Using Context to Determine Word Meaning
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about the passage.
What is the meaning of subject in the passage?
[Laertes:] For he himself is subject to his birth;
He may not, as unvalu'd persons do,
Carve for himself, for on his choice depends
The safety and the health of the whole state
-Hamlet,
William Shakespeare
What is the meaning of carve in the passage?
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