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"sense": "beset with unfortunate circumstances",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "beset with unfortunate circumstances",
"word": "ayvayı yemek"
},
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"roman": "pijan",
"sense": "slang: intoxicated",
"word": "пиян"
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"word": "kännissä"
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"text": "He screwed the boards together tightly."
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"text": "I got screwed at the swap meet yesterday."
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"text": "1641, Richard Chambers (merchant), quoted in Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise, Part II: The After-Growth of the Constitution, H.O. Houghton & Company (1889), p. 274,\n[…] merchants are in no part of the world so screwed as in England. In Turkey, they have more encouragement."
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