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Definition - Transitive Verb
1  : to formulate the contents of and draw up (as a document) <in the two hundred years since our Constitution was framed ­W. J. Brennan, Jr.>
2  : to contrive the evidence against (as an innocent person) so that a verdict of guilty is assured



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slight negligence

failure to exercise the great degree of care typical of an extraordinarily prudent person


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