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prep
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related words >
arrange
,
arrangement
,
basic training
,
briefing
,
clear for action
,
clear the decks
,
clearing the decks
,
cure
,
deploy
,
dress
,
equipment
,
familiarization
,
fix
,
fix up
,
fixing
,
foundation
,
get ready
,
groundwork
,
make arrangements
,
make preparations
,
make ready
,
makeready
,
making ready
,
manufacture
,
marshal
,
mobilization
,
mobilize
,
plan
,
planning
,
prearrange
,
prearrangement
,
preliminaries
,
preliminary
,
preliminary act
,
preliminary step
,
preparation
,
preparatory study
,
prepare
,
preparing
,
prepping
,
prerequisite
,
pretreat
,
pretreatment
,
process
,
processing
,
propaedeutic
,
provide
,
provision
,
put in shape
,
ready
,
ready up
,
readying
,
settle preliminaries
,
spadework
,
tan
,
training
,
treat
,
treatment
,
trial
,
trim
,
try out
,
tryout
,
warm-up
prepossess
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make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand; "A prepossessing appearance"
cause to be preoccupied; "The idea of his failure prepossesses him"
possess beforehand
related words >
absorb
,
adopt
,
appropriate
,
arrogate
,
assume
,
bend
,
bias
,
busy
,
colonize
,
conquer
,
distort
,
engage
,
engross
,
enslave
,
hog
,
imbue
,
immerse
,
indent
,
influence
,
involve
,
jaundice
,
jump a claim
,
make free with
,
make use of
,
monopolize
,
occupy
,
overrun
,
preempt
,
preengage
,
prejudice
,
prejudice against
,
prejudice the issue
,
preoccupy
,
requisition
,
sit on
,
soak
,
squat on
,
subjugate
,
sway
,
take all of
,
take it all
,
take over
,
take possession of
,
take up
,
twist
,
usurp
,
warp
handshake
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grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
related words >
accost
,
act up to
,
address
,
agree to anything
,
bob
,
bow
,
brown-nose
,
court
,
curry favor
,
curtsy
,
dance attendance on
,
embrace
,
fall all over
,
fall over
,
fawn upon
,
greeting
,
hail
,
hand-clasp
,
hello
,
how-do-you-do
,
hug
,
kiss
,
make court to
,
make up to
,
nod
,
pay court to
,
play up to
,
polish the apple
,
run after
,
salutation
,
salute
,
shine up to
,
smile
,
smile of recognition
,
suck up to
,
wave
scowl
collapse
frown with displeasure
related words >
angry look
,
black look
,
color
,
dirty look
,
flush
,
frown
,
glare
,
gloom
,
glower
,
gnarl
,
grimace
,
growl
,
knit the brow
,
long face
,
look black
,
look daggers
,
look sullen
,
lour
,
lower
,
make a lip
,
make a moue
,
mantle
,
moue
,
mow
,
nasty look
,
offense
,
pique
,
pout
,
pull a face
,
redden
,
reproving look
,
snap
,
snarl
,
spit
,
umbrage
,
wry face
mark down
collapse
reduce the price of
related words >
beat down
,
book
,
break
,
calendar
,
carve
,
catalog
,
chalk
,
chalk up
,
cheapen
,
check in
,
chronicle
,
clip
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut prices
,
decline
,
decry
,
deflate
,
depreciate
,
devaluate
,
devalue
,
dive
,
docket
,
downgrade
,
engrave
,
enroll
,
enscroll
,
enter
,
fall
,
fall in price
,
file
,
fill out
,
give way
,
grave
,
impanel
,
incise
,
index
,
inscribe
,
insert
,
jew down
,
jot down
,
list
,
log
,
lower
,
make a memorandum
,
make a note
,
make an entry
,
make out
,
matriculate
,
minute
,
nose-dive
,
note
,
note down
,
pare
,
place upon record
,
plummet
,
plunge
,
poll
,
post
,
post up
,
put down
,
put in writing
,
put on paper
,
put on tape
,
record
,
reduce
,
reduce to writing
,
register
,
sag
,
set down
,
shave
,
slash
,
slump
,
tabulate
,
take down
,
tape
,
tape-record
,
trim
,
underprize
,
undervalue
,
videotape
,
write
,
write down
,
write in
,
write off
,
write out
,
write up
hot up
collapse
related words >
accelerate
,
agent provocateur
,
aggravate
,
amplify
,
annoy
,
augment
,
beef up
,
blow up
,
build up
,
chafe
,
complicate
,
concentrate
,
condense
,
consolidate
,
cook
,
deepen
,
deteriorate
,
double
,
electric-heat
,
embitter
,
enhance
,
enlarge
,
exacerbate
,
exaggerate
,
exasperate
,
fire
,
fire up
,
foment
,
gas-heat
