See creosote in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"forms": [
{
"form": "creosotes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "creosoting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "creosoted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "creosoted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "creosote (third-person singular simple present creosotes, present participle creosoting, simple past and past participle creosoted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "creosote bush"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "As the fence is exposed he will creosote it for protection."
},
{
"ref": "1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45]",
"text": "Agnes was leaning over the creosoted garden gate …"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To apply creosote."
],
"links": [
[
"apply",
"apply"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To apply creosote."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɹiːəˌsəʊt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɹiːəˌsoʊt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to apply creosote",
"word": "créosoter"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to apply creosote",
"word": "creosotar"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"creosote"
],
"word": "creosote"
}
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