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"text": "I don't want to drag out this talk, so I'll stop now and answer any questions.",
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{
"ref": "2013, Lisa Bonavita, Secrets Exposed: When Remaining Silent Is No Longer an Option, page 50",
"text": "It upsets me that there is no regard that the children have taken another day off school and all they wanted was for it to be over. Conveniently for the defence, it’s dragging out and our nerves are getting frayed.",
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"To extend or lengthen excessively."
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"(transitive, intransitive) To extend or lengthen excessively."
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "extend or lengthen excessively (transitive)",
"word": "pitkittää"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 9",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "extend or lengthen excessively (transitive)",
"word": "venyttää"
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{
"_dis1": "91 9",
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"sense": "extend or lengthen excessively (transitive)",
"word": "vatvoa"
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"_dis1": "91 9",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "extend or lengthen excessively (transitive)",
"word": "faire traîner en longueur"
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"_dis1": "91 9",
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"word": "faire traîner"
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"text": "She dragged out her old Spanish textbooks in an attempt to prepare for her trip.",
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"ref": "1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 105",
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"To haul or bring out forcefully or from an awkward location."
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"(transitive) To haul or bring out forcefully or from an awkward location."
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "haul or bring out forcefully or from an awkward location",
"word": "çıxarmaq"
}
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"ref": "2013, Lisa Bonavita, Secrets Exposed: When Remaining Silent Is No Longer an Option, page 50",
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"sense": "extend or lengthen excessively (transitive)",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "extend or lengthen excessively (transitive)",
"word": "venyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "extend or lengthen excessively (transitive)",
"word": "vatvoa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "extend or lengthen excessively (transitive)",
"word": "faire traîner en longueur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "extend or lengthen excessively (transitive)",
"word": "faire traîner"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "haul or bring out forcefully or from an awkward location",
"word": "çıxarmaq"
}
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"word": "drag out"
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