
parole
,
pass
,
peril
,
perplexity
,
perturbation
,
pickle
,
pinch
,
place
,
pledge
,
position
,
posture
,
pother
,
predicament
,
pressure
,
pretty pass
,
pretty pickle
,
pretty predicament
,
problem
,
promise
,
publish the banns
,
puzzle
,
puzzlement
,
quagmire
,
quandary
,
quicksand
,
rank
,
riddle
,
rigor
,
risk
,
rocks ahead
,
scrape
,
sea of troubles
,
situation
,
slough
,
solemn declaration
,
spot
,
squeeze
,
standing
,
state
,
station
,
status
,
stew
,
sticky wicket
,
storm clouds
,
strait
,
straits
,
stress
,
stress of life
,
swamp
,
swear
,
thin ice
,
threat
,
tight spot
,
tight squeeze
,
tightrope
,
trial
,
tribulation
,
tricky spot
,
troth
,
trouble
,
troubles
,
unassuredness
,
underwrite
,
unholy mess
,
upset
,
vale of tears
,
vicissitude
,
vouch
,
vow
,
warrant
,
warranty
,
word
,
word of honor
engagement
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employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer"
the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
contact by fitting together; "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears"
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Olympic games
,
Olympics
,
absorbed attention
,
absorption
,
action
,
affair
,
affiance
,
agreement
,
allurement
,
alternation
,
application
,
appointment
,
arrangement
,
assignation
,
association
,
attempt
,
banns
,
banns of matrimony
,
bargain
,
battle
,
berth
,
bespeaking
,
betrothal
,
betrothing
,
betrothment
,
billet
,
blandishment
,
blind date
,
booking
,
borscht circuit
,
bout
,
briefing
,
business
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
circuit
,
coaction
,
coaxing
,
cochairmanship
,
combat
,
commission
,
commitment
,
complementary distribution
,
complicity
,
concentration
,
concours
,
concurrence
,
condominium
,
conflict
,
conning
,
contemplation
,
contest
,
contract
,
contribution
,
cooperation
,
copartnership
,
copartnery
,
cotenancy
,
covenant
,
date
,
deal
,
deep study
,
deep thought
,
derby
,
double date
,
effort
,
embarrassment
,
employment
,
encounter
,
engagement book
,
engaging
,
engrossment
,
enlistment
,
enmeshment
,
entanglement
,
enterprise
,
espousal
,
exhortation
,
fight
,
game
,
games
,
get-together
,
gig
,
go
,
gymkhana
,
handfasting
,
having a part
,
hiring
,
hortation
,
immersion
,
implication
,
inclusion
,
incumbency
,
inducement
,
intentness
,
interaction
,
interchange
,
intercommunication
,
intercourse
,
interlacing
,
intermeshing
,
interplay
,
intertwining
,
interview
,
interweaving
,
interworking
,
invitation
,
involution
,
involvement
,
jawboning
,
job
,
joint chairmanship
,
joint control
,
joint ownership
,
joint tenancy
,
joust
,
lobbying
,
marriage contract
,
marriage proposal
,
match
,
matching
,
meditation
,
meet
,
meeting
,
mesh
,
meshing
,
monomania
,
moonlighting
,
obligation
,
obsession
,
offer of marriage
,
office
,
opening
,
operation
,
partaking
,
participation
,
partnership
,
persuasion
,
place
,
plan
,
playing engagement
,
pledge
,
plight
,
plighted faith
,
plighted troth
,
position
,
post
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
preengagement
,
preoccupation
,
profound thought
,
program
,
project
,
promise
,
proposal
,
proposition
,
quid pro quo
,
rally
,
rapt attention
,
recognizance
,
relation
,
rencontre
,
rendezvous
,
reservation
,
retainment
,
run
,
sales talk
,
salesmanship
,
second job
,
seesaw
,
selling
,
service
,
sharing
,
single-mindedness
,
situation
,
snow job
,
soft soap
,
solicitation
,
spot
,
stand
,
station
,
studiousness
