See mesmerize on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to exercise mesmerism on",
"word": "büyülemek"
}
],
"word": "mesmerize"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese non-lemma forms",
"Portuguese verb forms"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "mesmerize",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "mesmerizar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of mesmerizar:",
"first/third-person singular present subjunctive"
],
"links": [
[
"mesmerizar",
"mesmerizar#Portuguese"
]
],
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"form-of",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
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"form_of": [
{
"word": "mesmerizar"
}
],
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"inflection of mesmerizar:",
"third-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"mesmerizar",
"mesmerizar#Portuguese"
]
],
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"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "mesmerize"
}
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