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"_dis1": "38 27 9 25",
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}
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{
"text": "I brought back the groceries."
},
{
"text": "Could you bring me back some chocolate?"
}
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"To fetch something."
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"(transitive, ditransitive) To fetch something."
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"_dis1": "94 3 1 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "rekonduki"
},
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"_dis1": "94 3 1 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "reporti"
},
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"_dis1": "94 3 1 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "ramener"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "rapporter"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 3 1 3",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "referō"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 3 1 3",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "ibalik"
}
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"examples": [
{
"text": "The smell of the magnolia brought back sweet memories of my childhood."
}
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"To cause someone to remember something from the past."
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"(transitive) To cause someone to remember something from the past."
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"_dis1": "1 66 1 33",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause to remember something from the past",
"word": "ramener"
}
]
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"examples": [
{
"text": "In the UK it is customary to hold a vote every few years on whether to bring back the death penalty."
}
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"To reenact an old rule or law."
],
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"(transitive) To reenact an old rule or law."
],
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"_dis1": "1 3 94 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to reenact an old rule or law",
"word": "faire revenir"
}
]
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"_dis": "19 15 6 59",
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"text": "The old man turned and regarded her, and his voice shook. \"He has been dead ten days, and besides he — I would not tell you else, but — I could only recognize him by his clothing. If he was too terrible for you to see then, how now?\" / \"Bring him back,\" cried the old woman, and dragged him toward the door. \"Do you think I fear the child I have nursed?\"",
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"To revive, to resurrect; to cause something dead to be alive once again."
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to revive something dead",
"word": "ramener"
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"_dis1": "2 5 2 91",
"code": "sw",
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"sense": "to revive something dead",
"word": "fufua"
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]
}
],
"word": "bring back"
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"(transitive, ditransitive) To fetch something."
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"(transitive) To cause someone to remember something from the past."
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"To reenact an old rule or law."
],
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"(transitive) To reenact an old rule or law."
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"To revive, to resurrect; to cause something dead to be alive once again."
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "rekonduki"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "reporti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "ramener"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "rapporter"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "referō"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to fetch something",
"word": "ibalik"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause to remember something from the past",
"word": "ramener"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to reenact an old rule or law",
"word": "faire revenir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to revive something dead",
"word": "ramener"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to revive something dead",
"word": "fufua"
}
],
"word": "bring back"
}
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