,
heat
,
heat up
,
heighten
,
hop up
,
hot
,
hot-air-heat
,
hot-water-heat
,
increase
,
intensify
,
irritate
,
jazz up
,
key up
,
magnify
,
make acute
,
make complex
,
make worse
,
mull
,
overheat
,
preheat
,
provoke
,
ramify
,
recook
,
redouble
,
reheat
,
reinforce
,
sharpen
,
soup up
,
sour
,
steam
,
step up
,
stoke up
,
strengthen
,
superheat
,
tepefy
,
triple
,
warm
,
warm over
,
warm up
,
whet
,
worsen
disencumber
collapse
related words >
alleviate
,
be light
,
clear
,
disburden
,
disembarrass
,
disembroil
,
disengage
,
disentangle
,
disinvolve
,
ease
,
extricate
,
free
,
free up
,
have little weight
,
kick the beam
,
liberate
,
lighten
,
make light
,
make lighter
,
off-load
,
reduce weight
,
relieve
,
set at ease
,
unballast
,
unburden
,
unclutter
,
unfreight
,
unlade
,
unload
,
unscramble
,
unsnarl
,
untangle
,
untie
,
untwine
,
weigh lightly
plagiarize
collapse
take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
related words >
act like
,
adopt
,
affect
,
appropriate
,
assume
,
borrow
,
chorus
,
come again
,
copy
,
counterfeit
,
crib
,
derive from
,
ditto
,
do
,
do a repeat
,
do again
,
do like
,
do over
,
double
,
duplicate
,
echo
,
fake
,
forge
,
go like
,
hoke
,
hoke up
,
imitate
,
infringe
,
infringe a copyright
,
make like
,
make use of
,
mirror
,
mock
,
parrot
,
pirate
,
quote
,
redo
,
redouble
,
reduplicate
,
reecho
,
reflect
,
regurgitate
,
reincarnate
,
renew
,
repeat
,
reproduce
,
revive
,
say again
,
simulate
,
steal
,
take
,
take on
,
take over
step lively
collapse
related words >
bound
,
canter
,
drive
,
drive on
,
forge ahead
,
fox-trot
,
gallop
,
get
,
git
,
go ahead
,
go all out
,
hightail
,
hop
,
hop along
,
hotfoot
,
hustle
,
leap
,
lope
,
make things hum
,
make tracks
,
press on
,
push
,
run
,
scramble
,
shoot ahead
,
spring
,
sprint
,
step
,
step along
,
trip
,
trot
get through
collapse
finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment"
succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems; "We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister"
related words >
KO
,
assail the ear
,
be heard
,
bring about
,
bring off
,
bring to effect
,
bring to pass
,
button up
,
call off
,
cancel
,
cap
,
caress the ear
,
carry into effect
,
carry into execution
,
carry off
,
carry out
,
carry through
,
carry to completion
,
clean up
,
climax
,
close out
,
close up
,
come through
,
come through with
,
complete
,
conclude
,
contact
,
crown
,
culminate
,
delete
,
dispose of
,
drop the curtain
,
end
,
end off
,
expunge
,
extinguish
,
finalize
,
finish
,
finish off
,
finish up
,
fold up
,
fulfill
,
gain a hearing
,
gain entree
,
get across
,
get done
,
get into
,
get it over
,
get over with
,
get through to
,
get through with
,
get to
,
give the quietus
,
go through
,
implement
,
interpenetrate
,
kayo
,
kibosh
,
kill
,
knock out
,
make an entrance
,
make an impression
,
make oneself heard
,
make way into
,
mop up
,
pass through
,
penetrate
,
perfect
,
pierce
,
polish off
,
pull off
,
put across
,
put in practice
,
put into effect
,
put into practice
,
put over
,
put paid to
,
put through
,
reach
,
reach the ear
,
register
,
round out
,
scrag
,
shoot down
,
terminate
,
top off
,
top out
,
translate into action
,
wind up
,
wipe out
,
work out
,
wrap up
,
zap
legislate
collapse
make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time"
related words >
authorize
,
constitute
,
declare lawful
,
decree
,
enact
,
enact laws
,
establish
,
filibuster
,
formulate
,
get the floor
,
have the floor
,
kill
,
legalize
,
legitimate
,
legitimatize
,
legitimize
,
lobby through
,
logroll
,
make a regulation
,
make legal
,
ordain
,
pass
,
pigeonhole
,
pocket
,
prescribe
,
put in force
,
put through
,
railroad through
,
regulate
,
roll logs
,
sanction
,
table
,
take the floor
,
validate
,
veto
,
yield the floor
assure
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assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence; "I assured him that traveling to Cambodia was safe"
inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!"
