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give lip service
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affair
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article
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artifact
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choral service
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dingus
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dofunny
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dohickey
,
dojigger
,
dojiggy
,
domajig
,
domajigger
,
doodad
,
dowhacky
,
eisteddfod
,
eppes
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etwas
,
farewell performance
,
flumadiddle
,
folk-music festival
,
folk-sing
,
gadget
,
gigamaree
,
gimmick
,
gizmo
,
hickey
,
hootmalalie
,
jam session
,
jigger
,
material thing
,
music festival
,
musicale
,
object
,
opera festival
,
quelque chose
,
rock festival
,
service of song
,
sing
,
sing-in
,
singfest
,
singing
,
something
,
swan song
,
thing
,
thingum
,
thingumabob
,
thingumadad
,
thingumadoodle
,
thingumajig
,
thingumajigger
,
thingumaree
,
thingummy
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whatchy
,
widget
fork over
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related words >
circulate
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come across
,
come across with
,
come down with
,
come through with
,
cough up
,
deliver
,
deliver over
,
distribute
,
forward
,
give in
,
give out
,
give over
,
grease the palm
,
hand
,
hand in
,
hand out
,
hand over
,
kick in
,
lay on one
,
pass
,
pass out
,
pass over
,
plunk down
,
pony up
,
post
,
reach
,
render
,
resign
,
stump up
,
surrender
,
tickle the palm
,
transfer
,
turn over
get back at
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related words >
alternate
,
bandy
,
be quits with
,
change
,
come back at
,
commute
,
compensate
,
cooperate
,
counter
,
counterchange
,
exchange
,
get even with
,
give and take
,
give in exchange
,
give in return
,
hit back at
,
interchange
,
logroll
,
pay back
,
permute
,
reciprocate
,
requite
,
respond
,
retaliate
,
retort
,
return
,
return the compliment
,
strike back
,
swap
,
switch
,
trade
,
transpose
apprise
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related words >
acquaint
,
advertise
,
advertise of
,
advise
,
announce
,
brief
,
bring word
,
clue
,
communicate
,
declare
,
disclose
,
discover
,
divulge
,
enlighten
,
familiarize
,
fill in
,
give notice
,
give the facts
,
give word
,
inform
,
instruct
,
leave word
,
let know
,
mention to
,
notify
,
post
,
proclaim
,
publish
,
report
,
reveal
,
send word
,
serve notice
,
speak
,
tell
,
verse
,
warn
servility
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related words >
abjection
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abjectness
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absolutism
,
acquiescence
,
agreeability
,
agreeableness
,
allegiance
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
back seat
,
baseness
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bend
,
bending the knee
,
biddability
,
bob
,
bond service
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bondage
,
bow
,
bowing and scraping
,
brown-nosing
,
captivity
,
compliableness
,
compliance
,
conformity
,
control
,
cringing
,
curtsy
,
debt slavery
,
deprivation of freedom
,
dipping the colors
,
disenfranchisement
,
disfranchisement
,
docility
,
domination
,
ductility
,
duteousness
,
dutifulness
,
enslavement
,
enthrallment
,
facility
,
faith
,
fawning
,
fealty
,
feudalism
,
feudality
,
flattery
,
flexibility
,
genuflection
,
helotism
,
