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"word": "ហេរ៉ូអ៊ីន"
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"sense": "powerful and addictive drug",
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"sense": "powerful and addictive drug",
"word": "เฮโรอีน"
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"sense": "powerful and addictive drug",
"word": "bạch phiến"
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"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
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"text": "Strictly Orthodox, Porcia has bent her Fortune and Applications to the Advantage of the true Religion. In a word, no Perfection is feeble, or ſhines dim in Porcia; all is ſtrenuous, bright, confirm’d, and unexceptionable. She only is worthy to ſupply the Loſs of Ximena, in ſo great a Breaſt as Horatio’s, were Fortune to do what Merit has done, wou’d ſhe not make the Union? Where more juſtly cou’d we beſtow the Charms of a Heroin, who has done all things for Vertue and Honour, than in the Arms of a Hero, who has left nothing undone for Fame and Glory?",
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"word": "Big H"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
"word": "boy"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
"word": "brown sugar"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
"word": "diacetylmorphine"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
"word": "diamorphine"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
"word": "dog food"
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{
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"word": "dope"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
"word": "heroin"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
"word": "horse"
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{
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"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
"word": "smack"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
"word": "spider"
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{
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"source": "Thesaurus:heroin",
"word": "yam yam"
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