disgracen.
/dɪsˈɡreɪs/ 1. The disfavour of one in a powerful or exalted position, with the withdrawal of honour, degradation, dishonour, or contumely, which accompanies it:† a. as exhibited by the personage who inflicts it (obsolete).† c. A disfavour; a dishonour; an affront. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [noun] > action of
dishonouring1525
disgracement1561
discountenancing1574
disgrace1581
disgracing1582
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 28 b Shee went about to bring into the disgrace of the Dutches all the Ladies of the Court.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 12 Ambition and feare of the Kings disgrace were of such force, that the Nobles..durst not open their mouthes.
b. as incurred or experienced by the victim: the state of being out of favour and honour.
ΚΠ
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. K7v The disgrace that quickly you shall sustaine.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. vi. 23 I heare Macduffe liues in disgrace . View more context for this quotation
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. ii. xi. 260 The Spaniards offered him [sc. Card. Mazarin] all kindness of favour in his disgrace.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 160 The King..had determined that the disgrace of the Hydes should be complete.
1896 N.E.D. at Disgrace Mod. The minister was living in retirement, being in disgrace at Court.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > insult > [noun] > an insult
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unworshipc1200
hard wordc1225
despite1297
dishonourc1320
conteckc1380
reproofa1382
filthc1400
rebukec1425
contumelyc1450
probrec1460
reproacha1513
abusion1570
disgrace1586
affront1588
mockery1603
disobligement1635
disobligation1655
contumelacy1657
insult1671
humps and grumps1727
foul-mouthing1821
mudball1846
slam1884
burn1942
a kick in the teeth1972
1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 206v With my unluckie sport I have gotten your disgraces.
1593 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia 193 To such bondage he was..tied by her whose disgraces to him were graced by her excellence.
a1626 F. Bacon (Webster 1864) The interchange continually of favours and disgraces.
1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. xv. §18. 257 If it command somewhat to be.. done, which is not a disgrace to God directly, but from whence by reasoning disgracefull consequences may be derived.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xii. 236 Several little Disgraces were put upon them.
a. The disfavour of Fortune (as a disposer of human affairs); adverse fortune, misfortune. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck
un-i-limpOE
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unhap?c1225
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encumbermentc1440
misfortune1441
evil hail?c1450
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unhappiness1470
maleurtee?1473
malheur?1473
evil health1477
unfortune1483
wanfortunea1500
disfortune1509
wanhap1513
ill, evil ch(i)eving?1518
mislucka1530
ill luck1548
unfortunacy?c1550
evilfare1556
unluck1556
hard luck1567
bad luck1575
miscasualty1588
disgrace1590
wanchance1599
disventure1612
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miscarriagec1625
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mishanter1754
malefit1755
miscanter1781
hard cheese1854
hard cheddar1893
schlimazel1911
tough luck1912
snake eyes1918
catch-arse1970
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 2 Midst the riches of his face, Griefe decyphred hie disgrace.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 15 Sent his ambassadors to the said King, letting him understand of his disgrace.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures i. 1 No disgrace of Fortune ought to esloign us..from the duty which we are bound to render unto God.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 126 That other looks like Nature in disgrace . View more context for this quotation
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck
unsitheOE
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illa1340
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infortunea1393
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unfortunacya1662
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miscanter1781
reversal1846
avalanche1850
rough spin1919
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xlix. 118 With these disgraces vpon them, and the hand of God helping..vs.
1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times iv. 74 I shall alwaies bless my disgraces which have wrought mee this felicity.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiii. 216 Notwithstanding the disgraces which had fallen to her share, she had not been so unlucky..as many others.
