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1. availen v.

103 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To help (sb.), assist; do good to (sb.), benefit, be profitable to; (b) refl. to help oneself, succeed; (c) impers. or with delayed subject: availeth, it availeth, it avails (sb.), it profits, it……

2. avenǧen v.

27 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Refl. To avenge oneself, take or get revenge; -- often with of phrase; intr. in quot. 1420: (b) ben avenged, to get revenge; -- often with on, upon phrase. …

3. cancellen v.

15 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To annul or revoke (a charter, patent, etc.), mark (a document) void; also, to have the king revoke (one's patent); (b) to make (an agreement or obligation) null and void; to mark (a document) in……

4. despẹ̄plen v.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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To make (sth.) public or known; promulgate (a law). …

5. diggen v.

45 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To dig in or excavate earth with a mattock, spade, or other tool; ?also, dig with the fingers; diggen aboute, diggen under; (b) to dig up or excavate (earth); (c) to dig up (a field, balks) for……

6. endenten v.

53 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To make notches, dents, or indentations in (something); give (something) a toothed, serrate, or jagged character or appearance; (b) fig. heckle. …

7. endeuen v.(1)

38 quotations in 3 senses
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To induct or put (someone into an office, benefice, or condition); to initiate (someone into a branch of learning). …

8. endōsen v.

14 quotations in 3 senses
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Law (a) To confirm or approve (a charter, bill, agreement, etc.), [orig. by writing on the back of the document];--also fig.; (b) to approve a reply to (a petition), to grant (a petition) under seal……

9. endǒuen v.

21 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To provide (someone) with worldly goods, a livelihood, or privileges; to endow (a church, temple, etc.); --often with of, with, or in phrase of the thing given; (b) to grant (a privilege), to……

10. enfamishen v.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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To make (someone) starve or die of hunger;--often pass. …

11. enfraunchīsen, -eisen v.

Additional spellings: enfrauncheisen
8 quotations in 2 senses
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To grant privileges (to a town). …

12. entercomū̆nen, -comen(en v.

Additional spellings: entercomen, entercomenen
13 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To communicate, to confer; (b) to associate, fellowship, or have dealings (with someone); also fig. …

13. entermē̆ten v.

62 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To intervene (in a conflict), to interpose, interfere;--often refl. and with of, in, on, with phrase; (b) to intrude (oneself), encroach (upon something), meddle or interfere (with matters which……

14. envoisen v.(1)

5 quotations in 1 sense
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Hunt. Of hounds: (a) to follow a scent; (b) to follow the wrong scent. …

15. estāblen v.

14 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To enact (a law); ordain (that sth. be so); -- also with grammatical subject hit; also, institute (a sacrament); also, issue instructions (to do sth.); (b) to impose (a condition); prescribe (a……

16. famishen v.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To reduce (a person) to extreme hunger or to death by starvation; to starve (b) to cause (a horse) to fast, whet appetite by withholding food. …

17. fō̆rcen v.(2)

3 quotations in 1 sense
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To trim or clip (something); esp., to trim (a fleece, removing the coarser parts). …

18. fǒulis v. (infinitive)

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Tread or trample upon. …

19. mẹ̄ven v.

465 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) To move (sb. or sth.), shift; remove (sth.), dislodge; move (sth.) about, shake, disturb; stir (a liquid); apply (sth.); also fig.; meven hat ne hod, remove hat nor hood, uncover the head; meven……

20. ǒutraien v.

33 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To overcome (sb.), conquer, vanquish; destroy (sb.), annihilate; outraied with hethen thede, destroyed by heathens; (b) to harry (sb.), oppress; have (sb.) at a disadvantage; (c) to do offense, do……

21. pẹ̄rcen v.

267 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) To thrust a weapon, a horn, a needle, etc., through or into (sb. or sth., part of the body, armor, etc.); cut into (skin or flesh); shoot missiles into (sth.); percen of, pierce (sth.); percen……

22. portraien v.

56 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To draw, engrave, etc. (a representation); paint a picture of (sb. or sth.); depict (sth.); paint (a likeness, picture); (b) to draw or paint pictures; (c) ppl. portraied, painted, sculptured, or……

23. presten v.(2)

3 quotations in 1 sense
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To lend (money), especially involuntarily to the king, advance; ?also, to borrow (money). …

24. profren v.

139 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) To make an offer or a proposal; offer something (to sb.); offer to do something; (b) to offer or present (sth.); offer (sth. to sb.); take up (one's pen to write sth.); profren to sale, offer……

25. purloinen v.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To remove to a distance, put away; remove or entice away (a craftsman, an apprentice) from his proper master; remove or carry off (valuables), misappropriate (sth.); remove (a legal document) from……

26. purpōsen v.