related words >
afford hope
,
and candle
,
ascertain
,
assert
,
assert under oath
,
asseverate
,
attest
,
augur well
,
avouch
,
back
,
be convincing
,
be sponsor for
,
bear up
,
bid fair
,
bolster
,
bond
,
book
,
brace up
,
bring home to
,
bring over
,
bring round
,
bring to reason
,
buck up
,
carry conviction
,
certify
,
cheer
,
cinch
,
clear up
,
clinch
,
comfort
,
condole with
,
confirm
,
console
,
convert
,
convict
,
convince
,
countersecure
,
countersign
,
decide
,
depone
,
depose
,
determine
,
dismiss all doubt
,
drive home to
,
ease
,
embolden
,
encourage
,
endorse
,
ensure
,
establish
,
find out
,
fix
,
get at
,
give comfort
,
give hope
,
guarantee
,
guaranty
,
have good prospects
,
hearten
,
hold out hope
,
hold out promise
,
inspire
,
inspire belief
,
inspire hope
,
inspirit
,
insure
,
justify hope
,
kiss the book
,
lead to believe
,
make a promise
,
make certain
,
make fair promise
,
make no doubt
,
make no mistake
,
make sure
,
make sure of
,
nail down
,
nerve
,
persuade
,
pledge
,
plight
,
promise
,
put at ease
,
raise expectations
,
raise hope
,
reassure
,
relieve
,
remove all doubt
,
satisfy
,
secure
,
see that
,
see to it
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
set at ease
,
set at rest
,
settle
,
sign
,
sign for
,
solace
,
sort out
,
sponsor
,
stabilize
,
stand behind
,
stand up for
,
state
,
subscribe to
,
support
,
swear
,
swear by bell
,
swear the truth
,
swear to
,
swear to God
,
swear to goodness
,
sympathize with
,
talk over
,
testify
,
troth
,
undersign
,
underwrite
,
vouch
,
vow
,
warrant
,
win over
clean up
collapse
make oneself clean, presentable or neat; "Clean up before you go to the party"
dispose of; "settle the bills"
make a big profit; often in a short period of time; "The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up"
related words >
bleach
,
bowdlerize
,
button up
,
cap
,
capitalize on
,
carry to completion
,
cash in on
,
clean
,
clean out
,
cleanse
,
clear
,
clear out
,
clear the decks
,
clear up
,
climax
,
close out
,
close up
,
coin money
,
commercialize
,
complete
,
conclude
,
crown
,
culminate
,
delouse
,
depurate
,
deterge
,
dry-clean
,
dust
,
dust off
,
end
,
expurgate
,
finalize
,
finish
,
finish off
,
finish up
,
fix up
,
freshen
,
gain
,
gain by
,
get done
,
get it over
,
get through
,
get through with
,
groom
,
gross
,
lustrate
,
make
,
make a killing
,
make money
,
make money by
,
mop up
,
neaten
,
net
,
perfect
,
police
,
police up
,
profit
,
purge
,
purify
,
put in trim
,
realize
,
realize on
,
reform
,
round out
,
scavenge
,
spruce
,
spruce up
,
steam-clean
,
straighten up
,
sweep out
,
sweeten
,
terminate
,
tidy
,
tidy up
,
top off
,
top out
,
trig up
,
trim
,
trim up
,
turn a penny
,
turn to account
,
turn to profit
,
whiten
,
wind up
,
wipe
,
wipe off
,
wipe out
,
wipe up
,
wrap up
play the market
collapse
related words >
be caught short
,
be short
,
belong
,
bucket
,
bucketshop
,
deposit margin
,
go long
,
hold on
,
make a killing
,
make a scoop
,
margin up
,
miss the market
,
operate
,
overstay the market
,
plunge
,
pyramid
,
scalp
,
scoop the market
,
speculate
,
stag
,
stag the market
,
take a flier
,
trade on margin
,
venture
make a killing
collapse
related words >
be caught short
,
be short
,
bear the palm
,
belong
,
break the bank
,
bucket
,
bucketshop
,
capitalize on
,
capture
,
carry
,
carry away
,
carry it
,
carry off
,
carry the day
,
cash in on
,
clean up
,
clear
,
coin money
,
come out first
,
commercialize
,
deposit margin
,
finish in front
,
fluke
,
gain
,
gain by
,
gain the day
,
go long
,
gross
,
hit it
,
hit the jackpot
,
hit the mark
,
hold on
,
make a scoop
,
make money
,
make money by
,
margin up
,
miss the market
,
net
,
operate
,
overstay the market
,
play the market
,
plunge
,
profit
,
pyramid
,
realize
,
realize on
,
ring the bell
,
scalp
,
scoop the market
,
score
,
score a success
,
speculate
,
stag
,
stag the market
,
take a flier
,
take the cake
,
trade on margin
,
turn a penny
,
turn to account
,
turn to profit
,
turn up trumps
,
venture
,
win
,
win out
,
win the battle
,
win the laurels
,
win the palm
,
win the prize
,
win through
crave
collapse
plead or ask for earnestly
have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
related words >
ache
,
adjure
,
appeal
,
appeal to
,
apply for
,
ask
,
ask for
,
aspire after
,
beg
,
beg leave
,
beseech
,
bespeak
,
brace
,
call for
,
call for help
,
call on
,
call upon
,
choose
,
clamor for