3. Dishonour in general or public estimation; ignominy, shame.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [noun]
lose1297
misreportc1425
unhonestyc1425
obloquy1469
misfame1482
discredit1551
disfavour1581
disgrace1597
disesteem1603
discredence1611
disestimation1619
disreputation1633
disrepute1653
distrust1667
disreputableness1710
disconsideration1835
nigritude1869
disodour1882
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 133 I slewe him not but to my owne disgrace, Neglected my sworne duety in that case. View more context for this quotation
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 54 If ever he saw him approach his wife, he would..resist force by force..to drive disgrace from his house.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 156 A second effort brought but new disgrace.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. xi. 467 The disgrace which the queen's conduct had brought upon her family.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. iii. 31 Tito shrank with shuddering dread from disgrace.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > insult > [noun]
despite1297
conteckc1380
reproofa1382
contumelyc1386
villainya1400
cagment1504
injury?1518
mispersoning1522
opprobry1569
disgrace1592
baffling1602
affronting1611
insultance?1615
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abusiveness1633
confrontmentc1635
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contumeliousness1657
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affrontingness1730
insultation1755
insulting1837
ranking1954
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [noun]
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bismerc893
shameOE
shondOE
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rebukec1425
contemptc1430
reproach?a1439
reprobationa1450
disfamec1460
opprobry?a1475
lackc1480
shentc1480
vitupery1489
defamy1490
opprobre1490
dain?a1500
contemnment1502
ignominy?1527
scandalization1530
ignomy1534
contumely1555
disglory1567
dehonestationa1575
disgrace1592
attainder1597
disreputation1601
defaming1611
ignominiousness1655
adoxy1656
opprobrium1684
shonda1961
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N4, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) When..a word is either in praise or disgrace..repeated.
1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices ii. 102 If hee list not to giue a verball disgrace, yet hee shakes his head and smiles.
1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. i. iv. 285 Every vice hath a title, and euery vertue a disgrace.
1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 174 You spake..against the King by way of disgrace against him and his family.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads iii. 33 Then Hector him with words of great disgrace Reproved.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxii. i, in Maud & Other Poems 74 He..Heap'd on her terms of disgrace.]
5. An occasion or cause of shame or dishonour; that which brings into dishonour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [noun] > cause of disgrace
shendship1303
stone of stumbling (scandal, slander, etc.)a1382
lackc1480
dishonour1553
discredit1574
disgrace1590
shame1609
opprobrium1656
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A7v To all knighthood it is foule disgrace, That such a cursed creature liues so long a space.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. ii. 13 What a disgrace is it to mee to remember thy name? View more context for this quotation
c1710 E. Baynard Health 25 And is it not a foul disgrace, To lose the boltsprit of thy face?
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 157 I found the two disgraces..are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or to come to poverty.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 178 Is not the knowledge of words without ideas a disgrace to a man of sense?
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun]
disfigurec1386
deformationc1440
defoulinga1450
disfiguring1526
deforming1552
disfiguredness1565
disgrace1581
defiguration1585
defeature1593
disfigurement1637
disfiguration1653
reprobation1774
uglification1820
desightment1828
deform1831
disfeaturement1884
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 126 To take away some wart, moale, spot, or such like disgrace comming by chaunce.
1598 St. John's Coll. Agreem. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 251 The Chimneys..shalbe taken dowen and Raysed in some other Convenient place without disgrace of the new court.
7. Want of grace.† a. of person: ill-favouredness. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun]
uglinessc1340
foulnessa1398
dishonestyc1400
deformityc1450
laidure1483
ugsomeness1483
evilfavouredness1535
ill-favouredness1565
hard-favouredness1585
deformedness1588
disgrace1596
unsightliness1611
disfavour1706
hard-featuredness1839
eye-soreness1883
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xii. sig. Y7 Their garments..Being all rag'd and tatter'd, their disgraces Did much the more augment. View more context for this quotation
b. of mind: ungracious condition or character. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [noun]
cursednessc1386
crabbedness1413
thrawnness1499
currishness1542
doggedness1592
spleen1597
incompliance1689
crustiness1727
dourness1794
grumpiness1835
cussedness1852
nabalism1853
ungeniality1859
disgrace1861
cantankerousness1881
ugliness1889
stroppiness1969
1861 T. Winthrop Cecil Dreeme v. 75 Even a coat may be one of the outward signs by which we betray the grace or disgrace that is in us.
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disgracev.
