Let and Ready

Let

Let verb - To make able or possible.

Usage example: the low gravity on the moon lets you make enormous leaps and jumps

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Ready and let are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ready" instead a verb "Let".

Nearby Word: letting

Ready verb - To make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function.

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Let and ready are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Let" instead a verb "Ready".

Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied

power	let power	ready power
life	let life	ready life
attack	let attack	ready attack
body	let body	ready body
Other words: eye, chance, show, time, bit, game, book, fight, nothing, child, times.

Bunk was in fact ready to let Omar take the fall until Omar reminds him that doing so will give the real murderer a free pass.

Source: Series / The Wire
Get Ahold Of Yourself Man: Risky delivers one of these to Safety near the end, when she's ready to give up and just let her friend's destinies get rewritten.

Source: Manga / Risky Safety
The Underworld (where ghosts go if their anchors are destroyed but they still aren't ready to let go of existence) is somewhere between Hell and The Nothing After Death, instead.

Source: Cessation of Existence

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