,
conjure
,
covet
,
crave after
,
crawl after
,
cry for
,
cry on
,
cry to
,
demand
,
desiderate
,
desire
,
dream
,
entreat
,
file for
,
hanker
,
hanker after
,
hunger
,
hunger after
,
impetrate
,
implore
,
importune
,
imprecate
,
indent
,
invoke
,
kneel to
,
lust
,
lust after
,
make a request
,
make a requisition
,
make application
,
necessitate
,
obtest
,
order
,
pant after
,
pine
,
plead
,
plead for
,
pray
,
put in for
,
request
,
require
,
requisition
,
run mad after
,
run to
,
sigh
,
supplicate
,
take
,
thirst
,
thirst after
,
want
,
whistle for
,
wish
run riot
collapse
related words >
arise
,
bespread
,
carouse
,
cover
,
create a disturbance
,
create a riot
,
cut loose
,
debauch
,
dissipate
,
fill
,
flood
,
go berserk
,
grow over
,
insurge
,
insurrect
,
know no bounds
,
live hard
,
luxuriate
,
make a commotion
,
make an ado
,
make trouble
,
mount the barricades
,
mutineer
,
mutiny
,
overabound
,
overbrim
,
overflow
,
overgrow
,
overrun
,
overspill
,
overspread
,
overswarm
,
overthrow
,
plunge into dissipation
,
pullulate
,
raise a ruckus
,
raise a rumpus
,
raise a storm
,
rebel
,
reluct
,
reluctate
,
revolt
,
revolute
,
revolution
,
revolutionize
,
riot
,
rise
,
rise up
,
roil
,
roister
,
run amok
,
run wild
,
spill over
,
spread over
,
strike
,
subvert
,
superabound
,
swarm
,
swarm over
,
teem
,
teem over
,
wanton
lallygag
collapse
related words >
bill and coo
,
bum
,
copulate
,
dally
,
dawdle
,
delay
,
diddle
,
dillydally
,
doodle
,
drag
,
falter
,
flag
,
goldbrick
,
goof off
,
halt
,
lag
,
laze
,
linger
,
loaf
,
loiter
,
loll
,
lollygag
,
lounge
,
make love
,
make out
,
neck
,
pet
,
piddle
,
poke
,
shilly-shally
,
smooch
,
spoon
,
sweet-talk
,
tarry
,
toy
,
trail
,
trifle
,
wanton
,
waste time
,
whisper sweet nothings
superabundant
collapse
most excessively abundant
related words >
abounding
,
abundant
,
affluent
,
alive with
,
all-sufficing
,
ample
,
aplenty
,
blooming
,
bottomless
,
bounteous
,
bountiful
,
bristling
,
bursting
,
bursting out
,
copious
,
countless
,
crawling
,
creative
,
crowded
,
crowding
,
diffuse
,
diffusive
,
effuse
,
effusive
,
epidemic
,
excess
,
excessive
,
exhaustless
,
extravagant
,
exuberant
,
fat
,
fecund
,
fertile
,
flourishing
,
flush
,
formless
,
fructiferous
,
fruitful
,
full
,
galore
,
generous
,
gushing
,
gushy
,
in plenty
,
in profusion
,
in quantity
,
inexhaustible
,
jam-packed
,
jammed
,
lavish
,
liberal
,
lush
,
luxuriant
,
many
,
maximal
,
much
,
multitudinous
,
numerous
,
opulent
,
overabundant
,
overbounteous
,
overcopious
,
overexuberant
,
overflowing
,
overgenerous
,
overlavish
,
overliberal
,
overluxuriant
,
overmuch
,
overnumerous
,
overplenteous
,
overplentiful
,
overplenty
,
overpopulated
,
overpopulous
,
overprolific
,
packed
,
plenitudinous
,
plenteous
,
plentiful
,
plenty
,
pleonastic
,
plethoric
,
populous
,
pregnant
,
prevailing
,
prevalent
,
prodigal
,
productive
,
profuse
,
profusive
,
proliferating
,
proliferous
,
prolific
,
pullulating
,
rampant
,
redundant
,
reiterative
,
repetitive
,
replete
,
rich
,
rife
,
riotous
,
running over
,
seminal
,
studded
,
surplus
,
swarming
,
tautologous
,
teeming
,
thick
,
thick as hail
,
thick with
,
thick-coming
,
thriving
,
thronged
,
thronging
,
uberous
,
wealthy
,
well-found
,
well-furnished
,
well-provided
,
well-stocked
,
wholesale
operate
collapse
happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
related words >
act
,
angle
,
be caught short
,
be effective
,
be in action
,
be responsible for
,
be short
,
behave
,
belong
,
brew
,
bucket
,
bucketshop
,
cabal
,
carry on
,
carry out
,
carry through
,
chart a course
,
collude
,
complot
,
concoct
,
cond
,
conduct
,
conn
,
connive
,
conspire
,
control
,
cook up
,
countermine
,
counterplot
,
coxswain
,
cut
,
deal with
,
deposit margin
,
direct
,
do with
,
drive
,
employ
,
engineer
,
exercise
,
exert
,
finagle
,
finesse
,
frame
,
frame up
,
function
,
go
,
go long
,
guide
,
handle
,
hatch
,
hatch a plot
,
hatch up
,
have effect
,
have free play
,
have play
,
have the conn
,
helm
,
hold on
,
intrigue
,
keep
,
lay a plot
,
machinate
,
make
,
make a killing
,
make a scoop
,
make go
,
make use of
,
manage
,
maneuver
,
manipulate
,
margin up
,
militate
,
miss the market
,
move
,
navigate
,
open up
,
ordain
,
overstay the market
,
percolate
,
perform
,
perform on
,
perk
,
pilot
,
play
,
play the market
,
plot
,
plunge
,
ply
,
practice
,
proceed
,
pyramid
,
react
,
rig
,
run
,
scalp
,
