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"form": "scales off",
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "scaling off",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "scaled off",
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"participle",
"past"
]
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{
"form": "scaled off",
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"examples": [
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"ref": "1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars",
"text": "Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.",
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],
"glosses": [
"To peel off"
],
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"word": "scale off"
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"text": "Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.",
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