See spoon-feed on Wiktionary
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"sense": "to deliver information in as basic a manner as possible",
"word": "szájába rág"
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"sense": "to deliver information in as basic a manner as possible",
"word": "mastigar"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "rastolkóvyvatʹ",
"sense": "to deliver information in as basic a manner as possible",
"word": "растолко́вывать"
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"sense": "to deliver information in as basic a manner as possible",
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}
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