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Condom is semi-broken? Withdraw from action (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

decommission

'withdraw from action' is the definition.
(as in decommissioning soldiers)

'condom is semi-broken?' is the wordplay.
'broken?' indicates anagramming the letters.
'condom'+'is'+'semi'='condomissemi'
'condomissemi' is an anagram of 'DECOMMISSION'.

(Another definition for decommission that I've seen is " Take (eg, a warship) out of operation".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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