See look up in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "katsella (ylös)"
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"word": "見上げる"
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{
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{
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"word": "näyttää hyvältä"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "sich bessern"
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{
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"code": "de",
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"word": "aufwärtsgehen"
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"sense": "to have better prospects, to improve",
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"word": "улучша́ться"
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"word": "slå op"
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"sense": "to obtain information about something from a text source",
"word": "sláa upp"
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"word": "katsoa"
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"sense": "to obtain information about something from a text source",
"word": "buscar"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to obtain information about something from a text source",
"word": "nachschlagen"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "nachsehen"
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"word": "kikeres"
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"word": "slá upp"
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"word": "cercare"
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"roman": "kensaku suru",
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"word": "検索する"
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"word": "調べる"
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"word": "cercar"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "used other than as an idiom",
"word": "yukarı bakmak"
},
{
"code": "tyz",
"lang": "Tày",
"sense": "used other than as an idiom",
"word": "bơn"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "used other than as an idiom",
"word": "ngước"
}
],
"word": "look up"
}
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{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''To obtain, or seek to obtain, '[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"look up"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "look up",
"trace": ""
}
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