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"sense": "act of breaking away from something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "απόσχιση"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in cycling",
"word": "irtiotto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in cycling",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "hatka"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "in cycling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "échappée"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in cycling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ausbruch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in cycling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ausbruchsgruppe"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "in cycling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fuga"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in cycling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "escapado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in cycling",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "utbrytning"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in cycling",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "utbrytargrupp"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in ice hockey",
"word": "läpiajo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in ice hockey",
"word": "friläge"
}
],
"word": "breakaway"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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