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Remain
  • (n.) State of remaining
  • (v. i.) To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity
  • (v. t.) To await

    Remake
  • (v. t.) To make anew.

    Remand
  • (n.) The act of remanding
  • (v. t.) To recommit

    Remark
  • (n.) Act of remarking or attentively noticing
  • (v. i.) To make a remark or remarks

    Remedial
  • (a.) Affording a remedy

    Remedy
  • (n.) That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind

    Remember
  • (v. i.) To execise or have the power of memory
  • (v. t.) To be capable of recalling when required

    Remembrance
  • (n.) Power of remembering

    Remind
  • (v. t.) To put (one) in mind of something

    Reminiscence
  • (n.) That which is remembered, or recalled to mind

    Reminiscent
  • (a.) Recalling to mind, or capable of recalling to mind
  • (n.) One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.

    Remise
  • (n.) A giving or granting back
  • (v. t.) To send, give, or grant back

    Remiss
  • (a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business
  • (n.) The act of being remiss

    Remit
  • (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence
  • (v. t.) To forgive

    Remix
  • (v. t.) To mix again or repeatedly.

    Remnant
  • (a.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

    Remodel
  • (v. t.) To model or fashion anew

    Remonetize
  • (v. t.) To restore to use as money

    Remonstrance
  • (n.) A pointing out

    Remonstrant
  • (a.) Inclined or tending to remonstrate
  • (n.) one of the Arminians who remonstrated against the attacks of the Calvinists in 1610, but were subsequently condemned by the decisions of the Synod of Dort in 1618

    Remonstrate
  • (v. i.) To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings
  • (v. t.) To point out

    Remora
  • (n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.

    Remorse
  • (n.) Sympathetic sorrow

    Remote
  • (superl.) Hence, removed

    Remount
  • (n.) The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting
  • (v. t. & i.) To mount again.

    Removable
  • (a.) Admitting of being removed.

    Removal
  • (n.) The act of removing, or the state of being removed.

    Remove
  • (n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
  • (v. i.) To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place
  • (v. t.) To cause to leave a person or thing

    Remunerate
  • (v. t.) To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice

    Remuneration
  • (n.) That which is given to remunerate

    Remunerative
  • (a.) Affording remuneration

    Renaissance
  • (n.) A new birth, or revival.

    Renal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys

    Rencounter
  • (n.) A causal combat or action
  • (v. i.) To meet unexpectedly
  • (v. t.) To attack hand to hand.

    Rend
  • (v. i.) To be rent or torn
  • (v. t.) To part or tear off forcibly

    Renegade
  • (n.) A common vagabond

    Renege
  • (v. i.) To deny.
  • (v. t.) To deny

    Renew
  • (v. i.) To become new, or as new
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature

    Reniform
  • (a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney

    Renitent
  • (a.) Persistently opposed.

    Rennet
  • (n.) A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette.
  • (v.) The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant

    Rennin
  • (n.) A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt

    Renounce
  • (n.) Act of renouncing.
  • (v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters
  • (v. t.) To cast off or reject deliberately

    Renovate
  • (v. t.) To make over again

    Renown
  • (v.) Report of nobleness or exploits
  • (v. t.) To make famous

    Rent
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Rend
  • (n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use
  • (v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent
  • (v. t.) To tear.

    Renunciation
  • (n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right

    Reopen
  • (v. t. & i.) To open again.

    Reorder
  • (v. t.) To order a second time.

    Reorganization
  • (n.) The act of reorganizing

    Reorganize
  • (v. t. & i.) To organize again or anew

    Reorient
  • (a.) Rising again.

    Rep
  • (a.) Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely
  • (n.) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface

    Repaid
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Repay

    Repair
  • (n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.
  • (v. i.) To go
  • (v. t.) To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent

    Repand
  • (a.) Having a slightly undulating margin

    Reparable
  • (a.) Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good

    Reparation
  • (n.) The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or compensation for a wrong, injury, etc

    Repartee
  • (n.) A smart, ready, and witty reply.
  • (v. i.) To make smart and witty replies.

    Repast
  • (n.) That which is taken as food
  • (v. t. & i.) To supply food to

    Repatriate
  • (v. t.) To restore to one's own country.