helotry
,
homage
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
inclination
,
indentureship
,
inferiority
,
juniority
,
kneeling
,
kowtow
,
lowliness
,
loyalty
,
making a leg
,
malleability
,
meanness
,
minority
,
moldability
,
nod
,
obedience
,
obediency
,
obeisance
,
obsequiousness
,
observance
,
peonage
,
plasticity
,
pliability
,
pliancy
,
presenting arms
,
prostration
,
restraint
,
reverence
,
salaam
,
salutation
,
salute
,
scrape
,
second fiddle
,
second string
,
secondariness
,
serfdom
,
serfhood
,
service
,
servitium
,
servitude
,
slavery
,
slavishness
,
sliminess
,
standing at attention
,
subjection
,
subjugation
,
submission
,
submissiveness
,
subordinacy
,
subordination
,
subservience
,
suit and service
,
suit service
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantism
,
third string
,
thrall
,
thralldom
,
toadying
,
toadyism
,
tractability
,
truckling
,
tyranny
,
unctuousness
,
vassalage
,
vileness
,
villenage
,
wheedling
,
willingness
,
yieldingness
,
yoke
retaliate
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make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing"
related words >
alternate
,
atone
,
avenge
,
bandy
,
be quits with
,
change
,
come back at
,
commute
,
compensate
,
cooperate
,
counter
,
counterchange
,
cover
,
do penance
,
even the score
,
exchange
,
expiate
,
fill up
,
get back at
,
get even with
,
give
,
give and take
,
give in exchange
,
give in return
,
hit back at
,
indemnify
,
interchange
,
launch a vendetta
,
logroll
,
make amends
,
make compensation
,
make good
,
make up for
,
pay back
,
permute
,
reciprocate
,
recompense
,
rectify
,
repay
,
requite
,
respond
,
retort
,
return
,
return the compliment
,
revenge
,
set right
,
strike back
,
swap
,
switch
,
take revenge
,
trade
,
transpose
osculate
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have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate"
be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate"
related words >
blow a kiss
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brush
,
brush by
,
bus
,
buss
,
caress
,
come in contact
,
contact
,
glance
,
graze
,
hit
,
impinge
,
kiss
,
lip
,
nudge
,
peck
,
rub
,
scrape
,
shave
,
sideswipe
,
skim
,
skirt
,
smack
,
smooch
,
squeak by
,
touch
articulate
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expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings"
express or state clearly
related words >
Ciceronian
,
Demosthenian
,
Demosthenic
,
Tullian
,
accouple
,
accumulate
,
adjust
,
agglutinate
,
amass
,
apprehensible
,
assemble
,
associate
,
audible
,
band
,
batten
,
batten down
,
bolt
,
bond
,
bracket
,
breathe
,
bridge
,
bridge over
,
buckle
,
butt
,
button
,
cement
,
chain
,
chime
,
chorus
,
clap together
,
clasp
,
clear
,
cleat
,
clip
,
cognizable
,
collect
,
combine
,
come out with
,
communicate
,
comprehensible
,
comprise
,
concatenate
,
conglobulate
,
conjoin
,
conjugate
,
connect
,
contrastive
,
convey
,
coordinate
,
copulate
,
couple
,
cover
,
definite
,
deliver
,
disclose
,
distinct
,
distinctive
,
dovetail
,
easily understood
,
easy to understand
,
eloquent
,
embrace
,
emit
,
encompass
,
enunciate
,
exoteric
,
express
,
facund
,
fathomable
,
felicitous
,
fling off
,
fluent
,
formulate
,
free-speaking
,
free-spoken
,
garrulous
,
gather
,
give
,
give expression
,
give out with
,
give tongue
,
give utterance
,
give voice
,
glib
,
glue
,
harmonize
,
hasp
,
hearable
,
hi-fi
,
high-fidelity
,
hinge
,
hitch
,
hook
,
impart
,
include
,
intelligible
,
jam
,
join
,
joint
,
jointed
,
knot
,
knowable
,
latch
,
lay together
,
league
,
let out
,
link
,
lip
,
lock
,
