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"text": "shake down apples from an apple tree.",
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"To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to."
],
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"(transitive) To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to."
],
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"_dis1": "94 2 2 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cause something to fall down",
"word": "herunterschütteln"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 2 1 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "cause something to fall down",
"word": "rui"
}
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"glosses": [
"To shake someone so money falls from their pockets."
],
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"(transitive) To shake someone so money falls from their pockets."
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"To extort money from (someone) by means of threats."
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"(slang, transitive, by extension) To extort money from (someone) by means of threats."
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"_dis1": "16 7 65 9 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to extort money using threats",
"word": "erpressen"
},
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"_dis1": "16 7 65 9 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to extort money using threats",
"word": "extorca"
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"To search exhaustively."
],
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"(slang, transitive) To search exhaustively."
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"_dis1": "5 1 4 89 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search exhaustively",
"word": "durchsuchen"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 1 4 89 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search exhaustively",
"word": "filzen"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 1 4 89 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to search exhaustively",
"word": "percheziționa"
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"To subject something to a shakedown test."
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"text": "shake down apples from an apple tree.",
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"To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to."
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"(transitive) To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to."
],
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},
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"To shake someone so money falls from their pockets."
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"(transitive) To shake someone so money falls from their pockets."
],
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"transitive"
]
},
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],
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"To extort money from (someone) by means of threats."
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"(slang, transitive, by extension) To extort money from (someone) by means of threats."
],
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"broadly",
"slang",
"transitive"
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"To search exhaustively."
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, transitive) To search exhaustively."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
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},
{
"glosses": [
"To subject something to a shakedown test."
],
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"shakedown",
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"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cause something to fall down",
"word": "herunterschütteln"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "cause something to fall down",
"word": "rui"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to extort money using threats",
"word": "erpressen"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to extort money using threats",
"word": "extorca"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search exhaustively",
"word": "durchsuchen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to search exhaustively",
"word": "filzen"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to search exhaustively",
"word": "percheziționa"
}
],
"word": "shake down"
}
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