/dɪsˈɡreɪs/ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > disfigure [verb (transitive)]
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defacec1374
disfigurec1374
emblemishc1384
defoula1387
unhighta1387
disray1431
deform?c1450
foul?c1450
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disform?1520
ungarnish1530
disfashiona1535
disfavour1535
disgrace1549
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uglify1576
disbeautify1577
dishonest1581
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disornament1593
disadorn1598
undeck1598
disvisage1603
unfair1609
untrim1609
debellish1610
disfair1628
discomplexion1640
devenustate1653
disfeature1659
monkeyfy1707
ugly1740
defeature1792
dedecorate1804
scarecrow1853
nastify1873
1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms ciii. 16 Like the flower..Whose glosse and beauty stormy winds do utterly disgrace.
1551 R. Robinson in tr. T. More Vtopia Epist. sig. ✠iiiiv Rude, & vnlearned speche defaceth and disgraceth a very good matter.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. v. 69 The woman had her nose cut of, wherwith..the whole beautie of her face was disgraced.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 115v His paunche shall the lesse appeere, which both disgraceth him and burdneth him.
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 4 The slightest Sketch..Is by ill Colouring but the more disgrac'd.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 215 Wither'd stumps disgrace the sylvan scene.
a. To put to shame, put out of countenance by eclipsing. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > cast into obscurity [verb (transitive)]
obscure1548
eclipse1581
disgrace1589
darken1609
overshadow1642
unperson1966
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. C4 Flora seeing her face, bids al her glorious flowers close themselues, as being by her beautie disgraced.
1591 T. Nashe in Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Introd. In thee..the Lesbian Sappho with her lyric harpe is disgraced.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > shame [verb (transitive)] > abash
abashc1384
rebash?1473
to put out of countenancec1500
to dash (a person) out of countenance (conceit, courage)1530
deface1537
dash1570
discountenance1584
disgrace1607
debash1610
out-nose1624
to put out of face1821
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 203 Casting..burning Torches into the face of the Elephant, by all which the huge beast is not a little disgraced and terrified.
3. To put out of grace or favour; to treat with disfavour, and hence with dishonour; to dismiss from (royal, etc.) favour and honour.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [verb (transitive)]
mislooka1450
disfavour1571
discountenance1589
disgrace1593
dishearten1658
to lean against1804
I don't go much on1882
1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 43 Followers, whose dutifull seruice must not bee disgrac'd with a bitter repulse in anie suite.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 62 Although he were without lands, and disgraced by Henry, yet being favoured by the people, he supposed that Henry dying, he shoulde..be crowned.
1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth 161 How easy is it for such a man, whiles the world disgraces him at once to scorne and pitty it.
1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 27 Some she disgrac'd, and some with Honours crown'd.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 216 His Subjects..whom he either disgraces or honours.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 268 Queensberry was disgraced for refusing to betray the interests of the Protestant religion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [verb (transitive)] > bring into disfavour
disgrace1597
deingrate1624
queer1818
to get in bad1902
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 79 Our brother is imprisoned by your meanes, My selfe disgract, and the nobility Held in contempt.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 35 Which his enimies tooke as an occasion to disgrace him with the King.
a. To cast shame or discredit upon; to bring (intentionally) into disgrace. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [verb (transitive)]
to say or speak (one) shamec950
to bring, make to shondOE
awemOE
shamec1175
unmenskc1225
to bring, shape, turn to shamea1250
to do villainy or a villainy1303
to bring, drive to scornc1320
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vituper1484
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vilify1651
lynch1836
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [verb (transitive)] > cast shame or dishonour upon
redounda1513
disgrace1573
1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 6 How sociablely he hath delt bi me..to disgrace and slaunder me in the toun.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 117 As I wooed for thee to obtaine her, I wil ioyne with thee, to disgrace her. View more context for this quotation
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iv. vi. 351 Mens passions will carry them far in misrepresenting an opinion, which they have a mind to disgrace.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [verb (transitive)] > put to shame
shendc825
ofshameOE
forlesec1200
to bring, shape, turn to shamea1250
to put to shamea1250
confoundc1290
confusec1350
rebuke1529
beshame?1567
disgrace1593
outshame1824
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. viii. 141 They neuer vse reason so willinglie as to disgrace reason.
