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"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "dejar entrar"
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"text": "So tell me when you're gonna let me in / I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin",
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"To let someone or something come in; to admit someone or something in.",
"To divulge one's inner thoughts to (someone), making oneself emotionally vulnerable to them; to open up to (someone)."
],
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[
"let",
"let"
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"come",
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"in",
"inside"
],
[
"divulge",
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[
"vulnerable",
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[
"open up",
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"(transitive) To let someone or something come in; to admit someone or something in.",
"To divulge one's inner thoughts to (someone), making oneself emotionally vulnerable to them; to open up to (someone)."
],
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"transitive"
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"text": "He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; but, with the highest respect for friend Perkins (my scout) and his obliging friends, I shall make some enquiries before \"letting in\" with any of them.",
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"roman": "vǎveždam",
"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "въвеждам"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "puskam da vleze",
"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "пускам да влезе"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "binnenlaten"
},
{
"code": "io",
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"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "enirigar"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "admittō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "intrōmittō"
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"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "įleisti"
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"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"tags": [
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"word": "wpuszczać"
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"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
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"word": "wpuścić"
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "spustiti noter"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "dejar entrar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to let someone or something come in",
"word": "abrir"
}
],
"word": "let in"
}
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