See lavish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].",
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"ref": "1953 February, H. A. Vallance, “To Brighton through the Shoreham Gap”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:",
"text": "The accommodation for passengers was designed on a rather lavish scale, as it was expected that extensive housing development would take place in the vicinity. These hopes were not realised, however, and, apart from the school buildings, the surroundings of the station have never lost their rusticity.",
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"ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:",
"text": "Thou wilt repent theſe lauiſh words of thine",
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"ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXIII, page 39:",
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "prahosvam",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "прахосвам"
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"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "epidapsilévo",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "pazarol"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "prodigare"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "profondere"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "spendere profusamente"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "dīlargior"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se rásfrli",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "се ра́сфрли"
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"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "ра́сфрли"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "tōtōa"
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"code": "mi",
"english": "Referes specifically to food",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "nihowera"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "beriz-o-bepâš kardan",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "بریز و بپاش کردن"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "obdarowywać"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "esbanjar"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rastočatʹ",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "расточать"
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"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "derrochar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "despilfarrar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
"word": "slösa"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to expend or bestow with profusion; to squander",
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "to give out to (somebody) extremely generously",
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"sense": "to give out to (somebody) extremely generously",
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to give out to (somebody) extremely generously",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to give out to (somebody) extremely generously",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to give out to (somebody) extremely generously",
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"code": "sa",
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