See borer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"_dis1": "2 3 47 39 3 3 3",
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"sense": "person who bores/drills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "tolladóir"
},
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"_dis1": "2 3 47 39 3 3 3",
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "dúpčač",
"sense": "person who bores/drills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ду́пчач"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 47 39 3 3 3",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "burílʹščik",
"sense": "person who bores/drills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "бури́льщик"
},
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сверло́вщик"
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"_dis1": "2 3 47 39 3 3 3",
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"sense": "person who bores/drills",
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"word": "borrare"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 19 0 0 31 32 15",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dǎrvesen červej",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"word": "дървесен червей"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 19 0 0 31 32 15",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"_dis1": "4 19 0 0 31 32 15",
"alt": "きくいむし",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kikuimushi",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"word": "木食い虫"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 19 0 0 31 32 15",
"code": "kix",
"lang": "Khiamniungan Naga",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"word": "màh"
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"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"_dis1": "4 19 0 0 31 32 15",
"code": "lv",
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"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"_dis1": "4 19 0 0 31 32 15",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"word": "tākituri"
},
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"_dis1": "4 19 0 0 31 32 15",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"word": "iro poka"
},
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"_dis1": "4 19 0 0 31 32 15",
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"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "древото́чец"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 19 0 0 31 32 15",
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"roman": "derevotočecʹ",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
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"word": "banded hickory borer"
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{
"word": "bud borer"
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{
"word": "bumelia borer"
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{
"word": "cork borer"
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{
"word": "cork-borer"
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{
"word": "corn borer"
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{
"word": "crotalaria pod borer"
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{
"word": "emerald ash borer"
},
{
"word": "European corn borer"
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{
"word": "fruit borer"
},
{
"word": "increment borer"
},
{
"word": "instep borer"
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{
"word": "jig borer"
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{
"word": "locust borer"
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{
"word": "loosestrife borer"
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{
"word": "macroborer"
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{
"word": "microborer"
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{
"word": "moth-borer"
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{
"word": "poplar borer"
},
{
"word": "raise borer"
},
{
"word": "raspberry crown borer"
},
{
"word": "rock-borer"
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{
"word": "squash vine borer"
},
{
"word": "stalkborer"
},
{
"word": "stemborer"
},
{
"word": "stone-borer"
},
{
"word": "sugar cane borer"
},
{
"word": "sugar-maple borer"
},
{
"word": "twig borer"
},
{
"word": "vine borer"
},
{
"word": "wax-borer"
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{
"word": "well-borer"
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{
"word": "wharf borer"
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{
"word": "wood-borer"
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{
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{
"word": "yucca borer"
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"word": "wetter"
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{
"word": "jook"
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{
"word": "jooker"
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{
"word": "chete"
},
{
"word": "ching"
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{
"word": "ying"
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{
"word": "rambo"
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{
"word": "poker"
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{
"word": "pokey"
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{
"word": "bassy"
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{
"word": "shank"
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{
"word": "nank"
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{
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"ref": "1896, Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine, volume 3, page 21:",
"text": "The boree has been heard from frequently since the Renaissance, and his sentiments have undergone little change. The borer hasn't had much to say for himself.",
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{
"ref": "2012, Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm:",
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"One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock."
],
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"A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh."
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[
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[
"injured",
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[
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sondjor",
"sense": "person who bores/drills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сондьор"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "person who bores/drills",
"word": "kairaaja"
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"sense": "person who bores/drills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "dúpčač",
"sense": "person who bores/drills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ду́пчач"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "burílʹščik",
"sense": "person who bores/drills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бури́льщик"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sverlóvščik",
"sense": "person who bores/drills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сверло́вщик"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person who bores/drills",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "borrare"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bormašina",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бормашина"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "burɣi",
"sense": "tool",
"word": "ბურღი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tool",
"word": "Bohrmaschine"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "trúpanon",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "τρύπανον"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "tool",
"word": "borilo"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tollaire"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alesatore"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "terebra"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "tool",
"word": "urbis"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "dúpčalka",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ду́пчалка"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bormášina",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "борма́шина"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "búrgija",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бу́ргија"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "burgu",
"sense": "tool",
"word": "بورغو"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "miskab",
"sense": "tool",
"word": "مثقب"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "matte",
"sense": "tool",
"word": "مته"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "tool",
"word": "mașină de găurit"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bormașină"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "buráv",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бура́в"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bur",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бур"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sverló",
"sense": "tool",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сверло́"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "tool",
"word": "borrmaskin"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dǎrvesen červej",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"word": "дървесен червей"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tolladóir"
},
{
"alt": "きくいむし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kikuimushi",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"word": "木食い虫"
},
{
"code": "kix",
"lang": "Khiamniungan Naga",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"word": "màh"
},
{
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cyrms"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ķirmis"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"word": "tākituri"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"word": "iro poka"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "drevotóčec",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "древото́чец"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "derevotočecʹ",
"sense": "a wood boring insect: the larval stage of the Anobium punctatum beetle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "деревоточець"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "mollusc",
"word": "pātiotio"
}
],
"word": "borer"
}
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