1595 T. Edwards Narcissus in Cephalus & Procris (1882) 45 For he that sorrow hath possest, at last In telling of his tale is quite disgra'st.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > disparage or depreciate [verb (transitive)]
littleeOE
low1340
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minish1402
deroge1427
detractc1449
descryc1450
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decline1509
vilipend1509
disprize?1518
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debase1565
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extenuate1601
disvalue1605
disparagon1610
undervalue1611
avile1615
debaucha1616
to cry down1616
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decry1641
atomize1645
underrate1646
naucify1653
dedignify1654
stuprate1655
de-ample1657
dismagn1657
slur1660
voguec1661
depreciate1666
to run down1671
baffle1674
lacken1674
sneer1706
diminish1712
substract1728
down1780
belittle1789
carbonify1792
to speak scorn of1861
to give one a back-cap1903
minoritize1947
mauvais langue1952
rubbish1953
down-talk1959
marginalize1970
marginate1970
trash1975
neg1987
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xix. 34 Such..would peraduenture reproue and disgrace euery Romance, or short historicall ditty.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 24 The general..viciously disgrac'd With violent terms the priest.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion vi. 93 A Patriot, and so true, that it to death him greeues To heare his Wales disgrac't.
1671 R. Baxter How Far Holinesse lxiv. 19 They all agree to cry down sin in the general and to disgrace it.
1721 Coll. Polit. Lett. London Jrnl. 1720 46 Again he disgraces the Ale.
7. To bring (as an incidental consequence) shame, dishonour, or discredit upon; to be a disgrace or shame to; to reflect dishonour upon.
ΚΠ
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ii. sig. Kk1v Leauing only Mopsa behind, who disgraced weeping with her countenaunce.]
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. F2 Against himselfe he sounds this doome, That through the length of times he stands disgraced . View more context for this quotation
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 116v Often..such as became a meaner part well, have failed in a greater, and disgraced it.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iv. 4 I could finde in my heart to disgrace my mans apparell, and to cry like a woman. View more context for this quotation
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 196. ⁋7 Of his children..some may disgrace him by their follies.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 531 Such vicious habits as disgrace his name. View more context for this quotation
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 187 The atrocities which had disgraced the insurrection of Ulster.
1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 479 The most cruel act against heretics that disgraced our Statute Book.
Derivatives
disˈgraced adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [adjective] > disgraced or dishonoured
shentc1440
hontous?1473
defamed1474
shamed1508
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opprobrious1569
distained1590
ruined1596
dishonorate1601
dishonoured1608
disgraceda1616
scandalleda1616
baffled1671
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 121 Your Grace is welcome to a man disgrac'd . View more context for this quotation
1802 J. West Infidel Father III. 145 The poor..disgraced Selborne.
disˈgracing n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [noun] > action of
dishonouring1525
disgracement1561
discountenancing1574
disgrace1581
disgracing1582
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [adjective]
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frakeda900
shondfula900
foulOE
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shameworthy1382
shendshipful1382
dishonestc1386
slanderous1402
defamable?a1439
defamousc1450
misshamefulc1450
vituperablec1450
ignominious?a1475
shamevousc1475
inhominious1490
opprobrious?1510
opprobrousc1530
rebukeful1530
dishonourable1533
reproachful1534
disworshipful1539
dedecoratec1540
contumelious1546
spiteful1550
ignomious1571
inglorious1573
disgraceful1595
disgracive1602
vituperous1610
vituperious1612
disgracious1615
disparageable1617
propudious1629
deflowering1642
scandalized1664
dedecorous1755
disgracing1807
vituperate1832
vituperated1842
mighty1889
soddish1922
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias xvii. 45 He thought the same a disgracing vnto him.
1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 94 They would..fling the same [flowers] in the faces of their pursuing louers..maintaining their fained disgracings.
?1637 T. Hobbes tr. Aristotle Briefe Art Rhetorique ii. ii. 70 Contumely, is the disgracing of another for his owne pastime.
1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 12 July in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. viii. 309 As Buonaparte passed..he gave the right-hand file one of his disgracing crosses.
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- pilotage signal
- pilotage waters
- pilotages
- pilotaxitic
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