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Puritan About To Perish Or Come Through Crossword Clue

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verb

• extend out or project in space

• bulge outward

• swell or protrude outwards

28%6To perish
verb

• lose validity

• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

• expel air

28%10 When all members of a species perish
noun

• no longer active; extinguished

• no longer in existence

• the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation

• complete annihilation

• a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus

• the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

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