scheme
,
scoop the market
,
see to
,
serve
,
shape a course
,
speculate
,
stag
,
stag the market
,
steer
,
take
,
take a flier
,
take care of
,
take effect
,
tick
,
trade on margin
,
use
,
utilize
,
venture
,
wangle
,
wield
,
work
unload
collapse
take the load off (a container or vehicle); "unload the truck"; "offload the van"
related words >
alleviate
,
be light
,
break bulk
,
clear the trade
,
close out
,
convert
,
convert into cash
,
cut under
,
debark
,
disburden
,
discharge
,
disembark
,
disembarrass
,
disencumber
,
dump
,
ease
,
effect a sale
,
empty
,
have little weight
,
jettison
,
job
,
kick the beam
,
land
,
lighten
,
liquidate
,
make a sale
,
make light
,
make lighter
,
market
,
merchandise
,
move
,
off-load
,
offload
,
reduce weight
,
relieve
,
resell
,
retail
,
sacrifice
,
sell
,
sell off
,
sell on consignment
,
sell out
,
sell over
,
sell retail
,
sell short
,
sell up
,
sell wholesale
,
set at ease
,
stevedore
,
terminate the account
,
turn into money
,
turn over
,
unballast
,
unburden
,
undercut
,
undersell
,
unfreight
,
unlade
,
unpack
,
unship
,
weigh lightly
,
wholesale
squirrel away
collapse
related words >
accumulate
,
amass
,
arrange for
,
backlog
,
collect
,
cumulate
,
forearm
,
garner
,
garner up
,
gather into barns
,
heap up
,
hide
,
hoard
,
hoard up
,
hold
,
keep
,
lay by
,
lay up
,
look out for
,
make provision for
,
make sure against
,
pile up
,
prepare for
,
provide against
,
provide for
,
put up
,
save
,
save up
,
secrete
,
squirrel
,
stock up
,
stockpile
,
store up
,
treasure
,
treasure up
demythologize
collapse
remove the mythical element from (writings); "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value"
related words >
account for
,
allegorize
,
clarify
,
clear up
,
crack
,
decipher
,
demonstrate
,
elucidate
,
enlighten
,
euhemerize
,
exemplify
,
explain
,
explain away
,
explicate
,
exposit
,
expound
,
give reason for
,
give the meaning
,
illuminate
,
illustrate
,
make clear
,
make plain
,
popularize
,
rationalize
,
shed light upon
,
show
,
show how
,
show the way
,
simplify
,
solve
,
spell out
,
throw light upon
,
unfold
,
unlock
,
unravel
play by ear
collapse
related words >
accompany
,
ad-lib
,
be caught napping
,
be surprised
,
be taken unawares
,
be unprepared
,
chord
,
concertize
,
cook up
,
dash off
,
do
,
do offhand
,
execute
,
extemporize
,
fake
,
go off half-cocked
,
have no plan
,
improvisate
,
improvise
,
interpret
,
jury-rig
,
knock off
,
lash up
,
make music
,
make up
,
perform
,
play
,
render
,
scrap the plan
,
strike off
,
symphonize
,
throw off
,
throw together
,
toss off
,
toss out
,
vamp
,
whip up
,
whomp up
,
wing it
vulgarize
collapse
act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"
related words >
adulterate
,
alloy
,
canker
,
cheapen
,
clarify
,
coarsen
,
confound
,
contaminate
,
corrupt
,
debase
,
debauch
,
defile
,
deflower
,
degenerate
,
degrade
,
denature
,
deprave
,
desecrate
,
despoil
,
devalue
,
distort
,
elucidate
,
explain
,
explicate
,
get across
,
get over
,
infect
,
make clear
,
make it clear
,
misuse
,
pervert
,
poison
,
pollute
,
popularize
,
prostitute
,
put across
,
put over
,
ravage
,
ravish
,
simplify
,
spell out
,
taint
,
twist
,
ulcerate
,
violate
,
vitiate
,
warp
pun
collapse
a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"
related words >
abuse of terms
,
acrostic
,
alliterate
,
alliteration
,
ambiguity
,
amphibologism
,
amphibology
,
amphiboly
,
anagram
,
assonance
,
assonate
,
be merry with
,
calembour
,
chime
,
clink
,
corruption
,
counterword
,
crack a joke
,
crack wise
,
double entendre
,
equivocal
,
equivocality
,
equivocation
,
equivoque
,
fleer at
,
fun
,
gibe at
,
jape
,
jest
,
jeu de mots
,
jingle
,
joke
,
josh
,
kid
,
kid around
,
logogram
,
logogriph
,
make a funny
,
make fun
,
make fun of
,
malapropism
,
metagram
,
missaying
,
mock
,
near rhyme
,
palindrome
,
paronomasia
,
play on words
,
poke fun at
,
polysemant
,
portmanteau word
,
punning
,
quip
,
rhyme
,
ridicule
,
scintillate
,
scoff at
,
slant rhyme
,
sparkle
,
spoonerism
,
squinting construction
,
utter a mot
,
weasel word
,
wisecrack
,
wordplay
take liberties
collapse
related words >
abuse a privilege
,
be disrespectful
,
be overfamiliar with
,
bother
,
dare
,
deride
,
disesteem
,
disparage
,
disrespect
,
encroach upon
,
get fresh
,
get smart
,
have a nerve
,
have the cheek
,
have the gall
,
hold in contempt
,
impose on
,
impose upon
,
inconvenience
,
make bold
,
