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1.
werk
n.(1)
563 quotations in 23 senses
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(a) A discrete act performed or undertaken by someone, (someone’s) deed;
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(one’s) individual acts, deeds, or actions, the things one does or has done in one’s life, (one’s) doings; also…
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