"subclause" meaning in English

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        "A subordinate clause."
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        "(grammar) A subordinate clause."
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      "form": "subclausing",
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        "present"
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      "form": "subclaused",
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          "text": "Too many serious reviews are subclaused, hyperbolic conscious, egotistical and self-indulgent, not to mention boring.",
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          "ref": "2016, Adam Fletcher, How to be German - Part 2: in 50 new steps:",
          "text": "However, in their execution, they can be too exacting, too demanding, creating a practicality monster that rampages through German society in its high-visibility jacket, measuring, judging, clausing, subclausing, contracting, securing, […]",
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        "To qualify with a subclause."
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        "(transitive) To qualify with a subclause."
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        "To qualify with a subclause."
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        "(transitive) To qualify with a subclause."
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