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"expansion": "physic (third-person singular simple present physics, present participle physicking, simple past and past participle physicked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To cure or heal."
],
"links": [
[
"cure",
"cure#Verb"
],
[
"heal",
"heal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cure or heal."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1987, Stephen King, The Tommyknockers",
"text": "When she had been a little girl - a very little girl - her mother had once cried at Anne in utter exasperation, \"You're so contrary cheese'd physic ya!\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To administer medicine to, especially a purgative."
],
"links": [
[
"administer",
"administer"
],
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"purgative",
"purgative"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To administer medicine to, especially a purgative."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɪzɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪzɪk"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-physic.wav",
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "physick"
}
],
"word": "physic"
}
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