"peppered" meaning in English

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "peppered moth"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "unpeppered"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more peppered",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most peppered",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and their Preparation, page 168",
          "text": "This heavily peppered soup was traditionally prepared to celebrate the rite of marriage in Languedoc.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Seasoned with pepper."
      ],
      "id": "en-peppered-en-adj-f2uYotoO",
      "links": [
        [
          "Seasoned",
          "season"
        ],
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          "pepper",
          "pepper"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "piperátos",
          "sense": "seasoned with pepper",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "πιπεράτος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "seasoned with pepper",
          "word": "piperātus"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: riddled"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Luke Eric Lassiter, Invitation to Anthropology, 2nd edition, page 8",
          "text": "Prior to 1900, within the population of peppered moths the vast majority were lightly peppered; but a very few were heavily peppered in their pigmentation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Speckled."
      ],
      "id": "en-peppered-en-adj-SicbK~TO",
      "links": [
        [
          "Speckled",
          "speckled"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "peppered"
}

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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "form_of": [
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          "word": "pepper"
        }
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        "simple past and past participle of pepper"
      ],
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          "pepper#English"
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  "word": "peppered"
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    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English verb forms"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "peppered moth"
    },
    {
      "word": "unpeppered"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more peppered",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most peppered",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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          "ref": "2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and their Preparation, page 168",
          "text": "This heavily peppered soup was traditionally prepared to celebrate the rite of marriage in Languedoc.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Seasoned with pepper."
      ],
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        ],
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          "pepper",
          "pepper"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: riddled"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Luke Eric Lassiter, Invitation to Anthropology, 2nd edition, page 8",
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Speckled."
      ],
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        [
          "Speckled",
          "speckled"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "piperátos",
      "sense": "seasoned with pepper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "πιπεράτος"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "seasoned with pepper",
      "word": "piperātus"
    }
  ],
  "word": "peppered"
}

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "simple past and past participle of pepper"
      ],
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