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"form": "informs on",
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"form": "informing on",
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"form": "informed on",
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"ref": "2013 May 24, Emily Parker, “Bulgakov's Ghost”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-05-12",
"text": "In 1983, one of his friends informed on him for reading a forbidden book, and he lost his teaching job.",
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"To tell on someone; to act as an informant against."
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"synonyms": [
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"word": "finger"
},
{
"word": "grass up"
},
{
"word": "snitch"
}
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "donosić"
},
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"alt": "+ na",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "donieść"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "donosítʹ",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "доноси́ть"
},
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"alt": "+ на",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "donestí",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "донести́"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "donósyty",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "доно́сити"
},
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"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
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"word": "inform on"
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"word": "finger"
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{
"word": "grass up"
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{
"word": "snitch"
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"translations": [
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "donosić"
},
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"alt": "+ na",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "donieść"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "donosítʹ",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"word": "доноси́ть"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "донести́"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "donósyty",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "доно́сити"
},
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"alt": "+ на",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "donestý",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "донести́"
}
],
"word": "inform on"
}
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