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{
"form": "breaks on the wheel",
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"present",
"singular",
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},
{
"form": "breaking on the wheel",
"tags": [
"participle",
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]
},
{
"form": "broke on the wheel",
"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "broken on the wheel",
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"1": "break<,,broke,broken> on the wheel"
},
"expansion": "break on the wheel (third-person singular simple present breaks on the wheel, present participle breaking on the wheel, simple past broke on the wheel, past participle broken on the wheel)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 270",
"text": "Despite protesting his innocence under torture, the sexagenarian father was condemned by the Parlement in March 1762 to be broken on the wheel, a fate which he bore with stoical fortitude.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death."
],
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],
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"word": "radbraken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"word": "teilata"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"word": "rouer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"word": "rädern"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "łamać kołem"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"word": "trage pe roată"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kolesovátʹ",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "колесова́ть"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kolesuváty",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "колесува́ти"
}
]
}
],
"word": "break on the wheel"
}
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"form": "breaking on the wheel",
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{
"form": "broke on the wheel",
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{
"form": "broken on the wheel",
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},
"expansion": "break on the wheel (third-person singular simple present breaks on the wheel, present participle breaking on the wheel, simple past broke on the wheel, past participle broken on the wheel)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 270",
"text": "Despite protesting his innocence under torture, the sexagenarian father was condemned by the Parlement in March 1762 to be broken on the wheel, a fate which he bore with stoical fortitude.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death."
],
"links": [
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"wheel",
"wheel"
],
[
"break",
"break"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"word": "radbraken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"word": "teilata"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"word": "rouer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"word": "rädern"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "łamać kołem"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"word": "trage pe roată"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kolesovátʹ",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "колесова́ть"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kolesuváty",
"sense": "to execute by beating",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "колесува́ти"
}
],
"word": "break on the wheel"
}
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