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ID

verb [T]
 
 
/ˌaɪˈdiː/ US informal

Definition

to look at a person or a body and say who they are to someone in authority: He had to go to the morgue to ID the body.Identifying
(Definition of ID verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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