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"To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place."
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"(transitive) To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place."
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"To bowl."
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"(cricket) To bowl."
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"To commit (someone) to a prison term."
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"(transitive, slang) To commit (someone) to a prison term."
],
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"sense": "to commit to a prison term",
"word": "leültet"
}
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"To demote a player within the levels of professional baseball."
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"(baseball) To demote a player within the levels of professional baseball."
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"To suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university."
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"(transitive, UK, Ireland, usually Oxbridge slang, dated) To suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izključvam",
"sense": "to expel from university",
"word": "изключвам"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otčíslitʹ iz universitéta",
"sense": "to expel from university",
"word": "отчи́слить из университе́та"
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"(cricket) To bowl."
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"To commit (someone) to a prison term."
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"(transitive, slang) To commit (someone) to a prison term."
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"To demote a player within the levels of professional baseball."
],
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"(baseball) To demote a player within the levels of professional baseball."
],
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"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
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"(transitive, UK, Ireland, usually Oxbridge slang, dated) To suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university."
],
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"roman": "izključvam",
"sense": "to expel from university",
"word": "изключвам"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otčíslitʹ iz universitéta",
"sense": "to expel from university",
"word": "отчи́слить из университе́та"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to commit to a prison term",
"word": "leültet"
}
],
"word": "send down"
}
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