make free with
,
not respect
,
obtrude upon
,
overstep
,
presume
,
presume on
,
presume upon
,
rank low
,
ridicule
,
show disrespect for
,
take a liberty
,
take liberties with
,
taunt
,
treat with disrespect
,
trifle with
,
trouble
sack
collapse
the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter; "the sack of Rome"
a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
the quantity contained in a sack
put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions"
plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"
related words >
acquire
,
assault
,
attack
,
ax
,
bag
,
balloon
,
banditry
,
barbarize
,
barrel
,
basket
,
batter
,
be seized of
,
bed
,
bedstead
,
bladder
,
boot
,
boot out
,
bottle
,
bounce
,
box
,
box up
,
break
,
brigandage
,
brigandism
,
brutalize
,
bump
,
bunk
,
burden
,
burn
,
bust
,
butcher
,
can
,
capsule
,
capture
,
carry on
,
carton
,
case
,
cashier
,
cashiering
,
cask
,
catch
,
chuck
,
come by
,
come in for
,
come into
,
conge
,
container
,
contract
,
corral
,
couch
,
crate
,
defrock
,
degrade
,
demote
,
deplume
,
deposal
,
depose
,
depredate
,
depredation
,
deprive
,
derive
,
desecrate
,
desolate
,
despoil
,
despoiling
,
despoilment
,
despoliation
,
destroy
,
devastate
,
devour
,
direption
,
disbar
,
discharge
,
disemploy
,
disemployment
,
dismiss
,
dismissal
,
displace
,
displacing
,
displume
,
doss
,
drag down
,
draw
,
drop
,
drum out
,
drumming out
,
earn
,
encase
,
encyst
,
enmesh
,
ensnare
,
entangle
,
enter into possession
,
entrap
,
expel
,
fill
,
fire
,
firing
,
fleece
,
fob
,
forage
,
foraging
,
foray
,
forced separation
,
foul
,
freeboot
,
freebooting
,
freight
,
furlough
,
furloughing
,
gain
,
get
,
give the ax
,
give the gate
,
go on
,
gurney
,
gut
,
hammer
,
hamper
,
harpoon
,
harvest
,
heap
,
heap up
,
hit the hay
,
hit the sack
,
hook
,
jar
,
kick
,
kick out
,
kick upstairs
,
kip
,
kip down
,
lade
,
land
,
lasso
,
lay off
,
lay waste
,
layoff
,
let go
,
let out
,
litter
,
load
,
loot
,
looting
,
make
,
make redundant
,
maraud
,
marauding
,
mass
,
maul
,
mesh
,
mug
,
nail
,
net
,
noose
,
obtain
,
pack
,
pack away
,
package
,
parcel
,
pension off
,
pile
,
pillage
,
pillaging
,
pink slip
,
plunder
,
plundering
,
pocket
,
poke
,
pot
,
pouch
,
prey on
,
procure
,
pull down
,
rage
,
raid
,
raiding
,
ramp
,
rampage
,
ransack
,
ransacking
,
rant
,
rape
,
rapine
,
ravage
,
ravagement
,
ravaging
,
rave
,
raven
,
ravish
,
ravishment
,
razzia
,
read out of
,
reap
,
reive
,
reiving
,
release
,
removal
,
remove
,
replace
,
retire
,
retirement
,
rifle
,
rifling
,
riot
,
roar
,
rope
,
ruin
,
sac
,
sack out
,
sacking
,
savage
,
score
,
secure
,
send packing
,
separate forcibly
,
ship
,
slaughter
,
snag
,
snare
,
sniggle
,
sofa
,
sow chaos
,
spear
,
spoil
,
spoiling
,
spoliate
,
spoliation
,
stack
,
store
,
storm
,
stow
,
stretcher
,
strip
,
superannuate
,
surplus
,
surplusing
,
suspend
,
suspension
,
sweep
,
take
,
tangle
,
tangle up with
,
tank
,
tear
,
tear around
,
terminate
,
terrorize
,
the ax
,
the boot
,
the bounce
,
the gate
,
the hay
,
the sack
,
ticket
,
tin
,
trap
,
turn in
,
turn off
,
turn out
,
unfrock
,
vandalize
,
violate
,
walking papers
,
waste
,
win
,
wreck
tether
collapse
tie with a tether; "tether horses"
related words >
Oregon boat
,
anchor
,
batten
,
batten down
,
belay
,
bilbo
,
bind
,
bond
,
bonds
,
bridle
,
camisole
,
chain
,
chains
,
collar
,
cord
,
cuffs
,
enchain
,
entrammel
,
fasten
,
fasten down
,
fetter
,
gag
,
gyve
,
gyves
,
halter
,
hamper
,
handcuff
,
handcuffs
,
harness
,
hitch up
,
hobble
,
hobbles
,
hog-tie
,
hook up
,
hopple
,
hopples
,
irons
,
lash
,
lead
,
leading strings
,
leash
,
make fast
,
make secure
,
make sure
,
manacle
,
moor
,
muzzle
,
peg down
,
picket
,
pillory
,
pin down
,
pinion
,
put in irons
,
reins
,
restrain
,
restraint
,
restraints
,
rope
,
saddle
,
secure
,
shackle
,
stake
,
stocks
,
straightjacket
,
strait-waistcoat
,
straitjacket
,
stranglehold
,
strap
,
tie
,
tie down
,
tie up
,
trammel
,
trammels
,
yoke
take by storm
collapse
related words >
abduct
,
board
,
breeze
,
carry by storm
,
carry off
,
escalade
,
foray
,
inroad
,
inundate
,
invade
,
kidnap
,
make a raid
,
make an inroad
,
overwhelm
,
raid
,
romp home
,
scale
,
scale the walls
,
shanghai
,
storm
,
throttle
,
walk off with
,
walk over
,
waltz off with
,
win going away
,
win hands down
arrive at
collapse
related words >
accomplish
,
achieve
,
approach
,
arrive
,
arrive in
,
arrive upon
