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watch cowboy breath learn lever following philanthropist reach out to someone pull your socks up remember monetary stimulus forge ahead honey heaven hang on toehold arrival chase contrive tinker uplift devotion greycation bust feminism cowboy up breakdown frump economy drive engage with hand's turn hang onto something raise your game spend ruling passion spin control worth it earnestly eliminate flight dragger check scissors–and–paste ascertain housecleaning see unrelenting excogitate clampdown follow trouble to do something gather your wits listen out for sth on autopilot salvage squirm whispering campaign circus catch catty ineffectual ingratiating jimmy putsch triumph fall (or drop) into someone's lap rest on one's laurels arsed emulative goal come/get to grips with sth foothold lamington drive economical an attempt on someone's life snatch put one's best foot forward shag osmosis grubstake invent thinker project pry aim bullpen make it your business to do something follow-on spent conclusion the ends of the earth look to your laurels take aim at fray determine formulate peacekeeping hit the ground running prise target of opportunity one-upmanship self-cleaning purpose dredge up pump dump put yourself out search pursual ante wrestle promotion put the moves on scrub up well vegetate donkey work out overcompensate quota terminate sport maneuver flash charette hegemony meeting seed expostulate inactive factitious speak to signify impose be on the stage nark write helping work up sth tread throw in the towel separatist assistant undertaking defensive slope incline economically in for a penny, in for a pound go out of your way to do something rationalize throw one's hands up (in the air) trudge putt supporter smart growth sod drownproofing lick throw up one's hands assistance helper cigar artel strengthen taint obtain textual criticism senioritis object over the top rework verity buckle to one-handed beef bust a gut whale centervelic go-go-go buckle shoulder 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Words For "be an effort"
As you've probably noticed, words for "be an effort" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "be an effort" are: try, attempt, push, heave, and work. There are 992 other words that are related to or similar to be an effort listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "be an effort" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).
About Reverse Dictionary
The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter.
I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).
In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.
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