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1. utilize, use, make use of, employ busily, put to use, work with, apply; wield, manipulate, handle, bend; exploit, press or enlist into service.

2. carry on, practice, pursue, lay one's hand to, bend one's efforts to; follow, undertake, exercise; devote oneself to, persevere at, work at, occupy oneself with, exert oneself in, busy oneself with, attend to; engage in, be absorbed in, be about; hold to, persist in; set to, fall to, buckle down to.

3. provide, furnish, supply, replenish; feed, stuff, fill, glut, surfeit, satiate; load, heap, stock, store; nurture, nourish, provision, sustain; shower, lavish, treat.

4. attack, assault, raid, storm, charge; assail, besiege, beset, overwhelm, press, bombard, torture, torment.

5. thrash, flog, whip, beat, batter, lash, scourge, flagellate, flail; hit, strike, smite, pommel, trounce; pelt, pepper, strafe, open fire upon; spank, bastinado.

6. importune, beset, dun, tax, press, push; set upon, urge, call upon, insist, Inf. work on; plead, appeal to, clamor for, cry for; supplicate, beseech, entreat, implore, beg, sue, petition, solicit; coax, wheedle, cajole, inveigle; pester, vex, plague, harass, badger, hound, Sl. hassle, Sl. bug.

7. pass over or along, traverse, go over, go across, cross, go back and forth; travel, navigate.

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1. layer, thickness, sheet, leaf.

2. bent, inclination, disposition, predisposition, temperament, mind, turn, affection, aptness; tendency, propensity, proclivity, leaning, penchant, proneness; predilection, partiality, prejudice, bias, twist, feeling; prepossession, fondness, attraction.