See calve on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English calven, from Old English *calfian, cealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *kalbōn, from Proto-Germanic *kalbōną (“to calve”), from *kalbaz (“calf”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian koolvje, Dutch kalven, German Low German kalven, German kalben, Swedish kalva, Icelandic kálfa.",
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"form": "calves",
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},
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"word": "calf"
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"To give birth to a calf."
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"(intransitive) To give birth to a calf."
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"To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf."
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"(intransitive) To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf."
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf",
"word": "helpen met het kalven"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf",
"word": "vasikoida"
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"_dis1": "21 57 15 1 3 2",
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"sense": "to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf",
"word": "aider le vêlage"
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"To give birth to (a calf)."
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"(transitive) To give birth to (a calf)."
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"text": "The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.",
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"To shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg)."
],
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"ice shelf",
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],
[
"glacier",
"glacier"
],
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"ice sheet",
"ice sheet"
],
[
"iceberg",
"iceberg"
]
],
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"(intransitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) To shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg)."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of an ice shelf"
],
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"especially",
"figuratively",
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "kælve"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "afkalven"
},
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "poikia"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se fragmenter"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se scinder"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se morceler"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 55 0 45",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se casser"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 55 0 45",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se fractionner"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 55 0 45",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se briser"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "kalben"
},
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "kalve"
}
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{
"text": "The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To break off."
],
"id": "en-calve-en-verb-dTgsUpIH",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, figuratively, especially of an iceberg) To break off."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of an iceberg"
],
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"especially",
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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "3 2 2 2 89 3",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to break off",
"word": "kælve"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 2 2 89 3",
"code": "nl",
"english": "van",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to break off",
"word": "loskomen"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 2 2 89 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to break off",
"word": "se détacher (de)"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 2 2 89 3",
"code": "de",
"english": "von",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to break off",
"word": "sich lösen"
}
]
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"text": "The glacier was starting to calve an iceberg even as we watched.",
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"To shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg)."
],
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[
"glacier",
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[
"ice sheet",
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[
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"qualifier": "a glacier; an ice sheet; or even an iceberg; a glacier; an ice sheet; or even an iceberg",
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"(transitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) To shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg)."
],
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"of an ice shelf"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to shed, set loose (a mass of ice)",
"word": "kælve"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed, set loose (a mass of ice)",
"word": "perdre"
},
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"_dis1": "5 3 4 15 6 67",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed, set loose (a mass of ice)",
"word": "abandonner"
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"ipa": "/kɑːv/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
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{
"ipa": "/kæv/",
"tags": [
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{
"rhymes": "-ɑːv"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æv"
},
{
"homophone": "carve (some non-rhotic accents, e.g. Received Pronunciation)"
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"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otelvam se",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "отелвам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "vedellar"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "otelit se"
},
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"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "telit se"
},
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"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kælve"
},
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"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kalven"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "naski bovidon"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kálva"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "vasikoida"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "poikia"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "vêler"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "mettre bas"
},
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"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kalben"
},
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"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "poikiissa"
},
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"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "izh",
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"word": "poikia"
},
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"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "poikihua"
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"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "poikihussa"
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"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kalve"
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"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kalva"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "cielić się"
},
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"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"tags": [
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"word": "ocielić się"
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"roman": "telítʹsja",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "тели́ться"
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"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "ćelić"
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"_dis1": "46 10 41 1 2 1",
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"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "woćelić so"
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"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kalva"
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"_dis1": "46 8 43 1 2 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to give birth to (a calf)",
"word": "ter wereld brengen"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 8 43 1 2 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to give birth to (a calf)",
"word": "mettre bas"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 8 43 1 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to give birth to (a calf)",
"word": "werfen"
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"word": "calve"
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"càl‧ve"
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "adj",
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"word": "calvo"
}
],
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},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otelvam se",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "отелвам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "vedellar"
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"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kælve"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "naski bovidon"
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{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kálva"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "vasikoida"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "poikia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "vêler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "mettre bas"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kalben"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "poikiissa"
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{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
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{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
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{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kalve"
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{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kalva"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kalve"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
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"word": "cielić się"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "telítʹsja",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "тели́ться"
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"code": "hsb",
"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "ćelić"
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{
"code": "hsb",
"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "woćelić so"
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{
"code": "hsb",
"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to give birth to a calf",
"word": "kalva"
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"code": "nl",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf",
"word": "vasikoida"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf",
"word": "aider le vêlage"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to give birth to (a calf)",
"word": "ter wereld brengen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to give birth to (a calf)",
"word": "mettre bas"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to give birth to (a calf)",
"word": "werfen"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "kælve"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "afkalven"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "poikia"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se fragmenter"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se scinder"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se morceler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se casser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se fractionner"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed a large piece",
"word": "se briser"
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{
"code": "de",
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"word": "kalben"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to break off",
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"code": "nl",
"english": "van",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to break off",
"word": "loskomen"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to break off",
"word": "se détacher (de)"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "von",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to break off",
"word": "sich lösen"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to shed, set loose (a mass of ice)",
"word": "kælve"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to shed, set loose (a mass of ice)",
"word": "perdre"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to shed, set loose (a mass of ice)",
"word": "abandonner"
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"word": "calvo"
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"ipa": "[ˈkäɫ̪u̯ɛ]",
"tags": [
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"ipa": "/ˈkal.ve/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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{
"ipa": "[ˈkälve]",
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}
],
"word": "calve"
}
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