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Tug Of War

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99%6Exact Match!
noun

• disorderly fighting

verb

• fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters

• make messy or untidy

95%8Exact Match!
noun

• (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense

• the physical condition of being stretched or strained

• a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)

• (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body

• feelings of hostility that are not manifest

• the action of stretching something tight

38%8Tug-of-war bone
noun

• the furcula of a domestic fowl

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