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{
"derived": [
{
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"word": "mow down"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "mower"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "push-mow"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "remow"
}
],
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂meh₁-"
},
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},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "mowen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English mowen",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"2": "mowen"
},
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},
{
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"3": "māwan"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "mēow"
},
"expansion": "mēow",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"2": "māwen"
},
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},
{
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"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*māan"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*mēaną"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂meh₁-",
"4": "",
"5": "to mow, reap"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "maaien"
},
"expansion": "Dutch maaien",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "mähen"
},
"expansion": "German mähen",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "meje"
},
"expansion": "Danish meje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "meja"
},
"expansion": "Swedish meja",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "hit",
"2": "",
"3": "",
"gloss": "spring/early summer",
"lit": "mowing time",
"tr": "ḫamešḫa"
},
"expansion": "Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "metō",
"3": "",
"4": "I harvest, mow"
},
"expansion": "Latin metō (“I harvest, mow”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀμάω",
"3": "",
"4": "I mow"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “I mow”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English māwan (past tense mēow, past participle māwen), from Proto-West Germanic *māan, from Proto-Germanic *mēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”).\nSee also Dutch maaien, German mähen, Danish meje, Swedish meja; also Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin metō (“I harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “I mow”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mows",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mowing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "mowed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mowed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mown",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
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},
"expansion": "mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past mowed, past participle mowed or mown)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "aftermath"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "math"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "mead"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "meadow"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cut down grass or crops."
],
"id": "en-mow-en-verb-OG7kIhEK",
"links": [
[
"cut down",
"cut down"
],
[
"grass",
"grass"
],
[
"crop",
"crop"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cut down grass or crops."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1915, Captain Robert Palmer, Letters from Mesopotamia",
"text": "In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 2022-07-04",
"text": "On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went \"You know what, all the destroyers attack\", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cut down or slaughter in great numbers."
],
"id": "en-mow-en-verb-qzO33Tic",
"links": [
[
"cut down",
"cut down"
],
[
"slaughter",
"slaughter"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, often with through) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers."
],
"raw_tags": [
"with through"
],
"tags": [
"often",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/məʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/moʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
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"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "jazza",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "جَزَّ"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥəšš",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic"
],
"word": "حشّ"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hnjel",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "հնձել"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "tundu"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kasícʹ",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "касі́ць"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "sjekčý",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "секчы́"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kosjá",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "кося́"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "bua",
"lang": "Buryat",
"roman": "xadaxa",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "хадаха"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "segar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "amo"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yì",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "刈"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gē",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "割"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "cmn",
"english": "cut grass",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gēcǎo",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "割草"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "kosit"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "sekat"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "žnout"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "síci"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "meje"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "slå"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "klippe"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "maaien"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "tondi"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "falĉi"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "niitma"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "niittää"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "leikata ruohoa"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "couper l’herbe"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "faucher"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "tondre le gazon"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "restrebar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "seiturar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "segar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "raer"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "atrollar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "lampear"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "gadañar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "cernar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "fradar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "esmozar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "degallar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "demoucar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "espolar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "roa-gal",
"lang": "Gallo",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "faoucher"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "mähen"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "schneiden"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "slá"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "slá gras"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "memotong rumput"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "löövvä"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "bain"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "falciare"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "tagliare l'erba"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "mietere"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"alt": "かる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "karu",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "刈る"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "xal",
"lang": "Kalmyk",
"roman": "xadx",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "хадх"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "beda",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "베다"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "kkakda",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "깎다"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "lld",
"lang": "Ladin",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "sië"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "pļaut"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "kauseit"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "tondeō"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "pļaut"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kósi",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ко́си"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "xadax",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "хадах"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "faûchi"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "slå"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "skjære"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "klippe"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "cu",
"lang": "Church Slavic",
"roman": "sěšti",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сѣщи"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "māwan"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "os",
"lang": "Ossetian",
"roman": "kærdyn",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "кӕрдын"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "tırpanlamak",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "طرپانلامق"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "kosić"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "skosić"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "żąć"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zżąć"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "siec"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "cortar"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "ichhuy"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to cut down",
"word": "tunde"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kosítʹ",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "коси́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skášivatʹ",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ска́шивать"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skosítʹ",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "скоси́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pokosítʹ",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "покоси́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otkosítʹ",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "откоси́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sečʹ",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сечь"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poséčʹ",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "посе́чь"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výsečʹ",
"sense": "to cut down",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "вы́сечь"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žatʹ",
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"ref": "1915, Captain Robert Palmer, Letters from Mesopotamia",
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"ref": "2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 2022-07-04",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "gl",
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"(now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face."
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"sense": "to make grimaces, mock",
"word": "гримаснича"
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sseogeun pyojeongeul jitda",
"sense": "to make grimaces, mock",
"word": "썩은 표정-을 짓다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jjipurida",
"sense": "to make grimaces, mock",
"word": "찌푸리다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jjinggeurida",
"sense": "to make grimaces, mock",
"word": "찡그리다"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "to make grimaces, mock",
"word": "vaipytis"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "grimásničatʹ",
"sense": "to make grimaces, mock",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "грима́сничать"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to make grimaces, mock",
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"imperfective"
],
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}
],
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kupa seno",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "zvini",
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"word": "ზვინი"
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{
"code": "ko",
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"roman": "geoncho deomi",
"sense": "a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans",
"word": "건초 더미"
},
{
"code": "ko",
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"sense": "a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans",
"word": "볏단"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"masculine"
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"sense": "the place in a barn",
"word": "건초창고"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gokchang",
"sense": "the place in a barn",
"word": "곡창"
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"To put into mows."
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"(agriculture) To put into mows."
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ssata",
"sense": "to put into mows",
"word": "쌓다"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jeojanghada",
"sense": "to put into mows",
"word": "저장하다"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stogovátʹ",
"sense": "to put into mows",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "стогова́ть"
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to put into mows",
"word": "amontonar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to put into mows",
"word": "apilar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"note": "in barn",
"sense": "to put into mows",
"word": "almacenar"
}
],
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"extra": "a seagull",
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