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hack

 
 
/hæk/ verb [I, T]

Definition

CUT to cut something roughly into pieces: The victim had been hacked to death.
COMPUTER to use a computer to illegally get into someone else's computer system and read the information that is kept there: Two British youths were caught hacking into government computers.
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