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},
{
"alt": "ほどく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hodoku",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"word": "解く"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"word": "pakke opp"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"word": "pakke ut"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "rozpakowywać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozpakować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"word": "desempacotar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "raspakóvyvatʹ",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "распако́вывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "raspakovátʹ",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "распакова́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"tags": [
"Latin-America"
],
"word": "desempacar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "suitcase",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"tags": [
"Spain"
],
"word": "deshacer"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "package, box",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"tags": [
"Spain"
],
"word": "desempaquetar"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to remove from a package",
"word": "boşaltmak"
}
],
"word": "unpack"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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