"pay dearly" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "pays dearly",
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        "present",
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    },
    {
      "form": "paying dearly",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid dearly",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid dearly",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1949 September and October, “Notes and News: The Windsor Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:",
          "text": "Both the G.W.R. and the L.S.W.R. had to pay dearly for the privilege of entering the Royal Borough, for the Prince Consort drove a hard bargain with each.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To suffer as a result of one's actions."
      ],
      "id": "en-pay_dearly-en-verb-DnCIXTWm",
      "links": [
        [
          "suffer",
          "suffer"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To suffer as a result of one's actions."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "payer cher"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pay dearly"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pays dearly",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paying dearly",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid dearly",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid dearly",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "1949 September and October, “Notes and News: The Windsor Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:",
          "text": "Both the G.W.R. and the L.S.W.R. had to pay dearly for the privilege of entering the Royal Borough, for the Prince Consort drove a hard bargain with each.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To suffer as a result of one's actions."
      ],
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        "(figuratively) To suffer as a result of one's actions."
      ],
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      "word": "payer cher"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pay dearly"
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