What is another word for "employ"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "employ": abuse, adumbrate, adumbration, allegorical, allegorize, allegory, allude, allusion, allusive, anagoge, anagogical, analogy, apologue, application, apply, association, catachresis, catachrestical, catch, colloquial, colloquialism, crack, cut, desecrate, desecration, enallage, engine, exaggeration, express, fable, figurative, figure, forth, hyperbole, image, imagery, ironical, irony, metalepsis, metaphor.