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How to sign: come upon, as if by accident; meet with
"We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day";

Similiar / Same: find, encounter, chance, happen

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How to sign: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form

Similiar / Same: bulge, extrusion, protrusion, protuberance, excrescence, jut, gibbousness, gibbosity, hump, prominence

Categories: projection

Within this category: belly, caput, frontal eminence, mogul, nub, occipital protuberance, snag, wart

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How to sign: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
"She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sargeant";

See also: bump off, murder, slay, polish off, dispatch, remove, hit

Similiar / Same: demote, kick downstairs, relegate, break

Categories: assign, delegate, depute, designate

Within this category: reduce