Avoid Surgery

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noun • a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center • a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) • a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current verb • avoid something unpleasant or laborious
	14%	6		Does tree surgery
noun • dried plum verb • cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of • weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
	14%	7		Tied, in surgery
verb • join letters in a ligature when writing • bind chemically • bind with a bandage or ligature

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