loud-speaking
,
loud-spoken
,
lump together
,
marry
,
marshal
,
mass
,
meaningful
,
merge
,
methodize
,
miter
,
mobilize
,
mortise
,
nail
,
oral
,
order
,
organize
,
out with
,
outspoken
,
pair
,
peg
,
penetrable
,
phonate
,
phrase
,
piece together
,
pin
,
plain
,
plain-speaking
,
plain-spoken
,
plumbable
,
pour forth
,
prehensible
,
present
,
prolix
,
pronounce
,
put forth
,
put in words
,
put together
,
rabbet
,
raise
,
readable
,
regulate
,
relate
,
rivet
,
roll into one
,
say
,
scarf
,
screw
,
scrutable
,
set forth
,
sew
,
significant
,
silver
,
silver-tongued
,
skewer
,
slick
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
snap
,
soft-speaking
,
soft-spoken
,
solder
,
sonant
,
sound
,
span
,
speaking
,
spellbinding
,
splice
,
spoken
,
staple
,
stick
,
stick together
,
stitch
,
systematize
,
tack
,
take in
,
talkative
,
talking
,
tape
,
tell
,
throw off
,
tie
,
toggle
,
true-speaking
,
understandable
,
unify
,
unite
,
utter
,
venting
,
verbalize
,
viva voce
,
vocalize
,
voice
,
voiced
,
wedge
,
weld
,
well-spoken
,
whisper
,
word
,
yoke
,
zipper
cry havoc
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admonish
,
advise
,
alarm
,
alert
,
arouse
,
caution
,
cry wolf
,
fly storm warnings
,
frighten
,
give fair warning
,
give notice
,
give warning
,
issue an ultimatum
,
notify
,
sound the alarm
,
sound the tocsin
,
startle
,
threaten
,
tip
,
tip off
,
utter a caveat
,
warn
,
warn against
bring to pass
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related words >
accomplish
,
achieve
,
author
,
bear
,
beget
,
breed
,
bring about
,
bring forth
,
bring off
,
bring to effect
,
carry into execution
,
carry off
,
carry out
,
carry through
,
cause
,
come through with
,
commit
,
conceive
,
create
,
do
,
do to
,
effect
,
effectuate
,
engender
,
establish
,
father
,
found
,
generate
,
gestate
,
get through
,
give birth to
,
give occasion to
,
give origin to
,
give rise to
,
go and do
,
implement
,
inaugurate
,
inflict
,
institute
,
make
,
occasion
,
originate
,
pay
,
perpetrate
,
produce
,
pull off
,
put across
,
put over
,
put through
,
realize
,
render
,
set afloat
,
set on foot
,
set up
,
sire
,
take and do
,
up and do
,
work
,
wreak
poser
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a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
related words >
Chinese puzzle
,
Gordian knot
,
Holy Willie
,
Joseph Surface
,
Mawworm
,
Pecksniff
,
Pharisee
,
Tartuffe
,
affecter
,
attitudinarian
,
attitudinizer
,
baffling problem
,
blagueur
,
bluff
,
bluffer
,
brain twister
,
canter
,
canting hypocrite
,
charlatan
,
crossword puzzle
,
crux
,
dilemma
,
dissembler
,
dissimulator
,
enigma
,
enigmatic question
,
fake
,
faker
,
floorer
,
formalist
,
fourflusher
,
fraud
,
humbug
,
hypocrite
,
impersonator
,
impostor
,
jigsaw puzzle
,
knot
,
knotty point
,
lip server
,
lip worshiper
,
malingerer
,
mind-boggler
,
mountebank
,
mystery
,
node
,
nodus
,
nonplus
,
nut to crack
,
oxymoron
,
paradox
,
perplexed question
,
perplexity
,
pharisee
,
phony
,
pietist
,
pious fraud
,
pons asinorum
,
poseur
,
posture maker
,
posturer
,
posturist
,
pretender
,
problem
,
puzzle
,
puzzlement
,
puzzler
,
quack
,
quacksalver
,
quackster
,
quandary
,
question
,
question mark
,
ranter
,
religionist
,
religious hypocrite
,
ringer
,
saltimbanco
,
sham
,
shammer
,
sixty-four dollar question
,
sniveler
,
snuffler
,
spiritual humbug
,
sticker
,
striker of poses
,
stumper
,
teaser
,
tough proposition
,
vexed question
,
whited sepulcher
,
why
fourth estate
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related words >
AP
,
Associated Press
,
Fleet Street
,
Reuters
,
UPI
,
