Related Words for war

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warfare
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Noun, Noun
state of war
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Phrase, Noun
wartime
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Noun
invasion
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Noun
wwii
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Name
conflict
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Noun
wwi
x
Name
trench warfare
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Phrase, Noun
iraq
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Name
battle
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Noun
military
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Noun
combat
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Noun
civil
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Name, Adjective
occupation
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Noun
hostilities
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Noun
battlefields
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Noun
insurgency
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Noun
militarism
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Noun
vietnam
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Name
troops
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Noun
genocide
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Noun
world war i
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Phrase, Noun
first world war
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Phrase, Noun
holocaust
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Name
terrorism
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Noun
liberation
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Noun
counterinsurgency
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Noun
imperialism
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Noun
intifada
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Noun
weimar republic
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Name, Name
terror
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Noun
quagmire
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Noun
stalingrad
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Name
fighting
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Noun
jihad
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Noun
bloodshed
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Noun
atrocities
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Noun
peacetime
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Noun
police action
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Phrase, Noun
soldier
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Noun
war bride
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Phrase, Noun
afghanistan
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Name
arvn
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Name
insurrection
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Noun
reconquest
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Noun
theater of war
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Phrase, Noun
guerrilla
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Noun, Adjective
pacification
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Noun
second world war
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Phrase, Noun
belligerents
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Noun
rearmament
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Noun
disengagement
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Noun
escalation
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Noun
belleau wood
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Name, Name
pacifists
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Noun
colonialism
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Noun
dien bien phu
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Name, Name
fascism
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Noun
rebellion
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Noun
isolationism
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Noun
lyndon johnson
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Name, Name
peacekeeping
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Noun
guerilla
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Noun, Adjective
servicemen
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Noun
army
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Noun
armed forces
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Name, Name
wilfred owen
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Name, Name
skirmish
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Noun
slavery
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Noun
reign of terror
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Phrase, Noun
battleground
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Noun
confederate
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Name
nuclear winter
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Name, Name
combatant
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Noun
psychological warfare
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Phrase, Noun
phoney
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Adjective
undeclared
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Adjective
waging
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Noun, Verb
peloponnesian
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Adjective
punic
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Adjective
trojan
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Adjective
clausewitz
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Name
outbreak
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Noun
crimean
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Adjective
tug
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Noun
unjustly
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Adverb
attrition
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Noun
thermonuclear
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Adjective
unscathed
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Adjective
boer
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Adjective
bloodiest
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Adjective
chechen
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Adjective
prisoner
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Noun
spoils
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Noun
sinews
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Noun
angolan
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Adjective
horrors
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Noun
internecine
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Adjective
aftermath
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Noun
casualty
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Noun
phony
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Adjective
veteran
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Noun
algerian
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Adjective
just
/
Adjective
tot
/
Adverb
ravages
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Noun
protracted
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Adjective
abyssinian
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Adjective
bosnian
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Adjective
coming
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Noun
declaring
x/x
Verb
levying
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Verb
parthian
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Adjective
munitions
x/x
Noun
underway
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Adverb
preemptive
x/x
Adjective
extermination
xxx/x
Noun
declaration
xx/x
Noun
raging
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Verb
brink
/
Noun
afghan
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Adjective
sanguinary
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Adjective
devastation
xx/x
Noun
unpopular
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Adjective
hobbesian
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Adjective
exigencies
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Noun
prosecute
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Verb
cold
/
Adjective
lebanese
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Adjective
zulu
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Adjective
eve
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Noun
aggression
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Noun
agrarian
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Adjective, Noun
alliance
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Noun, Verb
antiwar
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Adjective
apartheid
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Noun, Verb
armed
/
Adjective
attack
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
bad
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
bellicose
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Adjective
bellum
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Name
biological warfare
xx/xx/x
Name, Name
blitz
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Noun, Verb
blitzkrieg
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Noun
blood
/
Noun, Verb
bomb
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
campaign
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Noun, Verb
chemical warfare
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Phrase, Noun
civil war
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Name, Name
clash
/
Noun, Verb
conflagration
xx/x
Noun
confrontation
xx/x
Noun
crusade
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Noun, Verb
death
/
Noun
debacle
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Noun
depression
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Noun
dispute
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Noun, Verb
encampment
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Noun
engagement
x/x
Noun
espionage
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Noun
expedition
xx/x
Noun, Verb
famine
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Noun
fear
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
feud
/
Noun, Verb
fighter
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Noun
front
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
future
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Noun, Adjective
go to war
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Phrase, Verb
gun
/
Noun, Verb
hate
/
Verb, Noun
hell
/
Noun, Adverb, Verb
interwar
xxx
Adjective
iran
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Name
karo
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Name
kill
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Verb, Noun
land
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Noun, Verb
launch
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Noun, Verb
love
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Noun, Verb
martial
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Noun, Adjective
naval
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Adjective, Name
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
offensive
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Adjective, Noun
pain
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Noun, Verb
parliament
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Noun
patrol
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Noun, Verb
peace
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Noun, Verb
persian
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Name, Adjective
polemic
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Noun, Adjective
postwar
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Adjective
pows
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Name
prewar
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Adjective
punishment
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Noun
reform
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
revolution
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Noun
revolutionary
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Adjective, Noun
scary
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun
siege
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Noun, Verb
socialist
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Adjective, Name
strife
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Noun
struggle
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Noun, Verb
take up arms
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Phrase, Verb
throats
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Noun
treaty
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Noun, Verb
trojan war
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Name, Name
violence
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Noun, Verb
violent
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
war of nerves
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Phrase, Noun
warlike
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Adjective
warlord
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Noun
warrior
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Noun
warship
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Noun
world war
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Phrase, Noun
oh
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Noun, Verb
maypole
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Noun, Verb
aisle
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Noun
girly
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Adjective, Noun
headlines
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Noun
cloth
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Noun
closet
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
pidgin
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Noun
milestone
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Noun, Verb
bundle
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Noun, Verb
get
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Verb, Noun
tell
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Verb, Noun
stonewall
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Name, Verb, Adjective
stovepipe
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Noun, Verb
breakeven
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
save
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Verb, Noun
off
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Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
backwater
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Noun, Verb