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Big Actor Briefly Dropping Hot Containers

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noun

• an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads

• a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids

• as much as a tank will hold

• a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk

• a cell for violent prisoners

verb

• store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it

• consume excessive amounts of alcohol

• treat in a tank

28%8Dropping heavily, making a big noise
noun

• a cheap wine of inferior quality

• the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)

verb

• set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

28%6 Opposed to opening, dropping, opening, dropping?
verb

• fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense

• fail to win

• suffer the loss of a person through death or removal

• miss from one's possessions; lose sight of

• allow to go out of sight or mind

• fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit

• fail to get or obtain

• fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

• withdraw, as from reality

• be set at a disadvantage

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