| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To have as an accompaniment, a condition, or a consequence: carry, entail. See START. 2. To make complex, intricate, or perplexing: complicate, embarrass, entangle, perplex, ravel, snarl2, tangle. See SIMPLE. 3. To have as a part: comprehend, comprise, contain, embody, embrace, encompass, have, include, subsume, take in. See INCLUDE. 4. To have as a need or prerequisite: ask, call for, demand, entail, necessitate, require, take. See NECESSARY, OVER. 5. To get and hold the attention of: engage, occupy. See EXCITE. 6. To draw in so that extrication is difficult: catch up, embrangle, embroil, implicate, mix up, suck. See FREE, PARTICIPATE.
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