    Repay
  • (v. t.) To make return or requital for

    Repeal
  • (n.) Recall, as from exile.
  • (v. t.) To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute

    Repeat
  • (n.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance
  • (v. t.) To go over again

    Repel
  • (v. i.) To act with force in opposition to force impressed
  • (v. t.) To drive back

    Repent
  • (a.) Prostrate and rooting
  • (v. i.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness
  • (v. t.) To cause to have sorrow or regret

    Repercussion
  • (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger

    Repertoire
  • (n.) A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform

    Repertory
  • (n.) A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like

    Repetend
  • (n.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum:—sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures

    Repetition
  • (n.) Recital from memory

    Repetitious
  • (a.) Repeating

    Repetitive
  • (a.) Containing repetition

    Repine
  • (n.) Vexation
  • (v. i.) To continue pining

    Replace
  • (v. t.) To place again

    Replant
  • (v. t.) To plant again.

    Replenish
  • (v. i.) To recover former fullness.
  • (v. t.) To fill again after having been diminished or emptied

    Replete
  • (a.) Filled again
  • (v. t.) To fill completely, or to satiety.

    Repletion
  • (n.) Fullness of blood

    Replevin
  • (n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained
  • (v. t.) To replevy.

    Replevy
  • (n.) Replevin.
  • (v. t.) To bail.

    Replica
  • (v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original

    Reply
  • (v. i.) Figuratively, to do something in return for something done
  • (v. t.) To return for an answer.

    Report
  • (v. i.) To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc
  • (v. t.) An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc

    Repose
  • (v.) A lying at rest
  • (v. i.) Figuratively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.

    Reposit
  • (v. t.) To cause to rest or stay

    Repossess
  • (v. t.) To possess again

    Reprehend
  • (v. t.) To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing

    Reprehensible
  • (a.) Worthy of reprehension

    Reprehension
  • (n.) Reproof

    Represent
  • (v. t.) To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium
  • (v. t.) To present again or anew

    Repress
  • (n.) The act of repressing.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to check

    Reprieve
  • (n.) A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death
  • (v. t.) To delay the punishment of

    Reprimand
  • (n.) Severe or formal reproof

    Reprint
  • (n.) A second or a new impression or edition of any printed work
  • (v. t.) To print again

    Reprisal
  • (n.) Any act of retaliation.

    Reprise
  • (n.) A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
  • (v. t.) To recompense

    Reproach
  • (v.) A cause of blame or censure
  • (v. t.) To attribute blame to

    Reprobate
  • (a.) Abandoned to punishment
  • (n.) One morally abandoned and lost.
  • (v. t.) To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.

    Reprobation
  • (n.) The act of reprobating

    Reproduce
  • (v. t.) To bring forward again

    Reproduction
  • (n.) That which is reproduced.

    Reproductive
  • (a.) Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction

    Reproof
  • (n.) An expression of blame or censure

    Reprove
  • (v. t.) To chide to the face as blameworthy

    Reptant
  • (a.) Creeping

    Reptilian
  • (a.) Belonging to the reptiles.
  • (n.) One of the Reptilia

    Republic
  • (a.) A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them

    Republish
  • (v. t.) To publish anew

    Repudiate
  • (v. t.) To cast off

    Repudiation
  • (n.) One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt.

    Repugn
  • (v. t.) To fight against

    Repulse
  • (n.) Figuratively: Refusal
  • (v. t.) To repel

    Repulsion
  • (n.) A feeling of violent offence or disgust

    Repulsive
  • (a.) Cold

    Reputable
  • (a.) Having, or worthy of, good repute

    Reputation
  • (v. t.) Account

    Repute
  • (n.) Character reputed or attributed
  • (v. t.) To hold in thought

    Request
  • (n.) A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for
  • (v. t.) To address with a request

    Requiem
  • (n.) A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.

    Require
  • (v. t.) To ask as a favor

    Requisite
  • (a.) Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances
  • (n.) That which is required, or is necessary

    Requisition
  • (n.) A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc
  • (v. t.) To make a reqisition on or for

    Requital
  • (n.) The act of requiting

    Requite
  • (v. t.) To repay

    Reredos
  • (n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.

    Res
  • (n.) A thing

    Resale
  • (n.) A sale at second hand, or at retail

    Rescind
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority

    Rescission
  • (n.) The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating

    Rescissory
  • (a.) Tending to rescind

    Rescript
  • (v. t.) A counterpart.

    Rescue
  • (v.) The act of rescuing
  • (v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil

    Research
  • (n.) Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles
  • (v. t.) To search or examine with continued care

    Reseat
  • (v. t.) To put a new seat, or new seats, in

    Reseau
  • (n.) A network

    Resect
  • (v. t.) To cut or pare off

    Reseda
  • (n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.

    Resemblance
  • (n.) A comparison

    Resemble
  • (v. t.) To be like or similar to

    Resend
  • (v. t.) To send again

    Resent
  • (v. i.) To feel resentment.
  • (v. t.) In a bad sense, to take ill

    Reservation
  • (n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before

    Reserve
  • (n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require
  • (v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use

    Reservist
  • (n.) A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.

