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"etymology_text": "From en- + case.",
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"ref": "1918, Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe",
"text": "They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses.",
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{
"ref": "2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 61",
"text": "And with the story of the booking office, we have a fortune deeply entwined with the stations encasing them.",
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"To enclose, as in a case."
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
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},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "omhullen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "sulkea sisäänsä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "pitää sisällään"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "encerrar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "meter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "eingehüllen"
},
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"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "enkestigar"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "tūpuni"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "revestir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "recubrir"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"word": "meter"
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},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "uzavřít"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "obalit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "omhullen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "sulkea sisäänsä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "pitää sisällään"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "encerrar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "meter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "eingehüllen"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "enkestigar"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "tūpuni"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "revestir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "recubrir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enclose in a case",
"word": "meter"
}
],
"word": "encase"
}
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