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"(obsolete) Amnesty."
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"word": "გულმავიწყობა"
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"word": "שִׁכְחָה"
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"word": "feledés"
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"sense": "a state of nothingness",
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"sense": "a state of nothingness",
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"sense": "figuratively: wasteland; a supernatural realm of waste, like hell",
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