See meek on Wiktionary
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"t": "dry and decayed, rotten"
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"t": "to blow one's nose"
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"2": "muk-",
"t": "to let go, give up"
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"t": "to slip away from"
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"name": "cog"
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{
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"1": "cu",
"2": "мъчати",
"t": "to chase"
},
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"2": "μύσσομαι",
"t": "to blow the nose"
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{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "मुञ्चति",
"t": "to release, let loose"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit मुञ्चति (muñcati, “to release, let loose”)",
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, unknown origin, likely related to Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan and possibly a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”).\nCognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg (“supple”), Dutch muik (“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch (“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche (“malanders”). Compare as well Welsh mwyth (“soft, weak”), Latin ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk- (“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti (“to slip away from”), Old Church Slavonic мъчати (mŭčati, “to chase”), Ancient Greek μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit मुञ्चति (muñcati, “to release, let loose”).",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:5:",
"text": "Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 8”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
"text": "Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...",
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"Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing."
],
"id": "en-meek-en-adj-jWVYSAEN",
"links": [
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"Humble",
"humble"
],
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"boastful",
"boastful"
],
[
"modest",
"modest"
],
[
"meager",
"meager"
],
[
"self-effacing",
"self-effacing"
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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mek",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "мек"
},
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"_dis1": "87 13",
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"roman": "krotǎk",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "кротък"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "skromný"
},
{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "mírný"
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"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "pokorný"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "gedwee"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "zachtmoedig"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "nöyrä"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "vaatimaton"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "humble"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "modeste"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "modesto"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "sanftmütig"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "bescheiden"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "zaghaft"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "zurückhaltend"
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"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "fromm"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "demütig"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "sanft"
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"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "hold"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "lammfromm"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "moderat"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tapeinós",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "ταπεινός"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "semnós",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "σεμνός"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "el",
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"roman": "práos",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "πράος"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "szerény"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "rendah hati"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "modesto"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "timido"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "introverso"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "schivo"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "pavido"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
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"roman": "krotok",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "кроток"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "māhaki"
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"_dis1": "87 13",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "haki"
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"_dis1": "87 13",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "blyg"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
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"roman": "krotŭkŭ",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "кротъкъ"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
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"roman": "forutan",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "فروتن"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"topics": [
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"religion",
"lifestyle"
],
"word": "cichy"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "pokorny"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "arcyskromny"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "modesto"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "umil"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "modest"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
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"roman": "krótkij",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "кро́ткий"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
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"roman": "mjaxkij",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "мягкий"
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"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "gd",
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"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "macanta"
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{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "modesto"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "ödmjuk"
}
]
},
{
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"kind": "topical",
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"Human",
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"ref": "1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:",
"text": "What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.",
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"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "mansu"
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"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "smiren",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "смирен"
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"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "pokoren",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "покорен"
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{
"_dis1": "9 91",
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"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "poddajný"
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"_dis1": "9 91",
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"word": "pokorný"
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"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "mírný"
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"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "tichý"
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{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "alistuva"
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{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "soumis"
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{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "faible"
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{
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "manso"
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{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "dondo"
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{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "submiso"
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{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "unterwürfig"
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{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "kleinlaut"
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{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "widerstandslos"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "hold"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "lammfromm"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "moderat"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tapeinós",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "ταπεινός"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "semnós",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "σεμνός"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "práos",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "πράος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "szerény"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "rendah hati"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "modesto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "timido"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "introverso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "schivo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "pavido"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "krotok",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "кроток"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "māhaki"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "haki"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "blyg"
},
{
"code": "cu",
"lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
"roman": "krotŭkŭ",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "кротъкъ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "forutan",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "فروتن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"topics": [
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"religion",
"lifestyle"
],
"word": "cichy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "pokorny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "arcyskromny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "modesto"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "umil"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "modest"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krótkij",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "кро́ткий"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mjaxkij",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "мягкий"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "macanta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "modesto"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "humble, modest, or self-effacing",
"word": "ödmjuk"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "mansu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "smiren",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "смирен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pokoren",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "покорен"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "poddajný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "pokorný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "mírný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "tichý"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "alistuva"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"tags": [
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"word": "soumis"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "faible"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "manso"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "dondo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "submiso"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "unterwürfig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "kleinlaut"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "widerstandslos"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "duldsam"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "ergeben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "gottergeben"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "peithínios",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "πειθήνιος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "alázatos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "beletörődő"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "rassegnato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "remissivo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "sommesso"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "sar-be-zir",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "سربهزیر"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "arcyskromny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "submisso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "manso"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "supus"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezrópotnyj",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "безро́потный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pokórnyj",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "поко́рный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "humilde"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "resignado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "sumiso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "manso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "submissive, dispirited",
"word": "undergiven"
}
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"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations",
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"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
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"name": "der"
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"1": "sv",
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"2": "mjuk",
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{
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"name": "cog"
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{
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{
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"1": "de",
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"t": "dry and decayed, rotten"
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ēmungō",
"t": "to blow one's nose"
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"1": "xto",
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"t": "to let go, give up"
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{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "mùkti",
"t": "to slip away from"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cu",
"2": "мъчати",
"t": "to chase"
},
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"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "μύσσομαι",
"t": "to blow the nose"
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{
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"1": "sa",
"2": "मुञ्चति",
"t": "to release, let loose"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit मुञ्चति (muñcati, “to release, let loose”)",
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}
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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
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]
},
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}
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],
"glosses": [
"(of horses) To tame; to break."
],
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"tame#Verb"
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"(US) (of horses) To tame; to break."
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to tame, to break",
"word": "kesyttää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to tame, to break",
"word": "zähmen"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ukroščatʹ",
"sense": "to tame, to break",
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