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  • 1sustain — sus‧tain [səˈsteɪn] verb [transitive] 1. if a company sustains losses or other difficulties, it has them: • Like other insurance companies, we have sustained heavy losses. • The record industry sustained a sales …

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  • 2sustain — sus|tain W3 [səˈsteın] v [T] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(make something continue)¦ 2¦(suffer)¦ 3¦(food/drink)¦ 4¦(give strength)¦ 5¦(weight)¦ 6¦(idea)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: sustenir, from Latin sustinere …

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  • 3sustain — verb (T) 1 MAKE STH CONTINUE to make something continue to exist over a period of time; maintain (1): The teacher tried hard to sustain the children s interest. see also: sustained 2 GIVE STRENGTH to make it possible for someone to stay strong or …

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  • 4damage — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 harm/injury ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enormous, great, heavy, massive, serious, severe, significant, substantial, untold …

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  • 5sustain */*/ — UK [səˈsteɪn] / US verb [transitive] Word forms sustain : present tense I/you/we/they sustain he/she/it sustains present participle sustaining past tense sustained past participle sustained 1) to provide the conditions in which something can… …

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  • 6Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers — United States Air Force Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (RED HORSE) units are the service s equivalent of the Army s Corps of Engineers and Navy Seabees.RED HORSE squadrons provide the Air Force with a highly …

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  • 7Norwegian heavy water sabotage — Part of World War II The Vemork Hydroelectric Plant in 1935. The heavy water was …

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  • 8Kamikaze — For other uses, see Kamikaze (disambiguation). Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa, who flew his aircraft into the USS Bunker Hill during a Kamikaze mission on 11 May 1945. The Kamikaze (神風 …

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  • 9Yasser Arafat International Airport — Infobox Airport name = Yasser Arafat International Airport (CLOSED) nativename = nativename a = مطار ياسر عرفات الدولي nativename r = image width = caption = IATA = GZA ICAO = LVGZ type = Public owner = operator = Yaser Arafat International… …

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  • 10Dinobots — is the name of several teams of characters in the fictional Transformers Universe. The groups are made up of several robots, each of whose transformed mode is that of a dinosaur or similar prehistoric animal.[1] They are called Dinotrons in the… …

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