United Press International
,
advice
,
book publishing
,
broadcast journalism
,
communications
,
communications industry
,
information
,
intelligence
,
journalism
,
magazine publishing
,
news
,
news agency
,
news medium
,
news service
,
newsiness
,
newsletter
,
newsmagazine
,
newspaper
,
newsworthiness
,
press association
,
print medium
,
public press
,
public print
,
publishing
,
publishing industry
,
radio
,
reportage
,
telegraph agency
,
television
,
the fourth estate
,
the press
,
tidings
,
wire service
,
word
advice
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a proposal for an appropriate course of action
related words >
admonition
,
advisement
,
alerting
,
broadcast journalism
,
caution
,
cautioning
,
clue
,
communication
,
communique
,
counsel
,
cue
,
direction
,
dispatch
,
embassy
,
express
,
forewarning
,
guidance
,
information
,
instruction
,
intelligence
,
journalism
,
letter
,
message
,
monition
,
news
,
news agency
,
news medium
,
news service
,
newsiness
,
newsletter
,
newsmagazine
,
newspaper
,
newsworthiness
,
notice
,
notification
,
office
,
opinion
,
passing word
,
pneumatogram
,
pointer
,
press association
,
radio
,
recommendation
,
release
,
reportage
,
steer
,
suggestion
,
teaching
,
telegram
,
telegraph agency
,
television
,
the fourth estate
,
the press
,
tidings
,
tip
,
tip-off
,
view
,
warning
,
whisper
,
wire service
,
word
brim
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a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat
the top edge of a vessel or other container
fill as much as possible; "brim a cup to good fellowship"
be completely full; "His eyes brimmed with tears"
related words >
bank
,
board
,
border
,
bordure
,
brink
,
brow
,
coast
,
edge
,
featheredge
,
flange
,
frame
,
fringe
,
hem
,
labellum
,
labium
,
labrum
,
ledge
,
limb
,
limbus
,
lip
,
list
,
marge
,
margin
,
overflow
,
ragged edge
,
rim
,
selvage
,
shore
,
side
,
sideline
,
skirt
,
verge
give notice
collapse
related words >
acquaint
,
admonish
,
advertise
,
advertise of
,
advise
,
affirm
,
alert
,
announce
,
annunciate
,
apprise
,
brief
,
bring word
,
caution
,
communicate
,
cry havoc
,
declare
,
declare roundly
,
disclose
,
enlighten
,
enunciate
,
familiarize
,
forerun
,
give fair warning
,
give the facts
,
give warning
,
give word
,
harbinger
,
herald
,
inform
,
instruct
,
issue a manifesto
,
issue a statement
,
issue an ultimatum
,
leave word
,
let know
,
make a statement
,
make an announcement
,
mention to
,
notify
,
preannounce
,
proclaim
,
pronounce
,
publish a manifesto
,
report
,
run before
,
send word
,
serve notice
,
sound the alarm
,
speak
,
state
,
tell
,
threaten
,
tip
,
tip off
,
utter a caveat
,
verse
,
warn
,
warn against
give a lift
collapse
related words >
abet
,
aid
,
animate
,
assist
,
avail
,
bail out
,
bear a hand
,
befriend
,
benefit
,
boost
,
brighten
,
buoy up
,
cheer
,
comfort
,
do good
,
doctor
,
ease
,
encourage
,
enliven
,
exhilarate
,
favor
,
give a boost
,
give a hand
,
give help
,
gladden
,
hearten
,
help
,
help up
,
horse
,
inspire
,
inspirit
,
invigorate
,
lend a hand
,
lend one aid
,
liven
,
mount
,
pick up
,
proffer aid
,
protect
,
put on
,
rally
,
reclaim
,
redeem
,
rejoice
,
rejoice the heart
,
relieve
,
remedy
,
render assistance
,
rescue
,
restore
,
resuscitate
,
revive
,
save
,
set up
,
succor
,
take in tow
,
vitalize
remedy
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a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
provide relief for; "remedy his illness"
related words >
abatement
,
abet
,
aid
,
allayment
,
alleviate
,
alleviation
,
ameliorate
,
amend
,
amends
,
analgesia
,
