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abode
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n 1: any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a
person can have several residences" [syn: residence,
abode]
2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes
for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile,
abode, habitation, dwelling house]
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ahead
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adv 1: at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead";
"the road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we
couldn't see over the heads of the people in front";
"with the cross of Jesus marching on before" [syn:
ahead, in front, before]
2: toward the future; forward in time; "I like to look ahead in
imagination to what the future may bring"; "I look forward to
seeing you" [syn: ahead, forward] [ant: back,
backward]
3: in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead
slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the
forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud" [syn: ahead,
onward, onwards, forward, forwards, forrader]
4: ahead of time; in anticipation; "when you pay ahead (or in
advance) you receive a discount"; "We like to plan ahead";
"should have made reservations beforehand" [syn: ahead, in
advance, beforehand]
5: to a more advanced or advantageous position; "a young man
sure to get ahead"; "pushing talented students ahead"
6: to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced
either toward the present or toward the future); "moved the
appointment ahead from Tuesday to Monday"; "pushed the
deadline ahead from Tuesday to Wednesday"
7: leading or ahead in a competition; "the horse was three
lengths ahead going into the home stretch"; "ahead by two
pawns"; "our candidate is in the lead in the polls"; "way out
front in the race"; "the advertising campaign put them out
front in sales" [syn: ahead, out front, in the lead]
adj 1: having the leading position or higher score in a contest;
"he is ahead by a pawn"; "the leading team in the pennant
race" [syn: ahead(p), in the lead, leading]
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bed
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n 1: a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he
sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and
chair"
2: a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener
planted a bed of roses"
3: a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he
searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed,
bottom]
4: (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock);
"they found a bed of sandstone"
5: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with
profit; "he worked in the coal beds" [syn: seam, bed]
6: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
"slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn:
layer, bed]
7: the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form
is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or
magazine or book etc.
8: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad
track; "the track bed had washed away"
v 1: furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new
arrivals"
2: place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
3: put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
4: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the
hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get
laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck,
jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it,
bang, get it on, bonk]
5: prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes
to bed at the crack of dawn" [syn: go to bed, turn in,
bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack,
sack out, go to sleep, retire] [ant: arise, get up,
rise, turn out, uprise]
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behead
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v 1: cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the
Revolution" [syn: decapitate, behead, decollate]
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bode
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v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn:
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen,
presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell,
prefigure, forecast, predict]
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bread
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n 1: food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised
with yeast or baking powder and then baked [syn: bread,
breadstuff, staff of life]
2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce,
lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch,
shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
v 1: cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before
frying them"
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busload
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n 1: the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a
bus can carry
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code
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n 1: a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written
ones) [syn: code, codification]
2: a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring
brevity or secrecy
3: (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or
instructions in a computer program or the set of such
instructions [syn: code, computer code]
v 1: attach a code to; "Code the pieces with numbers so that you
can identify them later"
2: convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the
message for security reasons" [syn: code, encipher,
cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code]
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commode
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n 1: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
2: a tall elegant chest of drawers [syn: chiffonier,
commode]
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corrode
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v 1: cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an
acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping
of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" [syn:
corrode, eat, rust]
2: become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an
acid; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted" [syn:
corrode, rust]
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dead
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adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn:
abruptly, suddenly, short, dead]
2: completely and without qualification; used informally as
intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a
perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly
miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead
tired"; "dead right" [syn: absolutely, perfectly,
utterly, dead]
adj 1: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have
life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was
marked as a dead man by the assassin" [ant: alive(p),
live]
2: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity
to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or
heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals";
"the fire is dead" [ant: live]
3: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I
could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all
that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: all
in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)]
4: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
5: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead
volcano of the Cascade Range"
6: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)]
7: devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from
the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled
her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous
television coverage of atrocities" [syn: dead, deadened]
8: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of
some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording
studio"
9: not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn:
dead, idle]
10: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water";
"stagnant water" [syn: dead(a), stagnant]
11: not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
12: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
13: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a
dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
14: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
15: complete; "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness" [syn:
dead(a), utter]
16: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery";
"left the lights on and came back to find the battery
drained" [syn: dead, drained]
17: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever
happens here"
n 1: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
[ant: living]
2: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with
death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
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decode
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v 1: convert code into ordinary language [syn: decode,
decrypt, decipher] [ant: encode]
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encode
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v 1: convert information into code; "encode pictures digitally"
[ant: decipher, decode, decrypt]
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erode
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v 1: become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded"
[syn: erode, gnaw, gnaw at, eat at, wear away]
2: remove soil or rock; "Rain eroded the terraces" [syn:
erode, eat away, fret]
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explode
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v 1: cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We
exploded the nuclear bomb" [syn: explode, detonate,
blow up, set off]
2: burst outward, usually with noise; "The champagne bottle
exploded" [syn: explode, burst] [ant: go off,
implode]
3: show a violent emotional reaction; "The boss exploded when he
heard of the resignation of the secretary"
4: be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise; "His anger
exploded" [syn: explode, burst forth, break loose]
5: destroy by exploding; "The enemy exploded the bridge"
6: cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop
consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/
7: drive from the stage by noisy disapproval
8: show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make
obsolete
9: burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or
physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov
cocktail exploded" [syn: detonate, explode, blow up]
10: increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner; "The
population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent
population irrupted" [syn: explode, irrupt]
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forebode
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v 1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
of an election" [syn: predict, foretell,
prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate,
promise]
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goad
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n 1: a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of
motion [syn: prod, goad]
2: a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something;
"the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves" [syn: goad,
goading, prod, prodding, urging, spur, spurring]
v 1: give heart or courage to [syn: spur, goad]
2: urge with or as if with a goad
3: stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick [syn: goad,
prick]
4: goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her
with his sarcastic remarks" [syn: needle, goad]
