See buy off on Wiktionary
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"text": "You like to hear about gold.\nA king filled his prison room\nAs full as the room could hold\nTo the top of his reach on the wall\nWith every known shape of the stuff.\n’Twas to buy himself off his doom.",
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"sense": "pay off",
"word": "essere comprato"
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"roman": "otkupátʹsja",
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"word": "откупа́ться"
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"To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money."
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"sense": "pay off",
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"sense": "pay off",
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"sense": "pay off",
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"word": "откупа́ться"
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