anesthesia
,
anesthetizing
,
answer
,
antacid
,
antidote
,
appeasement
,
assist
,
assistance
,
assuagement
,
avail
,
bail out
,
bandage
,
bathe
,
bear a hand
,
befriend
,
benefit
,
bring around
,
bring round
,
buffer
,
care for
,
comfort
,
compensate
,
compensation
,
control
,
correct
,
correction
,
corrective
,
counteractant
,
counteractive
,
counteragent
,
counterirritant
,
countermeasure
,
counterstep
,
cure
,
cure-all
,
curing
,
deadening
,
diagnose
,
diminishment
,
diminution
,
do good
,
doctor
,
drug
,
dulling
,
ease
,
easement
,
easing
,
elixir
,
emend
,
favor
,
fixing
,
flux
,
give a boost
,
give a hand
,
give a lift
,
give care to
,
give help
,
give satisfaction
,
good offices
,
heal
,
healing
,
help
,
improve
,
lend a hand
,
lend one aid
,
lessening
,
lulling
,
make all square
,
make good
,
make right
,
making right
,
massage
,
medicament
,
medication
,
medicinal
,
medicine
,
mend
,
mending
,
minister to
,
ministration
,
ministry
,
mitigate
,
mitigation
,
mollification
,
neutralizer
,
nostrum
,
nullifier
,
numbing
,
nurse
,
office
,
offices
,
offset
,
operate on
,
overhaul
,
overhauling
,
palliation
,
panacea
,
pay reparations
,
pharmaceutical
,
pharmacon
,
physic
,
plaster
,
poultice
,
prescribe
,
prescription
,
preventative
,
preventive
,
proffer aid
,
prophylactic
,
protect
,
protection
,
pull round
,
purge
,
put right
,
put straight
,
put to rights
,
rally
,
reclaim
,
recompense
,
rectification
,
rectify
,
recure
,
redeem
,
redress
,
reduction
,
reform
,
relief
,
relieve
,
remunerate
,
render assistance
,
repair
,
repairing
,
reparation
,
requite
,
rescue
,
restorative
,
restore
,
restore to health
,
resuscitate
,
revive
,
right
,
rub
,
salving
,
satisfaction
,
save
,
service
,
set right
,
set straight
,
set to rights
,
set up
,
softening
,
solution
,
soothe
,
soothing
,
specific
,
splint
,
straighten out
,
strap
,
subduement
,
succor
,
support
,
take in tow
,
therapy
,
treat
,
treatment
,
troubleshooting
,
work a cure
wait on
collapse
related words >
abide
,
accompany
,
administer to
,
associate
,
associate with
,
assort with
,
attend
,
attend on
,
await
,
band together
,
bide
,
care for
,
cater to
,
chaperon
,
chore
,
combine
,
companion
,
conduct
,
confederate
,
consociate
,
consort with
,
convoy
,
couple with
,
dance attendance upon
,
do for
,
do service
,
do service to
,
drudge
,
escort
,
esquire
,
fetch and carry
,
flock together
,
go along with
,
go with
,
guard
,
guide
,
hang around with
,
help
,
herd together
,
keep company with
,
lackey
,
lead
,
look after
,
maid
,
mark time
,
marshal
,
minister to
,
mother
,
nurse
,
pander to
,
pay attentions to
,
run with
,
serve
,
shepherd
,
sit up for
,
squire
,
stay up for
,
sweat
,
sweat it out
,
sweat out
,
take care of
,
take out
,
tend
,
toady to
,
truckle to
,
upon
,
usher
,
valet
,
wait
,
wait for
,
wait up for
,
watch
,
watch and wait
,
work for
attend to
collapse
get down to; pay attention to; take seriously; "Attend to your duties, please"
related words >
abide by
,
act up to
,
adhere to
,
advert to
,
attend
,
auscultate
,
baby-sit
,
be all ears
,
be aware of
,
be engrossed in
,
be faithful to
,
bend an ear
,
bug
,
care for
,
chaperon
,
cherish
,
cock the ears
,
come down on
,
comply with
,
conform to
,
conserve
,
do for
,
do justice to
,
drink in
,
eavesdrop
,
examine by ear
,
fill
,
fix
,
follow
,
foster
,
fulfill
,
give attention
,
give audience to
,
give ear
,
give heed to
,
give it to
,
give mind to
,
give thought to
,
hark
,
hear
,
hear out
,
hearken
,
heed
,
hold by
,
intercept
,
keep
,
keep faith with
,
keep watch over
,
lend an ear
,
listen
,
listen at
,
listen in
,
