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aqualung
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n 1: a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe
under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained
underwater breathing apparatus [syn: aqualung, Aqua-
Lung, scuba]
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ban
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n 1: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition,
ban, proscription]
2: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
3: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
4: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn:
ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]
5: a bachelor's degree in nursing [syn: Bachelor of Arts in
Nursing, BAN]
v 1: forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
[syn: ban, censor]
2: prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure;
"Smoking is banned in this building"
3: ban from a place of residence, as for punishment [syn:
banish, ban]
4: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban,
ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]
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bran
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n 1: broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are
separated from the flour by sifting
2: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
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bung
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n 1: a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask [syn:
bung, spile]
v 1: give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond
the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter";
"fee the steward" [syn: tip, fee, bung]
2: close with a cork or stopper
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can
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n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint
etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can]
2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful]
3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can
buoy]
4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"
[syn: can, tin, put up]
2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or
position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company
terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire,
give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away,
sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant:
employ, engage, hire]
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clan
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n 1: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin,
kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]
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dung
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n 1: fecal matter of animals [syn: droppings, dung, muck]
v 1: fertilize or dress with dung; "you must dung the land"
2: defecate; used of animals
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fan
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n 1: a device for creating a current of air by movement of a
surface or surfaces
2: an enthusiastic devotee of sports [syn: sports fan, fan,
rooter]
3: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff,
devotee, lover]
v 1: strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
2: make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred"
3: agitate the air
4: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood
there winnowing chaff all day in the field" [syn: winnow,
fan]
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flan
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n 1: open pastry filled with fruit or custard
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lung
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n 1: either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of
vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide
oxygen to the blood
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man
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n 1: an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there
were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: man, adult
male] [ant: adult female, woman]
2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a
military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn:
serviceman, military man, man, military personnel]
[ant: civilian]
3: the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it
was every man for himself"
4: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech,
and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being,
human]
5: a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the
building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
6: an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and
courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
7: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his
employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet,
valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman,
man]
8: a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover
or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes
good care of her man" [ant: woman]
9: one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: Man, Isle
of Man]
10: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing
certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the
chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic
advantage" [syn: man, piece]
11: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the
world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because
`mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human
race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans,
mankind, man]
v 1: take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place;
"Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"
2: provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks";
"Students were manning the booths"
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overhang
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n 1: projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else
v 1: project over
2: be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over
the edge of the town" [syn: overhang, beetle]
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pan
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n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn:
pan, cooking pan]
2: (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and
flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and
ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus [syn: Pan,
goat god]
3: shallow container made of metal
4: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to
other pongids [syn: Pan, genus Pan]
v 1: make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the
room"
2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
[syn: pan, pan out, pan off]
3: express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned
the performance" [syn: pan, tear apart, trash]
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plan
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n 1: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be
accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they
discussed plans for a new bond issue" [syn: plan,
program, programme]
2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard
made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for
living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design, plan]
3: scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were
on file" [syn: plan, architectural plan]
v 1: have the will and intention to carry out some action; "He
plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had
planned turmoil and confusion" [syn: plan, be after]
2: make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his
family"
3: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an
attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design]
4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
"design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the
museum" [syn: design, plan]
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rung
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n 1: a crosspiece between the legs of a chair [syn: rung,
round, stave]
2: one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder [syn:
rundle, spoke, rung]
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scan
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n 1: the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed
region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his
binoculars"
2: an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan";
"you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" [syn: scan, CAT
scan]
v 1: examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the
X-ray"
2: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while
waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance
over, run down]
3: make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night
sky"
4: conform to a metrical pattern
5: move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
6: read metrically; "scan verses"
7: obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read
by the computer" [syn: read, scan]
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span
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n 1: the complete duration of something; "the job was finished
in the span of an hour"
2: the distance or interval between two points
3: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome,
twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich,
duo, duet, dyad, duad]
4: a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human
hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
5: a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an
obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. [syn:
bridge, span]
6: the act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle,
span]
v 1: to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers
traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3
acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross,
traverse, span, sweep]
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strung
