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v. make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"

beg

v. ask to obtain free; "beg money and food"

borrow, get temporarily

v. get temporarily; "May I borrow your lawn mower?"

pinch, hook, lift, swipe, abstract, cabbage, sneak, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, make off with, filch

v. make off with belongings of others

leech, bleed, phlebotomize

v. draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"

scrounge, cadge

v. obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; "he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends"

forage, scrounge, scrounge around

v. collect or look around for (food)

leach, cause to leach, cause to percolate

v. cause to leach

ferret out

v. search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth"

starve, deprive of food

v. deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"

deprive

v. keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

assuage, slake, quench, allay

v. satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"

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