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STET

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: stetted    , stetting   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Printing: direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained (used in the imperative)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "stet" is one way to...):

direct (command with authority)

Verb group:

stet (printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "stet" is one way to...):

annul; avoid; invalidate; nullify; quash; void (declare invalid)

Verb group:

stet (printing: direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained (used in the imperative))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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