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noun C1
  1. Movement against a current, especially a tidal current. (countable, uncountable)
  2. A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words. (countable, uncountable)
  3. To include a term's inflections as part of a search engine's search. (countable, uncountable)
  4. The technique of bridging between two holds with hands and/or feet, applying forces to each in opposing directions in order to brace oneself in position. (countable, uncountable)

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.