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"sense": "stop or slow a horse",
"word": "pysäyttää"
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"(figurative) To stop or slow something, by exercising control."
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"sense": "stop or slow a horse",
"word": "pysäyttää"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stop or slow a horse",
"word": "hillitä"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stop or slow a horse",
"word": "zügeln"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stop or slow a horse",
"word": "megzaboláz"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stop or slow a horse",
"word": "frear"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stop or slow a horse",
"word": "sofrenar"
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"sense": "stop or slow something",
"word": "beteugelen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stop or slow something",
"word": "suitsia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stop or slow something",
"word": "hillitä"
},
{
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "stop or slow something",
"word": "zügeln"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stop or slow something",
"word": "megzaboláz"
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{
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"sense": "stop or slow something",
"word": "frear"
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"sense": "stop or slow something",
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"word": "обу́здывать"
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"roman": "sdérživatʹ",
"sense": "stop or slow something",
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"word": "сде́рживать"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "stop or slow something",
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