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"(intransitive) To bow; bend; incline; tilt or cant over."
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"To decline; sink; go down."
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"(intransitive) To decline; sink; go down."
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"An inclination; a cant."
],
"links": [
[
"inclination",
"inclination"
],
[
"cant",
"cant"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English dialectal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"An incline; slope."
],
"links": [
[
"incline",
"incline"
],
[
"slope",
"slope"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK dialectal) An incline; slope."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A decline; decrease; wane."
],
"links": [
[
"decline",
"decline"
],
[
"decrease",
"decrease"
],
[
"wane",
"wane"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "heeld"
},
{
"word": "heald"
},
{
"word": "heild"
},
{
"word": "hild"
},
{
"word": "hyld"
},
{
"word": "held"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "helde"
}
],
"word": "hield"
}
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