| ormolu | (noun) brass that looks like gold; used to decorate furniture | - |
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| outperform | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| oviform | (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, ovoid, prolate |
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| panduriform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, pandurate |
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| papilliform | (adjective) shaped like a papilla | - |
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| paranormal | (adjective) not in accordance with scientific laws | - |
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| (adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: extrasensory |
| parathormone | (noun) hormone synthesized and released into the blood stream by the parathyroid glands; regulates phosphorus and calcium in the body and functions in neuromuscular excitation and blood clotting | Synonyms: parathyroid hormone |
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| parlormaid | (noun) a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door | Synonyms: parlourmaid |
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| patelliform | (adjective) shaped like a dish or pan | Synonyms: dish-shaped, dished |
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| perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, execute |
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| (verb) give a performance (of something) | - |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) perform a function | - |
| performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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| (noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
| (noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
| (noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
| performer | (noun) an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience | Synonyms: performing artist |
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| performing | (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, playacting, playing |
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| phylliform | (adjective) having the shape of a leaf | - |
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| phytohormone | (noun) (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone | Synonyms: growth regulator, plant hormone |
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| pinworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, threadworm |
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| pisiform | (noun) a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral | Synonyms: os pisiforme, pisiform bone |
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| platform | (noun) a raised horizontal surface | - |
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| (noun) any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons | Synonyms: weapons platform |
| (noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: chopine |
| (noun) the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system | - |
| (noun) a long, flat raised structure of a railway station, where people get on and off of trains | - |
| (noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party | Synonyms: political platform, political program, program |
| preform | (verb) form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | - |
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| (verb) form into a shape resembling the final, desired one | - |
| preformation | (noun) a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell | Synonyms: theory of preformation |
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| rainstorm | (noun) a storm with rain | - |
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| reform | (noun) a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses | - |
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| (noun) a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices | - |
| (noun) self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice | - |
| (verb) make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices | - |
| (verb) break up the molecules of | - |
| (verb) produce by cracking | - |
| (verb) change for the better | Synonyms: see the light, straighten out |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, regenerate |
| (verb) improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition | - |
| reformable | (adjective) susceptible to improvement or reform | Synonyms: redeemable |
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| reformation | (noun) rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course | Synonyms: reclamation |
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| (noun) improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs | - |
| reformative | (adjective) tending to reform | Synonyms: reformatory |
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| reformatory | (adjective) tending to reform | Synonyms: reformative |
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| (noun) correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders | Synonyms: reform school, training school |
| reformed | (adjective) caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one | - |
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| reformer | (noun) an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel | - |
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| (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, meliorist, reformist, social reformer |
| reformism | (noun) a doctrine of reform | - |
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| reformist | (adjective) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | Synonyms: progressive, reform-minded |
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| (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, meliorist, reformer, social reformer |
| reformulate | (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: redevelop |
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| reniform | (adjective) (of a leaf or bean shape) resembling the shape of kidney | Synonyms: kidney-shaped |
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| renormalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalize |
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| renormalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalise |
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| ringworm | (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: roundworm, tinea |
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| roundworm | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode, nematode worm |
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| (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: ringworm, tinea |
| rumormonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumourmonger |
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| sagittiform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes | Synonyms: arrow-shaped, sagittate |
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| salamandriform | (adjective) shaped like a salamander | - |
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| salverform | (adjective) of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip | - |
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| sandstorm | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sirocco |
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| semiformal | (adjective) moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket | Synonyms: black-tie, semi-formal |
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| shipworm | (noun) wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells | Synonyms: teredinid |
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| shitstorm | (noun) A considerable backlash or controversy | - |
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| silkworm | (noun) the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk | - |
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| (noun) larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon | Synonyms: giant silkworm, wild wilkworm |
| slowworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, blindworm |
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| snowstorm | (noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: blizzard |
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| splitworm | (noun) greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm | Synonyms: Phthorimaea operculella, potato moth, potato tuber moth |
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| storm | (noun) a direct and violent assault on a stronghold | - |
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| (noun) a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning | Synonyms: violent storm |
| (noun) a violent commotion or disturbance | Synonyms: tempest |
| (verb) attack by storm; attack suddenly | Synonyms: surprise |
| (verb) take by force | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: rage, ramp |
| (verb) blow hard | - |
| (verb) rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning | - |
| stormbound | (adjective) delayed or confined or cut off by a storm | - |