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implode
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v 1: burst inward; "The bottle imploded" [syn: implode, go
off] [ant: burst, explode]
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load
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n 1: weight to be borne or conveyed [syn: load, loading,
burden]
2: a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time;
"the system broke down under excessive loads" [syn: load,
loading]
3: goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading,
freight, load, loading, payload, shipment,
consignment]
4: an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate; "he got a load
on and started a brawl"
5: the power output of a generator or power plant
6: an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of
responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden,
load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus]
7: a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite
boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks [syn: lode,
load]
8: the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that
carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or
biological agents [syn: warhead, payload, load]
9: electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
v 1: fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with
hay" [syn: load, lade, laden, load up]
2: provide (a device) with something necessary; "He loaded his
gun carefully"; "load the camera" [syn: load, charge]
3: transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
4: put (something) on a structure or conveyance; "load the bags
onto the trucks"
5: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or
inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients
with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load,
adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]
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lode
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n 1: a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite
boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks [syn:
lode, load]
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microcode
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n 1: (computer science) coded instructions that are stored
permanently in read-only memory [syn: firmware,
microcode]
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mode
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n 1: how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified
manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode
of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a
lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn:
manner, mode, style, way, fashion]
2: a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched
from keyboard to voice mode"
3: a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they
claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn:
modality, mode]
4: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, mode, modality]
5: any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes
within an octave [syn: mode, musical mode]
6: the most frequent value of a random variable [syn: mode,
modal value]
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node
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n 1: a connecting point at which several lines come together
2: any thickened enlargement [syn: node, knob, thickening]
3: (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem
from which one or more leaves emerge [syn: node, leaf
node]
4: (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic
system [ant: antinode]
5: (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
6: the source of lymph and lymphocytes [syn: lymph node,
lymph gland, node]
7: any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
8: (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a
computer network [syn: node, client, guest]
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ode
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n 1: a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
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outmode
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v 1: make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete; "Modern ways of
cooking have outmoded the hearth"
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overload
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n 1: an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical
power
2: an excessive burden [syn: overload, overburden]
v 1: become overloaded; "The aerator overloaded"
2: fill to excess so that function is impaired; "Fear clogged
her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details"
[syn: clog, overload]
3: place too much a load on; "don't overload the car" [syn:
overload, surcharge, overcharge]
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postcode
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n 1: a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to
aid in the sorting of mail [syn: ZIP code, ZIP,
postcode, postal code]
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reload
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v 1: load anew; "She reloaded the gun carefully" [syn:
recharge, reload]
2: place a new load on; "The movers reloaded the truck"
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road
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n 1: an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
[syn: road, route]
2: a way or means to achieve something; "the road to fame"
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sewed
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adj 1: fastened with stitches [syn: sewed, sewn, stitched]
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toad
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n 1: any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long
hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
[syn: frog, toad, toad frog, anuran, batrachian,
salientian]
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toed
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adj 1: having a toe or toes of a specified kind; often used in
combination; "long-toed; "five-toed" [ant: toeless]
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unbowed
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adj 1: erect in posture; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with
unbowed back" [syn: straight, unbent, unbowed]
2: not forced to bow down to a conqueror
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unload
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v 1: leave or unload; "unload the cargo"; "drop off the
passengers at the hotel" [syn: drop, drop off, set
down, put down, unload, discharge]
2: take the load off (a container or vehicle); "unload the
truck"; "offload the van" [syn: unload, unlade,
offload]
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void
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adj 1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn:
null, void]
2: containing nothing; "the earth was without form, and void"
n 1: the state of nonexistence [syn: nothingness, void,
nullity, nihility]
2: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the
emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be
ruling in a vacuum" [syn: void, vacancy, emptiness,
vacuum]
v 1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
[syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid,
nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate]
2: clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear
(a place or receptacle) of something; "The chemist voided the
glass bottle"; "The concert hall was voided of the audience"
3: take away the legal force of or render ineffective;
"invalidate a contract" [syn: invalidate, void,
vitiate] [ant: validate]
4: excrete or discharge from the body [syn: evacuate, void,
empty]
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freud
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n 1: Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis
(1856-1939) [syn: Freud, Sigmund Freud]
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lloyd
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n 1: United States comic actor in silent films; he used physical
danger as a source of comedy (1893-1971) [syn: Lloyd,
Harold Lloyd, Harold Clayton Lloyd]
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porticoed
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adj 1: marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes
either at both ends or at both sides of a structure [syn:
amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, amphistylar,
porticoed]
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bestowed
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bestrode
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bled
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bred
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crowed
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echoed
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flowed
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frescoed
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glowed
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mowed
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overflowed
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overrode
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owed
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rode
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rowed
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showed
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slowed
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snowed
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stowed
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strode
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towed
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blowed
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brode
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coad
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gloede
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goedde
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goede
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grode
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knode
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knowed
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moad
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moede
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rhoad
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rhode
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roed
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rohde
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shrode
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sowed
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thode
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kanode
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methode
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plateaued
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boyd
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floyd
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aude
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transcode
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autocode
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calicoed
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copycode
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kozhikode
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manucode
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sloid
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placode
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sarcode
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