experience
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(verb) of mental or bodily states or experiences: "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" |
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Synonyms: get, have, receive, undergo |
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Related Words: get, have, suffer, sustain, take |
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(verb) go or live through; "We had many trials to go through" |
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Synonyms: go through, undergo |
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Related Words: come, endure, enjoy, experience, feel, find, know, live, meet, participate, see, suffer, take part, witness |
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(noun) the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher" |
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Related Words: education, familiarization, woodcraft |
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Antonyms: inexperience |
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(noun) the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recallled the experience vividly" |
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Related Words: cognitive content, content, life, living, mental object, re-experiencing, reality, reliving, reminder, world |
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(noun) an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention" |
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Related Words: appalling, augury, flash, flashing, happening, loss, natural event, occurrence, ordeal, sign, taste, time, vision |
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(verb) undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up" |
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Synonyms: have |
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Related Words: change, encounter, meet, receive |
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(verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!" "have you ever known hunger?" |
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Synonyms: know, live |
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Related Words: experience, go through, live over, relive, undergo |
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(verb) undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" |
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Synonyms: feel |
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Related Words: anger, beam, boil, burn, cool off, die, entertain, feel pride, fly high, fume, glow, harbor, harbour, hold, joy, nurse, pride oneself, radiate, recapture, regret, rejoice, repent, rue, sadden, see red, seethe, shine, smolder, smoulder, suffer, sympathize, take pride |
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