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{
"form": "lays into",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "laying into",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "laid into",
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{
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},
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}
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"_dis": "63 37",
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{
"ref": "2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 11:26 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17",
"text": "The U.S. ships did the nautical version of someone stuck in a pub when the chairs and glass starts flying, who just looked around, shrugged their shoulders, and immediately lays into the nearest combatant.",
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}
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"To beat up or launch an attack against."
],
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[
"launch",
"launch"
],
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"attack"
]
],
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"(colloquial) To beat up or launch an attack against."
],
"tags": [
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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To beat up.",
"word": "te lijf gaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To beat up.",
"word": "aanvallen"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To beat up.",
"word": "assommer"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "To beat up.",
"word": "lange ut mot"
}
]
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"glosses": [
"To berate; to scold."
],
"id": "en-lay_into-en-verb-YH8MU4J-",
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[
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"scold"
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"(colloquial) To berate; to scold."
],
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"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To berate; to scold.",
"word": "uitkafferen"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To berate; to scold.",
"word": "berispen"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To berate; to scold.",
"word": "engueuler"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To berate; to scold.",
"word": "réprimander"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "To berate; to scold.",
"word": "lange ut mot"
}
]
}
],
"word": "lay into"
}
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"English phrasal verbs",
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"English verbs",
"en:Violence"
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},
{
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"participle",
"present"
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},
{
"form": "laid into",
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"past"
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{
"form": "laid into",
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
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"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 11:26 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17",
"text": "The U.S. ships did the nautical version of someone stuck in a pub when the chairs and glass starts flying, who just looked around, shrugged their shoulders, and immediately lays into the nearest combatant.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To beat up or launch an attack against."
],
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"beat up",
"beat up"
],
[
"launch",
"launch"
],
[
"attack",
"attack"
]
],
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"(colloquial) To beat up or launch an attack against."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"To berate; to scold."
],
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[
"berate",
"berate"
],
[
"scold",
"scold"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) To berate; to scold."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To beat up.",
"word": "te lijf gaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To beat up.",
"word": "aanvallen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To beat up.",
"word": "assommer"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "To beat up.",
"word": "lange ut mot"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To berate; to scold.",
"word": "uitkafferen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To berate; to scold.",
"word": "berispen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To berate; to scold.",
"word": "engueuler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To berate; to scold.",
"word": "réprimander"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "To berate; to scold.",
"word": "lange ut mot"
}
],
"word": "lay into"
}
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