"grin" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɡɹɪn/ Audio: en-us-grin.ogg Forms: grins [plural]
enPR: grĭn Rhymes: -ɪn Etymology: Before 1000 CE - From Middle English grinnen, from Old English grennian, of Germanic origin and probably related to groan. Compare to Old High German grennan (“to mutter”) and Danish grine (“to show one's teeth, to laugh”) Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|grinnen}} Middle English grinnen, {{der|en|ang|grennian}} Old English grennian, {{der|en|gem|-}} Germanic, {{cog|goh|grennan||to mutter}} Old High German grennan (“to mutter”), {{cog|da|grine||to show one's teeth, to laugh}} Danish grine (“to show one's teeth, to laugh”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} grin (plural grins)
  1. A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth. Derived forms: Chelsea grin, coprophagous grin, grip-and-grin Translations (A smile revealing the teeth): крива усмивка (kriva usmivka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), yuhom (Cebuano), 露齿而笑 (lùchǐ'érxiào) (Chinese Mandarin), ngingis (Coastal Kadazan), grin [neuter] (Danish), grijns [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), virnistys (Finnish), virne (Finnish), sourire [masculine] (French), Grinsen [neuter] (German), vigyor (Hungarian), vigyorgás (Hungarian), glott [neuter] (Icelandic), irvissös (Ingrian), straoise [feminine] (Irish), sorriso [masculine] (Italian), sengihan (Malay), pakiri (Maori), ngimel (Maranao), glis [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), banan (Polish), uśmiech od ucha do ucha (Polish), szeroki uśmiech (Polish), sorriso aberto [masculine] (Portuguese), усме́шка (usméška) [feminine] (Russian), ухмы́лка (uxmýlka) [feminine] (Russian), кез [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), церек [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kez [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), cerek [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), úškrn [masculine] (Slovak), sonrisa abierta [feminine] (Spanish), sonrisa amplia [feminine] (Spanish), flin [neuter] (Swedish), по́смішка (pósmiška) (Ukrainian), у́смішка (úsmiška) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-grin-en-noun-WOcGV~GI
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: gren [obsolete]
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ɡɹɪn/ Audio: en-us-grin.ogg Forms: grins [plural]
enPR: grĭn Rhymes: -ɪn Etymology: From Old English grin. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ang|grin}} Old English grin Head templates: {{en-noun}} grin (plural grins)
  1. (obsolete) A snare; a gin. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-grin-en-noun-6IiOcCNs
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ɡɹɪn/ Audio: en-us-grin.ogg Forms: grins [present, singular, third-person], grinning [participle, present], grinned [participle, past], grinned [past]
enPR: grĭn Rhymes: -ɪn Etymology: Before 1000 CE - From Middle English grinnen, from Old English grennian, of Germanic origin and probably related to groan. Compare to Old High German grennan (“to mutter”) and Danish grine (“to show one's teeth, to laugh”) Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|grinnen}} Middle English grinnen, {{der|en|ang|grennian}} Old English grennian, {{der|en|gem|-}} Germanic, {{cog|goh|grennan||to mutter}} Old High German grennan (“to mutter”), {{cog|da|grine||to show one's teeth, to laugh}} Danish grine (“to show one's teeth, to laugh”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} grin (third-person singular simple present grins, present participle grinning, simple past and past participle grinned)
  1. (intransitive) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. Tags: intransitive Translations (To smile showing the teeth): 露齒而笑 (Chinese Mandarin), 露齿而笑 (lùchǐ'érxiào) (Chinese Mandarin), grine (Danish), grijnzen (Dutch), rideti (Esperanto), virnistää (Finnish), virnistellä (Finnish), virnuilla (Finnish), sourire (French), კრეჭს (ḳreč̣s) (Georgian), grinsen (German), vigyorog (Hungarian), irvistää (Ingrian), sorridere (Italian), tersengih (Malay), pakiri (Maori), mimingo kata (Maori), विचकणे (vicakṇe) (Marathi), बत्तिशी दाखवणे (battiśī dākhavṇe) (Marathi), glise (Norwegian Bokmål), szczerzyć zęby (Polish), suszyć ząbki (Polish), szczerzyć się (Polish), sorrir abertamente (Portuguese), arreganhar (Portuguese), ухмыля́ться (uxmyljátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), ухмыльну́ться (uxmylʹnútʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), усмеха́ться (usmexátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), усмехну́ться (usmexnútʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), sonreír (Spanish), flina (Swedish), sırıtmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-grin-en-verb-wua4kPLZ Disambiguation of 'To smile showing the teeth': 67 1 20 12
  2. (transitive) To express by grinning. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-grin-en-verb-fvMOcpV1
  3. (intransitive, dated) To show the teeth, like a snarling dog. Tags: dated, intransitive
    Sense id: en-grin-en-verb-fgroE4Sg
  4. (transitive) To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Facial expressions
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: gren [obsolete] Derived forms: fish-eating grin, grin and bear it, grin from ear to ear, grin like a Cheshire cat, grin like a mule eating briars, pickin' and grinnin', picking and grinning, shit-eating grin, skin and grin Related terms: grimace, smile
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "roman": "kriva usmivka",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "word": "vigyor"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "word": "irvissös"
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "word": "sengihan"
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          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "word": "pakiri"
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          "code": "mrw",
          "lang": "Maranao",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "word": "ngimel"
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "word": "banan"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "word": "uśmiech od ucha do ucha"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "word": "szeroki uśmiech"
        },
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "word": "sorriso aberto"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "uxmýlka",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "word": "cerek"
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          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "sonrisa abierta"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sonrisa amplia"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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          "word": "flin"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "pósmiška",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "word": "по́смішка"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "úsmiška",
          "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
          "word": "у́смішка"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "grimace"
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          "text": "Why do you grin? Did I say something funny?",
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          "ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’",
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        "(intransitive) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth."
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          "_dis1": "67 1 20 12",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
          "word": "露齒而笑"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 1 20 12",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "lùchǐ'érxiào",
          "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
          "word": "露齿而笑"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 1 20 12",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
          "word": "grine"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 1 20 12",
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kriva usmivka",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "крива усмивка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "yuhom"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "lùchǐ'érxiào",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "露齿而笑"
    },
    {
      "code": "kzj",
      "lang": "Coastal Kadazan",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "ngingis"
    },
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "grin"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grijns"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "virnistys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "virne"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sourire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Grinsen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "vigyor"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "vigyorgás"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "glott"
    },
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      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "irvissös"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "straoise"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sorriso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "sengihan"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "pakiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "mrw",
      "lang": "Maranao",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "ngimel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "glis"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "banan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "uśmiech od ucha do ucha"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "szeroki uśmiech"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sorriso aberto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "usméška",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "усме́шка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "uxmýlka",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ухмы́лка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кез"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "церек"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "kez"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "cerek"
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "úškrn"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sonrisa abierta"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sonrisa amplia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "flin"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pósmiška",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "по́смішка"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "úsmiška",
      "sense": "A smile revealing the teeth",
      "word": "у́смішка"
    }
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}

