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1. answēren, -ien v.

Additional spellings: answerien
120 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Intransitive To give a reply; answeren ayain, reply; answeren and sain (quethen); (b) transitive with the reply as direct object: to reply (sth.); -- with obj. or obj. clause; (c) intransitive……

2. asken v.

232 quotations in 9 senses
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To ask (a question); -- (a) with interrog. clause; (b) with clause & at, of, to phr. of the person; (c) with clause and indir. obj. of the person. …

3. bilīen v.(1)

Additional spellings: belien
37 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To besiege (a stronghold, an enemy); also, waylay; (b) to beset (sb.). …

4. borwen v.

86 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To take (sth.) with the understanding that it will be returned, receive (sth.) on credit, borrow; esp., to obtain (money) by pledging something as security or by finding sureties to guarantee……

5. dẹ̄men v.

258 quotations in 17 senses
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(a) Law To pass judgment on (sb. or sth.); judge, adjudicate; (b) to render judgment, judge; -- with prep. phr.; (c) demen dom, to pass judgment, render a verdict, impose a sentence; also, sit in……

6. fīnden v.

437 quotations in 23 senses
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Of persons or of things viewed as agents: to come upon, encounter, or meet (someone or something) by chance or in the course of events (usually with the notion of perceiving or recognizing the person……

7. forclōsen v.

10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To cut (someone) off from escape or retreat, to surround (someone); (b) to bar (someone) from entering or approaching, to shut out; (c) law to exclude (someone) from an inheritance; (d) prevent……

8. forspēken v.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To speak ill of, slander; contradict or break (a commandment); (b) law renounce (a right); (c) to cast a spell, bewitch. …

9. forspillen v.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To destroy, kill; (b) law to destroy or extinguish (a right). …

10. isomnen v.

13 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To invite (sb.); (b) to call (sb.) into the presence of another, summon; order (sb.) to appear; also, order (sb. to come to a specific place); (c) law to cite (sb.) to appear before a court or……

11. knouen v.

844 quotations in 23 senses
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(a) To be aware of (sth.) as a fact; know (that sth. is true, has happened, etc.); (b) with that clause or pronoun and that clause; (c) with who, which, what, when, wher, hou, or whi clause; (d) with……

12. lēten v.

1283 quotations in 40 senses
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(a) To grant (sb. land, rights, privileges); fig. allow (sb. time), grant (sb. a reprieve); grant (a place or room to hatred); (b) to bequeath (property), leave (property to sb. at one's death); fig.……

13. nimen v.

562 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) To take (sth.), pick up (sth.); draw (a weapon), take up, take out; grab (sth.), grasp, seize; pick (a fruit); also fig.; also, use (sth.); (b) to take away (sth.); bear (sth.), carry off; take……

14. putten v.

1281 quotations in 42 senses
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(a) To push, shove, thrust; strike a blow, smite; putten with fet, trample, kick; putten with fet and hondes, thrust with feet and hands; putten ayen, push against (sb.); stumble against (sb.); putten……

15. seien v.(1)

1390 quotations in 25 senses
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With direct quotation: (a) to say (certain specified words), utter; (b) to say (certain specified words to sb., to oneself, among a group, etc.); seien aye, say (certain specified words) in reply (to……

16. setten v.

1640 quotations in 40 senses
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(a) To make (sb.) sit, seat (sb.); also, with partitive construction: setten of..over heigh setle, fig. seat (someone's offspring) upon (his) high throne, make to rule; setten adoun (doun, up), make……

17. sheuen v.(1)

846 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) To see, look out; see (sth., that sth. is so), look at (sb. or sth.), view, examine; of God: see (sth.); also, view (sb.) with favor; sheuen upon, look at (sb.); ben to sheuen, be visible; fair……

18. somnen v.

105 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To urge (sb. to do sth.), invite, call upon; order (sb. to do sth.); -- also with that clause; ben somned, be called upon (to do sth.), be obliged; ben somned to, be invited to (a feast); (b) ?to……

19. strengen v.(1)

47 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To prevail; (b) to impart strength; also, of a medicine: provide the potency (to cure an illness). …

20. warnen v.

207 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) To give notice of some existing circumstance or a past or coincident event, make something known (b) to inform (sb., sb. of sth.), notify, advise; (c) to announce (sth. to sb.), proclaim,……

21. yẹ̄de v.

447 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) Of a person or creature: walked; also, was able to walk [quot. c1440]; yede on fot, yede on his fet, yede upright, etc.; yede afote, was on foot (b) walked (in a certain manner); (c) in……

22. yēven v.

1371 quotations in 35 senses
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(a) To give alms, gifts, etc., give something voluntarily, make a gift; give generously (to sb.); give alms, gifts, etc. (to sb.) in response to a request; also, in partitive construction: yeven of……

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