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1. akennen v.(2)

19 quotations in 2 senses
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Produce, give rise to (sth.); pass. develop, arise. …

2. alighten v.(1)

64 quotations in 6 senses
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To descend from a position: (a) get off, dismount; alighten (doun) of; descend (from the cross, from heaven); (b) of light or lightning: descend, issue (from the sky); (c) of the sea: alighten lou……

3. answēren, -ien v.

Additional spellings: answerien
120 quotations in 10 senses
Sense / Definition
(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……

4. aredden v.

16 quotations in 2 senses
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To deliver or save (a person, a country, etc., as from bondage, captivity, a siege, an enemy); liberate, set free, relieve; -- also without obj.; often with of (with) phrase. …

5. arēren, arẹ̄ren v.

132 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) To raise (sth.) to a vertical position; to set upright; areren up; (b) of a horse: to rear. …

6. bīen v.

163 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) To purchase (sth.), acquire by purchase; buy (a slave, etc.); bien raunsum, pay for (the release of a prisoner); bien ayen, buy back, reclaim; (b) bien bargain, bien of light chepe, to buy (sth.)……

7. bihōten v.

Additional spellings: behoten
200 quotations in 6 senses
Sense / Definition
To promise (sth.); promise (to do sth.); -- (a) with obj.; (b) with clause; (c) with inf. phrase. …

8. blessen v.

146 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Of God, Christ: to bestow divine favor upon (sb., sth.), confer divine blessing upon (sb.); endow with (sth.); make (a nation, the earth) flourish or prosper, grant well-being or success; bless……

9. chẹ̄sen v.

327 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) To select or choose (sth. or sb.) as suitable or agreeable; chesen out; chesen the best, make the best (of sth.); chesen at wille, choose freely; to dethe icoren, destined to die; (b) to choose or……

10. 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……

11. fọ̄n v.

104 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) To grasp or seize (something), take hold of, pick up; fon on, fonto; (b) fon armes, to take up arms, become a knight; fon rest, find rest; fon the cross, take the cross, go crusading; fon to……

12. fō̆rth-gōn v.

Additional spellings: forthgon
30 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To go forth or out; to come out, issue; to go, proceed; forth-gon wei, to travel a path; (b) of periods of time: to pass. …

13. glīden v.

149 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To pass through the air, sky, etc.; glide smoothly and uninterruptedly; of light: to come, shine; (b) to slip downward, descend, fall; doun gliden, gliden to ground, etc.; (c) gliden in, to pass……

14. gōn v.

1054 quotations in 29 senses
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(a) To walk; also, be able to walk; walken and gon; comen gon (going), come walking; gon on fot, gon upon fet, gon with fot, etc., go on foot, walk; gon on a fot, go on one foot, hop; (b) gon or……

15. hōpen v.(1)

106 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To hope, take hope, maintain hope; hope for (sth.); hope (to do sth.); hope (that sth. is the case); hopen after (to), hope for (sth.); (b) to have trust, have confidence; assume (sth.)……

16. ifọ̄n v.

18 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To conquer (a country); capture (sb.), seize; catch (game, birds); ifon forth, carry (sb.) away; (b) to receive recompense, be rewarded; receive (reward or punishment); accept (laws); receive (sb……

17. lighten v.(2)

262 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) To lighten (a load); reduce the weight of hair on (the head); (b) to deliver (sb. or his body) from suffering; cure (sb.) of illness; relieve (a country or land); lighten of child, deliver a child……

18. marken v.(1)

233 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) To set the boundaries or limits of (a plot of land, body of water, etc.); stake out; (b) of a sea or river: to reach the shore; (c) ppl. marked, of armies or troops: spread out, extended in width……

19. 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……

20. reuen v.(1)

221 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To regret (sth., how sth. happens); -- also refl.; be embarrassed or shamed by (sth.) [quot.: c1395]; grieve (to do sth.); reuen res, regret (an action, esp. a rash action); (b) to feel regret, be……

21. righten v.

116 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To straighten (sth., a path); make right (deformed limbs), make normal, restore; also iron. [quot.: Lay.Brut]; righten oute, straighten out (stiffened limbs); (b) to stand up straight, rise……

22. shadwen v.

55 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To provide shade; shade (sb., oneself, sth.), cast shade upon, protect from the sun or other light; shadwen the sonne, block the sun; ppl. shadwed as adj.: shaded; (b) to darken (sth.), obscure……

23. understō̆nden v.

513 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) To exercise the intellectual power; also, have the ability to understand; ppl. understondinge, intelligent (b) to achieve comprehension; have a full comprehension (concerning God, a process);……

24. wedden v.

123 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To take a husband or wife, marry; get married (to sb.); (b) refl. to marry; also, fig. join oneself as if in marriage (to sb. or sth.). …

25. werken v.(1)

617 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) To act, behave, proceed; act (in a specified way), proceed (on the basis of sth., according to sth.), act (so as to do sth.), do (as one should, as sb. enjoins, according to sth., etc.); werken……

26. 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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