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"2": "enm",
"3": "blusteren",
"t": "to wander about aimlessly"
},
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"name": "inh"
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"2": "gml",
"3": "blüstren"
},
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"1": "“to blow violently”; compare later Low German <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"nds\">blustern</i>, <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"nds\">blistern</i>"
},
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},
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},
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{
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"2": "bloasje",
"3": "",
"4": "to blow"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"2": "bruusje",
"3": "",
"4": "to bluster"
},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).",
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}
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"Entry maintenance"
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"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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{
"ref": "2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70",
"text": "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.",
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"Pompous, officious talk."
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[
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[
"officious",
"officious"
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[
"talk",
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"_dis1": "99 0 1",
"sense": "pompous talk",
"word": "bombast"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "samohvalstvo",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "самохвалство"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "chvástání"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gebral"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"word": "mahtailu"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Getöse"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Aufblasen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Aufplustern"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kraftmeierei"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Prahlerei"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "wichtigtuerisches Gerede"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Dampfplauderei"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sbruffoneria"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"word": "uforskammet mas"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"word": "tomme trusler"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"word": "bòst"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bòilich"
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "bagairt"
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"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "bagradh"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "pompous, officious talk",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "praznoslovlje"
}
]
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"langcode": "en",
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"Atmosphere",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"A gust of wind."
],
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[
"gust",
"gust"
],
[
"wind",
"wind"
]
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{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "poriv",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "порив"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hukot"
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{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"word": "tuulenpuuska"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"word": "puuska"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Böe"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Windstoß"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sturmböe"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"word": "pūrekereke"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"word": "blouster"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 99 1",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "gust of wind",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "beucadh"
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"Fitful noise and violence."
],
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"Fitful",
"fitful"
]
],
"tags": [
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"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kravál"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "řvaní"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vztekání se"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bulder"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gebulder"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Gepolter"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Geschrei"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wutgeschrei"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wutgeheul"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"word": "whakatūpehupehu"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "raseri"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "bråk"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "fitful noise and violence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gleadhraich"
}
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈblʌs.tə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈblʌs.tɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"rhymes": "-ʌstə(ɹ)"
},
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blusterer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blustering"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blusterous"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blustery"
}
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"3": "blusteren",
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"name": "inh"
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"3": "blüstren"
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"name": "der"
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"1": "“to blow violently”; compare later Low German <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"nds\">blustern</i>, <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"nds\">blistern</i>"
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"2": "bloasje",
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"expansion": "Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”)",
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"args": {
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"3": "",
"4": "to bluster"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).",
"forms": [
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"form": "blusters",
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "blustering",
"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "blustered",
"tags": [
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"past"
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{
"form": "blustered",
"tags": [
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"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster, which often cowed the meek.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To speak or protest loudly."
],
"id": "en-bluster-en-verb-cwuGWm~g",
"links": [
[
"speak",
"speak"
],
[
"protest",
"protest"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "zuřit"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vztekat se"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "rozkřikovat se"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "rozčilovat se"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vykřikovat"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "mahtailla"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "uhota"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "poltern"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "laut werden"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "rūtā"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "tūpererū"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "whāuraura"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "whakatūpehupehu"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "whakatūātea"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "tūpeha"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "ngangana"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "bråke"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "bruke seg"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "opptre uforskammet"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "phiñay"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 4 2",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "bagair"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1532, Thomas More, Confutation of Tyndale's Answer",
"text": "He bloweth and blustereth out […] his abominable blasphemy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner."
],
"id": "en-bluster-en-verb-DXrVZbvF",
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "8 84 8",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to act or speak in a threatening manner",
"word": "ärhennellä"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 84 8",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to act or speak in a threatening manner",
"word": "wüste Drohungen ausstoßen"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 84 8",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to act or speak in a threatening manner",
"word": "wananga"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 84 8",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to act or speak in a threatening manner",
"word": "whāuraura"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 84 8",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to act or speak in a threatening manner",
"word": "tūpererū"
}
]
},
{
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"To blow in strong or sudden gusts."
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "poltern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "laut werden"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "rūtā"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "tūpererū"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "whāuraura"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "whakatūpehupehu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "whakatūātea"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "tūpeha"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "ngangana"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "bråke"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "bruke seg"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "opptre uforskammet"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "phiñay"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to speak or protest loudly",
"word": "bagair"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to act or speak in a threatening manner",
"word": "ärhennellä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to act or speak in a threatening manner",
"word": "wüste Drohungen ausstoßen"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to act or speak in a threatening manner",
"word": "wananga"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to act or speak in a threatening manner",
"word": "whāuraura"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to act or speak in a threatening manner",
"word": "tūpererū"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vilneja",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "вилнея"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bušuvam",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "бушувам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "bouřit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "burácet"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "tuulla puuskaisesti"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "brausen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "tosen"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "záviva",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "за́вива"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "búči",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "бу́чи"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "rase"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "revétʹ",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "реве́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "buševátʹ",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "бушева́ть"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "blouster"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to blow in strong or sudden gusts",
"word": "stoirmich"
}
],
"word": "bluster"
}
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