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Excused 27 Dropping The

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99%6Exact Match!
verb

• grant exemption or release to

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

27%8Excused
adjective satellite

• freed from any question of guilt

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