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{
"word": "tighten"
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"word": "loosen someone's tongue"
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"word": "loosen the apron strings"
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"word": "loosen the purse strings"
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"word": "loosen up"
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"etymology_text": "From loose + -en.",
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{
"text": "to loosen a knot; to loosen one's grip / hold on something",
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},
{
"text": "After the Thanksgiving meal, Bill loosened his belt.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie, London: William Lee, Century 5, p. 111,\n[…] after a yeares Rooting, then Shaking doth the Tree good, by Loosening of the Earth […]"
},
{
"ref": "1944 May and June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Soot Blowers”, in Railway Magazine, page 194",
"text": "In order to deal with deposits of soot on boiler-tubes while running, especially if poor coal is in use, locomotives are often now provided with blowers on the firebox back-plate which can be made to discharge a jet of high pressure steam towards the firebox tubeplates; this has the effect of loosening and blowing off the soot deposits.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railways and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709",
"text": "[...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution.",
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{
"ref": "1992, Michael Ondaatje, chapter 10, in The English Patient, London: Picador, published 1993, page 265",
"text": "His days at the villa had loosened his body and freed his tenseness […]",
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"To make loose."
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"(transitive) To make loose."
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"word": "ease"
},
{
"word": "relax"
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{
"word": "untighten"
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"roman": "ʔarḵā",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "أَرْخَى"
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "حَلَّ"
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "فَكَّكَ"
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{
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"code": "rup",
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "distringu"
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{
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "disfac"
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{
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razhlabvam",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "разхлабвам"
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{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "鬆開"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "sōngkāi",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "松开"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "løsne"
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{
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "losmaken"
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{
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "löysätä"
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{
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "höllätä"
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{
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"word": "löyhentää"
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{
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "desserrer"
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{
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"sense": "to make less tight",
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{
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "lösen"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "lockern"
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"code": "got",
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"roman": "lausjan",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chalaróno",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "χαλαρώνω"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "lúō",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "λύω"
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{
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"code": "io",
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "laxigar"
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{
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "scaoil"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "allentare"
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{
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yurumeru",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "ゆるめる"
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "hodoku",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "ほどく"
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{
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "afloshar"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "labefacio"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "la",
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "solvō"
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"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "whakatangatanga"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "whakakorokoro"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "whakakaewa"
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"word": "whakahorohoro"
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{
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"word": "whakangoru"
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{
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "løsne"
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "løse"
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"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "løyse"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "afrouxar"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "desface"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oslabljátʹ",
"sense": "to make less tight",
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"word": "ослабля́ть"
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"roman": "oslábitʹ",
"sense": "to make less tight",
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"word": "осла́бить"
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"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Campidanese Sardinian",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "ammollai"
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{
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"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"tags": [
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"word": "allenare"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "aflojar"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "soltar"
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{
"_dis1": "45 7 12 6 6 5 12 6",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "gå upp"
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"text": "I noticed that my seatbelt had gradually loosened during the journey.",
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{
"ref": "1630, Michael Drayton, “Noahs Floud”, in The Muses Elizium Lately Discouered, London: John Waterson, page 108",
"text": "The subtile shower the earth hath softned so,\nAnd with the waues, the trees tost to and fro;\nThat the rootes loosen, and the tops downe sway,\nSo that whole Forrests quickly swimme away.",
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"ref": "1764, Oliver Goldsmith, An History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son, London: J. Newbery, Volume 2, Letter 19, p. 159",
"text": "The sea scurvy is attended with an universal putrefaction, the teeth loosen, old wounds that had been healed again open […]",
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{
"ref": "1940, Richard Wright, Native Son, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1970, Book 3, p. 387",
"text": "Max caught Bigger’s shoulders in a tight grip; then his fingers loosened and he sank back to the cot […]",
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"To become loose."
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"(intransitive) To become loose."
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"ref": "1717, Joseph Addison, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, translated by the most eminent hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 3, p. 99",
"text": "At Liberty th’ unfetter’d Captive stands,\nAnd flings the loosen’d Shackles from his Hands.",
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"ref": "1796, Matthew Gregory Lewis, chapter 10, in The Monk, volume 3, London: J. Bell, page 167",
"text": "He easily comprehended, that the noise which he had heard was occasioned by his having loosened a chain which attached the image to its pedestal.",
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{
"ref": "1994, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 6, in The Master of Petersburg, New York: Viking, page 55",
"text": "Her hair is drawn back under a heavy enamelled clasp. He loosens the clasp and lays it on the table.",
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"(transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains)."
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"ref": "1770, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality, volume 5, Dublin, page 52",
"text": "Immediately my Shackles loosened and fell away of themselves […]",
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"To become unfastened or undone."
