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"ref": "1920, [Elizabeth von Arnim], In the Mountains, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 180",
"text": "Work with my hands out of doors was the only thing I felt I could bear to-day. It wasn't the first time, I reflected, that peace has been found among cabbages. / Antoine demurred, of course, but did at last consent to let me pick red currants.",
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"(intransitive) To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk"
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"sense": "intransitive: To balk; to oppose.",
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"word": "opune"
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"sense": "intransitive: To balk; to oppose.",
"word": "prigovarati"
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"To interpose a demurrer."
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"To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about"
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{
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"sense": "intransitive: To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings",
"word": "felfüggeszt"
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"sense": "intransitive: To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings",
"word": "rimandare"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "intransitive: To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings",
"word": "differire"
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"sense": "intransitive: To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings",
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"sense": "intransitive: To balk; to oppose.",
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