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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
"word": "tapepa"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "flaquear"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "fallar"
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"word": "vackla"
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"word": "похитнутися"
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
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"text": "Here indeed the power of distinctly conceiving of space and distance falters.",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "To stumble",
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"word": "tapepa"
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"word": "trabucar"
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"word": "оступаться"
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"roman": "spotykatʹsja",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "спотыкаться"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "tambalear"
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"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "спотикатися"
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"ref": "1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:",
"text": "And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter.",
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{
"ref": "1971, Lyndon Johnson, “\"I feel like I have already been here a year\"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:",
"text": "The most important foreign policy problem I faced was that of signaling to the world what kind of man I was and what sort of policies I intended to carry out. It was important that there be no hesitancy on my part — nothing to indicate that the U.S. government had faltered. It was equally important for the world to understand that I intended to continue the government's established foreign policies and maintain the alliances of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy — policies of firmness on the one hand and an effort to thaw the Cold War on the other.",
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"ref": "1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
"text": "Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.",
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"To hesitate in purpose or action."
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"word": "duruxmaq"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
"word": "tapepe"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
"word": "trantalhar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
"word": "trantolar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "drognutʹ",
"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
"word": "дрогнуть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
"word": "flaquear"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
"word": "fallar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
"word": "vackla"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "poxytnutysja",
"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
"word": "похитнутися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "xytatysja",
"sense": "To waver or be unsteady",
"word": "хитатися"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "spǎvam se",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "спъвам се"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To stumble",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "klopýtat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To stumble",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "klopýtnout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To stumble",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zakopnout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To stumble",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "potácet se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To stumble",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zapotácet se"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "struikelen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "kompastella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "kompuroida"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "stolpern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "straucheln"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "inciampare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "tapepa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "tapatu"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "trabucar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "trantalhar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "trantolar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ostupatʹsja",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "оступаться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spotykatʹsja",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "спотыкаться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "se",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "tambalear"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "spotykatysja",
"sense": "To stumble",
"word": "спотикатися"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "duruxmaq"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "dubtar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "váhat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zaváhat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "znejistět"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "ztratit odvahu"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "aarzelen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "jahkailla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "aikailla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "empiä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "zögern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "zaudern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "ins Stocken geraten"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "trantalhar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "esitar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "dudar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "titubear"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "hesitar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "vacilar"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vahatysja",
"sense": "To hesitate",
"word": "вагатися"
}
],
"word": "falter"
}
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