| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To arrive at through reasoning: educe, evolve, excogitate. See REASON. 2. To obtain from another source: draw, get, take. See KIN. 3. To have hereditary derivation: descend, issue, spring. Idioms: trace one's descent. See KIN. 4. To have as a source: arise, come, emanate, flow, issue, originate, proceed, rise, spring, stem, upspring. See START.
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