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withstay
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drag
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fetter
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pitch
stay
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carcerate
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move back
siderate
pull away
recede
pull back
withdraw
withstand
restrained
retreat
retire
reservation
hold up
get away with
get by with
frustrate
restrainability
stifle
hang fire
restrainable
in check
discerpible
reserve
start
offstand
crack down
clamp down
release the handbrake
off the hook
deiminate
loose
unlock
sit on
circumventive
repleviable
remorseless
expellable
afford
escape
breakout
unconfined
unimprisoned
blunt
untie
unguard
unleash
clip
understandable
avoidable
laced-up
low key
let loose
unburden
handcuff
in leash
reprive
loosen
strangle
grind
bypassable
unrestrain
bog
detunable
throw to the wind
nonrestraint
temperately
unloose
disrupt
shuntable
set by
damper
undam
irremovable
bite
keep back
unstrangle
hinderable
reprievable
snatchproof
inhibited
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repugnable
measured
repellable
restrainedly
restrained
restrainable
discerpible
off the hook
circumventive
repleviable
remorseless
expellable
unconfined
unimprisoned
understandable
avoidable
laced-up
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detunable
shuntable
irremovable
hinderable
reprievable
snatchproof
restrainingly
temperately
reservation
restrainability
breakout
low key
nonrestraint
damper
catch
withstay
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fetter
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pitch
stay
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move back
siderate
pull away
recede
pull back
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withstand
retreat
retire
hold up
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verb
- To be held back or impeded.
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
verb
- To discard for some gain.
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
verb
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
noun
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adv
adj
verb
- pull back or move away or backward
- withdraw from active participation
- release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
- cause to be returned
- take back what one has said
- keep away from others
- break from a meeting or gathering
- retire gracefully
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- lose interest
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
verb
- pull back or move away or backward
- move away, as for privacy
- move back
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
noun
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- an area where you can be alone
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
verb
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- withdraw from active participation
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- lose interest
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- cause to get out
- prepare for sleep
noun
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
- The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
- Something that is withheld or kept back.
- A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt.
- An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
- A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
- A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
- The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
- The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
verb
verb
- To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- To feel smothered; to find it difficult to breathe.
- To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- To die of suffocation.
- To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
- To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
noun
prep_phrase
verb
- hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
noun
- formality and propriety of manner
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
- a district that is reserved for particular purpose
- armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency
- the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
verb
- To flinch or draw back.
- To begin.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To set in motion.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
noun
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An instance of starting.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
verb
- Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- To let loose, to free from restraints.
- To shoot (an arrow).
- To make less tight, to loosen.
- To unfasten, to loosen.
intj
adj
- Not compact.
- Not fitting closely
- Relaxed.
- Indiscreet.
- Not held or packaged together.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Having oversteer.
noun
verb
- To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
- To undermine something that has control over a situation; to find a way to counter or oppose.
- To make available.
- To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.
- To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
- To obtain access to something; to meet the requirements of a security or protection system.
- To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge or potential.
noun
verb
- To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- To get free; to free oneself.
- To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
noun
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- escape key
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
- A successful shot from a snooker position.
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- An apophyge.
noun
- An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
- An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).
- The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.
- A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
- A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
- An escape from prison.
adj
verb
- To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
adj
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
noun
verb
- To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
- In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- To become untied or loosed.
- To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
verb
- to grab or take stealthily
- To curtail; to cut short.
- To grip tightly.
- To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- To strike with the hand.
- To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
noun
- A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- A newspaper clipping.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- The condition of something, its state.
- A removable magazine of a firearm.
- A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
verb
- To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- To operate by turning a crank.
- To shape with the force of friction.
- To rotate the hips erotically.
- To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- To eat.
- To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
noun
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A tedious and laborious task.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- Hustle; hard work.
verb
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- To make a mess of something.
- To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- To cover or spray with excrement.
- To sink and stick in bogland.
- To go away.
noun
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
verb
- To free from a constraint.
- To loosen or undo (something that entangles, fastens, holds, or interlocks).
- To free (someone or something) from a constraint; (figuratively) to release (something which has been suppressed, such as emotions or objectionable things).
- To relax or slacken (something that clasps or grips, such as the arms or hands).
- To become loose or come off.
verb
verb
- To take or keep a firm hold.
- To attack with the teeth.
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- To sting.
- To have significant effect, often negative.
- To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- To plagiarize, to imitate.
- To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
noun
- A small meal or snack.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- Something unpleasant.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- aggression
- A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- The act of biting.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- An act of plagiarism.
verb
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scarf
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to misread
to loiter
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well-known
backbone
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