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  • 71letter — noun 1 written/printed message ADJECTIVE ▪ lengthy, long ▪ brief, short ▪ ten page, etc. ▪ rambling …

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  • 72circumscribe — Synonyms and related words: abate, abbreviate, adjust to, alter, assuage, bar, bound, box, box in, box up, circle in, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, condition, confine, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, cramp,… …

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  • 73confine — Synonyms and related words: arena, arrest, bar, bastille, be into, be strong in, block, border line, bottle up, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bounds, bourn, box, box in, box up, break boundary, breakoff point, cabin, cage,… …

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  • 74hem in — Synonyms and related words: beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, bound, box, box in, box up, cage, chamber, check, circumscribe, cloister, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork …

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  • 75limit — Synonyms and related words: Thule, Ultima Thule, abate, accommodation, acme, adjust to, all, alter, apex, apogee, appoint, area, assign, assuage, bar, be into, be strong in, bitter end, border, border line, bottom dollar, bound, boundary,… …

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  • 76restrict — Synonyms and related words: abate, adjust to, allocate, allot, alter, appoint, appropriate to, assign, assign to, assuage, bar, be into, be strong in, bind, bottle up, bound, box, box in, box up, cage, check, circumscribe, cloister, condition,… …

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  • 77chest — [OE] Chest comes ultimately from Greek kístē ‘box, basket’. In Latin this became cista (source of English cistern [13]). In prehistoric times the word was borrowed into Germanic as *kistā, which was the source of Old English cest. This still… …

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  • 78areq- —     areq     English meaning: to guard, lock     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schũtzen, verschließen”     Material: In detail Osthoff IF. 8, 54 ff. m. Lith. Arm. argel “ hump, block, check, fence, hurdle, barrier, drawback, obstacle, hindrance, balk,… …

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  • 79chest — [OE] Chest comes ultimately from Greek kístē ‘box, basket’. In Latin this became cista (source of English cistern [13]). In prehistoric times the word was borrowed into Germanic as *kistā, which was the source of Old English cest. This still… …

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  • 80case — case1 [kās] n. [ME & OFr cas, an event < L casus, a chance, lit., falling, pp. of cadere, to fall < IE base * k̑ad , to fall > Sans s̍ad , to fall off] 1. an example, instance, or occurrence [a case of carelessness, a case of measles] 2 …

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