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"sense": "hideous or frightful",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "hideous or frightful",
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"sense": "hideous or frightful",
"word": "monstrueux"
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"sense": "hideous or frightful",
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"sense": "hideous or frightful",
"word": "ungeheuerlich"
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"sense": "hideous or frightful",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "hideous or frightful",
"word": "mostruoso"
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"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "hideous or frightful",
"word": "siaubingas"
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"sense": "hideous or frightful",
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"sense": "hideous or frightful",
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"text": "a monstrous height",
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{
"ref": "1901 December 20, “The Ringing of Plants”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 21, page 663",
"text": "Possibly monster pumpkins may become still more monstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.",
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"Enormously large."
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"_dis1": "1 97 0 0 2",
"code": "ast",
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"sense": "enormously large",
"word": "monstruosu"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "gramaden",
"sense": "enormously large",
"word": "грамаден"
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"sense": "enormously large",
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{
"_dis1": "1 97 0 0 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "enormously large",
"word": "valtava"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "enormously large",
"word": "suunnaton"
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"sense": "enormously large",
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"sense": "enormously large",
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"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "terástios",
"sense": "enormously large",
"word": "τεράστιος"
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"code": "grc",
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"sense": "enormously large",
"word": "πέλωρος"
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"_dis1": "1 97 0 0 2",
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "enormously large",
"word": "enorme"
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"sense": "enormously large",
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"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "enormously large",
"word": "milžiniškas"
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"word": "monstrualny"
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"sense": "enormously large",
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"_dis1": "1 97 0 0 2",
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"sense": "enormously large",
"word": "monstruos"
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"code": "ro",
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"word": "colosal"
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"ref": "1650, Jeremy Taylor, The rule and exercises of holy living",
"text": "He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.",
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"Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters."
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"sense": "of, or relating to a mythical monster",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 99 1",
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"sense": "of, or relating to a mythical monster",
"word": "hirviö-"
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"sense": "of, or relating to a mythical monster",
"word": "monströs"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of, or relating to a mythical monster",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 99 1",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 99 1",
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"word": "θηριώδης"
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"word": "monstratra"
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"sense": "of, or relating to a mythical monster",
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"sense": "of, or relating to a mythical monster",
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"Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical."
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"(obsolete) Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical."
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