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"ref": "1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 130",
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"ref": "1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 130",
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"sense": "chasm or fissure",
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"feminine"
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"code": "yue",
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"sense": "chasm or fissure",
"word": "罅"
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"word": "rift"
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"masculine"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "chasm or fissure",
"word": "kuilu"
},
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "chasm or fissure",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "chasm or fissure",
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"code": "fr",
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"masculine"
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"neuter"
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"sense": "chasm or fissure",
"word": "दरार"
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"code": "hi",
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"sense": "chasm or fissure",
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"code": "hi",
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"sense": "chasm or fissure",
"word": "फटन"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"masculine"
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"code": "mk",
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{
"code": "mi",
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"code": "pt",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"text": "1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt\nhe stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through the rifted logs of the raft into the water.",
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