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| stormily | (adverb) in a stormy or violent manner | Synonyms: passionately, turbulently |
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| storminess | (noun) violent passion in speech or action | - |
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| (noun) the state of being stormy | - |
| stormproof | (adjective) protected against or able to withstand storms | - |
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| stormy | (adjective) (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by violent emotions or behavior | Synonyms: tempestuous |
| strawworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: jointworm |
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| (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: caddisworm |
| subnormal | (adjective) below normal or average | - |
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| (noun) a person of less than normal intelligence | - |
| subnormality | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness |
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| (noun) the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence) | - |
| supernormal | (adjective) exceeding the normal or average | - |
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| (adjective) beyond the range of the normal or scientifically explainable | Synonyms: supranormal |
| supranormal | (adjective) beyond the range of the normal or scientifically explainable | Synonyms: supernormal |
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| tapeworm | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: cestode |
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| threadworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm |
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| thunderstorm | (noun) a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning | Synonyms: electric storm, electrical storm |
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| torment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, bedevilment, worrying |
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| (noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: curse |
| (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: agony, torture |
| (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: anguish, torture |
| (noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: harassment |
| (noun) unbearable physical pain | Synonyms: torture |
| (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torture |
| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torture |
| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag |
| tormented | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: anguished, tortured |
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| (adjective) tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears | Synonyms: hag-ridden, hagridden |
| tormenter | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: teaser, tormentor |
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| (noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: persecutor, tormentor |
| tormentor | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: teaser, tormenter |
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| (noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: persecutor, tormenter |
| transform | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transmute, transubstantiate |
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| (verb) change from one form or medium into another | Synonyms: translate |
| (verb) subject to a mathematical transformation | - |
| (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmute |
| (verb) increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage) | - |
| (verb) change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species | - |
| (verb) convert (one form of energy) to another | - |
| transformable | (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: convertible, translatable, transmutable |
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| transformation | (noun) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance | Synonyms: translation |
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| (noun) (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA | - |
| (noun) a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure | - |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transmutation |
| (noun) (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system | - |
| transformed | (adjective) given a completely different form or appearance | - |
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| transformer | (noun) an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage | - |
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| trichlormethiazide | (noun) diuretic drug (trade name Naqua) used to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Naqua |
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| umbelliform | (adjective) resembling or in the form of an umbel | - |
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| unconformable | (adjective) not correspondent | - |
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| unconformist | (adjective) not conforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of behavior or thought | Synonyms: nonconformist |
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| underperform | (verb) perform too rarely | - |
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| (verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underachieve |
| underperformer | (noun) a business that is less successful than expected | - |
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| (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: nonachiever, underachiever |
| unformed | (adjective) not having form or shape | - |
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| (adjective) not formed or organized | - |
| uniform | (adjective) always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences | Synonyms: unvarying |
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| (adjective) not differentiated | Synonyms: undifferentiated |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: consistent |
| (adjective) evenly spaced | - |
| (noun) clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification | - |
| (verb) provide with uniforms | - |
| uniformed | (adjective) dressed in a uniform | - |
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| uniformise | (verb) make uniform | Synonyms: uniformize |
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| uniformity | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformness |
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| (noun) a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying | - |
| uniformize | (verb) make uniform | Synonyms: uniformise |
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| uniformly | (adverb) in a uniform manner | - |
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| uniformness | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformity |
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| uninformative | (adjective) lacking information | - |
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| uninformatively | (adverb) in an uninformative manner | Synonyms: uninstructively |
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| uninformed | (adjective) not informed; lacking in knowledge or information | - |
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| unperformed | (adjective) not performed | - |
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| unreformable | (adjective) unrepentant and incapable of being reformed | Synonyms: unregenerate |
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| (adjective) insusceptible of reform | Synonyms: irreclaimable, irredeemable, unredeemable |
| unreformed | (adjective) unaffected by the Reformation | - |
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| varicelliform | (adjective) resembling the rash of chickenpox | - |
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| variform | (adjective) varying in form or shape | - |
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| vasiform | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular |
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| vermiform | (adjective) resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical | Synonyms: worm-shaped |
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| vetchworm | (noun) larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops | Synonyms: corn earworm, cotton bollworm, Heliothis zia, tobacco budworm, tomato fruitworm |
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| waveform | (noun) the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time | Synonyms: wave form, wave shape |
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| webworm | (noun) several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed | - |
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| wheatworm | (noun) small roundworm parasitic on wheat | Synonyms: Tylenchus tritici, wheat eel, wheat eelworm |
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| windstorm | (noun) a storm consisting of violent winds | - |
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