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"text": "Mr. Christie, who as a presidential candidate has frequently suppressed his most pugilistic instincts, cast off any restraint and did what he does best: slice and slash.",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "ākiri"
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"word": "rechaçar"
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"_dis1": "73 21 4 2",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
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"To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way."
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"sense": "to let go",
"word": "irrottaa"
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{
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"sense": "to let go",
"word": "larguer les amarres"
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"sense": "to let go",
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"word": "huhu"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "levantar amarras"
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"To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle."
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"word": "caith lúb anuas"
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"_dis1": "3 4 91 2",
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"word": "kamo"
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"ref": "2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing, page 102",
"text": "To conserve type, copy was \"cast off\"; that is, type needed for the initial pages was estimated so that the pages need not be composed in the same sequence as the copy.",
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"To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy."
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"(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way."
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "hylätä"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "rexeitar"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "ledob"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "levetkőz"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "megszabadul"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "levet"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
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"word": "eldob"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "kiselejtez"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "elhajít"
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"sense": "discard or reject",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "ākiri"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "rechaçar"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "descartar"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "eliminar"
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"code": "sk",
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"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "odvrhnúť"
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "zavrhnúť"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "rechazar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "descartar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "discard or reject",
"word": "eliminar"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to let go",
"word": "trossen los"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to let go",
"word": "irrottaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to let go",
"word": "larguer les amarres"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to let go",
"word": "Leinen los"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to let go",
"word": "elold"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to let go",
"word": "huhu"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to let go",
"word": "desamarrar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to let go",
"word": "levantar amarras"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to let go",
"word": "soltar las amarras"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
"word": "lukke af"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"word": "afkanten"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
"word": "päättää"
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{
"code": "de",
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"word": "abketten"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
"word": "levesz"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
"word": "caith lúb anuas"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
"word": "kamo"
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"word": "cast off"
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