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"forms": [
{
"form": "goes spare",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "going spare",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "went spare",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "gone spare",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
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},
"expansion": "go spare (third-person singular simple present goes spare, present participle going spare, simple past went spare, past participle gone spare)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "There's some bacon going spare if anyone wants some more."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be available or unused."
],
"id": "en-go_spare-en-verb-jq80UlIN",
"links": [
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"available",
"available"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "97 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be available",
"word": "olla tarjolla"
}
]
},
{
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
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},
{
"_dis": "13 73 15",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare."
},
{
"text": "The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare."
],
"id": "en-go_spare-en-verb--O7spNfk",
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"frustrated",
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],
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"distraught"
],
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"spare",
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, informal) To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"informal"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 97 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "turhautua"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 97 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "kyllästyä"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 97 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "die Fassung verlieren"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 97 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "die Beherrschung verlieren"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 97 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "sich ärgern"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 97 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "perdere le staffe"
}
]
},
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"glosses": [
"To be unemployed."
],
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"links": [
[
"unemployed",
"unemployed"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) To be unemployed."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"word": "go spare"
}
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"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English verbs"
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"form": "goes spare",
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "going spare",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "went spare",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "gone spare",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
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},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "There's some bacon going spare if anyone wants some more."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be available or unused."
],
"links": [
[
"available",
"available"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English informal terms"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare."
},
{
"text": "The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare."
],
"links": [
[
"frustrated",
"frustrated"
],
[
"distraught",
"distraught"
],
[
"spare",
"spare#English:_mad"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, informal) To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To be unemployed."
],
"links": [
[
"unemployed",
"unemployed"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) To be unemployed."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be available",
"word": "olla tarjolla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "turhautua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "kyllästyä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "die Fassung verlieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "die Beherrschung verlieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "sich ärgern"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
"word": "perdere le staffe"
}
],
"word": "go spare"
}
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