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"word": "اجتناب کردن"
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vyslyzaty",
"sense": "to evade, or escape from someone or something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вислизати"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to evade, or escape from someone or something",
"word": "trốn chạy khỏi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to evade, or escape from someone or something",
"word": "né tránh"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to shake off a pursuer",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "uniknout"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to shake off a pursuer",
"word": "abschütteln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to shake off a pursuer",
"word": "sich absetzen von"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to shake off a pursuer",
"word": "sich entziehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to shake off a pursuer",
"word": "entkommen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to shake off a pursuer",
"word": "entgehen"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vymykat se (chápání)"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to",
"word": "sich jmds. Verständnis entziehen"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uskolʹzatʹ",
"sense": "to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ускользать"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to escape so.'s memory",
"word": "nicht einfallen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to escape so.'s memory",
"word": "entfallen sein"
}
],
"word": "elude"
}
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