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"forms": [
{
"form": "sets off",
"tags": [
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
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"participle",
"present"
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"name": "en-verb"
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{
"text": "He set off in search of better opportunities.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:",
"text": "Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.",
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"To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip."
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"(idiomatic, intransitive) To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip."
],
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"word": "set forth"
},
{
"word": "take off"
},
{
"word": "leave"
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"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chūfā",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "出發 /出发"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "gå af"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
"code": "da",
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "forløbe"
},
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "vertrekken"
},
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"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "lähteä matkaan"
},
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"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
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"colloquial"
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"word": "losmachen"
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"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "abgehen"
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"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
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"word": "sich absetzen"
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"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "elindul"
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"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
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"word": "útnak indul"
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "memulai"
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"code": "ne",
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"roman": "yātrā suru garnu",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "यात्रा सुरु गर्नु"
},
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "gå av"
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"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
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"roman": "otpravljatʹsja",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "отправляться"
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"_dis1": "67 20 3 7 1 1 2",
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "partir"
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
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"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "taro allan"
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"text": "Coordinate term: kick off"
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"To begin; to cause; to initiate."
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"(idiomatic, transitive) To begin; to cause; to initiate."
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{
"word": "produce"
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{
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{
"word": "incite"
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"_dis1": "5 57 33 2 0 1 2",
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "yǐnfā",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "引發 /引发"
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"word": "saada aikaan"
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"_dis1": "5 57 33 2 0 1 2",
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"word": "auslösen"
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"english": "exalted",
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"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "entfesseln"
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"_dis1": "5 57 33 2 0 1 2",
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"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "in Gang bringen / setzen"
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"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "kivált"
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"_dis1": "5 57 33 2 0 1 2",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "előidéz"
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"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "causare"
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"_dis1": "5 57 33 2 0 1 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
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"text": "What a tragedy, that someone would set off a bomb in a crowded place.",
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"ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Secure Lab, Rift Station, Noveria:",
"text": "Wrex: There are acid tanks rigged up on that thing. Set them off. Millions of my ancestors died to put these things down. Don't let them come back.",
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"To cause to explode, let off."
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"(idiomatic, transitive) To cause to explode, let off."
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"_dis1": "33 0 49 12 0 6 0",
"word": "offset"
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"_dis1": "33 0 49 12 0 6 0",
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"word": "blow up"
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"_dis1": "1 34 59 1 1 2 2",
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "引爆"
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"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "ampua"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "zünden"
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"_dis1": "1 34 59 1 1 2 2",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "To cause to explode",
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"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "felrobbant"
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"(idiomatic, transitive) To put into an angry mood; to start (a person) ranting or sulking, etc."
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 100 0 0 0",
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"roman": "jīnù",
"sense": "To make angry",
"word": "激怒"
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"sense": "To make angry",
"word": "suututtaa"
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"sense": "To make angry",
"word": "mettre en colère"
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"sense": "To make angry",
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"sense": "To make angry",
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"code": "id",
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"word": "membuat marah"
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"text": "Her plain white dress was set off by a bright red stole.",
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"ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:",
"text": "And then one afternoon in the hinder end of April came young Heriotside riding to the Skerburnfoot. His arm was healed, he had got him a fine new suit of green, and his horse was a mettle beast that well set off his figure.",
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"text": "My taxes did not increase because the amount of my raise was set off by my losses in the stock market.",
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"ref": "1908, Henry James, chapter XXXIX, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James), New York edition, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as The Portrait of a Lady (EBook #283), United States: Project Gutenberg, 1 September 2001:",
"text": "When a woman had made such a mistake, there was only one way to repair it,—to accept it. One folly was enough, especially it was to last for ever; a second one would not much set it off.",
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"text": "Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.",
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"word": "incite"
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"text": "What a tragedy, that someone would set off a bomb in a crowded place.",
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"ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Secure Lab, Rift Station, Noveria:",
"text": "Wrex: There are acid tanks rigged up on that thing. Set them off. Millions of my ancestors died to put these things down. Don't let them come back.",
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"(idiomatic, transitive) To cause to explode, let off."
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"word": "detonate"
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"word": "touch off"
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"text": "Don't set him off or he won't shut up all day.",
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"word": "incense"
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"word": "enrage"
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"text": "Her plain white dress was set off by a bright red stole.",
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"ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:",
"text": "And then one afternoon in the hinder end of April came young Heriotside riding to the Skerburnfoot. His arm was healed, he had got him a fine new suit of green, and his horse was a mettle beast that well set off his figure.",
"type": "quote"
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"text": "My taxes did not increase because the amount of my raise was set off by my losses in the stock market.",
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"ref": "1908, Henry James, chapter XXXIX, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James), New York edition, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as The Portrait of a Lady (EBook #283), United States: Project Gutenberg, 1 September 2001:",
"text": "When a woman had made such a mistake, there was only one way to repair it,—to accept it. One folly was enough, especially it was to last for ever; a second one would not much set it off.",
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"(idiomatic, transitive) To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect."
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"word": "counter"
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"word": "counteract"
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"word": "negate"
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{
"word": "offstand"
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"transitive"
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"glosses": [
"To deface or soil the next sheet; said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry."
],
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"printing",
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"(printing, historical) To deface or soil the next sheet; said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry."
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"publishing"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chūfā",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "出發 /出发"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "gå af"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "forløbe"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "vertrekken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "lähteä matkaan"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "losmachen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "abgehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "sich absetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"tags": [
"person"
],
"word": "losziehen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "elindul"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "útnak indul"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "memulai"
},
{
"code": "ne",
"lang": "Nepali",
"roman": "yātrā suru garnu",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "यात्रा सुरु गर्नु"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "gå av"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otpravljatʹsja",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "отправляться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "partir"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "avgå"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
"word": "taro allan"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǐnfā",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "引發 /引发"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "saada aikaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"tags": [
"with-illative"
],
"word": "johtaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "aloittaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "panna alulle"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "auslösen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "exalted",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "entfesseln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "in Gang bringen / setzen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "kivált"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "előidéz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "causare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
"word": "determinare"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǐnbào",
"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "引爆"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "räjäyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "ampua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "laukaista"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "zünden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "abbrennen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "felrobbant"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To cause to explode",
"word": "innescare"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīnù",
"sense": "To make angry",
"word": "激怒"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To make angry",
"word": "suututtaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To make angry",
"word": "mettre en colère"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To make angry",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "anzünden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To make angry",
"word": "aufbringen (gegen)"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To make angry",
"word": "felbosszant"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To make angry",
"word": "feldühít"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "To make angry",
"word": "membuat marah"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dāpèi",
"sense": "To emphasize differences",
"word": "搭配"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chèntuō",
"sense": "To emphasize differences",
"word": "襯托 /衬托"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To emphasize differences",
"word": "korostaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To emphasize differences",
"word": "absetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To emphasize differences",
"word": "hervorheben"
}
],
"word": "set off"
}
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