See knock about on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From knock (verb) + about.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "knocks about",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "knocking about",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "knocked about",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "knocked about",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "knock about (third-person singular simple present knocks about, present participle knocking about, simple past and past participle knocked about)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 27 7 11 6 23 7 4",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Violence",
"orig": "en:Violence",
"parents": [
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"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It was known that he would knock his wife about when he had been drinking.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume III, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 44:",
"text": "I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do; but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all: they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1922 (date written; published 1926), T[homas] E[dward] Lawrence, “Book VI: The Raid upon the Bridges. Chapter LXXVI.”, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1937, →OCLC, page 424:",
"text": "[Y]oung Mustafa refused to cook rice; Farraj and Daud knocked him about until he cried; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 February 22, Stephen Roberts, “Reading … between the lines … to Wales”, in Rail, number 977, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56:",
"text": "The place also got knocked about during the English Civil War, with \"the spire [of its church] having been destroyed by the artillery of the Parliamentary forces\".",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly; hence, to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something)."
],
"id": "en-knock_about-en-verb-Udo6TyhH",
"links": [
[
"hit",
"hit#Verb"
],
[
"all over",
"all over"
],
[
"repeatedly",
"repeatedly"
],
[
"behave",
"behave"
],
[
"violently",
"violently"
],
[
"mistreat",
"mistreat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly; hence, to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "knock around"
},
{
"word": "knock round"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "mukiloida"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "rusikoida"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kakopoió",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "κακοποιώ"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "máva",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "ма́ва"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "tépa",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "те́па"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "údira",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "у́дира"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "poniewierać"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "poobijać"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "sponiewierać"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"english": "when travelling",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
"perfective",
"reflexive"
],
"word": "wytłuc"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "cutreiera"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "napadátʹ",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "напада́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "napástʹ",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "напа́сть"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 0 1 1 0 5 0 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "ufalamak"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 4 13 13 6 18 4 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something) — see also mistreat",
"word": "mukiloida"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 4 13 13 6 18 4 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something) — see also mistreat",
"word": "rusikoida"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 4 13 13 6 18 4 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something) — see also mistreat",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pomiatać"
},
{
"_dis1": "42 4 13 13 6 18 4 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something) — see also mistreat",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "pomieść"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 27 7 11 6 23 7 4",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Violence",
"orig": "en:Violence",
"parents": [
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "7 38 7 7 8 28 7 0",
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "knock-about"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 38 7 7 8 28 7 0",
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "knockabout"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To knock back a drink; to finish a drink."
],
"id": "en-knock_about-en-verb-R0ULf21Y",
"links": [
[
"knock back",
"knock back"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To knock back a drink; to finish a drink."
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To move or roam around aimlessly."
],
"id": "en-knock_about-en-verb-lGjMLQEm",
"links": [
[
"move",
"move#Verb"
],
[
"roam",
"roam#Verb"
],
[
"aimlessly",
"aimlessly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To move or roam around aimlessly."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "knock around"
},
{
"word": "knock round"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 27 7 11 6 23 7 4",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Violence",
"orig": "en:Violence",
"parents": [
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move or roam around aimlessly.",
"To live an unconventional life."
],
"id": "en-knock_about-en-verb-TZosTeHA",
"links": [
[
"move",
"move#Verb"
],
[
"roam",
"roam#Verb"
],
[
"aimlessly",
"aimlessly"
],
[
"live",
"live#Verb"
],
[
"unconventional",
"unconventional#Adjective"
],
[
"life",
"life#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To move or roam around aimlessly.",
"(by extension) To live an unconventional life."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "knock around"
},
{
"word": "knock round"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"informal",
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 1 0 97 0 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to live an unconventional life",
"word": "elellä"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 0 97 0 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to live an unconventional life",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "pärjäillä"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I like to knock about the garden on Saturdays.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be present at or inhabit a certain place.",
"To engage in a relaxing activity in a place; to hang around in."
],
"id": "en-knock_about-en-verb-RTaABIja",
"links": [
[
"present",
"present#Adjective"
],
[
"inhabit",
"inhabit"
],
[
"place",
"place#Noun"
],
[
"engage",
"engage#Verb"
],
[
"relaxing",
"relaxing#Adjective"
],
[
"activity",
"activity"
],
[
"hang around",
"hang around"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To be present at or inhabit a certain place.",
"(by extension) To engage in a relaxing activity in a place; to hang around in."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hang around"
},
{
"word": "potter about"
},
{
"word": "potter around"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"informal",
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 77 3 13 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to engage in a relaxing activity in a place",
"word": "rondhangen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 77 3 13 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to engage in a relaxing activity in a place",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "hengata"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 77 3 13 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to engage in a relaxing activity in a place",
"word": "norkoilla"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 77 3 13 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to engage in a relaxing activity in a place",
"word": "oleilla"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 77 3 13 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se mótka",
"sense": "to engage in a relaxing activity in a place",
"word": "се мо́тка"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 77 3 13 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se vŕti",
"sense": "to engage in a relaxing activity in a place",
"word": "се вр́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 77 3 13 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zavisatʹ",
"sense": "to engage in a relaxing activity in a place",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"informal"
],
"word": "зависать"
}
]
},
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"kind": "other",
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"Entry maintenance"
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{
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"kind": "other",
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"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 8 12 12 10 33 10 4",
"kind": "other",
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"source": "w+disamb"
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{
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"kind": "topical",
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],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I used to knock about with John when we were younger.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "John and I used to knock about when we were younger.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be present at or inhabit a certain place.",
"Often followed by with: to spend time companionably; to hang around."
