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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | marry and breed |
| Synonyms: | cohabit, copulate, couple, crossbreed, generate, join, land*, match, merge, pair, procreate, serve, tie, tie the knot, wed, yoke |
| Antonyms: | abstain, uncouple |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | join |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | unite |
| Synonyms: | accompany, add, adhere, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, assemble, associate, attach, blend, bracket, cement, clamp, clasp, clip, coadunate, coalesce, combine, compound, concrete, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, couple, entwine, fasten, fuse, grapple, hitch on, incorporate, interlace, intermix, juxtapose, knit, leash, link, lock, lump together, marry, mate, melt, mix, pair, put together, slap on, span, splice, stick together, tack on, tag on, tie, tie up, touch, weave, wed, weld, yoke |
| Antonyms: | disjoin, divide, separate |
| Main Entry: | marry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become husband and wife in legal ceremony |
| Synonyms: | ally, associate, become one, bond, catch*, combine, conjoin, conjugate, contract, couple, drop anchor, espouse, get hitched, get married, join, knit, land*, lead to altar, link, match, mate, merge, one, pledge, plight one's troth, promise, relate, settle down, take vows, tie, tie the knot, unify, unite, walk down aisle, wed, yoke |
| Antonyms: | divorce |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pair |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make, become a twosome |
| Synonyms: | balance, bracket, combine, couple, join, marry, match, match up, mate, pair off, pair up, put together, team, twin, unite, wed, yoke |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate, sever |
| Main Entry: | splice |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | join, interweave |
| Synonyms: | braid, entwine, graft, hitch, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, knit, marry, mate, mesh, plait, tie, unite, weave, wed, yoke |
| Notes: | a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate, sever |
| Main Entry: | make love |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have sex |
| Synonyms: | be intimate, breed, copulate, fool around, fornicate, fuck, go all the way, go to bed with, have sexual intercourse, have sexual relations, lay, make out, mate, procreate, screw, sleep together |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | help |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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adjutorious, adjuvant, ancillary, at one's beck, auxiliary, cataskeuastic, coadjuvant, favorable, friendly, helpful, ministrant, neighborly, obliging, propitious, subservient, subsidiary, succursal, well
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