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"text": "a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground",
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"ref": "1964 November, “\"Cartic 4\"—BR's new two-tier car-carrier”, in Modern Railways, page 324",
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"To cut or score; to wound superficially."
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"(transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful."
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"word": "foil"
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"word": "put the kibosh on"
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"word": "blockieren"
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"roman": "položítʹ konéc",
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"word": "положи́ть коне́ц"
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"ref": "2023 August 23, Rory Carroll, “Files reveal terms ministers were warned not to use in Northern Ireland”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "Other declassified files from the 1960s show that the Northern Ireland government discussed a proposed tunnel to Scotland. Several district councils and a US firm, Technical Studies Inc, championed the idea, but Stormont officials scotched it as impractical and too expensive.",
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"text": "The workers stopped the rig on an incline and scotched the wheels.",
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"ref": "1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, London: Methuen Publishing, OCLC 492063506; republished Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, 1910s, OCLC 225424669, page 69",
"text": "The pantechnicon was running away. It had perceived the wrath to come and was fleeing. Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose."
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"text": "Yarn is scotched immediately after it has been dried and while it is still warm. http://www.google.com/patents?id=DXdGAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP3&vq=scotched&dq=scotching"
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"To rape."
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