See masticate on Wiktionary
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/En-us-masticate.ogg",
"tags": [
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},
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to knead",
"word": "jauhaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to knead",
"word": "soseuttaa"
},
{
"code": "bar",
"lang": "Bavarian German",
"lang_code": "bar",
"sense": "to knead",
"word": "dabaazn"
},
{
"code": "is",
"english": "crush into a mush",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"sense": "to knead",
"translation": "crush into a mush",
"word": "kremja í mauk"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"sense": "to knead",
"word": "hnoða í mauk"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "to knead",
"word": "kōrapu"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "mesitʹ",
"sense": "to knead",
"word": "месить"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to knead",
"word": "knåda"
}
],
"word": "masticate"
}
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"word": "masticar"
}
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"past participle of masticar"
],
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"masticar",
"masticar#Interlingua"
]
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"Italian past participle forms",
"Italian verb forms",
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"Pages with entries"
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}
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"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
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{
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{
"word": "masticare"
}
],
"glosses": [
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],
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[
"masticare",
"masticare#Italian"
]
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"indicative",
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"present",
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"2": "past participle form",
"g": "f-p"
},
"expansion": "masticate f pl",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "masticato"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine plural of masticato"
],
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[
"masticato",
"masticato#Italian"
]
],
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"plural"
]
}
],
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}
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]
}
],
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"name": "head"
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],
"lang": "Latin",
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"pos": "verb",
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"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin verb forms",
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{
"word": "masticō"
}
],
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"second-person plural present active imperative of masticō"
],
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[
"masticō",
"mastico#Latin"
]
],
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"form-of",
"imperative",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
}
],
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}
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}
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"second-person singular voseo imperative of masticar combined with te"
],
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[
"voseo",
"voseo#Spanish"
],
[
"masticar",
"masticar#Spanish"
],
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"te",
"te#Spanish"
]
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"imperative",
"object-second-person",
"object-singular",
"second-person",
"singular",
"with-voseo"
]
}
],
"word": "masticate"
}
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