listen to
,
live up to
,
look after
,
look out for
,
look to
,
make good
,
matronize
,
meet
,
mind
,
minister to
,
mother
,
not forget
,
nurse
,
nurture
,
observe
,
pay
,
pay attention to
,
pay out
,
pay regard to
,
preserve
,
protege
,
provide for
,
regard
,
respect
,
ride herd on
,
satisfy
,
see after
,
see to
,
serve one out
,
settle
,
settle the score
,
shepherd
,
sit in on
,
support
,
take care of
,
take charge of
,
tap
,
tend
,
turn to
,
watch
,
watch out for
,
watch over
,
wiretap
hearken
collapse
related words >
attend
,
attend to
,
auscultate
,
be all ears
,
bend an ear
,
bug
,
cock the ears
,
eavesdrop
,
examine by ear
,
give attention
,
give audience to
,
give ear
,
hark
,
hear
,
hear out
,
heed
,
intercept
,
lend an ear
,
listen
,
listen at
,
listen in
,
listen to
,
sit in on
,
tap
,
wiretap
undersign
collapse
sign at the bottom of (a document)
related words >
OK
,
accept
,
accredit
,
affirm
,
amen
,
approve
,
assure
,
attest
,
authenticate
,
authorize
,
autograph
,
back
,
be sponsor for
,
bond
,
certify
,
confirm
,
cosign
,
countersecure
,
countersign
,
endorse
,
ensure
,
give permission
,
give the go-ahead
,
give the imprimatur
,
give thumbs up
,
guarantee
,
guaranty
,
initial
,
insure
,
notarize
,
pass
,
pass on
,
pass upon
,
permit
,
ratify
,
rubber stamp
,
sanction
,
say amen to
,
seal
,
second
,
secure
,
sign
,
sign and seal
,
sign for
,
sponsor
,
stand behind
,
stand up for
,
subscribe to
,
support
,
swear and affirm
,
swear to
,
underwrite
,
validate
,
visa
,
vise
,
warrant
eavesdrop
collapse
related words >
attend
,
attend to
,
auscultate
,
be all ears
,
bend an ear
,
bug
,
cock the ears
,
examine by ear
,
give attention
,
give audience to
,
give ear
,
hark
,
hear
,
hear out
,
hearken
,
heed
,
intercept
,
lend an ear
,
listen
,
listen at
,
listen in
,
listen to
,
overhear
,
pry
,
sit in on
,
snoop
,
spy
,
tap
,
wiretap
employ
collapse
related words >
active use
,
activities
,
activity
,
add
,
affair
,
affairs
,
appliance
,
application
,
apply
,
attend to business
,
attendance
,
avail
,
bag
,
bespeak
,
bestow
,
book
,
brief
,
business
,
busy
,
carry on
,
commerce
,
commission
,
concern
,
concernment
,
conduct
,
consecrate to
,
consume
,
consumption
,
contract for
,
dedicate to
,
devote
,
do
,
do with
,
employment
,
engage
,
engage in
,
engross
,
enlist
,
enterprise
,
exercise
,
exert
,
exertion
,
expend
,
exploit
,
follow
,
function
,
give over to
,
give to
,
go in for
,
good use
,
handle
,
hard usage
,
hard use
,
hire
,
ill use
,
interest
,
involve
,
labor
,
lookout
,
make use of
,
manage
,
manipulate
,
matter
,
mind the store
,
ministration
,
ministry
,
misuse
,
monopolize
,
obtain
,
occupation
,
occupy
,
operate
,
pass
,
pass the time
,
peonage
,
play
,
ply
,
practice
,
preengage
,
procure
,
prosecute
,
pursue
,
put forth
,
put in
,
put on
,
put out
,
recruit
,
reserve
,
retain
,
rough usage
,
secure
,
serfdom
,
service
,
servitium
,
servitorship
,
servitude
,
sign
,
sign on
,
sign up
,
sign up for
,
slavery
,
specialize in
,
spend
,
spend the time
,
tackle
,
take into employment
,
take on
,
take to
,
take up
,
tendance
,
thing
,
undertake
,
undertaking
,
usage
,
use
,
use up
,
using up
,
utilize
,
wage
,
while
,
while away
,
wield
,
wile
,
work
,
work at
,
wrong use
listen in
collapse
listen quietly, without contributing to the conversation
listen without the speaker's knowledge; "the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations"
related words >
attend
,
attend to
,
auscultate
,
be all ears
,
bend an ear
,
bug
,
buzz
,
call
,
call up
,
cock the ears
,
dial
,
eavesdrop
,
examine by ear
,
give a ring
,
give attention
