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  • verb transitive To discard or reject something.
  • verb transitive, intransitive, nautical To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf etc) so that the vessel may make way.
  • verb intransitive, knitting To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.

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