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- verb transitive, intransitive To
clean bysweeping . - verb transitive to transport to
shore bywaves . - verb intransitive to
overwhelm
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- verb take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- verb force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
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