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"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "nerfer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "nerfen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "nerfare"
},
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"code": "ja",
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"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "nāfu",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "ナーフ"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "nerfar"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "nérfitʹ",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "не́рфить"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "ponérfitʹ",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "поне́рфить"
},
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"lang": "Sicilian",
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"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "nirfari"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "nerfear"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "debilitar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "menguar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "reducir"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "to arbitrarily limit or reduce one's capacity",
"word": "nerflemek"
}
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"Nerf"
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"etymology_text": "From the Nerf brand of toys designed as non-dangerous counterparts of existing things, such as sports balls and guns. Originally used to equate a change in the damage of a weapon in a video game to a change from real weapons to Nerf weapons.",
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"(slang, video games) The deterioration, weakening or worsening of a character, a weapon, a spell, etc."
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