o | (noun) the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: O |
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oaf | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, stumblebum |
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oak | (noun) a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves | Synonyms: oak tree |
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(noun) the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring | - |
oakum | (noun) loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships | - |
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oar | (noun) an implement used to propel or steer a boat | - |
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oarfish | (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, Regalecus glesne, ribbonfish |
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oarlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: peg, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
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oarsman | (noun) a male who rows a boat | - |
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oarsmanship | (noun) skill as an oarsman | - |
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oarswoman | (noun) a woman oarsman | - |
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oasis | (noun) a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary | Synonyms: haven |
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(noun) a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface) | - |
oast | (noun) a kiln for drying hops | - |
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oat | (noun) seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats') | - |
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(noun) annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats') | - |
oatcake | (noun) thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal | - |
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oath | (noun) a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury | Synonyms: swearing |
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(noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, swearing, swearword |
(noun) a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior | - |
oatmeal | (noun) porridge made of rolled oats | Synonyms: burgoo |
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(noun) meal made from rolled or ground oats | Synonyms: rolled oats |
obbligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obligato |
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(noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obligato |
obduracy | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, unyieldingness |
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obeah | (noun) a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas | Synonyms: obi |
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(noun) (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery | Synonyms: obi |
obeche | (noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: arere, obechi, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |
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(noun) the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering | - |
obechi | (noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: arere, obeche, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |
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obedience | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obeisance |
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(noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: respect |
(noun) the trait of being willing to obey | - |
obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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(noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
obelion | (noun) the craniometric point on the sagittal suture near the lamboid suture | - |
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obelisk | (noun) a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top | - |
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(noun) a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used | Synonyms: dagger |
obesity | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: corpulency, fleshiness |
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obfuscation | (noun) the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | Synonyms: mystification |
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(noun) darkening or obscuring the sight of something | - |
(noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, puzzlement |
obi | (noun) a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas | Synonyms: obeah |
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(noun) (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery | Synonyms: obeah |
obiism | (noun) belief in a kind of sorcery that originated in Africa and is practiced in the West Indies | - |
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obit | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: necrology, obituary |
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obituary | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: necrology, obit |
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object | (noun) a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Synonyms: physical object |
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(noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, objective, target |
(noun) the focus of cognitions or feelings | - |
(noun) (computing) a discrete item that provides a description of virtually anything known to a computer | - |
(noun) (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon | - |
objectification | (noun) the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing | - |
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(noun) a concrete representation of an abstract idea or principle | - |
objection | (noun) (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality | - |
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(noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: dissent, protest |
(noun) the speech act of objecting | - |
(noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, remonstrance, remonstration |
objectionableness | (noun) the quality of being hateful | Synonyms: hatefulness, obnoxiousness |
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objective | (noun) the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed | Synonyms: object glass, object lens, objective lens |
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(noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, target |
objectiveness | (noun) judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices | Synonyms: objectivity |
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objectivity | (noun) judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices | Synonyms: objectiveness |
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objectivization | (noun) the act or process of making or becoming objective. | - |
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objector | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, protester |
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objurgation | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: chiding, scolding, tongue-lashing |
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oblate | (noun) a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life | - |
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oblateness | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: ellipticity |
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oblation | (noun) the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity | Synonyms: offering |
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obligation | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: duty, responsibility |
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(noun) a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply | - |
(noun) a written promise to repay a debt | Synonyms: certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument |
(noun) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor | Synonyms: indebtedness |
(noun) the state of being obligated to do or pay something | - |
obligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obbligato |
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(noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obbligato |
obliger | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: accommodator |
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obligingness | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, deference |
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oblique | (noun) a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso | Synonyms: abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis |
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(noun) any grammatical case other than the nominative | Synonyms: oblique case |
obliqueness | (noun) the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle | - |
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(noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: deviousness |
obliquity | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: deceptiveness |
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(noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: asynclitism |
obliteration | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: annihilation |
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(noun) the complete destruction of every trace of something | Synonyms: eradication |
obliterator | (noun) an eliminator that does away with all traces | - |
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oblivion | (noun) total forgetfulness | Synonyms: obliviousness |
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(noun) the state of being disregarded or forgotten | Synonyms: limbo |
obliviousness | (noun) total forgetfulness | Synonyms: oblivion |
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oblong | (noun) a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation | - |
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oblongness | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: rectangularity |
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obloquy | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, traducement |
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(noun) state of disgrace resulting from public abuse | Synonyms: opprobrium |
obnoxiousness | (noun) the quality of being hateful | Synonyms: hatefulness, objectionableness |
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oboe | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautbois, hautboy |
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oboist | (noun) a musician who plays the oboe | - |
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obolus | (noun) a Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram | - |
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obscenity | (noun) an obscene act | - |
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(noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: bawdiness, lewdness, salaciousness, salacity |
(noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, smut, vulgarism |
obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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(noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |
obscurantist | (noun) a person who is deliberately vague | - |
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obscureness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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(noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, unimportance |
(noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscurity |
obscurity | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness |
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(noun) an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known | - |
(noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscureness |
obsequiousness | (noun) abject or cringing submissiveness | Synonyms: servility, subservience |
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obsequy | (noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated | Synonyms: funeral |
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observance | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observation, watching |
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(noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, honouring |
(noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observation |
(noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony |
observation | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observance, watching |
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(noun) the act of making and recording a measurement | - |
(noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observance |
(noun) facts learned by observing | - |
(noun) a remark expressing careful consideration | Synonyms: reflection, reflexion |
observatory | (noun) a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena | - |
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(noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout, lookout station, observation tower |
observer | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, perceiver, percipient |
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(noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: commentator |
obsession | (noun) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone | Synonyms: fixation |
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(noun) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will | Synonyms: compulsion |
obsessive | (noun) a person who has obsessions | - |
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obsessiveness | (noun) extreme compulsiveness | Synonyms: obsessivity |
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obsessivity | (noun) extreme compulsiveness | Synonyms: obsessiveness |
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obsidian | (noun) acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces | - |
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obsolescence | (noun) the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date | - |
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obsoleteness | (noun) the property of being out of date and not current | Synonyms: superannuation |
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obstacle | (noun) an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented) | - |
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(noun) something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted | Synonyms: obstruction |
obstetrician | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: accoucheur |
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obstetrics | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother | Synonyms: midwifery, OB, tocology |
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obstinacy | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinance, stubbornness |
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(noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
obstinance | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness |
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(noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
obstipation | (noun) severe constipation resulting from an obstruction in the intestines | - |
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obstreperousness | (noun) noisy defiance | - |
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obstructer | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstruction, obstructor |
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(noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructionist, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
obstruction | (noun) getting in someone's way | - |
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(noun) the act of obstructing | - |
(noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstructor |
(noun) something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted | Synonyms: obstacle |
(noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: blockage |
obstructionism | (noun) deliberate interference | - |
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obstructionist | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
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obstructor | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction |
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(noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, resister, thwarter |
obstruent | (noun) a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth | - |
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obtainment | (noun) the act of obtaining | Synonyms: obtention |
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obtention | (noun) the act of obtaining | Synonyms: obtainment |
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obtrusiveness | (noun) an unwelcome conspicuousness | - |
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obturator | (noun) a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate) | - |
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obtuseness | (noun) the quality of lacking a sharp edge or point | - |
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(noun) the quality of being slow to understand | Synonyms: dullness |
obverse | (noun) the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design | - |
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(noun) the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides | - |
obviation | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: forestalling, preclusion |
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