hinges · invites · opportunity · gateway · key · greeting · access · passage · begins · introduces · reveals · creaking · swings · handle · admit · usher · hospitality · crack
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Related — unlocks (Disengages a fastening); welcomes (Receives with hospitality); entrance (Point of access); threshold · knob · hinges · invites · opportunity · gateway · key · greeting · access · passage
enabling access/opportunityopens the door ≠ shuts out Bars from entry; turns away · keeps out · rejects · excludes · rebuffs
opportunity/possibilityopens the door ≠ precludes Makes impossible in advance; prevents · obstructs
Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/opens_the_door