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{
"etymology_text": "A reference to someone clipping a bird's wings to prevent it from flying away.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "clips someone's wings",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "clipping someone's wings",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "clipped someone's wings",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "clipped someone's wings",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"head": "clip someone's wings"
},
"expansion": "clip someone's wings (third-person singular simple present clips someone's wings, present participle clipping someone's wings, simple past and past participle clipped someone's wings)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To restrict someone's freedom."
],
"id": "en-clip_someone's_wings-en-verb-IwRdb6-G",
"links": [
[
"restrict",
"restrict"
],
[
"freedom",
"freedom"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To restrict someone's freedom."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "clip the wings of"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"word": "katkaista siivet"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"word": "couper les ailes"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "prtebis šeḳveca",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"word": "ფრთების შეკვეცა"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"word": "tarpare le ali"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "podcinać skrzydła"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "podciąć skrzydła"
}
]
}
],
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2c/En-au-clip_someone%27s_wings.ogg/En-au-clip_someone%27s_wings.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/En-au-clip_someone%27s_wings.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "clip someone's wings"
}
{
"etymology_text": "A reference to someone clipping a bird's wings to prevent it from flying away.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "clips someone's wings",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "clipping someone's wings",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "clipped someone's wings",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "clipped someone's wings",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
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"1": "*",
"head": "clip someone's wings"
},
"expansion": "clip someone's wings (third-person singular simple present clips someone's wings, present participle clipping someone's wings, simple past and past participle clipped someone's wings)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To restrict someone's freedom."
],
"links": [
[
"restrict",
"restrict"
],
[
"freedom",
"freedom"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To restrict someone's freedom."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/En-au-clip_someone%27s_wings.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "clip the wings of"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"word": "katkaista siivet"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"word": "couper les ailes"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "prtebis šeḳveca",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"word": "ფრთების შეკვეცა"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"word": "tarpare le ali"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "podcinać skrzydła"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "To curtail someone's freedom",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "podciąć skrzydła"
}
],
"word": "clip someone's wings"
}
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