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dereliction




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dereliction
     1. n. Willful neglect of one's duty.
           The new soldier did not clean his cabin and was scolded for dereliction and disobedience.
           What he did was a terrible dereliction of duty.
     2. n. The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned.
     3. n. Land gained from the water by a change of water-line.



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