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"word": "go awry"
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"5": "to go, turn, twist, bend, strive, struggle, press forward, endeavor, venture"
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"4": "to turn, bend"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English wrien, from Old English wrīġian (“to go, turn, twist, bend, strive, struggle, press forward, endeavor, venture”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Compare awry, wriggle.",
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"ref": "1913, Victor Appleton, “chapter 11”, in The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park",
"text": "“Humph! Had to,” said Pep with a wry grimace.",
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"Turned away, contorted (of the face or body)."
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kriv",
"sense": "contorted",
"word": "крив"
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{
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izkriven",
"sense": "contorted",
"word": "изкривен"
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"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
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"word": "křivý"
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"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
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"sense": "contorted",
"word": "verdraaid"
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{
"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "contorted",
"word": "verwrongen"
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{
"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "contorted",
"word": "poispäin kääntynyt"
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{
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"sense": "contorted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "contorted",
"word": "verdreht"
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"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "strevlós",
"sense": "contorted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "στρεβλός"
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"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
"code": "el",
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"roman": "loxós",
"sense": "contorted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "λοξός"
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{
"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "contorted",
"word": "eltorzult"
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"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskažónnyj",
"sense": "contorted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "искажённый"
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"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skrivivšijsja",
"sense": "contorted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "скривившийся"
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"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "contorted",
"word": "förvriden"
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"_dis1": "81 2 13 4",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "contorted",
"word": "skev"
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"ref": "1871, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, “chapter 6”, in The Haunted Baronet",
"text": "\"[T]he master says a wry word now and then; and so ye let your spirits go down, don't ye see, and all sorts o' fancies comes into your head.\"",
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"Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic."
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[
"bitter",
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[
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"ironic"
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "jazvitelen",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "язвителен"
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
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"sense": "dryly humorous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "sarkastický"
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "droog"
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{
"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "ironisch"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "kuiva"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ironique"
},
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "sarkastisch"
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "ironisch"
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{
"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pikrócholos",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πικρόχολος"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "sarkastikós",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "σαρκαστικός"
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "sarcastico"
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{
"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"tags": [
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jazvitelʹnyj",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "язвительный"
},
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "spydig"
},
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "syrlig"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "ironisk"
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"_dis1": "8 87 1 3",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "dryly humorous",
"word": "torr"
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"Twisted, bent, crooked."
],
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"Twisted",
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[
"bent",
"bent"
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"crooked",
"crooked"
]
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"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izvit",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "извит"
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{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "verdraaid"
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{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "verwrongen"
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{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "kiero"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "vääntynyt"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "twisted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tordu"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "verdreht"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "gewunden"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "strevlós",
"sense": "twisted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "στρεβλός"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "koronuke"
},
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"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "hapa"
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{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "twisted",
"word": "hape"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "kōiheihe"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "twisted",
"word": "korotuke"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "twisted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "răsucit"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "twisted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sucit"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 92 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskrivljónnyj",
"sense": "twisted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "искривлённый"
}
]
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{
"ref": "1876, Walter Savage Landor, The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor, volume IV, Imaginary Conversations, Third Series: Dialogues of Literary Men, ch. 6—Milton and Andrew Marvel, page 155 (Google preview)",
"text": ". . . the wry rigour of our neighbours, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application.",
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}
],
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"Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place."
],
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"Deviating",
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"misdirect",
"misdirect"
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"out of place",
"out of place"
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"ipa": "/ɹaɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪ"
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{
"homophone": "rye"
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"form": "wries",
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"third-person"
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},
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"form": "wrying",
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"present"
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"form": "wried",
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"ref": "1535, Thomas More, chapter 18, in Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation",
"text": "God pricketh them of his great goodness still. And the grief of this great pang pincheth them at the heart, and of wickedness they wry away.",
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"To turn (away); to swerve or deviate."
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"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, intransitive) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
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},
{
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"glosses": [
"To divert; to cause to turn away."
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away."
],
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"_dis1": "29 69 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to turn away",
"word": "wegdraaien"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 69 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to turn away",
"word": "zich afkeren"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 69 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to turn away",
"word": "kääntyä pois"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to divert",
"word": "wegdraaien"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to divert",
"word": "johtaa harhaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 95 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to divert",
"word": "avleda"
}
]
},
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"glosses": [
"To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.)."
],
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"links": [
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.)."
],
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"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izvivam",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "извивам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izkrivjavam",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "изкривявам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "wringen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "verwringen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "verdraaien"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "vääntää"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "tordre"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "burmak",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "بورمق"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "răsuci"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskažatʹ",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "искажать"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "förvrida"
}
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ɹaɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪ"
},
{
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},
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"4": "",
"5": "to wriggle"
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},
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"3": "",
"4": "to turn, bend"
},
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"singular",
"third-person"
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"participle",
"present"
]
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"ref": "1535, Thomas More, chapter 18, in Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation",
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"(obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away."
],
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"transitive"
]
},
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"English transitive verbs"
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"To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.)."
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"contort",
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"(transitive) To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.)."
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},
{
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to turn away",
"word": "wegdraaien"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to turn away",
"word": "zich afkeren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to turn away",
"word": "kääntyä pois"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to divert",
"word": "wegdraaien"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to divert",
"word": "johtaa harhaan"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to divert",
"word": "avleda"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izvivam",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "извивам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izkrivjavam",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "изкривявам"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "wringen"
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"lang": "Dutch",
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"sense": "to twist",
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},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "tordre"
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{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "burmak",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "بورمق"
},
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to twist",
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},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to twist",
"word": "искажать"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to twist",
"word": "förvrida"
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"4": "",
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"name": "inh"
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{
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*wreyḱ-",
"4": "",
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"name": "der"
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"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
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"3": "",
"4": "to turn, bend"
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"name": "m"
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