| headbutt | (verb) butt with the head | - |
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| headline | (verb) publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline | - |
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| (verb) provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline | - |
| headquarter | (verb) provide with headquarters | - |
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| homestead | (verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
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| incarnadine | (verb) make flesh-colored | - |
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| invade | (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: occupy |
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| (verb) penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way | - |
| (verb) to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate | Synonyms: encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, overrun |
| irradiate | (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: ray |
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| (verb) cast rays of light upon | - |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: enlighten |
| jade | (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, pall, tire, weary |
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| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| knead | (verb) to mix into a homogeneous mass | Synonyms: work |
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| (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: massage, rub down |
| ladder | (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: run |
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| lade | (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: laden, load, load up |
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| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: laden, ladle |
| laden | (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, ladle |
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| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, load, load up |
| ladle | (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, laden |
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| (verb) put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle | - |
| lead | (verb) cause to undertake a certain action | - |
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| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, moderate |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, direct |
| (verb) travel in front of; go in advance of others | Synonyms: head |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, guide, take |
| (verb) move ahead (of others) in time or space | Synonyms: precede |
| (verb) be in charge of | Synonyms: head |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, contribute |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, pass, run |
| (verb) be ahead of others; be the first | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) lead, extend, or afford access | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: leave, result |
| (verb) tend to or result in | - |
| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| load | (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch |
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| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, laden, load up |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: charge |
| (verb) put (something) on a structure or conveyance | - |
| (verb) transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory | - |
| macadam | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadamise, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamise | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamize | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, tarmac |
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| madden | (verb) make mad | - |
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| (verb) drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves | - |
| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: craze |
| madder | (verb) color a moderate to strong red | - |
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| madrigal | (verb) sing madrigals | - |
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| marinade | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinate |
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| masquerade | (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
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| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| misaddress | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misdirect |
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| misadvise | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misguide |
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| mislead | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: misinform |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, misguide |
| misread | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misinterpret |
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| (verb) read or interpret wrongly | - |
| offload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: unlade, unload |
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| (verb) transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data | - |
| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| overload | (verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired | Synonyms: clog |
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| (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, surcharge |
| (verb) become overloaded | - |
| overshadow | (verb) cast a shadow upon | - |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, eclipse |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, shadow |
| overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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| pad | (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: bolster |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard |
| (verb) line or stuff with soft material | Synonyms: fill out |
| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, plod, slog, tramp, trudge |
| paddle | (verb) stir with a paddle | - |
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| (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, spank |
| (verb) propel with a paddle | - |
| (verb) swim like a dog in shallow water | - |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: dabble, splash around |
| padlock | (verb) fasten with a padlock | - |
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| palisade | (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, surround, wall |
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| parade | (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: promenade, troop |
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| (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: exhibit, march |
| persuade | (verb) cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm | - |
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| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, sway |
| pervade | (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, riddle |
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| plead | (verb) appeal or request earnestly | - |
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| (verb) enter a plea, as in courts of law | - |
| (verb) offer as an excuse or plea | - |
| (verb) make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts | - |
| pomade | (verb) apply pomade to (hair) | - |
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| pompadour | (verb) style women's hair in a pompadour | - |
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| promenade | (verb) take a leisurely walk | - |
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| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, troop |
| proofread | (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proof |
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| quadruple | (verb) increase fourfold | - |
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| quadruplicate | (verb) reproduce fourfold | - |
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| raddle | (verb) mark or paint with raddle | - |
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| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: ruddle |
| radiate | (verb) send out real or metaphoric rays; the children radiated joyous energy | - |
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| (verb) issue or emerge in rays or waves | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: diversify |
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, shine |
| (verb) cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays | - |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, shine |
| (verb) extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center | Synonyms: ray |
| (verb) send out rays or waves | - |
| radicalize | (verb) make more radical in social or political outlook | - |
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| radio | (verb) transmit messages via radio waves | - |
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| radiolocate | (verb) locate by means of radar | - |
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| railroad | (verb) transport by railroad | - |
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| (verb) supply with railroad lines | - |
| (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, sandbag |
| read | (verb) interpret something that is written or printed | - |
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| (verb) look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed | - |
| (verb) interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior | - |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, translate, understand |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, study, take |
| (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: scan |
| (verb) to hear and understand | - |
| (verb) interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: record, register, show |
| (verb) audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role | - |
| (verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: say |
| readapt | (verb) adapt anew | - |
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| (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readjust |
| readjust | (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readapt |
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| (verb) adjust again after an initial failure | Synonyms: reset |
| readmit | (verb) admit anew | - |
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| (verb) admit again or anew | - |
| ready | (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, set, set up |
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| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, make, prepare |
| rebroadcast | (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
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| reload | (verb) place a new load on | - |
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| (verb) load anew | Synonyms: recharge |
| renegade | (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: rebel |
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| reread | (verb) read anew; read again | - |
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| retread | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, remould |
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| (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, rework |
| retrograde | (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrogress |
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| (verb) go back over | Synonyms: hash over, rehash |
| (verb) move back | Synonyms: retreat |
| (verb) move in a direction contrary to the usual one | - |
| (verb) move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies | - |
| sadden | (verb) come to feel sad | - |
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| (verb) make unhappy | - |
| saddle | (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
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| (verb) put a saddle on | - |
| (verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
| serenade | (verb) sing and play for somebody | - |
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| shade | (verb) pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree | - |
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| (verb) vary slightly | - |
| (verb) protect from light, heat, or view | - |
| (verb) represent the effect of shade or shadow on | Synonyms: fill in |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade off, shadow |
| shadow | (verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge | - |
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| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade, shade off |
| shadowbox | (verb) go through boxing motions without an opponent | - |
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| sightread | (verb) perform music from a score without having seen the score before | Synonyms: sight-read |
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| skedaddle | (verb) run away, as if in a panic | - |
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| spade | (verb) dig (up) with a spade | - |
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| spearhead | (verb) be the leader of | - |
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| spread | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: circulate, go around |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: propagate |
| (verb) cover by spreading something over | - |
| (verb) distribute over a surface in a layer | - |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
| (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: overspread |
| spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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| steady | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: becalm, calm |
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| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, stabilize |
| stockade | (verb) surround with a stockade in order to fortify | - |
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| straddle | (verb) be noncommittal | - |
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| (verb) sit or stand astride of | - |
| (verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: range |
| swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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| thread | (verb) pass a thread through | - |
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| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, string |
| (verb) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string | - |
| (verb) pass through or into | - |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind |
| toady | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, truckle |
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| trade | (verb) turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase | Synonyms: trade in |
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| (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: merchandise |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, switch, swop |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, sell |
| (verb) be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions | - |
| trademark | (verb) register the trademark of | - |
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| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, brandmark |
| traduce | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, malign |
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| tread | (verb) crush as if by treading on | - |
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| (verb) brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center | - |
| (verb) mate with (used of male birds) | - |
| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: trample |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: step |
| (verb) apply (the tread) to a tire | - |
| treadle | (verb) operate (machinery) by a treadle | - |
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| (verb) tread over | - |
| twaddle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
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| unlade | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: offload, unload |
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| unload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: offload, unlade |
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| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down |
| unsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: offsaddle |
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| upgrade | (verb) to improve what was old or outdated | - |
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| (verb) give better travel conditions to | - |
| (verb) get better travel conditions | - |
| (verb) rate higher; raise in value or esteem | - |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise |
| upload | (verb) transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location | - |
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| wad | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram |
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| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, compact, pack |
| waddle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |
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| wade | (verb) walk (through relatively shallow water) | - |
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