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"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "有意誇張"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "zu dick auftragen"
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"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "megjátssza magát"
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"word": "exagerar (na atuação)"
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"word": "переи́грывать"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "有意誇張"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǒuyì kuāzhāng",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "有意夸张"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "表演過火"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "biǎoyǎn guòhuǒ",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "表演过火"
},
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "met opzet overdrijven"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "ylinäytellä"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "liioitella"
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"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "cabotiner"
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{
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "zu dick auftragen"
},
{
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "megjátssza magát"
},
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "exagerar (na atuação)"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pereígryvatʹ",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "переи́грывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pereigrátʹ",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "переигра́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "sobreactuar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "dramatizar"
},
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
"word": "spela över"
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