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accompany
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accompany as in:  accompany on the journey

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The nurse accompanies the old woman everywhere.
accompanies = travels with
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    Will you accompany her to the party?
    accompany = go with
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    She's going to accompany us on our vacation.
    accompany = come with
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    He accompanied her, and the children joined them later with his father.
    accompanied = went with
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    "You are only permitted to leave the compound when accompanied by a Dauntless," Eric adds.  (source)
    accompanied = escorted (in the company of)
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    Gennaro had offered to accompany Muldoon.  (source)
    accompany = go with
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    In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock.  (source)
    unaccompanied = alone
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccompanied means not and reverses the meaning of accompanied. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    His big dream, originally, was to go off and live in the woods with some beautiful woman. He was hot for at least a couple of different girls who worked with us, and he spent a lot of time and energy trying to talk Sue or Barbara or whoever into accompanying him, which in itself was pretty much pure fantasyland.  (source)
    accompanying = traveling with
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    Sometimes Genevieve or Rachel accompanies them, depending on the complexity of the task.  (source)
    accompanies = goes with
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    My brother's discharge was accompany'd with an order of the House (a very odd one), that "James Franklin should no longer print the paper called the New England Courant."†  (source)
    accompany'd = traveled with
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    Ten minutes later, Snape returned, and sure enough it was Professor McGonagall who accompanied him.  (source)
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    She would be home far too late for comfort, but she was well aware that she had to accompany Rudy Steiner through town, to the Sturm farm on the other side.  (source)
    accompany = go with
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    Toast completed, Donald sees his special guest standing unaccompanied before the painting and hurries back over, asking about Barbara, about what she's doing today.†  (source)
    unaccompanied = alone
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    Now that these dear companions may no longer walk with you, will you not do my daughter and me the great honor of accompanying us?  (source)
    accompanying = traveling along with
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accompany as in:  the accompanying chart

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    The exact numbers are shown in the accompanying table.
    accompanying = provided together
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    Such dramatic social changes are often accompanied by social unrest and populist backlash.
    accompanied = joined (coming at the same time)
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    She was pleased with the promotion and the accompanying pay increase.
    accompanying = provided together
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    The song and it's accompanying album won two Grammy Awards.
    accompanying = going together
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    I don't yet understand the new law and the accompanying regulations.
    accompanying = provided together to be complete
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    My family was part of the increase in immigration that accompanied the economic expansion of the 1980s.
    accompanied = occurred at the same time as
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    The Chinese New Year is often accompanied by firecrackers.
    accompanied = joined (occurs with)
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    It is a nutritious, though bland, dish that is best accompanied by a flavorful side dish.
    accompanied = served together
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    She wrote the film's accompanying score.
    accompanying = provided together
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    A certain amount of intelligence sometimes accompanies a strong sense of self-preservation.  (source)
    accompanies = comes with
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    But then a memory presented itself—a memory of a Christmas past when the Count had leaned from his chair to correct a certain waiter's recommendation of a Rioja to accompany a Latvian stew.  (source)
    accompany = complement (go with to make better)
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    "The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.  (source)
    unaccompanied = not joined
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccompanied means not and reverses the meaning of accompanied. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    ...he feels in himself that radical sense of weakness, of listlessness, of discomfort, which accompanies the advance of age;  (source)
    accompanies = goes with
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accompany as in:  accompanied her in the performance

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Who can accompany me on the piano?
accompany = perform with
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    Anyone who plays a musical instrument is encouraged to come to tryouts to accompany the choir.
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    I'd heard the piano played countless times before, to accompany hymns, but when Mary played it, the sound was nothing like that formless clunking.  (source)
    accompany = perform music with
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    He'd sing numbers like 'Tender Is the Night' while I accompanied him on piano.  (source)
    accompanied = performed with
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    Loud singing accompanied by what sounded like mandolins issued from a distant corner;  (source)
    accompanied = performed with
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    You can play it yourself or have someone accompany you while you're on cello or violin.  (source)
    accompany = perform with
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    Juan, standing next to him, was accompanying him on the guitar.  (source)
    accompanying = performing with
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    If he's not trying to figure out the Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites, he's drawing on the pavement with a rock, writing the name of whatever piece he's playing, the name of the composer, Peter Snyder, Adam Crane, Governor Schwarzenegger, the names of me and everyone in my family or whatever else pops into his head.  (source)
    Unaccompanied = performed alone
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccompanied means not and reverses the meaning of accompanied. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    First Mameha performed a few brief pieces while I accompanied her on the shamisen.  (source)
    accompanied = played music with
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    Being pushed unceremoniously to one side — which was precisely what I wished — he usurped my place, and proceeded to accompany himself: for he could play as well as sing.  (source)
    accompany = play music together with
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    It was a moment of great peril; for,—despite the traditionary awe that had gathered over this instrument of music, and the dirges which spiritual fingers were said to play on it,—the devoted sister had solemn thoughts of thrumming on its chords for Clifford's benefit, and accompanying the performance with her voice.  (source)
    accompanying = joining
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    An interesting little fact is that my father accompanied him on the drum, and the effect was considered…unusual.  (source)
    accompanied = performed with
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    He suggests focusing on "Song of the Birds," and offers to one day accompany him on piano.  (source)
    accompany = perform with
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    He well knew that she was in her chamber, and engaged in no occupation that could not readily be laid aside; for, as it happened, ever since Alice's name had been spoken, both her father and the carpenter had heard the sad and sweet music of her harpsichord, and the airier melancholy of her accompanying voice.  (source)
    accompanying = performing together
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