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- verb
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- to anticipate and make unnecessary [Princeton Review]
- remove (sth); get rid of [Barron]
- to anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action) [Taisha]
- to make unnecessary, get rid of [Nandigam]
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