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  • 71py|ru|vate — «py ROO vayt, pih », noun. a salt or ester of pyruvic acid …

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  • 72ra|di|o|ac|ti|vate — «RAY dee oh AK tuh vayt», transitive verb, vat|ed, vat|ing. to make radioactive …

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  • 73re|ac|ti|vate — «ree AK tuh vayt», transitive verb, vat|ed, vat|ing. to make active again; restore to active service: »The Army announced that the old 101st Airborne Division, famous for its stand at Bastogne in the second world war, will be reactivated at Fort… …

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  • 74re|cid|i|vate — «rih SIHD uh vayt», intransitive verb, vat|ed, vat|ing. 1. to relapse into crime: »No sooner did he leave prison, than he recidivated into petty felonies. 2. to fall back or relapse; return, as to a former state or way of acting: »Thus then to… …

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  • 75re|cul|ti|vate — «ree KUHL tuh vayt», transitive verb, vat|ed, vat|ing. to cultivate anew: »to recultivate land, to recultivate a friendship …

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  • 76re|cur|vate — «rih KUR viht, vayt», adjective. recurved. ╂[< Latin recurvātus, past participle of recurvāre < re back + curvus curve] …

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  • 77ren|o|vate — «REHN uh vayt», transitive verb, vat|ed, vat|ing. 1. to make like new; make new again; make over; restore to good condition: »to renovate a garment. He had cleaned and renovated the dark little hole of a cabin (Joseph Conrad). SYNONYM( …

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  • 78ro|to|vate — «ROH tuh vayt», transitive verb, intransitive verb, vat|ed, vat|ing. British. to rototill: »Not until the light soil was really dry in late April was the area rotovated twice, and set with sprouted seed (London Times) …

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  • 79sal|i|vate — «SAL uh vayt», verb, vat|ed, vat|ing. –v.i. to secrete saliva: »[Pavlov] found that…dogs…would quite quickly associate the sound of the bell with food and soon the bell alone would cause them to salivate (J. A. V. Butler). –v.t. to produce an… …

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  • 80sa|vate — «sa VAT», noun. a French style of boxing in which the feet and head are used as well as fists. ╂[< French savate (literally) old shoe; origin uncertain. Compare etym. under sabot. (Cf. ↑sabot)] …

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