See nether on Wiktionary
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"(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble."
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"To depreciate; disparage; undervalue."
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"(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue."
],
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"transitive"
]
}
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"ipa": "/nɛð.ɚ/",
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"Canada",
"General-American"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/neð.ə/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛðə(ɹ)"
}
],
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"nether"
],
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}
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "ang",
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"4": "",
"5": "to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn"
},
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}
],
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
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"Scottish English"
],
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[
"withering",
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],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"UK",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal."
],
"links": [
[
"mining",
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],
[
"trouble",
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[
"fault",
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],
[
"dislocation",
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]
],
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],
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]
}
],
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"ipa": "/nɛð.ɚ/",
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"Canada",
"General-American"
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},
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},
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"ipa": "/neð.ə/",
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]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛðə(ɹ)"
}
],
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],
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}
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"2": "enm",
"3": "nethere"
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"1": "yol",
"2": "ang",
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},
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]
}
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{
"ipa": "/ˈnɛðər/"
}
],
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}
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