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"word": "käyttää"
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"word": "liikuttaa"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to incite to action",
"word": "estimular"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pobuždátʹ k déjstviju",
"sense": "to incite to action",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "побужда́ть к де́йствию"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pobudítʹ k déjstviju",
"sense": "to incite to action",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "побуди́ть к де́йствию"
}
],
"word": "actuate"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "āctuāte",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form",
"head": "āctuāte"
},
"expansion": "āctuāte",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "āctuō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person plural present active imperative of āctuō"
],
"links": [
[
"āctuō",
"actuo#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"imperative",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
}
],
"word": "actuate"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "actuate",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "actuar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular voseo imperative of actuar combined with te"
],
"links": [
[
"actuar",
"actuar#Spanish"
],
[
"te",
"te#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"object-second-person",
"object-singular",
"second-person",
"singular",
"with-voseo"
]
}
],
"word": "actuate"
}
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