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gelding
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- by the time of the fourth rewrite, the screenplay had pretty much been gelded of all originality
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- exciting,
- fermenting,
- firing,
- fomenting,
- inciting,
- inflaming
- (also enflaming),
- instigating,
- kindling,
- provoking,
- sparking,
- triggering,
- whipping (up)
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“Gelding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gelding. Accessed 23 May. 2022.
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