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5 letters · 5 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective brief and to the point; effectively cut short
originFrom Latin tersus (“clean, cleansed, rubbed or wiped off; neat, spruce; terse”), perfect passive participle of Latin tergeō, tergō (“to clean, cleanse, rub, wipe, wipe off”).
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