140 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To intend (to do or be sth.); (b) to be resolved (that sth. shall or shall not happen); form a purpose of doing (sth.); purposen to, choose (sth.); plan to do (sth.); (c) refl. to determine or……

27. purveien v.

228 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) To foresee (sth.), foreknow; (b) to think beforehand, consider, reflect; refl. purveien of, bethink oneself of (sth.), reflect on; ppl. purveiinge, prudent, provident [quot.: a1500]; (c) to take……

28. rachen v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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To pull off (a helmet). …

29. rakken v.(2)

1 quotation in 1 sense
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To draw off (wine) from one vessel to another, leaving the lees; rakken to the lies, draw off (a wine) down to the lees. …

30. rā̆pen v.(2)

19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To abduct (a woman), ravish, rape; also, seduce (a man); (b) to seize prey; (c) to carry off (sb. to heaven from earth, from one place to another); fig. transport (sb., the soul, its sight) in an……

31. reclaimen v.

29 quotations in 3 senses
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Hawk. (a) To call back (a hawk); also in sayings; (b) to make (a hawk) tame; ppl. reclaimed, tame, trained. …

32. recoilen v.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To drive (an enemy or opponent) back; beat back (the devil); recoilen abak (ayen-ward); (b) to retreat, draw back; recoilen ayen. …

33. recǒmforten v.

48 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To comfort (sb., the heart), console; recomforten chere, brighten (someone's) appearance; recomforten of, relieve (sb.) of (sorrow); recomforten from, ease (someone's heart) of (misery or……

34. reconcīlen v.

110 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) To bring (persons) into harmony or accord, reconcile; reconcilen in (in-to, unto) pes, reconcilen to unite; also, reconcile (sb. and the church or its clergy); (b) to bring about reconciliation or……

35. recoveren v.(2)

167 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) To recover from sickness, injury, etc., regain health; of a bodily part: regain normal functions; recoveren of, recover from (an illness); (b) ben recovered, to recover from illness or injury, be……

36. refē̆ten v.

17 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To refresh (sb.), restore; feed (sb.); also fig.; (b) to fatten (livestock); (c) ben refeted, of a wild sow at mating time: to be cooled, cool off [cp. refreiden v. (b)]. …

37. refreiden v.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To become cool; also fig.; (b) ben refreided, to be chilled; to have caught a chill; also, be cooled, cool off; also fig.; (c) ppl. refreid, refreshed, restored. …

38. refreinden v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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To be tempered or restrained. …

39. regnen v.

158 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To exercise royal power, be king, queen, or emperor; also, reign as pope; -- also used fig. of the sun, the soul; impers. hit was regned, government continued; regnen on (upon), reign over (a……

40. rē̆hersen v.

166 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To narrate (sth., a story, that sth. happened), report, tell; describe (sth.); impers. hit reherseth; rehersen of, give a description of (sth.); rehersen of marble, ?carve (a description) in……

41. rejoisen v.

133 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To own (goods, property), possess (sth.); occupy (a manor, an estate) as owner; (b) to enjoy the benefits of (citizenship, a privilege, title, benefice, etc.); enjoy (favor, glory, the Beatific……

42. relēsen v.(1)

122 quotations in 5 senses
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To revoke (a decree, an interdict, agreement, etc.), cancel, lift; commute (a penalty), remit; override (a law) [quot.: a1402]. …

43. remainen v.

45 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To be left after a part has been removed, lost, spent, etc.; survive, remain; remainen due, be owing; ben remaininge, be still available; ben remained, survive; (b) arith. of a quantity: to remain……

44. remaunden v.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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To send back (a document, message), return. …

45. remembren v.

189 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To bear (sb. or sth.) in mind, give heed to, reflect on, consider; take (sth.) into account; consider (that sth. is the case); (b) remembren of (on, upon), to pay heed to (sth.), meditate on……

46. remẹ̄ven v.

130 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To take away (sth.), remove; take off (a surgical dressing); remeven awei; (b) to move (sb. or sth. to another place); adjust the position of (a sword, the pointer on the rete of an astrolabe)……

47. remǒunten v.

12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To rise again, climb up again; also fig.; (b) hawk. to regain (a state of strength or good health); ben remounted, be restored (to a state of strength or good health); (c) to remount one's horse……

48. reneuen v.(2)

1 quotation in 1 sense
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In phrase: reneuen til, to tie (a horse) to (a tree). …

49. renomen v.

20 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Ben renomed, to be spoken of, be praised, be celebrated; be reputed to be (sb. or sth.); ben renomed of, be praised for (sth.), be known for, be famous for; (b) ppl. renomed, famous, celebrated……

50. renūlen v.