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"ref": "1695, Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica, London: W. Rogers, page 185",
"text": "This is an admirable Rule; a Painter ought to have it perpetually present in his Mind and Memory. […] it loosens his hands, and assists his understanding.",
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{
"ref": "1794, Ann Ward Radcliffe, chapter 5, in The Mysteries of Udolpho, volume 1, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, page 145",
"text": "[…] Valancourt, willing to take a more extensive view of the enchanting country, into which they were about to descend, than he could do from a carriage, loosened his dogs, and once more bounded with them along the banks of the road.",
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{
"ref": "1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book 1, Chapter 8",
"text": "I thought you had more sense than […] to suppose that because you have fallen into a very common trouble, such as most men have to go through, you are loosened from all bonds of duty […]",
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{
"ref": "1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, Book 2, Chapter 11",
"text": "The recollection loosened a throng of benumbed sensations—longings, regrets, imaginings, the throbbing brood of the only spring her heart had ever known.",
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"roman": "osvoboždavam",
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"word": "освобождавам"
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"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
"word": "vapauttaa"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "irrottaa"
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"code": "got",
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"roman": "galausjan",
"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽"
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"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
"word": "λύω"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
"word": "soltar"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
"word": "liberar"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
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"text": "1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie, London: William Lee, Century 1, p. 14,\n[…] Feare looseneth the Belly; because the Heat retiring inwards towards the Heart, the Gutts and other Parts are relaxed;"
},
{
"ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: E. Dod, Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 73",
"text": "[…] omitting the vehicle of water and honey, which is of a laxative power it selfe, the powder of some Loadstones in this dose doth rather constipate and binde, then purge and loosen the belly.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1697, William Dampier, chapter 8, in A New Voyage Round the World, volume 1, London: James Knapton, page 222",
"text": "When this Fruit [the guava] is eaten green it is binding, when ripe it is loosening.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1974, Richard Adams, chapter 36, in Shardik, London: Oneworld, published 2014",
"text": "Trying to control his breathing and the loosening of his bowels, he crouched still lower […]",
"type": "quotation"
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"To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation."
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"(transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to remove costiveness",
"word": "helpottaa"
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{
"_dis1": "11 3 13 4 12 30 6 20",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to remove costiveness",
"word": "lösa upp"
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"To create a breach or rift between (two parties)."
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"(transitive, obsolete) To create a breach or rift between (two parties)."
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"ref": "1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railways and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709",
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"ref": "1992, Michael Ondaatje, chapter 10, in The English Patient, London: Picador, published 1993, page 265",
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"ref": "1630, Michael Drayton, “Noahs Floud”, in The Muses Elizium Lately Discouered, London: John Waterson, page 108",
"text": "The subtile shower the earth hath softned so,\nAnd with the waues, the trees tost to and fro;\nThat the rootes loosen, and the tops downe sway,\nSo that whole Forrests quickly swimme away.",
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"ref": "1764, Oliver Goldsmith, An History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son, London: J. Newbery, Volume 2, Letter 19, p. 159",
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"ref": "1940, Richard Wright, Native Son, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1970, Book 3, p. 387",
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"ref": "1717, Joseph Addison, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, translated by the most eminent hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 3, p. 99",
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"ref": "1796, Matthew Gregory Lewis, chapter 10, in The Monk, volume 3, London: J. Bell, page 167",
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"ref": "1994, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 6, in The Master of Petersburg, New York: Viking, page 55",
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"ref": "1794, Ann Ward Radcliffe, chapter 5, in The Mysteries of Udolpho, volume 1, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, page 145",
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"ref": "1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book 1, Chapter 8",
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"ref": "1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, Book 2, Chapter 11",
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"ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: E. Dod, Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 73",
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"ref": "1697, William Dampier, chapter 8, in A New Voyage Round the World, volume 1, London: James Knapton, page 222",
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"ref": "1974, Richard Adams, chapter 36, in Shardik, London: Oneworld, published 2014",
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"text": "[…] after the .iiii. day of oure arryuall in Britayne, the eightene shyps that we spake of before, which hadde the horsemen to conuey ouer, loosened from the further hauen with a soft wynd.",
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"word": "𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽"
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{
"code": "es",
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"word": "aflojar"
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{
"code": "es",
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"word": "soltar"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make less tight",
"word": "gå upp"
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{
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "osvoboždavam",
"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
"word": "освобождавам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
"word": "vapauttaa"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"word": "soltar"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
"word": "liberar"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to free from restraint; to set at liberty",
"word": "libertar"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to remove costiveness",
"word": "helpottaa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to remove costiveness",
"word": "lösa upp"
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"word": "loosen"
}
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