,
study
,
suasion
,
submersion
,
suffrage
,
sweet talk
,
taking on
,
task
,
tenure
,
test
,
tilt
,
tit for tat
,
tour
,
tournament
,
tourney
,
trial
,
troth
,
tryst
,
understanding
,
undertaking
,
vacancy
,
vaudeville circuit
,
venture
,
verbal agreement
,
visit
,
voting
,
wheedling
,
word
,
work
,
working on
contract
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a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
enter into a contractual arrangement
make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
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OD
,
abbreviate
,
abridge
,
abstract
,
accept obligation
,
accord
,
acquire
,
affair
,
affiance
,
afflict
,
agree
,
agree to
,
agreement
,
answer for
,
arrangement
,
attempt
,
bag
,
bang
,
bar
,
bargain
,
bargain for
,
barricade
,
batten
,
batten down
,
be answerable for
,
be brought down
,
be felled
,
be responsible for
,
be security for
,
be seized of
,
be struck down
,
be traumatized
,
become engaged
,
betroth
,
bind
,
binding agreement
,
bob
,
boil down
,
bolt
,
bond
,
break out
,
bring down
,
bring on
,
bring upon
,
business
,
button
,
button up
,
capsulize
,
capture
,
cartel
,
catch
,
catch cold
,
cause
,
choke
,
choke off
,
circumscribe
,
clap
,
clip
,
close
,
close up
,
coarct
,
collapse
,
collective agreement
,
come by
,
come down with
,
come in for
,
come into
,
commit
,
commitment
,
compact
,
compress
,
concentrate
,
condense
,
confine
,
consolidate
,
consortium
,
constrict
,
constringe
,
contain
,
contract an engagement
,
convention
,
corral
,
corrugate
,
covenant
,
covenant of salt
,
cover
,
cramp
,
crease
,
crop
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut off short
,
cut short
,
deal
,
decline
,
decrease
,
derange
,
derive
,
develop
,
dicker
,
diminish
,
disorder
,
do a deal
,
dock
,
drag down
,
draw
,
draw in
,
draw together
,
dwindle
,
earn
,
effort
,
elide
,
employment contract
,
engage
,
engagement
,
enter into possession
,
enterprise
,
epitomize
,
erupt
,
fail
,
fall in with
,
fall into
,
fasten
,
fever
,
fold
,
fold up
,
foreshorten
,
formal agreement
,
gain
,
get
,
go bail for
,
go in
,
go into shock
,
harvest
,
have an understanding
,
incur
,
indispose
,
induce
,
invite
,
ironclad agreement
,
key
,
knit
,
latch
,
legal agreement
,
legal contract
,
lessen
,
limit
,
lock
,
lock out
,
lock up
,
make
,
make a deal
,
minify
,
mow
,
mutual agreement
,
narrow
,
net
,
nip
,
obligate
,
obligation
,
obtain
,
occlude
,
operation
,
overdose
,
pact
,
paction
,
padlock
,
plan
,
plight
,
plumb
,
poll
,
pollard
,
preengagement
,
procure
,
program
,
project
,
promise
,
proposition
,
protocol
,
prune
,
publish the banns
,
pucker
,
pucker up
,
pull down
,
purse
,
reap
,
recap
,
recapitulate
,
recognizance
,
reduce
,
restrict
,
retrench
,
run
,
run a temperature
,
sack
,
scale down
,
score
,
seal
,
seal off
,
seal up
,
secure
,
shake hands on
,
shave
,
shear
,
shorten
,
shrink
,
shut
,
shut the door
,
shut up
,
sicken
,
sink
,
slam
,
snap
,
snape
,
snub
,
solidify
,
squeeze
,
squeeze shut
,
stipulate
,
stipulation
,
straiten
,
strangle
,
strangulate
,
stunt
,
succumb to
,
sum up
,
summarize
,
synopsize
,
take
,
take ill
,
take in
,
take the vows
,
taper
,
task
,
telescope
,
transaction
,
treaty
,
trim
,
troth
,
truncate
,
understanding
,
undertake
,
undertaking
,
union contract
,
upset
,
valid contract
,
venture
,
verbal agreement
,
wage contract
,
weaken
,
welcome
,
win
,
work
,
wrinkle
,
zip up
,
zipper
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