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    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
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    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
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      "word": "fish-eating grin"
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      "word": "grin and bear it"
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      "word": "grin from ear to ear"
    },
    {
      "word": "grin like a Cheshire cat"
    },
    {
      "word": "grin like a mule eating briars"
    },
    {
      "word": "pickin' and grinnin'"
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    {
      "word": "picking and grinning"
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          "text": "Why do you grin? Did I say something funny?",
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          "ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’",
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          "text": "She grinned pleasure at his embarrassment.",
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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:",
          "text": "Grinned horrible a ghastly smile.",
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          "ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins,\" remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: \"Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!\"",
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          "ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:",
          "text": "The pangs of death do make him grin.",
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          "ref": "1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "露齒而笑"
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      "word": "露齿而笑"
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "grijnzen"
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "rideti"
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "virnistää"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "ḳreč̣s",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "კრეჭს"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "vigyorog"
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "irvistää"
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "sorridere"
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      "code": "ms",
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "tersengih"
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "pakiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "mimingo kata"
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    {
      "code": "mr",
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      "roman": "vicakṇe",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "विचकणे"
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      "code": "mr",
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      "roman": "battiśī dākhavṇe",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "बत्तिशी दाखवणे"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "glise"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "szczerzyć zęby"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "suszyć ząbki"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "szczerzyć się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "sorrir abertamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "arreganhar"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "uxmyljátʹsja",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ухмыля́ться"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "uxmylʹnútʹsja",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
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      "word": "ухмыльну́ться"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "usmexátʹsja",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
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      "word": "усмеха́ться"
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      "roman": "usmexnútʹsja",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
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      "word": "усмехну́ться"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "sonreír"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "To smile showing the teeth",
      "word": "sırıtmak"
    }
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}

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      "audio": "en-us-grin.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-grin.ogg/En-us-grin.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-grin.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grin"
}

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