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},
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"text": "Please just sit back and watch the show.",
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},
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"ref": "2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75",
"text": "The line along the Northumbrian coast to Berwick and into Scotland is stunning (even on a Voyager!), and the weather is perfect - just sit back, relax, and enjoy the motion picture that plays beyond the window.",
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"To recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat."
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obljagam se",
"sense": "to recline while still in a seated position",
"word": "облягам се"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to recline while still in a seated position",
"word": "sich zurücklehnen"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to recline while still in a seated position",
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"ref": "2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC",
"text": "Predictably in the second half it was the Potters, who went searching for goals as Fulham sat back to defend their lead.",
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}
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"To relax, to not exert oneself."
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"(idiomatic) To relax, to not exert oneself."
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"roman": "počivam",
"sense": "to relax, to not exert oneself",
"word": "почивам"
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"sense": "to relax, to not exert oneself",
"word": "se détendre"
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"sense": "to relax, to not exert oneself",
"word": "sich zurücklehnen"
},
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to relax, to not exert oneself",
"word": "relajarse"
}
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"ref": "2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75",
"text": "The line along the Northumbrian coast to Berwick and into Scotland is stunning (even on a Voyager!), and the weather is perfect - just sit back, relax, and enjoy the motion picture that plays beyond the window.",
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"type": "quotation"
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],
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],
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"(idiomatic) To relax, to not exert oneself."
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}
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"roman": "obljagam se",
"sense": "to recline while still in a seated position",
"word": "облягам се"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to recline while still in a seated position",
"word": "sich zurücklehnen"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to recline while still in a seated position",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozsiąść się"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "počivam",
"sense": "to relax, to not exert oneself",
"word": "почивам"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to relax, to not exert oneself",
"word": "se détendre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to relax, to not exert oneself",
"word": "sich zurücklehnen"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to relax, to not exert oneself",
"word": "relajarse"
}
],
"word": "sit back"
}
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