See contra in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"msg": "Form tags without form: desc='no simple past or past participle', tagsets=[('no-past', 'participle', 'past')]",
"path": [
"contra"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "contra",
"trace": ""
}
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