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| NOUN: | 1. An area within which something or someone exists, acts, or has influence or power: ambit, compass, extension, extent, orbit, purview, range, reach, realm, scope, sphere, sweep. See TERRITORY. 2. The patterned, recurring alternation of contrasting elements, such as stressed and unstressed notes in music: beat, cadence, cadency, measure, meter, rhythm. See REPETITION. | | VERB: | 1. Informal. To bring about and carry to a successful conclusion: bring off, carry out, carry through, effect, effectuate, execute, put through. See DO. 2. To fasten or be fastened at one point with no support from below: dangle, depend, hang, sling, suspend. See HANG. 3. Slang. To execute by suspending by the neck: gibbet, hang. Informal : string up. See HELP. 4. To change one's attitudes or policies, for example: vacillate, waver. See CHANGE, DECIDE. 5. To move rhythmically back and forth suspended or as if suspended from above: oscillate, sway. See MOVE, REPETITION. 6. To turn or cause to turn in place, as on a hinge or fixed point, tracing an arclike path: pivot, wheel. See MOVE. 7. To change the direction or course of: avert, deflect, deviate, divert, pivot, shift, turn, veer. See CHANGE.
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