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  • 81Mount Carmel forest fire (2010) — Not to be confused with Mount Carmel forest fire (1989). Mount Carmel forest fire The fire in its early stages (looking west) Location Mount Carmel, Israel …

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  • 82destroy — I (efface) verb abort, annihilate, blast, blight, blot out, break to pieces, bring to ruin, burn, consume, corrode, deal destruction, decimate, deface, demolish, desolate, destruct, destruere, devastate, devour, diruere, disintegrate, dissolve,… …

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  • 83abolish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. annul, cancel, abrogate; exterminate, wipe out. See nullification, destruction. Ant., establish, reinstate. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. suppress, eradicate, terminate, exterminate, obliterate, do away… …

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  • 84douse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. soak, drench, souse; put out, extinguish. See water, darkness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To immerse in water] Syn. submerge, splash, drench; see immerse 1 , soak 1 . 2. [To put out] Syn. quench, drown… …

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  • 85fire — n. & v. n. 1 a the state or process of combustion, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and usu. give out bright light and heat. b the active principle operative in this. c flame or incandescence. 2 a conflagration, a… …

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  • 86Quench — Quench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quenched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quenching}.] [OE. quenchen, AS. cwencan in [=a]cwencan, to extinguish utterly, causative of cwincan, [=a]cwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. cw[=i]nan, [=a]cw[=i]nan, to waste or… …

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  • 87Quenched — Quench Quench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quenched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quenching}.] [OE. quenchen, AS. cwencan in [=a]cwencan, to extinguish utterly, causative of cwincan, [=a]cwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. cw[=i]nan, [=a]cw[=i]nan, to waste… …

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  • 88Quenching — Quench Quench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quenched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quenching}.] [OE. quenchen, AS. cwencan in [=a]cwencan, to extinguish utterly, causative of cwincan, [=a]cwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. cw[=i]nan, [=a]cw[=i]nan, to waste… …

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  • 89American Airlines Flight 77 — Infobox Aircraft crash name = American Airlines Flight 77 caption = Two still images from a Pentagon security camera video immediately before and after the crash highlighting Flight 77 prior to impact date = September 11, 2001 type = Hijacking… …

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  • 90Switch — For other uses, see Switch (disambiguation). Electrical switches. Top, left to right: circuit breaker, mercury switch, wafer switch, DIP switch, surface mount switch, reed switch. Bottom, left to right: wall switch (U.S. style), miniature toggle… …

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