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  • verb To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
  • verb archaic To rescue; to liberate.
  • verb To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
  • verb obsolete To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly.

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  • verb be successful; achieve a goal

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