Concept cluster: Activities > Initiating or causing action
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(transitive, obsolete) To summon.
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(transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
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(transitive) To hook, or draw to oneself as with a hook.
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(transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
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(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To carry on; practice; pass (life, time, etc.).
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(intransitive) To come before the public.
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(transitive) To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
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One who arrives; usually, one who arrives in a specified way.
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(archaic) To regulate, arrange, organise.
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(obsolete) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
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(obsolete) A calling away; a diversion.
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(transitive, usually passive) To initiate someone in a bar mitzvah ceremony.
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(copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
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To sidestep or fail to address a question.
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(transitive) To occasion or bring about.
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(transitive) To cause to take place.
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To adduce, bring forward.
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(idiomatic) To call up for consideration.
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To move something indoors, or into an area.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To cause.
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(historical, transitive) To introduce (a young woman) formally into society.
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(transitive) To cause to change allegiance or point of view.
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(transitive) To cause to happen.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To contribute (something) to a group effort.
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To (either knowingly or unwittingly) cause to befall.
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To come to pass; to afflict.
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Alternative form of take to task [(idiomatic) To lecture, berate, admonish, or hold somebody accountable for his or her actions.]
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(transitive) To join with; to share the fortunes of (a person or group).
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(transitive) To bring (someone) up to date with the news.
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(transitive) To announce on social media that one has come to a location.
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(intransitive, obsolete, dialect) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed.
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(intransitive) To get along well.
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To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up").
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To appear together.
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(colloquial, figuratively) To make one's presence felt (due to large numbers, strength, qualities etc).
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(by extension) To gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, especially where there was not any before.
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(idiomatic) To form; to start to exist.
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To be published, be issued.
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(idiomatic) Used to say that the truth will be revealed in the future.
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To make something public or available to the public.
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(transitive) To total; to amount to.
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(idiomatic) To invent, create, or think of.
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(intransitive, transitive, informal) To produce what is expected or required.
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(transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
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(transitive, colloquial, dated) To figure out, to find out, find, decipher
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(idiomatic, transitive) To get (someone) involved.
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(transitive) To cause or generate; to bring about.
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(intransitive) To come from a source; issue from.
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To draw into conversation.
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(law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
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(transitive) To be relevant; to be a contributing factor in.
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Alternative form of enter the equation [(figuratively) To become one of the factors that influences a situation or decision.]
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(obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
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To call out; to draw out or bring forth.
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(transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
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To join (a group of people).
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(transitive, informal) To feature.
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(transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
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(transitive, now historical) To supply (someone) with (something).
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(idiomatic) To discover, as by asking or investigating.
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(transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
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(transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
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(obsolete) To bring forth; bring out; produce.
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(rare, nonstandard, transitive) To put forth; propose; bring forth; produce.
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Obsolete spelling of find [(transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.]
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(transitive) To measure.
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(transitive) To make an idea evident; to successfully explain a thought or feeling; put over.
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(intransitive) To understand someone's thoughts or feelings.
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(idiomatic, reciprocal) To start dating; to start being a couple.
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To share in part of a project's or plan's duties or costs.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To commit to something with; to partner with.
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(literally, of two people) To accompany each other (e.g. to an event).
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Alternative form of hearken back [(sometimes proscribed) Synonym of hark back (β€œto allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event)”)]
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To appear prominently in the news, especially on the front page.
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To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
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(transitive) To bring in; introduce; present; usher in; adduce; induce; cause to come in.
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To dictate; to prompt.
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(transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
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(obsolete) To introduce; to bring in.
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(obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in, to adduce.
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(transitive) To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
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(figuratively, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
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(transitive) To cause or engage (someone or something) to participate or to become connected or implicated.
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(informal) To learn some skill requiring specialist knowledge.
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(transitive) To find out where something is located.
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(idiomatic) To set out to go (somewhere); to move towards.
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(idiomatic) To realize, to bring about a thing.
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An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
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(India) A new discovery.
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(transitive, obsolete) To occasion.
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(transitive, by extension, generally) To convert (a situation, thing, etc.) into something better.
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(intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
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(obsolete) To go through with; to perform.
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To give something in order to create the conditions where others will give in return.
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(transitive) To initiate; to cause or lead to.
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(transitive) To put forward; to offer for discussion or debate.
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To call forth.
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(idiomatic) To propose for consideration.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To commit to something with; to partner with.
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(idiomatic) To perform excellently; to put on a show of brilliance.
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(idiomatic) To bring someone or something into a position of prominence.
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(transitive, figuratively) To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
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(intransitive) To ask for help.
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(transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
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(idiomatic) To indicate that it is time to perform an action; to give permission.
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To welcome (an occurrence).
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To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To make (a person or persons) argue; to set quarrelling.
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(transitive) To present for consideration; to propose.
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(idiomatic) To establish a common goal by example.
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(intransitive, dated, colloquial) To get along well; to make friends.
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(transitive, intransitive) To accustom (someone) to a physical place, especially a building, site for an event, etc.
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To explain the fundamentals of something to someone.
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To look within oneself to find and put into action a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage.
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(intransitive) To follow (something) closely, either as a consequence or in contrast.
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An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
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To form a close relationship with (someone).
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(intransitive, idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out

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