The seeming remoteness of its source was because of its murmurous indistinctness since it came from close-by, even from the men massed on the ship's open deck.

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Because of the seriousness of the injury, the doctor anaesthetised the area before treatment.

Amortised. Amortise is when you write off a debt, so amortised is when a debt’s been written off.