,
attain
,
attain to
,
be received
,
blow in
,
bob up
,
check in
,
clock in
,
come
,
come at
,
come in
,
come to
,
come to hand
,
come upon
,
fall upon
,
fetch
,
fetch up at
,
find
,
gain
,
get at
,
get in
,
get there
,
get to
,
hit
,
hit town
,
hit upon
,
light upon
,
make
,
make it
,
pitch upon
,
pop up
,
pull in
,
punch in
,
reach
,
ring in
,
roll in
,
show up
,
sign in
,
strike upon
,
stumble on
,
stumble upon
,
time in
,
turn up
proceed
collapse
follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"
move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now"
related words >
accept
,
accrue from
,
act
,
act on
,
act upon
,
advance
,
arise
,
arise from
,
assume
,
attack
,
attempt
,
be contingent on
,
be due to
,
bear a hand
,
behave
,
box office
,
buckle to
,
bud from
,
carry on
,
come along
,
come from
,
come on
,
come out of
,
continue
,
cover ground
,
depend on
,
derive from
,
descend from
,
do
,
do something
,
do something about
,
elapse
,
emanate
,
emanate from
,
embark in
,
embark upon
,
emerge from
,
endeavor
,
endure
,
engage in
,
ensue from
,
enter on
,
enter upon
,
expire
,
fall into
,
fall to
,
fare
,
flit
,
flow
,
flow from
,
flow on
,
fly
,
follow from
,
forge ahead
,
function
,
gain
,
gain ground
,
gate
,
gather head
,
gather way
,
germinate from
,
get ahead
,
get along
,
get on
,
get under way
,
get with it
,
glide
,
go
,
go about
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productive
collapse
producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration"
yielding positive results
related words >
able
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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opulent
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,
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point at
collapse
related words >
address to
,
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,
aim
,
aim at
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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think nothing of
collapse
related words >
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
downplay
,
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,
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,
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,
feel contempt for
,
feel superior to
,
forget
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
underestimate
,
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,
underprize
,
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,
underreckon
,
undervalue
work on
collapse
related words >
abuse
,
act on
,
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,
advocate
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
treat
,
urge
,
use
,
use ill
,
wheedle
,
wire-pull
,
work upon
expel
collapse
put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from the classroom"
force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country"
related words >
abrupt
,
abstract
,
alienate
,
assign
,
ban
,
banish
,
bar
,
belch
,
blackball
,
blow
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
gulp
,
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,
hand forward
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
impart
,
import
,
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,
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,
irrupt
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
kick upstairs
,
lag
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
oust
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
purge
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
relay
,
release
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
rusticate
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
send to Coventry
,
separate
,
separate forcibly
,
sequester
,
set apart
,
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,
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,
shut off
,
sigh
,
sneeze
,
sniff
,
sniffle
,
snore
,
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,
snub
,
snuff
,
snuffle
,
spew
,
split
,
spout
,
spread
,
spurn
,
spurt
,
squirt
,
stand aloof
,
stand apart
,
stand aside
,
step aside
,
strike off
,
strike out
,
strip
,
strip of office
,
strip of rank
,
subtract
,
superannuate
,
surplus
,
suspend
,
switch
,
throw away
,
throw off
,
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,
throw over
,
throw overboard
,
thrust out
,
toss out
