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(verb) spend or use time: "I may be an hour" |
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Related Words: occupy, take, use up |
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(verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist; "She is our resident philosopher"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through law school" |
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Synonyms: follow, work |
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Related Words: boondoggle, carpenter, clerk, cooper, cox, intern, minister, page, skipper, specialize, vet, wait |
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(verb) have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
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Related Words: abound, accept, account for, act, add up, adhere, adorn, amount, answer, appear, attend, balance, be, be well, beat, beautify, bedevil, befuddle, belong, body forth, brood, buy, buzz, clean, come, come in for, come in handy, compare, comprise, confound, confuse, connect, consist in, consist of, contain, continue, cost, count, cover, curve, cut, cut across, deck, decorate, define, delimit, delimitate, delineate, depend, deserve, disaccord, disagree, discombobulate, discord, diverge, embellish, embody, encounter, end, enter, fall, feel, figure, fit, footle, fox, fuddle, gape, go, grace, gravitate, grizzle, hail, hang, hang around, head, head up, hold, hoodoo, hum, hurt, impend, incarnate, incline, interrelate, iridesce, jumble, kill, lallygag, lean, lend, let go, lie, linger, litter, loaf, loiter, lollygag, look, lounge, lurk, make, make sense, matter, measure, merit, mess about, mill about, mill around, mingle, moon about, moon around, mope, need, number, owe, pay, point, press, pride, promise, prove, rage, range, rank, rate, relate, remain, represent, require, rest, run, run into, rut, seem, seethe, sell, shine, sparkle, specify, squat, stagnate, stand, stand by, stay, stay on, stew, stick by, stick to, stick with, stink, subtend, suffer, suit, sulk, take, tarry, tend, test, throw, total, translate, turn out, underlie, want, wash, weigh, wind, yaw, yawn |
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(verb) happen or come to pass; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen" |
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Synonyms: occur |
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Related Words: abound in, fall, interlude, lie, pullulate with, rest, run, shine, strike, teem in |
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(verb) have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more" |
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Synonyms: live |
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(verb) be identical to; be someone or something, as in "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house" |
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(verb) occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; also for abstract situations and relations: "What is behind this behavior?" |
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Related Words: attend, belong, center on, come, cover, dwell, extend, extend to, face, fill, follow, go, go to, inhabit, lead, lie, live, occupy, pass, people, poke out, populate, reach, reach out, reside, run, shack, sit, stand back, stay away from, stick out, straddle, stretch, stretch along, touch |
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(verb) have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" |
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Synonyms: exist |
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Related Words: belong, coexist, come, consist, dwell, endanger, flow, hold, imperil, jeopardize, kick about, kick around, knock about, lie, lie in, menace, obtain, peril, preexist, prevail, threaten |
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(verb) be identical or equivalent to: "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" |
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Synonyms: equal |
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Related Words: agree, check, correspond, equate, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
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(verb) represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" |
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Synonyms: embody, personify |
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Related Words: body, exemplify, personify, represent, represent, stand for, symbolize, typify |
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(verb) be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" |
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Synonyms: cost |
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Related Words: be, knock back, put back, set back |
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(noun) a light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element |
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Synonyms: atomic number 4, beryllium, glucinium |
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Related Words: metal, metallic element |
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(verb) form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" |
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Synonyms: comprise, constitute, make up, represent |
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Related Words: compose, constitute, fall into, fall under, form, make, pose, present, range, straddle |
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