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   deep-six

   verb

   • 1. destroy or dispose of (something) irretrievably: informal North American "someone had deliberately deep-sixed evidence"

   Word Origin 1920s (as the deep six ‘the grave’): perhaps from the custom of burial at sea at a depth of six fathoms.

   Scrabble Points: 17

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     2

   • E

     1

   • E

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   • X

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