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"word": "cherish a snake in one's bosom"
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"4": "to have affection for, hold dear, treat kindly; to esteem, respect; to cherish; to take care of; to greet; to entertain, treat hospitably; to cheer; to encourage, incite"
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"4": "to cherish"
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"4": "to cherish"
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"ref": "1752, James Foster, “Some Observations on the True Ground of the Duty of Parents towards Their Children, and on Its General Nature, and Offices”, in Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue, volume II, London: Printed for the author; and sold by Mr. Noon [et al.], →OCLC, pages 95–96",
"text": "But the parent, we will ſuppose, cheriſhes his child with an affectionate indulgent care, and with all the circumſpection and aſſiduity that nature requires, in his infirm helpleſs ſtate of infancy; aſſiſts and cheriſhes his underſtanding, in its tender growth does; his utmoſt, according to his ability, to inculcate and impreſs religious principles, […]",
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"To treat with affection, care, and tenderness; to nurture or protect with care."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "griža se nežno",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "грижа се нежно"
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "acotiar"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "愛護"
},
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"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "àihù",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "爱护"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "珍視"
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"_dis1": "88 6 6",
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"roman": "zhēnshì",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "珍视"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "珍愛"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhēn'ài",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "珍爱"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "koesteren"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "vaalia"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "chérir"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "tenir (à)"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "aloumiñar"
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{
"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "agasallar"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "hegen"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "custodire"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "curare"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chinchō suru",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "珍重する"
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"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "aikō suru",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "愛好する"
},
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"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "daiji ni suru",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "大事にする"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "foveō"
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"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "mirā"
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{
"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "raupī"
},
{
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "matapopore"
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{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "adorar"
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"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "mimar"
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{
"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "paparicar"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "cuidar"
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{
"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xólitʹ",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "хо́лить"
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"_dis1": "88 6 6",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "leléjatʹ",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "леле́ять"
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"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "altraim"
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{
"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "mimar"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "apreciar"
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{
"_dis1": "88 6 6",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "pangalagaan"
}
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"word": "despise"
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"examples": [
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"text": "I cherish your friendship.",
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"ref": "1665, Samuel Cradock, “Of Righteousness, Sanctification, and Holiness of Life”, in Knowledge and Practice: Or, A Plain Discourse, of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ’d, and Practised in Order to Salvation. […], 2nd revised and inlarged edition, London: Printed for William Grantham […], Henry Mortlock […], and William Miller […], →OCLC, pages 77–78",
"text": "So by cheriſhing Humility, Pride is weakned, by cheriſhing Patience, Violent Paſſions, and Anger, and Peeviſhneſs are deſtroyed, by cheriſhing Purity, and Chaſtity of Heart and Thoughts, Uncleanneſs is mortified, and ſo by cheriſhing heavenly mindedneſs, the love of the world is abated and weakned: and the like might be ſhewed in other inſtances.",
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"ref": "1898, Herbert Spencer, “Intellectual Education”, in Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, pages 98–99",
"text": "The age in which all thought that trades must be established by bounties and prohibitions; that manufacturers needed their materials and qualities and prices to be prescribed; and that the value of money could be determined by law; was an age which unavoidably cherished the notions that a child's mind could be made to order; that its powers were to be imparted by the schoolmaster; that it was a receptacle into which knowledge was to be put and there built up after its teacher's ideal.",
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"ref": "1904 July 24, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, chapter III, in Speeches of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, 3rd edition, Madras: G. A. Natesan & Co., published 1920, →OCLC, page 787",
"text": "We came under the influence of his [Mahadev Govind Ranade's] work and his thoughts, and we owe it to ourselves to show that his memory is to us a most cherished possession.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1985 May 10, Robert “Kool” Bell et al. (lyrics and music), “Cherish”, in Emergency, performed by Kool & the Gang",
"text": "We should cherish the life we live / Cherish the love, cherish the life, cherish the love / Cherish the love we have / For as long as we both shall live",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1997, Confucius, “Book Four: Li Ren (To Live among Men of Humanity)”, in Chichung Huang, transl., The Analects of Confucius (Lun Yu): A Literal Translation with an Introduction and Notes, New York, N.Y., Oxford: Oxford University Press, paragraph 4.11, page 68",
"text": "The Master said: \"The gentleman cherishes virtue; the small man cherishes land. The gentleman cherishes institutions; the small man cherishes favors.\"",
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"To have a deep appreciation of; to hold dear."
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"_dis1": "0 99 0",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "cenja",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "ценя"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "koesteren"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "vaalia"
},
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "chérir"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "tenir (à)"
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"_dis1": "0 99 0",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "wertschätzen"
},
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"_dis1": "0 99 0",
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"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "apprezzare"
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"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "matapopore"
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"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "querer bem"
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"_dis1": "0 99 0",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "adorar"
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"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "дорожить"
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"(obsolete) To cheer, to gladden."