12 quotations in 1 sense
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To renew oneself, be renewed; renew (sb. or sth.), restore, revive; renulen to penaunce, restore (sb.) to repentance; ben renuled. …

51. repēlen v.

27 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To repeal (a statute, decree, etc.), revoke, rescind, annul; (b) to withdraw (a privilege, license, etc.); withdraw (a right from sb.) [quot.: c1390]. …

52. replenishen v.

37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To provide (sb. with food and drink); populate (the world, earth, etc.); also, inhabit (a place); fill (an empty space, glandular flesh); (b) ben replenished, to be provided with food and drink……

53. replīen v.(1)

41 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To turn (sth.) back, fold; bend back (a probe), flex; (b) to make opposition; retaliate; oppose (sth.), object to; repudiate (a former opinion), divorce (one's wife), cancel (a command, decision)……

54. reprẹ̄ven v.

145 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To deliver a rebuke; -- also refl.; reproach (sb.), reprove, admonish; blame (sb.), censure; also, chide (sb.), scold; -- also without obj.; ppl. reprevinge as adj.; also, as noun: one who……

55. reprōchen v.(1)

14 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To rebuke (sb.), reproach; ppl. reproching as noun: one who rebukes; (b) to insult (sb.), mock; (c) to condemn (sth.); also, belittle (a gift); (d) to reject (sth.), destroy; (e) reprochen of, ?by……

56. rescǒuen v.

55 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To rescue or deliver (sb.) from captivity, fire, death, hell, abduction, etc.; keep (sb. from hell, death); also, raise (sb.) from the dead; (b) to aid (sb. in battle or under siege), relieve……

57. rescǒueren v.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To defend (sb.); (b) of a king: to acquire wealth; ?tax his subjects. …

58. rescǒusen v.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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To rescue (sb., a country); deliver (sb. under siege), relieve. …

59. resǒunen v.(1)

18 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To re-echo, resound; return an echo; resounen of (with), ring with (a sound), reverberate with, be filled with; (b) to sound, make or utter a sound; also, to play (a tune); resounen in-to mirthe……

60. respǒunden v.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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To make answer, respond; reply (to sb.); answer (sth); heren respounden, hear tell, hear it answered. …

61. reteinen v.

28 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To possess (money, rents, a grant, etc.), continue to keep, retain; keep (a document, sword); (b) to continue to show (a virtue); continue to possess (grace, a name, etc.), keep; (c) to remember……

62. retrēten v.(2)

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To reproduce (sth.), imitate; (b) to consider (sth.) again, think about again. …

63. retrussen v.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To lay a burden on (sb.) again, burden again; (b) of the soul: to put on (the body) again, gird on again. …

64. retten v.(1)

46 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To attribute (sth. to sb. or sth.), ascribe; appropriate (sth. to oneself); also, ascribe one's success (to God) [quot.: a1500(a1415)]; retten in, attribute (sth.) to (sb.); (b) to impute (sin)……

65. revaien v.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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To go hawking on riverbanks. …

66. reverten v.

28 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To return, turn back or around; return to a former state; reverten ayen, return (to sb., Christ); (b) to cause (sb.) to return (to Christ, a former state); return (a soul to its body); (c) to……

67. rewarden v.

100 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To give a reward; reward (sb.); (b) hunt. to reward (a hound or hawk), esp. with a part of the game; (c) to reward (affection, good deeds, etc.); -- also without obj.; (d) to pay (sb.) for goods……

68. roinen v.(1)

3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To trim away (putrified matter from a sore); ?trim (the edges of a wound); (b) to pare away the edge of (a coin), clip. …

69. rollen v.(1)

11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To record (a deed, title, etc.) in an official roll or register; also in fig. context; (b) to list (a person's name) on a roster or muster roll; record (sb.) as (sth.), acknowledge; rollen with……

70. rǒuten v.(5)

1 quotation in 1 sense
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In phrase: routen out, to blow, exhale; ?snort. …

71. rūelen v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Of rain: to fall. …

72. rumpen v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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To beat (sb.); also, ?scratch, tear. …

73. rushen v.

44 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To move quickly, move violently, rush; charge, dash; of wind: blow violently; of water, blood: flow rapidly, stream; rushen forth, charge; also, hurry on one's way; rushen up, leap up; (b) to dash……

74. scā̆pen v.(1)

175 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) To escape or depart from confinement, captivity, a prison, siege, etc.; also, escape (a prison); scapen awei; scapen from (of, oute of), escape from (a confining place or person, trap, etc.); ben……

75. scarmuchen v.

17 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To skirmish, fight singly or in small parties; also, of armies: do battle; (b) to brandish a weapon, make a pass; flail about. …

76. scarren v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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To cut (sth.). …

77. sclaundren v.

