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ajar
1. adv. Slightly turned or opened.
The door was standing ajar.
2. adj. Slightly turned or opened.
The door is ajar.
3. v. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
4. adv. (archaic) Out of harmony.
5. adv. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
6. v. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.

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Who's left to keep the gate ajar?

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