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The purpose of this study is to explore and then visualize language networks between the semantic domains of the noun collocates of the English synonymous verbs such as stop, end, complete, and finish to investigate similarities and differences among four synonymous verbs with regard to key semantic domains. This paper demonstrates how semantic domains are shared with four synonyms and how they are connected in terms of weight degree. The Wmatrix web tool was used to analyse the semantic domains, and the Netminer 4.0 program was used to identify preference in the pairing of a key verb and the semantic domains of its collocates. It was found that even if a certain semantic domain is shared with all four synonyms, there are some differences in the strength of connection between semantic domains and those synonyms according to the meaning characteristics of those verbs.