See moult in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2020, Kurone Kanzaki, Demon Lord, Retry! Volume 4",
"text": "[…] to grow and molt into a new version of herself."
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"translation": "feathers",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "(sich) mausern"
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"word": "(sich) häuten"
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"_dis1": "72 28",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
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"note": "of cats and dogs",
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"word": "fara úr hárum"
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"_dis1": "72 28",
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"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "mutare"
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{
"_dis1": "72 28",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "fare la muta"
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"code": "ja",
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"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "nukekawaru",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "抜け替わる"
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"word": "生え変わる"
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"_dis1": "72 28",
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"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "mudar"
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"_dis1": "72 28",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "năpârli"
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"_dis1": "72 28",
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"english": "skin; se",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
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"ref": "1911, Report of the Director of Veterinary Research, page 212",
"text": "The engorged nymphae were collected on the 2nd August, 1910, and moulted into adults on the 19th September, 1910. Later, they were placed on cattle […]"
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"ref": "2010, Robin Restall, Munias and Mannikins, page 19",
"text": "[…] One of the few Streak-headed Mannikins which I kept moulted into its second-year plumage with a pair of white feathers on its breast and a Scaly-breasted Munia grew several white primaries, as did a White-spotted Mannikin."
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"ref": "2020, Kurone Kanzaki, Demon Lord, Retry! Volume 4",
"text": "[…] to grow and molt into a new version of herself."
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"ref": "2022, Christoph C. Pfisterer, Nicole Rathgeb, Eva Schmidt, Wittgenstein and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock, page 1994",
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"ref": "2025, Andrew Joseph White, You Weren't Meant to Be Human: A Novel, chapter 2",
"text": "Tammy will get the girl a phone and some clothes, […] Some woman from a Georgia hive will build a fake ID and ship it up in a few weeks. Whoever Jess was before will shrivel away, and a new person will molt—so to speak—into its place."
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"word": "vervellen"
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"word": "verharen"
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"code": "fi",
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"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"translation": "skin",
"word": "luoda nahkansa"
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"code": "fi",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
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"translation": "feathers",
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"word": "muer"
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"word": "mudar"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"translation": "feathers",
"word": "esplumar"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "(sich) mausern"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "(sich) häuten"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "vedlik"
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "hleypa hömum"
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"word": "fella fjaðrir"
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"code": "is",
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"note": "of cats and dogs",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "fara úr hárum"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "fare la muta"
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"alt": "ぬけかわる",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "抜け替わる"
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"alt": "はえかわる",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "生え変わる"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "turuki"
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"code": "mi",
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"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
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"code": "pt",
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"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "mudar"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "năpârli"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "linjátʹ",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "линя́ть"
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"code": "sl",
"english": "skin; se",
"lang": "Slovene",
"lang_code": "sl",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"translation": "skin; se",
"word": "leviti"
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"code": "es",
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"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "pelechar"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "ömsa"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"word": "rugga"
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"code": "tr",
"english": "feathers, fur",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"translation": "feathers, fur",
"word": "tüy dökmek"
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"code": "tr",
"english": "skin",
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
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"word": "deri değiştirmek"
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"sense": "to shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc., as an animal",
"topics": [
"snakes",
"zoology",
"biology",
"natural-sciences"
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"translation": "skin",
"word": "gömlek değiştirmek"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to shed in such a manner (transitive form)",
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"word": "svlékat (kůži, krunýř)"
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"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "to shed in such a manner (transitive form)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "shazovat (paroží, srst)"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to shed in such a manner (transitive form)",
"word": "muer"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to shed in such a manner (transitive form)",
"word": "mudar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to shed in such a manner (transitive form)",
"word": "perder"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to shed in such a manner (transitive form)",
"word": "caérsele"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to shed in such a manner (transitive form)",
"word": "desprender"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to shed in such a manner (transitive form)",
"word": "echar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to shed in such a manner (transitive form)",
"word": "ömsa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to shed in such a manner (transitive form)",
"word": "rugga"
}
],
"word": "moult"
}
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