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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "not focused or concentrated",
"word": "diffus"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not focused or concentrated",
"word": "dağınık"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not focused or concentrated",
"word": "terjengős"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"diffuse"
],
"word": "diffuse"
}
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"msg": "skipping string in the middle of translations: </table></div></div>\n\n",
"path": [
"diffuse"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "diffuse",
"trace": ""
}
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"msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'wordy, verbose', 2: 'wordy', 3: 'verbose'}",
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],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
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}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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