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"2": "la",
"3": "sīc",
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},
"expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”)",
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}
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"etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).",
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},
"expansion": "sic (not comparable)",
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"pos": "adv",
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{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "47 16 18 19",
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English animal commands",
"parents": [
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"Interjections",
"Communication",
"Lemmas",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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},
{
"_dis": "60 17 19 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
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{
"ref": "1909 January 28, H. E. Wilkie Young, “Notes on the City of Mosul” (despatch No. 4), in Foreign Office, volume 195, number 2308; quoted in Elie Khadouri[e], “Mosul in 1909”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 7, number 2, 1971, →JSTOR, page 229",
"text": "When it is all over they merge and go in a body to visit [...] the Telegraph Office – with plausible expressions of regret and excuses for the mob ‘which’ they say ‘is deplorably ignorant and will not be restrained when its feelings are strongly moved’ – sic, the fact being that the mob’s feelings will never be ‘moved’ unless it is by one of them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Monika Fludernik, The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction, Routledge, page 468",
"text": "Bolinger, Dwight (1977) ‘Pronoun and repeated nouns.’ Lingua18:1-34 [Quoted sic in Toolan 1990. Neither in Lingua 18, nor in the 1977 volume of that journal.]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Christina Scull with Wayne G. Hammond, JRR Tolkien companion & guide, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt",
"text": "Joseph Wright, his predecessor in the chair, called him ‘a firstrate Scholar and a kind of man who will easily make friends’ at Oxford (quoted, sic, in E.M. Wright, The Life of Joseph Wright (1932), p. 483).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Paul Booth, Digital Fandom: New Media Studies, Peter Lang, page 127",
"text": "Jim’s Interests: General: Working out, hanging out at the local bars, expanding my mind, eating Tuna Sandwhiches...or so I’m told and poker... Television: ... this show that’s on Thuresday nights at 8 :30pm... I can’t place the name of it but it has this crazy interview style thing...[all sic]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Milton J. Bates, The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed, Wisconsin Historical Society, page 271",
"text": "whole bussiness: Quoted sic in George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source."
],
"id": "en-sic-en-adv-8-b2ILVI",
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[
"Thus",
"thus"
],
[
"text",
"text#English"
],
[
"quote",
"quote#English"
],
[
"source",
"source#English"
]
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"english": "used to note the error and supply the supposed intended phrasing",
"word": "sic pro"
},
{
"english": "used to indicate that the preceding word, phrase, or term is used in the same manner (or form) throughout the remainder of a text",
"word": "sic passim"
},
{
"english": "so passes the glory of the world; fame is temporary; lit.",
"word": "sic transit gloria mundi"
},
{
"english": "thus always to tyrants; and shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln",
"word": "sic semper tyrannis"
}
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "kaḏā",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "كَذَا"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "tak",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "так"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yuánwén rúcǐ",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "原文如此"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "sic"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "siten"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "juuri näin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "sic"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "sic"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "sic"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "so"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aftolexeí",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "αυτολεξεί"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "sic"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mama",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "ママ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "wonmundaero",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "원문대로"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kazâ",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "کذا"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "sic"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tak",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "так"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "тако"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "tako"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "sic"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "sic"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "så"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "tak",
"sense": "thus, thus written",
"word": "так"
}
]
}
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"ipa": "/sɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "sick"
},
{
"homophone": "Sikh (one pronunciation)"
},
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},
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"name": "lbor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).",
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{
"form": "sics",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "siccing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sicced",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "sicced",
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"past"
]
}
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1887 May 7, E. Belfort Bax, “On Some Forms of Modern Cant”, in Commonweal",
"text": "The fact is, of course, that the modern reviewer’s taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates, but he must find something to say and above all make a slow of purism.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To mark with a bracketed sic."
],
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}
],
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
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"homophone": "sick"
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"homophone": "Sikh (one pronunciation)"
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "seek"
},
"expansion": "seek",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Variant of seek.",
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{
"form": "sics",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "siccing",
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"participle",
"present"
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{
"form": "sicced",
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"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "etymologically unrelated",
"word": "sic bo"
}
],
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{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He sicced his dog on me!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown",
"text": "Phreaks can max-out 911 systems just by siccing a bunch of computer-modems on them in tandem, dialling them over and over until they clog.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Brian Merchant, “Click Here to Kill: The dark world of online murder markets”, in Harper’s Magazine, volume 2020, number January",
"text": "I was interviewing the victims of a harebrained scheme to sic contract killers on an innocent woman",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs."
