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to renounce, repudiate, or retract, esp. with formal solemnity; recant:
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sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
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to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal:
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keen insight; shrewdness:
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before or existing before the war, esp. American Civil War
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favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate.
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to show to be false; contradict:
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inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
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to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
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trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry
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