v. Function: verb
1 to come into possession of FF1C; hoped to get a fortune from his invention FF1E;
Synonyms: acquire, annex, chalk up, compass, gain, have, land, obtain, pick up, procure, pull, secure, win
Related Words: educe, elicit, evoke, extort, extract, ||promote; accept, receive; clutch, grab, grasp, take; accomplish, achieve, effect; capture, carry; draw
Idioms: come by
Contrasted Words: abnegate, eschew, forbear, forgo, give up, sacrifice; abandon, forsake, renounce
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Synonyms: EARN 1, acquire, bring in, ||drag down, draw down, gain, knock down, make, win
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Synonyms: BECOME 1, come, ||come over, go, grow, run, turn, wax
Related Words: achieve, attain, effect, realize
Idioms: get to be, turn out to be
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Synonyms: CONTRACT 1, catch, come down (with), sicken (with or of), take
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Synonyms: FATHER 1, beget, breed, procreate, progenerate, sire
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Synonyms: PREPARE 1, fit, fix, make, make up, ready
Related Words: arrange, order, right; adjust, coordinate, organize
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Synonyms: CATCH 1, bag, capture, collar, ||cotch, nail, prehend, secure, take
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Synonyms: AFFECT , carry, impress, influence, inspire, move, strike, sway, touch
Related Words: bend, bias, dispose, predispose, prompt
Contrasted Words: benumb, deaden, numb; blunt, dull, harden
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Synonyms: NONPLUS 1, beat, buffalo, stick, stump
Related Words: bother, distress, disturb, perturb, upset; discomfit, disconcert, embarrass
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Synonyms: IRRITATE , aggravate, burn (up), exasperate, gall, nettle, peeve, provoke, put out, rile
Idioms: try one's temper
Contrasted Words: calm, compose, cool, lull, soothe, subdue
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Synonyms: LEARN 1, master, pick up
Idioms: get into one's head
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Synonyms: MEMORIZE , con, learn
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Synonyms: INDUCE 1, argue (into), bring around, convince, draw, persuade, prevail (on or upon), prompt, talk (into), win (over)
Related Words: provoke; beg, coax, press, pressure, urge
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Synonyms: REACH 4, contact
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Synonyms: COME 1, arrive, ||blow in, get in, reach, show, show up, turn up