    Reservoir
  • (n.) A place where anything is kept in store

    Reset
  • (n.) That which is reset
  • (v. t.) To harbor or secrete

    Reshape
  • (v. t.) To shape again.

    Reside
  • (v. i.) To dwell permanently or for a considerable time

    Residual
  • (a.) Pertaining to a residue
  • (n.) The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.

    Residuary
  • (a.) Consisting of residue

    Residue
  • (n.) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus

    Residuum
  • (n.) That which is left after any process of separation or purification

    Re sign
  • (n.) Resignation.

    Resign
  • (v. t.) To commit to the care of

    Resile
  • (v. i.) To start back

    Resilient
  • (a.) Leaping back

    Resin
  • (n.) Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water

    Resist
  • (n.) A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, to prevent the action on it of acid or other chemical agent
  • (v. i.) To make opposition.
  • (v. t.) To be distasteful to.

    Resoluble
  • (a.) Admitting of being resolved

    Resolute
  • (n.) One who is resolute
  • (v. t. & i.) Convinced

    Resolution
  • (n.) A breaking up, disappearance

    Resolve
  • (n.) That which has been resolved on or determined
  • (v. i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles

    Resonance
  • (n.) An electric phenomenon corresponding to that of acoustic resonance, due to the existance of certain relations of the capacity, inductance, resistance, and frequency of an alternating circuit

    Resonant
  • (a.) Adjusted as to dimensions (as an electric circuit) so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency

    Resonator
  • (n.) An open box for containing a sounder and designed to concentrate and amplify the sound.

    Resorb
  • (v. t.) To swallow up.

    Resorption
  • (n.) The act of resorbing

    Resort
  • (n.) Active power or movement
  • (v.) A place to which one betakes himself habitually
  • (v. i.) To fall back

    Resound
  • (n.) Return of sound
  • (v. i.) To be echoed
  • (v. t.) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments

    Resource
  • (n.) Pecuniary means

    Respect
  • (v.) An expression of respect of deference
  • (v. t.) To consider worthy of esteem

    Respell
  • (v. t.) To spell again.

    Respirable
  • (a.) Suitable for being breathed

    Respiration
  • (n.) Interval

    Respirator
  • (n.) A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke

    Respire
  • (v. i.) To breathe
  • (v. t.) To breathe in and out

    Respite
  • (n.) A putting off of that which was appointed

    Resplendent
  • (a.) Shining with brilliant luster

    Respond
  • (n.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.
  • (v. i.) To render satisfaction
  • (v. t.) To answer

    Response
  • (n.) A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office.

    Responsibility
  • (n.) Ability to answer in payment

    Responsible
  • (a.) Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations

    Responsive
  • (a.) Responsible.

    Responsory
  • (a.) Containing or making answer
  • (n.) An antiphonary

    Rest
  • (n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode
  • (v. i.) To be left
  • (v. t.) To arrest.

    Result
  • (n.) A flying back
  • (v. i.) To come out, or have an issue

    Resume
  • (n.) A summing up
  • (v. t.) To begin again

    Resumption
  • (n.) The act of resuming

    Resupinate
  • (a.) Inverted in position

    Resurgent
  • (a.) Rising again, as from the dead.
  • (n.) One who rises again, as from the dead.

    Resurrect
  • (v. t.) To reanimate

    Resuscitate
  • (a.) Restored to life.
  • (v. i.) To come to life again
  • (v. t.) To revivify

    Resuscitator
  • (n.) One who, or that which, resuscitates.

    Retable
  • (n.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.

    Retail
  • (a.) Done at retail
  • (n.) To distribute in small portions or at second hand
  • (v.) The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels

    Retain
  • (v. i.) To belong
  • (v. t.) To continue to hold

    Retake
  • (v. t.) To take from a captor

    Retaliate
  • (v. i.) To return like for like
  • (v. t.) To return the like for

    Retch
  • (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit
  • (v. t. & i.) To care for

    Rete
  • (n.) A net or network

    Reticence
  • (n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject

    Reticent
  • (a.) Inclined to keep silent

    Reticle
  • (n.) A reticule.

    Reticular
  • (a.) Having the form of a net, or of network

    Reticule
  • (n..) A little bag, originally of network

    Reticulum
  • (n.) The neuroglia.

    Retina
  • (n.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate

    Retinite
  • (n.) An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal

    Retinitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the retina.

