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parachute
noun
- a cloth contrivance usually shaped like an umbrella when expanded, and used to retard the falling speed of a person or thing dropping from an airplane, etc.: it is generally carried folded in a pack, from which it is released by a rip cord or other device
- something shaped like or having the effect of a parachute
- Zool. patagium (sense )
transitive verb, intransitive verb parachuted, parachuting
to drop or descend by parachute
See parachute in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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