See pulsate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"roman": "pulsiram",
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"roman": "mak⁶ dong⁶",
"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "脈動 /脉动"
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"roman": "tiu³ dong⁶",
"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "（有規律地）跳動 /（有规律地）跳动"
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"word": "pulzovat"
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "sykkiä"
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{
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "pulsieren"
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"code": "grc",
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"roman": "sphúzō",
"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
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"roman": "skarízō",
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "frithbhuail"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "pulsare"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
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"word": "tętnić"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "pulsar"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "pulsa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "pulʹsírovatʹ",
"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "пульси́ровать"
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"lang": "Russian",
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"roman": "bítʹsja",
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"word": "би́ться"
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
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{
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "latir"
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{
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "pulsera"
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"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
"word": "särp-"
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{
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"roman": "pulʹsuváty",
"sense": "to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat",
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"imperfective"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"roman": "vibriram",
"sense": "to quiver, vibrate, thrill",
"word": "вибрирам"
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"sense": "to quiver, vibrate, thrill",
"word": "pulzovat"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"sense": "to quiver, vibrate, thrill",
"word": "väristä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to quiver, vibrate, thrill",
"word": "pulsieren"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "vibrírovatʹ",
"sense": "to quiver, vibrate, thrill",
"word": "вибри́ровать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "drožátʹ",
"sense": "to quiver, vibrate, thrill",
"word": "дрожа́ть"
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"lang": "Czech",
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"sense": "to produce a recurring increase and decrease",
"word": "oscilovat"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to produce a recurring increase and decrease",
"word": "sykkiä"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to produce a recurring increase and decrease",
"word": "pulsieren"
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"sense": "to produce a recurring increase and decrease",
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],
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}
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.