,
transfer
,
transfer property
,
transfuse
,
translate
,
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,
transmit
,
transplace
,
transplant
,
transport
,
transpose
,
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,
turn out
,
turn over
,
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,
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,
unfrock
,
unsaddle
,
unseat
,
unthrone
,
unyoke
,
weed out
,
wheeze
,
withdraw
think up
collapse
devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
related words >
beget
,
breed
,
bring forth
,
bring into being
,
call into being
,
coin
,
conceit
,
conceive
,
conceptualize
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
design
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
mold
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
spawn
,
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,
suppose
,
think out
strike a balance
collapse
related words >
accommodate
,
adjust
,
amortize
,
average
,
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,
avoid extremes
,
balance
,
balance the books
,
be conservative
,
be heavy
,
be moderate
,
be pacifistic
,
book
,
cancel
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
clear
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
compromise
,
coordinate
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
credit
,
debit
,
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,
docket
,
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,
enter
,
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,
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,
evade responsibility
,
even
,
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,
fit
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
heft
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
keep within bounds
,
keep within compass
,
level
,
lie heavy
,
lift
,
liquidate
,
live temperately
,
log
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
minute
,
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,
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,
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,
pair off
,
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,
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,
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,
pay the shot
,
pay up
,
play politics
,
poise
,
post
,
post up
,
practice nonviolence
,
practice self-control
,
preserve a balance
,
proportion
,
reach a compromise
,
redeem
,
relent
,
remit
,
retire
,
satisfy
,
settle
,
settle down
,
sober down
,
split the difference
,
square
,
square accounts
,
strike a bargain
,
surrender
,
take in sail
,
take the average
,
take the mean
,
take up
,
tip the scales
,
via media
,
weigh
,
weigh heavy
,
weigh in
,
weigh out
,
weight
,
yield
trek
collapse
any long and difficult trip
a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)
make a long and difficult journey; "They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis"
journey on foot, especially in the mountains; "We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas"
related words >
campaign
,
circuit
,
course
,
cruise
,
emigrate
,
emigration
,
excursion
,
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,
expatriation
,
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,
fare
,
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,
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,
globe-trot
,
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,
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,
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,
grand tour
,
hit the trail
,
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,
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,
in-migrate
,
in-migration
,
intermigrate
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
out-migrate
,
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,
outing
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
peregrinations
,
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,
pilgrimage
,
pleasure trip
,
progress
,
range the world
,
remigrate
,
remigration
,
round trip
,
rubberneck
,
rubberneck tour
,
run
,
safari
,
sally
,
shoot
,
sight-see
,
stalk
,
swarm
,
swarming
,
take a trip
,
take the road
,
take wing
,
tour
,
transmigrate
,
transmigration
,
travels
,
trip
,
turn
,
voyage
,
wayfare
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