v
(intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
n
(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
v
(transitive) To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
v
To apply or administer (something, such as a remedy).
v
(rare) To accede or to come to; to be superadded to, to be added to something or become a part of it, though inessential.
v
(intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
n
An act or instance of appropriating.
v
(obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
n
Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).
v
(intransitive, followed by to) To be part of, or the property of.
v
to declare something a secret, especially a government secret
v
(dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
v
(archaic) To accomplish, to fulfil.
v
(intransitive) To find a way between extremes.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To compromise.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To acquire, to procure.
v
(obsolete, copulative) To be.
v
(intransitive) To subsist together.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
n
The act of exerting control.
n
Obsolete spelling of controlment [(obsolete) Control.]
v
(transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To advertise or promote products by using other advertised products, services, or promotions, thereby simultaneously increasing the commercial presence and impact for all products involved.
n
An implementation, or putting into use, of something.
v
To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
v
(chiefly US, idiomatic) To determine the explanation for or precise nature of a situation, such as the motive underlying someone's behavior, based on available facts.
v
Alternative form of impose [(transitive) To establish or apply by authority.]
n
(obsolete) purpose; determination
n
A giving force to; a putting in execution.
v
(intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
v
(transitive, chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
v
(figuratively) To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
v
(transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
v
(transitive) To act as executive producer on.
n
Obsolete form of explanation. [The act or process of explaining.]
v
(informal) To calculate.
n
The act or process of furthering; furtherance.
v
To be in cahoots (with).
v
(transitive) To correspond or fit well with, to match.
v
(transitive, nonstandard) To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
v
(transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
n
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
adj
Having been collected or received.
v
(transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives to.
n
(rare) The act of admitting into or within.
v
(transitive, computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
v
(US) To jibe, in the sense of to accord, to agree
v
(obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
v
To reach a state of agreement or compromise; come to terms.
v
(mathematics, transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
v
(transitive) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic, of two parties) To compromise; to achieve a mutual accommodation.
n
One who, or that which, obliges.
adv
To an operating state.
n
Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
n
The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
v
To pledge; to offer as a toast in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.
v
(transitive, passive) To design for some purpose.
v
(US) To take rank of; to outrank.
n
(law) A noncompete agreement
v
(transitive with for) to behave in a way that other people should.
v
To profess openly; to make pretensions.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To make a difference; signify; matter.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
v
(intransitive) To arrive or happen so as to help or support.
v
(archaic, transitive) To supervene upon; to come as an addition to.
v
(transitive, rare) To locate; to find and specify the location of.
v
(transitive, with gender pronouns as object) To suggest, request, demand or expect that other people use a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
v
(engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
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