See demote on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "To lower the rank or status of",
"word": "degradera"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To relegate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "přeřadit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To relegate",
"word": "alentaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To relegate",
"word": "reléguer au second plan"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To relegate",
"word": "verbannen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To relegate",
"word": "relegieren"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To relegate",
"word": "relegar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To relegate",
"word": "relegar"
}
],
"word": "demote"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "dēmōte",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "participle form",
"head": "dēmōte"
},
"expansion": "dēmōte",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin participle forms",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "dēmōtus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"vocative masculine singular of dēmōtus"
],
"links": [
[
"dēmōtus",
"demotus#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"participle",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "demote"
}
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