Word Meanings - PROCURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

for + curare to take care, fr. cura care. See Cure, and cf. Proctor, 1. To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means,

Additional info about word: PROCURE

for + curare to take care, fr. cura care. See Cure, and cf. Proctor, 1. To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton. 2. To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause. By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach. Robynson . Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall. Shak. 3. To solicit; to entreat. The famous Briton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode. Spenser. 4. To cause to come; to bring; to attract. What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak. 5. To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution. Syn. -- See Attain.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROCURE)

• Acquire
• Gain
• earn
• procure
• obtain
• get
• realize
• win
• reap
• Bring
• Fetch
• convey
• carry
• bear
• adduce
• import
• produce
• cause
• induce
• Gain Acquire
• profit
• benefit
• attain
• achieve
• reach
• Get
• acquire
• secure
• Will
• Allure
• gain
• conciliate
• succeed
• accomplish
• conquer

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROCURE)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

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• BROKERY
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• BREVIARY
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• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• BRAZIL NUT
  An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
• BRAST
  To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• TECTIBRANCHIA
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• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• BRASIER; BRAZIER
  An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.
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  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CAMBRIC
  1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures
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• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
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