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"ref": "1994, James Howard Kunstler, The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape, Simon and Schuster, page 10",
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "premsonĝa"
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"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
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"word": "alptraumartig"
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"word": "da incubo"
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"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
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"word": "кошма́рный"
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"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
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"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "premsonĝa"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "painajaismainen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "cauchemardesque"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "albtraumhaft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "alptraumhaft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "albtraumartig"
},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "alptraumartig"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "εφιαλτικός"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "da incubo"
},
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"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"tags": [
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"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "košmariškos"
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"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"tags": [
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"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "pesadelar"
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"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "košmárnyj",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "кошма́рный"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "pesadillesco"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "apesadillado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "mardrömslik"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "mardrömsaktig"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "resembling a nightmare",
"word": "kojmarasümik"
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"word": "nightmarish"
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