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Stepped Back Catching Bloke Sleeping

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adjective

• (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct

adjective satellite

• in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

• lying with head on paws as if sleeping

• inactive but capable of becoming active

37%11 Facilities where electrical power is stepped up or stepped down.
noun

• a subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network

29%4Bloke
noun

• a boy or man

• a long narrow depression in a surface

• a crack in a lip caused usually by cold

• (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs

verb

• crack due to dehydration

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