,
give audience to
,
give ear
,
hang up
,
hark
,
hear
,
hear out
,
hearken
,
heed
,
hold the phone
,
intercept
,
lend an ear
,
listen
,
listen at
,
listen to
,
make a call
,
phone
,
ring
,
ring off
,
ring up
,
sit in on
,
tap
,
telephone
,
tune down
,
tune in
,
tune up
,
wiretap
ream
collapse
a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams"
enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole"
remove by making a hole or by boring; "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment"
squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges"
related words >
auger
,
bawl out
,
beat
,
bilk
,
bite
,
bore
,
broach
,
bugger
,
cardboard
,
chew
,
chew ass
,
chew out
,
chisel
,
countersink
,
cozen
,
cuss out
,
diddle
,
do
,
drill
,
empierce
,
fellate
,
fix
,
give a going-over
,
give hail Columbia
,
give hell
,
give the deuce
,
give what-for
,
gobs
,
gore
,
gouge
,
gouge out
,
gyp
,
heap
,
hole
,
honeycomb
,
impale
,
jack up
,
lambaste
,
lance
,
leaf
,
loads
,
mace
,
masturbate
,
needle
,
oodles
,
open up
,
page
,
paper
,
penetrate
,
perforate
,
pierce
,
pink
,
prick
,
punch
,
puncture
,
quantities
,
quire
,
ream ass
,
ream out
,
riddle
,
run through
,
screw
,
sheet
,
sit on
,
skewer
,
slew
,
sodomize
,
spear
,
spike
,
spit
,
stab
,
stationery
,
stick
,
tap
,
transfix
,
transpierce
,
trepan
,
trephine
,
wads
minister to
collapse
related words >
act for
,
administer to
,
advance
,
assist
,
attend
,
attend on
,
attend to
,
baby-sit
,
bandage
,
bathe
,
be instrumental
,
care for
,
cater to
,
chaperon
,
cherish
,
chore
,
conserve
,
cure
,
dance attendance upon
,
diagnose
,
do for
,
do service to
,
doctor
,
drudge
,
facilitate
,
flux
,
forward
,
foster
,
give care to
,
go between
,
heal
,
help
,
keep watch over
,
lackey
,
look after
,
look out for
,
look to
,
maid
,
massage
,
matronize
,
mediate
,
mind
,
mother
,
nurse
,
nurture
,
operate on
,
pander
,
pander to
,
physic
,
plaster
,
poultice
,
preserve
,
promote
,
protege
,
provide for
,
purge
,
remedy
,
ride herd on
,
rub
,
see after
,
see to
,
serve
,
shepherd
,
splint
,
strap
,
subserve
,
support
,
take care of
,
take charge of
,
tend
,
treat
,
upon
,
valet
,
wait
,
wait on
,
watch
,
watch out for
,
watch over
,
work for
confide
collapse
reveal in private; tell confidentially
related words >
air
,
alert
,
aspire to
,
assign
,
bank on
,
bestow
,
break it to
,
break the news
,
breathe
,
buzz
,
come out with
,
commend
,
commit
,
confide to
,
consign
,
count on
,
delegate
,
desire
,
divulgate
,
divulge
,
enfeoff
,
entrust
,
entrust with information
,
evulgate
,
expect
,
feel confident
,
give confidential information
,
give in charge
,
give in trust
,
give out
,
give vent to
,
hand over
,
harbor the hope
,
hint
,
hope
,
hope against hope
,
hope and pray
,
hope for
,
hope in
,
hope to God
,
infeudate
,
insinuate
,
intimate
,
lean upon
,
let get around
,
let in on
,
let next to
,
let out
,
live in hopes
,
make known
,
mention privately
,
nurture the hope
,
out with
,
present
,
presume
,
publish
,
put hep
,
put next to
,
relegate
,
rely on
,
remand
,
remit
,
rest assured
,
reveal
,
suggest
,
tell
,
tip
,
tip off
,
trust
,
turn over
,
utter
,
vent
,
ventilate
,
whisper
pay attention
collapse
related words >
address
,
advert to
,
attend to
,
attend to business
,
be alert
,
be aware of
,
be concerned
,
be engrossed in
,
be obsessed with
,
beau
,
care
,
chase
,
concentrate on
,
consider
,
court
,
drink in
,
esquire
,
fix on
,
focus on
,
follow
,
give heed
,
give heed to
,
give mind to
,
give thought to
,
heed
,
lay siege to
,
look lively
,
look out
,
look sharp
,
look to
,
make suit to
,
mind
,
