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while

noun
  1. A rather short period: bit 1, space, spell 3, time. See big
  2. The use of energy to do something: effort, endeavor, exertion, pain (used in plural), strain 1, striving, struggle, trouble. Informal: elbow grease. See work
verb
To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work. Also used with away: dawdle (away), fiddle away, idle (away), kill 1, trifle away, waste, wile (away). See industrious

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