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  • 71patent medicine — noun Date: 1770 a packaged nonprescription drug which is protected by a trademark and whose contents are incompletely disclosed; also any drug that is a proprietary …

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  • 72putrefaction — noun Etymology: Middle English putrefaccion, from Late Latin putrefaction , putrefactio, from Latin putrefacere Date: 14th century 1. the decomposition of organic matter; especially the typically anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and… …

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  • 73regurgitation — noun Date: 1601 an act of regurgitating: as a. the casting up of incompletely digested food (as by some birds in feeding their young) b. the backward flow of blood through a defective heart valve …

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  • 74rough cut — noun Date: 1937 a print of an incompletely edited motion picture …

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  • 75semi- — prefix Etymology: Middle English, from Latin; akin to Old High German sāmi half, Greek hēmi 1. a. precisely half of: (1) forming a bisection of < semidiameter > (2) being a usually vertically bisected form of (a specified architectural feature) < …

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  • 76semiconscious — adjective Date: 1839 incompletely conscious ; imperfectly aware or responsive • semiconsciousness noun …

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  • 77semicrystalline — adjective Date: 1816 incompletely or imperfectly crystalline …

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  • 78semierect — adjective Date: 1822 1. incompletely upright in bodily posture < semierect primates > 2. erect for half the length < semierect stems > …

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  • 79subdominant — noun Date: 1793 1. the fourth tone of a major or minor scale 2. something partly but incompletely dominant; especially an ecologically important life form subordinate in influence to the dominants of a community • subdominant adjective …

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  • 80subsocial — adjective Date: circa 1909 incompletely social; especially tending to associate gregariously but lacking fixed or complex social organization < subsocial insects > …

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