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"forms": [
{
"form": "goes off",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "going off",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
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"past"
]
},
{
"form": "gone off",
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"past"
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}
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},
"expansion": "go off (third-person singular simple present goes off, present participle going off, simple past went off, past participle gone off)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
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"word": "go off at score"
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"word": "go off half-cocked"
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"word": "go off on one"
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"word": "go off the boil"
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"word": "go off the rails"
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"word": "go off the reservation"
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{
"text": "The bomb went off right after the president left his office.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 213:",
"text": "You see the thing had gone off like a box of matches.",
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"To explode."
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"ref": "1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 25:",
"text": "I was intimidated by the other men on her design course, and became convinced that she was going to go off with one of them. She went off with one of them.",
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{
"word": "go off the boil"
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{
"word": "go off the rails"
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{
"word": "go off the reservation"
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"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
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"text": "The bomb went off right after the president left his office.",
"type": "example"
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"text": "The gun went off during their struggle.",
"type": "example"
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"intransitive"
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"text": "It all went off when the opposing teams' fans met at the railway station.",
"type": "example"
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"type": "example"
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"intransitive"
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"English terms with usage examples"
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{
"text": "The alarm will go off at six a.m.",
"type": "example"
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{
"text": "Just after he spotted the first plane on the horizon, sirens started to go off around the city.",
"type": "example"
}
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"To begin clanging or making noise."
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"noise"
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"intransitive"
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"categories": [
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"English terms with usage examples"
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"examples": [
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"text": "We were watching TV when suddenly the power went off.",
"type": "example"
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"To stop operating; to switch off."
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"intransitive"
]
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"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
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"text": "Having sated her appetite, she went off in search of a place to sleep.",
"type": "example"
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{
"text": "I don't know where he's going—he went off without a word.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 25:",
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"type": "quote"
}
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"To depart; to leave."
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"depart",
"depart"
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"leave",
"leave"
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"intransitive"
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"British English",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"text": "Bugger—the milk's gone off already!",
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"text": "1987 September 3, Unpalatable Treatment, New Scientist, page 20,\nBut to cast out a technique that could not only reduce the incidence of food poisoning but could also allow us to move away from another bete noire of the “technophobes” — chemical treatment to prevent stored grain from going off— is daft"
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"ref": "2005, Neil Perry, The Food I Love, page 13:",
"text": "Don′t expect to store fragile food like fish, poultry and meat in the refrigerator at home for a long period of time, as it will go off quickly.",
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},
{
"ref": "2005, Nancy Abeiderrahmane, “Modern Dairy Products from Traditional Camel Herding: An Experience in Mauritania”, in Bernard Faye, Palmated Esenov, editors, Desertification Combat And Food Safety: The Added Value Of Camel Producers, page 156:",
"text": "Although there is a popular myth about camel milk ‘never going off’, experience shows that pasteurised packaged camel milk does not keep any better than its cow equivalent, and seems to lose its flavour faster.",
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"word": "spoil"
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"text": "Ever since falling off her bike, she's gone off cycling to work.",
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"like"
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"transitive"
]
},
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"English terms with usage examples"
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],
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"set",
"set#Verb"
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{
"text": "The party went off very well.",
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"ref": "1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:",
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"intransitive"
]
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"categories": [
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"ejaculate"
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"orgasm",
"orgasm"
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"word": "ejaculate"
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{
"word": "cum"
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"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
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{
"text": "Go off, queen!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2024 May 12, Tish Weinstock, “This Vintage Lover Is Calling Time On The ’90s Fashion Obsession”, in British Vogue:",
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},
{
"ref": "2024 September 14, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Charli xcx & Troye Sivan's Tour If You Wanna 'SWEAT'”, in Cosmopolitan:",
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}
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"LGBTQ",
"LGBTQ"
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"slang",
"slang"
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"perform",
"perform"
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"extremely",
"extremely"
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[
"well",
"well"
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"word": "kill it"
},
{
"word": "pop off"
},
{
"word": "serve"
},
{
"word": "slay"
}
],
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"intransitive"
]
},
{
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"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
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{
"text": "Going off the interview alone, she seemed like the perfect employee.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "8 October, 2020, Paul Oswell, Business Insider:",
"text": "To see a room rate well under $200 is a rarity…. The occupancy rate during my stay seemed quite low, going off what I was able to see, with not many guests checking in or out and no crowds in the public spaces, and so social distancing wasn't an issue.",
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}
],
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"extrapolate"
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"judge"
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"transitive"
]
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"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
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{
"text": "One day I'll go off, but until then, I'm in charge around here.",
"type": "example"
}
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],
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"(intransitive, slang) To fall unconscious; to go to sleep; to die."
],
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"intransitive",
"slang"
]
},
{
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"English intransitive verbs",
"English slang",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with usage examples"
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{
"text": "We can only hope she'll go off soon.",
"type": "example"
}
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"To get married."
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"of a woman"
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"UK",
"archaic",
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"English slang",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "All his money goes off as soon as he earns it.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To be spent, dispursed or used on."
],
"raw_glosses": [
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],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
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{
"text": "They went off about all the problems around here.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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],
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[
"rant",
"rant"
],
[
"insult",
"insult"
],
[
"criticize",
"criticize"
]
],
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],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English slang"
],
"glosses": [
"To fight or attack."
],
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"intransitive",
"slang"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "explode",
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"perfective"
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"perfective"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "explode",
"word": "afgaan"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "explode",
"word": "eksplodi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "explode",
"word": "räjähtää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "explode",
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{
"code": "de",
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{
"code": "el",
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"code": "it",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"code": "ru",
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"imperfective"
],
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{
"code": "ru",
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"perfective"
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"word": "explotar"
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"code": "es",
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},
{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "fire",
"word": "patlamak"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "become very angry",
"word": "räjähtää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "become very angry",
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"code": "ru",
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "begin making noise",
"word": "afgaan"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "begin making noise",
"word": "overgaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "begin making noise",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "alkaa soida"
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{
"code": "el",
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"word": "χτυπάω"
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"code": "km",
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"word": "បញ្ចេញ"
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"code": "ru",
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],
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "begin making noise",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "зазвуча́ть"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "begin making noise",
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"imperfective"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"perfective"
],
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "begin making noise",
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},
{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "begin making noise",
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},
{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "begin making noise",
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},
{
"code": "vi",
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "depart; leave",
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},
{
"code": "nl",
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"word": "vertrekken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "lähteä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "poistua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "häipyä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "mennä pois"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"word": "φεύγω"
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"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "αναχωρώ"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "abeo"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"word": "abscedo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "depart; leave",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уезжа́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "depart; leave",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "depart; leave",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уходи́ть"
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{
"code": "ru",
"english": "on foot",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ujtí",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уйти́"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "marcharse"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "podrir-se"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "tornar-se incomestible"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "bederven"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "pilaantua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "pahentua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "mennä pilalle"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "schlecht werden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "milk",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "sauer werden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "butter",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "ranzig werden"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chaláo",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "χαλάω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "alloiónomai",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "αλλοιώνομαι"
},
{
"code": "el",
"english": "milk",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "xinízo",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "ξινίζω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"english": "milk",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kóvo",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "κόβω"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "avariare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "andare a male"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "guastare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pórtitʹsja",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "по́ртиться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ispórtitʹsja",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "испо́ртиться"
}
],
"word": "go off"
}
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