86 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To calumniate (sb.), slander (a woman's name or virtue); accuse (sb.) falsely; ppl. sclaundring as adj.: slanderous; (b) to reveal unfavorable truth about (sb.), embarrass (a guild), reveal……

78. scochen v.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To make a cut or cuts in (sth.), gash, score; (b) ppl. scochede as adj.: ?provided with a notch; scochede cauterie, ?a notched cauterizing instrument. …

79. scǒmen v.

29 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To skim impurities or fat from (a liquid); -- also without obj.; clarify (butter, honey); skim the surface of (the white of an egg); (b) ppl. scomed, skimmed; of butter, honey: clarified; (c)……

80. scorchen v.(1)

4 quotations in 1 sense
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To strip the skin from (sb.); also fig.; strip (the skin from the flesh); -- used fig.; scorchen quik, flay (sb.) alive. …

81. scō̆rnen v.

108 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To be contemptuous; hold (sb. or sth.) in disdain, despise; ppl. scorninge as adj.: ?disdainful, scornful; (b) to bring (sth.) into contempt. …

82. scotten v.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To share; scotten in (of), share (sth.); (b) lotten and scotten, to bear one's share of municipal charges and taxes; (c) to tax (sb.). …

83. scǒurǧen v.

47 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To whip (sb., oneself, an animal, the body), scourge; also fig.; -- also without obj.; (b) scourgen and beten (dingen), beten (swingen) and scourgen, to whip (sb., an image), scourge; (c) to have……

84. scrīven v.(2)

5 quotations in 1 sense
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To write; describe (sth.); record (sth.) in writing. …

85. seinten v.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To be divinely favored, blessed, or sanctified; ben seinted, become a saint in heaven; (b) to act like a saint; -- used iron. boast or show off. …

86. sēlen v.

61 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To press a seal on wax; set a seal on (a document, etc.), seal; -- also without obj.; also, confirm (statements); also fig.; ppl. as adj.: seling, confirmatory; seled, sealed; (b) selen dede (to……

87. sermǒunen v.

13 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To speak, make a speech; speak to (sb.); say (sth.); sermounen of, speak of (sth.), talk about; (b) to preach; preach to (sb.); sermounen of, preach about (sth.). …

88. serven v.(1)

614 quotations in 21 senses
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(a) To be of service, be employed, work; labor (to do sth.); have a responsibility (to do sth.); serven at the barre, practice law; serven for, serve in order to get (sth., a wife); also, work (to do……

89. seuen v.(1)

436 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) To follow after; follow (sb., a group), walk behind; also fig.; be guided by (a star, a blind person); seuen after, come behind; also, follow (sb.); seuen bestes, drive (a team); seuinge hire fet……

90. severen v.

67 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To cause a separation or division; separate (people or things); also fig.; cause a separation among (princes); part (lips), open; keep (ribs) apart; subdivide (a guild); severen from, separate……

91. silen v.(1)

1 quotation in 1 sense
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To sew up (the eyes of a hawk). …

92. skekken v.(1)

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To rob, plunder; make a raid (on sb.); skekken of, make a foray among (soldiers); with spelling vars. as doublets: skiken and skekken, rob and plunder; (b) to take (sth.), steal; also fig. …

93. skirmen v.

19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To fight with a weapon (usu. a sword), fence; also fig. [quot.: c1250]; fight (with a weapon); also, fight in small parties, skirmish [quot.: c1440]; ?also, play (with knives), juggle [quot……

94. socǒuren v.

116 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To render assistance, provide aid; assist (sb.), help; attend (a woman in childbirth) [quot. a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin]; facilitate (digestion); socouren ayen, aid (sb.) against (sb. else); (b) to……

95. sō̆jǒuren v.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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To stay temporarily in a place, abide for a time; sojouren with, of the heart: dwell or remain with (sb.); -- used fig. …

96. sō̆jǒurnen v.

76 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To stay temporarily in a place, reside for a time; visit; also, reside permanently, dwell; (b) sojournen a, refl. to stay in (a place); sojournen at, live in (a place); spend time at (a place)……

97. sō̆lā̆sen v.

47 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To entertain (sb. or sth.), amuse; please (one's heart or soul); cheer up (one's life); solasen with, amuse (sb.); also, cheer up (one's life); ben solased of, be pleased by (a sight); (b) refl.……

98. 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……

99. somonden v.

10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To call upon (sb. to do sth.), urge; -- also with that clause; somonden to, enjoin (sb.) to (penance); (b) to cite (sb.) to appear before a court or other judicial authority, summon; also……

100. sǒuchen v.

17 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To suspect (sth., that sth. is so); souchen (to him) but god, suppose anything but what is proper and good (about him); souchen of, refl. suspect (sth.) [2nd quot.]; souchen unto, suspect (sth.)……

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