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refsan

Pronunciation: /ˈref.sɑn/

“refsan” is an Old English word. Its 3 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to reprove; rebuke
  2. to seize; appropriate
  3. to blame

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rafsijan (“to blame, flog, chastise, punish”).

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