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parachuted

Variant of parachute

noun

  1. 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
  2. something shaped like or having the effect of a parachute
  3. Zool. patagium (sense )

transitive verb, intransitive verb parachuted, parachuting

to drop or descend by parachute

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