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"word": "ডিফ্র্যাগমেন্ট করা"
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"sense": "to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous",
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"word": "ডিফ্র্যাগমেন্ট করা"
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"word": "defragmentovat"
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"word": "deframmentare"
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"word": "defragmentować"
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"sense": "to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous",
"word": "desfragmentar"
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"sense": "to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous",
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