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Resign More Certain Taking Break

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noun

• acceptance of despair

• a verbal act of admitting defeat

• the delivery of a principal into lawful custody

• the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)

verb

• give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another

• relinquish possession or control over

29%8 "Break, Break, Break" poet
noun

• Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)

29%5 Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break," e.g.
noun

• a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

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