    Retinol
  • (n.) A hydrocarbon oil obtained by the distillation of resin

    Retinoscopy
  • (n.) The study of the retina of the eye by means of the ophthalmoscope.

    Retinue
  • (n.) The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person

    Retire
  • (n.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back
  • (v. i.) To go back or return
  • (v. t.) To cause to retire

    Retiring
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to retirement

    Retort
  • (n.) To bend or curve back
  • (v. i.) To return an argument or a charge
  • (v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works

    Retouch
  • (n.) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.

    Retrace
  • (v. t.) To go back, in or over (a previous course)

    Retract
  • (n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
  • (v. i.) To draw back
  • (v. t.) To draw back

    Retread
  • (v. t. & i.) To tread again.

    Retreat
  • (n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion
  • (v. i.) To make a retreat

    Retrench
  • (v. i.) To cause or suffer retrenchment
  • (v. t.) To confine

    Retrial
  • (n.) A secdond trial, experiment, or test

    Retribution
  • (n.) Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.

    Retrieval
  • (n.) The act retrieving.

    Retrieve
  • (n.) A seeking again
  • (v. i.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded
  • (v. t.) To find again

    Retroaction
  • (n.) Action returned, or action backward.

    Retroactive
  • (a.) Fitted or designed to retroact

    Retrocede
  • (v. i.) To go back.
  • (v. t.) To cede or grant back

    Retrochoir
  • (n.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel

    Retroflexion
  • (n.) The act of reflexing

    Retrograde
  • (a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet
  • (v. i.) Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.

    Retrogress
  • (n.) Retrogression.

    Retrorse
  • (a.) Bent backward or downward.

    Retrospect
  • (n.) A looking back on things past
  • (v. i.) To look backward

    Retroversion
  • (n.) A turning or bending backward

    Retry
  • (v. t.) To try (esp. judicially) a second time

    Return
  • (n.) A day in bank.
  • (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular
  • (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.

    Retuse
  • (a.) Having the end rounded and slightly indented

    Reunion
  • (n.) An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment

    Reunite
  • (v. t. & i.) To unite again

    Revamp
  • (v. t.) To vamp again

    Reveal
  • (n.) A revealing
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency)

    Reveille
  • (n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging

    Revel
  • (v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity
  • (v. t.) To draw back

    Revenge
  • (n.) The act of revenging
  • (v. i.) To take vengeance
  • (v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.

    Revenue
  • (n.) Hence, return

    Reverb
  • (v. t.) To echo.

    Revere
  • (v. t.) To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear

    Revers
  • (n.) A part turned or folded back so as to show the inside, or a piece put on in imitation of such a part, as the lapel of a coat

    Revert
  • (n.) One who, or that which, reverts.
  • (v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse
  • (v. t.) To change back.

    Revest
  • (v. i.) To take effect or vest again, as a title
  • (v. t.) To clothe again

    Revet
  • (v. t.) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.

    Review
  • (n.) A critical examination of a publication, with remarks
  • (v. i.) To look back

    Revile
  • (n.) Reproach
  • (v. t. & i.) To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language

    Revise
  • (n.) A review
  • (v. t.) To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type

    Revision
  • (n.) That which is made by revising.

    Revisit
  • (v. t.) To revise.

    Revisory
  • (a.) Having the power or purpose to revise

    Revitalize
  • (v. t.) To restore vitality to

    Revival
  • (n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression

    Revive
  • (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse

    Revivify
  • (v. t.) To cause to revive.

    Revocable
  • (a.) Capable of being revoked

    Revocation
  • (n.) The act by which one, having the right, annuls an act done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit conferred

    Revoke
  • (n.) The act of revoking.
  • (v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game
  • (v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back

    Revolt
  • (n.) A revolter.
  • (v. t.) To cause to turn back

    Revolute
  • (a.) Rolled backward or downward.

    Revolution
  • (n.) A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution

    Revolve
  • (v. i.) To move in a curved path round a center
  • (v. t.) Hence, to turn over and over in the mind

    Revulsion
  • (n.) A strong pulling or drawing back

    Rewake
  • (v. t. & i.) To wake again.

    Reward
  • (n.) Compensation or remuneration for services
  • (v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil

    Reword
  • (v. t.) To alter the wording of

    Rewrite
  • (v. t.) To write again.

    Rex
  • (n.) A king.

    Rhabdom
  • (n.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc

    Rhadamanthus
  • (n.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions

    Rhapsode
  • (n.) A rhapsodist.

    Rhapsodist
  • (n.) Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody

    Rhapsodize
  • (v. i.) To utter rhapsodies.
  • (v. t.) To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody

    Rhapsody
  • (n.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation


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