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"ref": "1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 138",
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"word": "se balader"
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"word": "spazieren"
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"sense": "to walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter",
"word": "bummeln"
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"word": "kószál"
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"word": "sétál"
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"sense": "to walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter",
"word": "ānau"
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"sense": "to walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter",
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"word": "se passejar"
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"word": "landrejar"
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"roman": "progúlivatʹsja",
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"word": "прогу́ливаться"
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"text": "1994, Richard Thompson, “Beeswing”\nWe was drinking more in those days and tempers reached a pitch\nAnd like a fool I let her run with the rambling itch"
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"word": "jaaritella"
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"word": "elkalandozik"
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"word": "murakehu"
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"word": "kāwekaweka"
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"roman": "bormotatʹ",
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"tags": [
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"word": "бормотать"
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"roman": "putatʹ slova",
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"tags": [
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"lang": "Maori",
"note": "of speaking",
"sense": "to talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions",
"word": "murakehu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions",
"word": "kāwekaweka"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bormotatʹ",
"sense": "to talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "бормотать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "probormotatʹ",
"sense": "to talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "пробормотать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "putatʹ slova",
"sense": "to talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "путать слова"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"raw_tags": [
"?masculine"
],
"roman": "zaputalsja v slovax",
"sense": "to talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "запутался в словах"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions",
"word": "divagar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"colloquial"
],
"word": "debrayar"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "pə́ə",
"sense": "to talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions",
"word": "เพ้อ"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to follow a winding path or course",
"word": "serpentear"
}
],
"word": "ramble"
}
{
"called_from": "page/2517",
"msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'to move about aimlessly', 2: 'wander'}",
"path": [
"ramble",
"trans-top-see"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "ramble",
"trace": ""
}
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