miss nothing
,
not forget
,
pay attention to
,
pay court to
,
pay heed
,
pay regard to
,
pursue
,
reck
,
regard
,
scrutinize
,
see to
,
serenade
,
spark
,
squire
,
study
,
sue
,
swain
,
sweetheart
,
take an interest
,
take care
,
take heed
,
think
,
turn to
,
watch out
,
woo
while away
collapse
spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
related words >
bestow
,
consecrate to
,
consume
,
dally away
,
dedicate to
,
devote
,
diddle away
,
dribble away
,
drivel away
,
employ
,
expend
,
fool away
,
fritter away
,
give over to
,
give to
,
idle away
,
muddle away
,
pass
,
piss away
,
potter away
,
put in
,
spend
,
trifle away
,
use up
,
while
,
wile
despond
collapse
lose confidence or hope; become dejected; "The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election"
related words >
abandon hope
,
become suicidal
,
brood
,
despair
,
despair of
,
droop
,
falter
,
give up
,
give up hope
,
give way
,
hit rock bottom
,
languish
,
lose heart
,
lose hope
,
plumb the depths
,
reach the depths
,
sag
,
sink
,
sink into despair
,
touch bottom
,
yield to despair
brink
collapse
the edge of a steep place
a region marking a boundary
related words >
bank
,
board
,
border
,
bordure
,
brim
,
brow
,
coast
,
edge
,
featheredge
,
flange
,
frame
,
fringe
,
hem
,
labellum
,
labium
,
labrum
,
ledge
,
limb
,
limbus
,
lip
,
list
,
marge
,
margin
,
perimeter
,
periphery
,
point
,
ragged edge
,
rim
,
selvage
,
shore
,
side
,
sideline
,
skirt
,
threshold
,
verge
dress down
collapse
put on clothes that make a careless or ill-dressed impression
related words >
call down
,
come down on
,
flax
,
give a dressing-down
,
give it to
,
hide
,
jump all over
,
jump on
,
larrup
,
lather
,
leather
,
lick
,
paddle
,
speak to
,
talk to
,
tan
,
tell off
,
trim
,
wallop
,
welt
,
whale
lose heart
collapse
related words >
abandon hope
,
become suicidal
,
despair
,
despair of
,
despond
,
droop
,
falter
,
give up
,
give up hope
,
give way
,
hit rock bottom
,
languish
,
lose hope
,
plumb the depths
,
reach the depths
,
sink
,
sink into despair
,
touch bottom
,
yield to despair
abet
collapse
assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
related words >
advance
,
advocate
,
aid
,
aid and abet
,
approve of
,
ask for
,
assist
,
avail
,
bail out
,
bear a hand
,
befriend
,
benefit
,
comfort
,
condone
,
countenance
,
do for
,
do good
,
doctor
,
ease
,
egg
,
egg on
,
embolden
,
encourage
,
endorse
,
exhort
,
favor
,
feed
,
foment
,
foster
,
further
,
give a boost
,
give a hand
,
give a lift
,
give encouragement
,
give help
,
go for
,
goad
,
hearten
,
help
,
help out
,
incite
,
instigate
,
invite
,
keep in countenance
,
lend a hand
,
lend one aid
,
nourish
,
nurture
,
prod
,
proffer aid
,
promote
,
protect
,
provoke
,
raise
,
rally
,
reclaim
,
redeem
,
relieve
,
remedy
,
render assistance
,
rescue
,
restore
,
resuscitate
,
revive
,
sanction
,
save
,
second
,
set
,
set on
,
set up
,
shine upon
,
smile upon
,
spur
,
stead
,
stir up
,
subscribe
,
succor
,
support
,
take in tow
,
uphold
,
urge
,
whip up
wire service
collapse
related words >
TelAutography
,
Teletype
,
Teletype network
,
Teletyping
,
advice
,
broadcast journalism
,
closed-circuit telegraphy
,
code
,
duplex telegraphy
,
electricity
,
facsimile telegraph
,
information
,
intelligence
,
interrupter
,
journalism
,
key
,
multiplex telegraphy
,
news
,
news agency
,
news medium
,
news service
,
news ticker
,
newsiness
,
newsletter
,
newsmagazine
,
newspaper
,
newsworthiness
,
press association
,
quadruplex telegraphy
,
radio
,
railroad telegraphy
,
receiver
,
reportage
,
sender
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