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"form": "cherished",
"tags": [
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}
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}
],
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"cher‧ish"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"word": "caress"
}
],
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
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"ref": "1752, James Foster, “Some Observations on the True Ground of the Duty of Parents towards Their Children, and on Its General Nature, and Offices”, in Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue, volume II, London: Printed for the author; and sold by Mr. Noon [et al.], →OCLC, pages 95–96",
"text": "But the parent, we will ſuppose, cheriſhes his child with an affectionate indulgent care, and with all the circumſpection and aſſiduity that nature requires, in his infirm helpleſs ſtate of infancy; aſſiſts and cheriſhes his underſtanding, in its tender growth does; his utmoſt, according to his ability, to inculcate and impreſs religious principles, […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To treat with affection, care, and tenderness; to nurture or protect with care."
],
"links": [
[
"treat",
"treat#Verb"
],
[
"affection",
"affection"
],
[
"care",
"care#Noun"
],
[
"tenderness",
"tenderness"
],
[
"nurture",
"nurture"
],
[
"protect",
"protect"
]
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "despise"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I cherish your friendship.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1665, Samuel Cradock, “Of Righteousness, Sanctification, and Holiness of Life”, in Knowledge and Practice: Or, A Plain Discourse, of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ’d, and Practised in Order to Salvation. […], 2nd revised and inlarged edition, London: Printed for William Grantham […], Henry Mortlock […], and William Miller […], →OCLC, pages 77–78",
"text": "So by cheriſhing Humility, Pride is weakned, by cheriſhing Patience, Violent Paſſions, and Anger, and Peeviſhneſs are deſtroyed, by cheriſhing Purity, and Chaſtity of Heart and Thoughts, Uncleanneſs is mortified, and ſo by cheriſhing heavenly mindedneſs, the love of the world is abated and weakned: and the like might be ſhewed in other inſtances.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1898, Herbert Spencer, “Intellectual Education”, in Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, pages 98–99",
"text": "The age in which all thought that trades must be established by bounties and prohibitions; that manufacturers needed their materials and qualities and prices to be prescribed; and that the value of money could be determined by law; was an age which unavoidably cherished the notions that a child's mind could be made to order; that its powers were to be imparted by the schoolmaster; that it was a receptacle into which knowledge was to be put and there built up after its teacher's ideal.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1904 July 24, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, chapter III, in Speeches of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, 3rd edition, Madras: G. A. Natesan & Co., published 1920, →OCLC, page 787",
"text": "We came under the influence of his [Mahadev Govind Ranade's] work and his thoughts, and we owe it to ourselves to show that his memory is to us a most cherished possession.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985 May 10, Robert “Kool” Bell et al. (lyrics and music), “Cherish”, in Emergency, performed by Kool & the Gang",
"text": "We should cherish the life we live / Cherish the love, cherish the life, cherish the love / Cherish the love we have / For as long as we both shall live",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Confucius, “Book Four: Li Ren (To Live among Men of Humanity)”, in Chichung Huang, transl., The Analects of Confucius (Lun Yu): A Literal Translation with an Introduction and Notes, New York, N.Y., Oxford: Oxford University Press, paragraph 4.11, page 68",
"text": "The Master said: \"The gentleman cherishes virtue; the small man cherishes land. The gentleman cherishes institutions; the small man cherishes favors.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To have a deep appreciation of; to hold dear."
],
"links": [
[
"appreciation",
"appreciation"
],
[
"hold dear",
"hold dear"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To cheer, to gladden."
],
"links": [
[
"cheer",
"cheer#Verb"
],
[
"gladden",
"gladden"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To cheer, to gladden."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛɹɪʃ"
},
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
"Australia"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "griža se nežno",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "грижа се нежно"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "acotiar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "愛護"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "àihù",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "爱护"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "珍視"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhēnshì",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "珍视"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "珍愛"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhēn'ài",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "珍爱"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "koesteren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "vaalia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "chérir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "tenir (à)"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "aloumiñar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "agasallar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "hegen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "custodire"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "curare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chinchō suru",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "珍重する"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "aikō suru",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "愛好する"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "daiji ni suru",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "大事にする"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "foveō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "mirā"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "raupī"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "matapopore"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "adorar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "mimar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "paparicar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "cuidar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xólitʹ",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "хо́лить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "leléjatʹ",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "леле́ять"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "altraim"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "mimar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "apreciar"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to treat with affection, nurture with care",
"word": "pangalagaan"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "cenja",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "ценя"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "koesteren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "vaalia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "chérir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "tenir (à)"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "wertschätzen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "apprezzare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "matapopore"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "querer bem"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "adorar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dorožitʹ",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "дорожить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "adorar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have a deep appreciation of",
"word": "apreciar"
}
],
"word": "cherish"
}
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