],
"id": "en-knock_about-en-verb-SfnuPgpE",
"links": [
[
"present",
"present#Adjective"
],
[
"inhabit",
"inhabit"
],
[
"place",
"place#Noun"
],
[
"with",
"with"
],
[
"spend time",
"spend time"
],
[
"companionably",
"companionable"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To be present at or inhabit a certain place.",
"(by extension) Often followed by with: to spend time companionably; to hang around."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hang around"
},
{
"word": "hang"
},
{
"word": "hang about"
},
{
"word": "knock around"
},
{
"word": "knock round"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"informal",
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 1 5 5 20 28 20 19",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be present at or inhabit a certain place — see also hang around, inhabit",
"word": "asustella"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 5 5 20 28 20 19",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be present at or inhabit a certain place — see also hang around, inhabit",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "hengata"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 5 5 20 28 20 19",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be present at or inhabit a certain place — see also hang around, inhabit",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "hengailla"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 5 5 20 28 20 19",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be present at or inhabit a certain place — see also hang around, inhabit",
"word": "oleilla"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 5 5 20 28 20 19",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be present at or inhabit a certain place — see also hang around, inhabit",
"word": "oleskella"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 5 5 20 28 20 19",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "alonízo",
"sense": "to be present at or inhabit a certain place — see also hang around, inhabit",
"word": "αλωνίζω"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 2 2 4 81 3 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to spend time companionably",
"word": "uithangen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 2 2 4 81 3 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to spend time companionably",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "hengailla"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 2 2 4 81 3 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to spend time companionably",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "hengata"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 2 2 4 81 3 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to spend time companionably",
"word": "viettää aikaa ... kanssa"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 2 2 4 81 3 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se vŕti",
"sense": "to spend time companionably",
"word": "се вр́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 2 2 4 81 3 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tusovátʹsja",
"sense": "to spend time companionably",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"informal"
],
"word": "тусова́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 2 2 4 81 3 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zavisátʹ",
"sense": "to spend time companionably",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"informal"
],
"word": "зависа́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 2 2 4 81 3 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zavísnutʹ",
"sense": "to spend time companionably",
"tags": [
"informal",
"perfective"
],
"word": "зави́снуть"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I’ve got some scissors knocking about in the kitchen.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be present at or inhabit a certain place.",
"To be mislaid in a place."
],
"id": "en-knock_about-en-verb-BGLeIjJj",
"links": [
[
"present",
"present#Adjective"
],
[
"inhabit",
"inhabit"
],
[
"place",
"place#Noun"
],
[
"present participial",
"present participle"
],
[
"mislaid",
"mislaid#Adjective"
]
],
"qualifier": "usually in present participial form",
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To be present at or inhabit a certain place.",
"(by extension, usually in present participial form) To be mislaid in a place."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hang around"
},
{
"word": "knock around"
},
{
"word": "knock round"
},
{
"word": "lie around"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"informal",
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 1 0 1 13 3 79 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be mislaid in a place",
"word": "rondzwerven"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 0 1 13 3 79 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be mislaid in a place",
"word": "sattua olemaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 0 1 13 3 79 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be mislaid in a place",
"word": "rumfliegen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 0 1 13 3 79 3",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zágubi",
"sense": "to be mislaid in a place",
"word": "за́губи"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 0 1 13 3 79 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapropastitʹsja",
"sense": "to be mislaid in a place",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "запропаститься"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
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"text": "He [a hare] used to knock about here in Holleia, and they said he was nearly black. A good many were after him and had a shot at him, but they never had any luck, until this rascally Andreas came here.",
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"text": "[I]n the chart-room of the steamer Nan-Shan, he stood confronted by the fall of a barometer he had no reason to distrust. […] \"That's a fall, and no mistake,\" he thought. \"There must be some uncommonly dirty weather knocking about.\"",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "mukiloida"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "rusikoida"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kakopoió",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "κακοποιώ"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "máva",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "ма́ва"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "tépa",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "те́па"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "údira",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "у́дира"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
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"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
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],
"word": "sponiewierać"
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"english": "when travelling",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
"perfective",
"reflexive"
],
"word": "wytłuc"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"word": "cutreiera"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "napadátʹ",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
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"word": "напада́ть"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "napástʹ",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to hit (someone or something) all over repeatedly",
"tags": [
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"word": "ufalamak"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something) — see also mistreat",
"word": "mukiloida"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something) — see also mistreat",
"word": "rusikoida"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something) — see also mistreat",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to behave violently towards or mistreat (someone or something) — see also mistreat",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to live an unconventional life",
"word": "elellä"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to live an unconventional life",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be present at or inhabit a certain place — see also hang around, inhabit",
"word": "asustella"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to be present at or inhabit a certain place — see also hang around, inhabit",
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "viettää aikaa ... kanssa"
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"sense": "to spend time companionably",
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"informal"
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"word": "тусова́ться"
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"sense": "to spend time companionably",
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"sense": "to spend time companionably",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to be mislaid in a place",
"word": "rondzwerven"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to be mislaid in a place",
"word": "sattua olemaan"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to be mislaid in a place",
"word": "rumfliegen"
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"roman": "zágubi",
"sense": "to be mislaid in a place",
"word": "за́губи"
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"roman": "zapropastitʹsja",
"sense": "to be mislaid in a place",
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"imperfective"
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"word": "запропаститься"
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}
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