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adj 1: that is on a string; "keys strung on a red cord"
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stung
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adj 1: aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated
gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing";
"peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her
snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the
delay" [syn: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled,
peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled,
steamed, stung]
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sung
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n 1: the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for
art and literature and philosophy [syn: Sung, Sung
dynasty, Song, Song dynasty]
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tan
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adj 1: of a light yellowish-brown color
n 1: a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays
of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn, burn]
2: a light brown the color of topaz [syn: tan, topaz]
3: ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled
triangle [syn: tangent, tan]
v 1: treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert
them into leather
2: get a tan, from wind or sun [syn: tan, bronze]
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tongue
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n 1: a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous
membrane and located in the oral cavity [syn: tongue,
lingua, glossa, clapper]
2: a human written or spoken language used by a community;
opposed to e.g. a computer language [syn: natural language,
tongue] [ant: artificial language]
3: any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame
licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire
into the dark" [syn: tongue, knife]
4: a manner of speaking; "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she
has a glib tongue"
5: a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea [syn:
spit, tongue]
6: the tongue of certain animals used as meat
7: the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
8: metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by
hitting the side [syn: clapper, tongue]
v 1: articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
2: lick or explore with the tongue
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unstrung
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adj 1: emotionally upset; "the incident left him unstrung and
incapable of rational effort"
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unsung
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adj 1: not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung
heroes of the war" [syn: obscure, unknown, unsung]
2: having value that is not acknowledged [syn: unappreciated,
unsung, unvalued]
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van
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n 1: any creative group active in the innovation and application
of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially
in the arts) [syn: avant-garde, vanguard, van, new
wave]
2: the leading units moving at the head of an army [syn:
vanguard, van]
3: (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or
freight
4: a camper equipped with living quarters [syn: van,
caravan]
5: a truck with an enclosed cargo space
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young
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adj 1: (used of living things especially persons) in an early
period of life or development or growth; "young people"
[syn: young, immature] [ant: old]
2: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before
complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn: new,
young]
3: suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for his
age" [syn: youthful, vernal, young]
4: being in its early stage; "a young industry"; "the day is
still young"
5: not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery
volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator
untried in mural painting"; "a young hand at plowing" [syn:
unseasoned, untested, untried, young]
n 1: any immature animal [syn: young, offspring]
2: United States film and television actress (1913-2000) [syn:
Young, Loretta Young]
3: United States civil rights leader (1921-1971) [syn: Young,
Whitney Young, Whitney Moore Young Jr.]
4: British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave
theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of
color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering
the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829) [syn:
Young, Thomas Young]
5: United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959) [syn:
Young, Pres Young, Lester Willis Young]
6: English poet (1683-1765) [syn: Young, Edward Young]
7: United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
[syn: Young, Cy Young, Danton True Young]
8: United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the
assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from
Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877) [syn: Young,
Brigham Young]
9: young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young";
"youth everywhere rises in revolt" [syn: young, youth]
[ant: aged, elderly]
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han
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n 1: imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from
206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed
its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of
Chinese civilization [syn: Han, Han dynasty]
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cannes
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n 1: a port and resort city on the French Riviera; site of an
annual film festival
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gran
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n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
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mann
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n 1: United States educator who introduced reforms that
significantly altered the system of public education
(1796-1859) [syn: Mann, Horace Mann]
2: German writer concerned about the role of the artist in
bourgeois society (1875-1955) [syn: Mann, Thomas Mann]
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nan
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n 1: your grandmother
2: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
3: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the
Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: Nan, Nan River]
4: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped
like a teardrop [syn: nan, naan]
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shan
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n 1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: Tai Long, Shan]
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anne
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n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if
James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she
was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over
parliament (1665-1714)
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shantung
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n 1: a heavy silk fabric with a rough surface (or a cotton
imitation)
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overstrung
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adj 1: being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung,
highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy,
overstrung, restive, uptight]
2: too tightly strung; "an overstrung archery bow"
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underhung
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adj 1: supported from below especially resting on a track
instead of suspended from above; "underhung sliding
doors"
2: having a lower part projecting beyond the upper; "an
underhung jaw"; "undershot bulldog" [syn: underhung,
undershot, underslung]
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underslung
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adj 1: supported from above especially in a vehicle having
springs attached to the axle from below
2: having a lower part projecting beyond the upper; "an
underhung jaw"; "undershot bulldog" [syn: underhung,
undershot, underslung]
3: having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground [syn:
squat, underslung]
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among
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clung
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flung
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hamstrung
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hung
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ran
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slung
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sprung
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swung
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than
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wrung
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overhung
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dan
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fran
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san
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diane
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joanne
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liane
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lianne
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ariane
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marianne
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rehang
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unhang
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samsung
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unsprung
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unwrung
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rehung
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unhung
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tonge
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