],
"id": "en-sic-en-verb-BWlHz0rQ",
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[
"incite",
"incite"
],
[
"attack",
"attack"
]
],
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"(transitive) To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "aquissar"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "acanissar"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "abordar"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "abuixar"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "abornar"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "amussar"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "zetten"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "aanzetten"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "opjutten"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "usuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "hetzen"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "siga"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "etja"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "sdh",
"lang": "Southern Kurdish",
"roman": "hişkedan",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "ھِشکەدان"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "bichʼįʼ yishʼá"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "szczuć"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "poszczuć"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "napuszczać"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "napuścić"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naúsʹkivatʹ",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "нау́ськивать"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "natrávlivatʹ",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "натра́вливать"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "natravítʹ",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "натрави́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "azuzar"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "(üzerine) salmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 20",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "saldırtmak"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Sic ’em, Mitzi.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To set upon; to chase; to attack."
],
"id": "en-sic-en-verb-XCDmyhGk",
"links": [
[
"set upon",
"set upon"
],
[
"chase",
"chase"
],
[
"attack",
"attack"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To set upon; to chase; to attack."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "set upon",
"word": "pakken"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "set upon",
"word": "fassen"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "set upon",
"word": "bichʼįʼ dah diilyeed"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"alt": "кого-л.",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spuskátʹ",
"sense": "set upon",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "спуска́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "set upon",
"word": "largarle los perros"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "set upon",
"word": "echarle los perros"
}
]
}
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"ipa": "/sɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "sick"
},
{
"homophone": "Sikh (one pronunciation)"
},
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"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
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"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "sick"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "sicc"
}
],
"word": "sic"
}
{
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"English 1-syllable words",
"English adverbs",
"English animal commands",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English learned borrowings from Latin",
"English lemmas",
"English terms borrowed from Latin",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English unadapted borrowings from Latin",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
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"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "sīc",
"t": "thus, so"
},
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"name": "lbor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).",
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"1": "-"
},
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"english": "used to note the error and supply the supposed intended phrasing",
"word": "sic pro"
},
{
"english": "used to indicate that the preceding word, phrase, or term is used in the same manner (or form) throughout the remainder of a text",
"word": "sic passim"
},
{
"english": "so passes the glory of the world; fame is temporary; lit.",
"word": "sic transit gloria mundi"
},
{
"english": "thus always to tyrants; and shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln",
"word": "sic semper tyrannis"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1909 January 28, H. E. Wilkie Young, “Notes on the City of Mosul” (despatch No. 4), in Foreign Office, volume 195, number 2308; quoted in Elie Khadouri[e], “Mosul in 1909”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 7, number 2, 1971, →JSTOR, page 229",
"text": "When it is all over they merge and go in a body to visit [...] the Telegraph Office – with plausible expressions of regret and excuses for the mob ‘which’ they say ‘is deplorably ignorant and will not be restrained when its feelings are strongly moved’ – sic, the fact being that the mob’s feelings will never be ‘moved’ unless it is by one of them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Monika Fludernik, The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction, Routledge, page 468",
"text": "Bolinger, Dwight (1977) ‘Pronoun and repeated nouns.’ Lingua18:1-34 [Quoted sic in Toolan 1990. Neither in Lingua 18, nor in the 1977 volume of that journal.]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Christina Scull with Wayne G. Hammond, JRR Tolkien companion & guide, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt",
"text": "Joseph Wright, his predecessor in the chair, called him ‘a firstrate Scholar and a kind of man who will easily make friends’ at Oxford (quoted, sic, in E.M. Wright, The Life of Joseph Wright (1932), p. 483).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Paul Booth, Digital Fandom: New Media Studies, Peter Lang, page 127",
"text": "Jim’s Interests: General: Working out, hanging out at the local bars, expanding my mind, eating Tuna Sandwhiches...or so I’m told and poker... Television: ... this show that’s on Thuresday nights at 8 :30pm... I can’t place the name of it but it has this crazy interview style thing...[all sic]",
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"ref": "2012, Milton J. Bates, The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed, Wisconsin Historical Society, page 271",
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"ref": "2019, Brian Merchant, “Click Here to Kill: The dark world of online murder markets”, in Harper’s Magazine, volume 2020, number January",
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "aquissar"
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
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{
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{
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},
{
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "usuttaa"
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"word": "hetzen"
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"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "siga"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "etja"
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{
"code": "sdh",
"lang": "Southern Kurdish",
"roman": "hişkedan",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "ھِشکەدان"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "bichʼįʼ yishʼá"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naúsʹkivatʹ",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "нау́ськивать"
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{
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"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "incite an attack by",
"tags": [
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],
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "incite an attack by",
"word": "(üzerine) salmak"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incite an attack by",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "set upon",
"word": "fassen"
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"word": "bichʼįʼ dah diilyeed"
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"sense": "set upon",
"tags": [
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "set upon",
"word": "echarle los perros"
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