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"sense": "device for killing mice",
"word": "trappola per topi"
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"alt": "ねずみとり",
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"roman": "nezumi-tori",
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"word": "ネズミ捕り"
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"word": "ᠬᠤᠯᠤᠭᠠᠨᠠ ᠵᠢᠨ ᠬᠠᠪᠬᠠ"
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"sense": "device for killing mice",
"word": "musefelle"
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"sense": "device for killing mice",
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"sense": "device for killing mice",
"word": "تلهموش"
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"word": "cursă de șoareci"
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"word": "ཙི་ཙི་ཟིན་ཡག"
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"ref": "2003, Nautical Research Journal, volume 48, page 199",
"text": "Besides depth charges, they were armed with smaller forward firing antisubmarine rocket launchers called mousetraps. Fired in groups, these rockets detonated when they contacted a submarine.",
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"sense": "hypothetical product",
"word": "hilavitkutin"
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"ref": "1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 724",
"text": "He hoped to bring the rebels out of their trenches for a showdown battle somewhere south of the Wilderness, that gloomy expanse of scrub oaks and pines where Lee had mousetrapped Joe Hooker exactly a year earlier.",
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"(figuratively) To trap; to trick or fool (someone) into a bad situation."
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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