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"english": "And so they all agreed that they should depart from each other in the morning / And in the morning they departed with weeping faces / and every knight took the way that pleased him best",
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"text": "And soo on the morne they were alle accorded that they shold departe eueryche from other / And on the morne they departed with wepynge chere / and euery knyȝt took the way that hym lyked best",
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"ref": "1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark:",
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"ref": "1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The parents […] fled away with heavy cheer.",
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{
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"word": "ilahduttaa"
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"sense": "to make cheerful",
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"code": "hu",
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{
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"word": "misneach a thabhairt do"
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"code": "mi",
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{
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"word": "whakakoakoa"
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}
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"ref": "1700, [John] Dryden, “The Character of a Good Parson; Imitated from Chaucer, and Inlarg’d”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd.",
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"ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:",
"text": "Let’s cheere our ſouldiers to incounter him, […]\nAnd burne him in the fury of that flame,\nThat none can quench but blood and Empery.",
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"word": "ヤヨパㇻセチュイ"
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"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
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"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "喝彩"
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"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hècǎi, hēcǎi",
"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "喝采"
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"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
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"roman": "zhùwēi",
"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "助威"
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{
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"code": "cmn",
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"word": "助陣"
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{
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"roman": "zhùzhèn",
"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "助阵"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
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{
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"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "הֵרִיעַ"
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{
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"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
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{
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{
"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
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"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "fagna"
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{
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"code": "ga",
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{
"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
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"word": "incitare"
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{
"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
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"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "喝采する"
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{
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"word": "声援する"
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"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
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"word": "励ます"
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{
"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
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"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "umere"
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{
"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
"code": "mi",
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"word": "titihaoa"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "titihawa"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "hūrē"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "heie"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "aclamar"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
"english": "applaud",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "aplodírovatʹ",
"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "аплоди́ровать"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
"code": "ru",
"english": "greet",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "privétstvovatʹ",
"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "приве́тствовать"
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"_dis1": "0 2 9 88 0",
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"english": "encourage",
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"roman": "pooščrjátʹ",
"sense": "to applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts",
"word": "поощря́ть"
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"ipa": "/t͡ʃɪə̯(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/t͡ʃɪɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-cheer.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/En-us-cheer.ogg/En-us-cheer.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/En-us-cheer.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪə(ɹ)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"cheer"
],
"word": "cheer"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": hècǎi, hēcǎi vs. hècǎi, hēcǎi",
"path": [
"cheer"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "cheer",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": exult vs. likovátʹ",
"path": [
"cheer"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "cheer",
"trace": ""
}
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