See regale in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel ([Paul] Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly ([Amy] Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.",
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"ref": "1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section V:",
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"text": "to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zabavljavam",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "забавлявам"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
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"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "ergötzen"
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"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "dilettare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "whakangahau"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "whakaharakoa"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "whakarekareka"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "veselítʹ",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
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"word": "весели́ть"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
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"word": "развлека́ть"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "regalar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "agasajar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to please someone with entertainment",
"word": "gasajar"
},
{
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "filipsescu"
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"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "uspitedz"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ugoštavam",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "угощавам"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "onthalen"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "régaler"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "festlich bewirten"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "taurima"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "ospăta"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ugoščátʹ",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"word": "угоща́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pótčevatʹ",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "по́тчевать"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "regalar"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "välfägna"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to provide a meal and entertainment",
"word": "ağarlamak"
}
],
"word": "regale"
}
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