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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make quiet or put at rest",
"word": "dämpfen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katevnázo",
"sense": "to make quiet or put at rest",
"word": "κατευνάζω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make quiet or put at rest",
"word": "eloszlat"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make quiet or put at rest",
"word": "whakamahea"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make quiet or put at rest",
"word": "aquietar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to make quiet or put at rest",
"word": "astâmpăra"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to make quiet or put at rest",
"word": "alina"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make quiet or put at rest",
"word": "aquietar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make quiet or put at rest",
"word": "calmar"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to make quiet or put at rest",
"word": "tawelu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "oblekčavam",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "облекчавам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "smekčavam",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "смекчавам"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "lieventää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "lievittää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "soulager"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "erleichtern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "lindern"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anakoufízo",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "ανακουφίζω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katevnázo",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "κατευνάζω"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "enyhít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "csillapít"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "whakamauru"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "aliviar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "alina"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "aliviar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to alleviate",
"word": "mitigar"
}
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"word": "allay"
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"expansion": "Middle English alayen",
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"2": "ang",
"3": "āleċġan",
"4": "",
"5": "to put, place, lay down, lay aside, throw down, give up, cease from, abandon; put down, allay, suppress, abolish, conquer, destroy, overcome, refute; lay upon, inflict, impose upon; diminish, take away, refuse, lessen, withhold"
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"expansion": "Old English āleċġan (“to put, place, lay down, lay aside, throw down, give up, cease from, abandon; put down, allay, suppress, abolish, conquer, destroy, overcome, refute; lay upon, inflict, impose upon; diminish, take away, refuse, lessen, withhold”)",
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"1": "de",
"2": "erlegen",
"3": "",
"4": "to impose, cause to succumb, kill"
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"1": "got",
"2": "𐌿𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽",
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English alayen, aleyen, aleggen, from Old English āleċġan (“to put, place, lay down, lay aside, throw down, give up, cease from, abandon; put down, allay, suppress, abolish, conquer, destroy, overcome, refute; lay upon, inflict, impose upon; diminish, take away, refuse, lessen, withhold”), from Proto-Germanic *uzlagjaną (“to lay down”), equivalent to a- + lay. Cognate with German erlegen (“to impose, cause to succumb, kill”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (uslagjan, “to lay down”). In Middle English the word was identical to forms of allege and alloy, leading to much overlapping of senses.",
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"glosses": [
"Alleviation; abatement; check."
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"check"
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"An alloy."
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"alloy",
"alloy"
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"(obsolete) An alloy."
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"rhymes": "-eɪ"
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