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],
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},
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{
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{
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sinew-shrunk"
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{
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"word": "sinews of war"
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"4": "sinew; nerve"
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"2": "zenuw",
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"4": "nerve, sinew"
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"3": "",
"4": "tendon, sinew; cord"
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"3": "",
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{
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"2": "𐬯𐬥𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭",
"3": "",
"4": "tendon, sinew"
},
"expansion": "Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭 (snāuuar, “tendon, sinew”)",
"name": "cog"
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"4": "tendon; nerve; cord"
},
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{
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"4": "tendon, sinew; nerve"
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"4": "sinew, tendon; muscle",
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"3": "neuron"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English synwe, synewe (“tendon; ligament or other connective tissue; muscle; nerve; leaf vein”), from Old English sinu (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinu, from Proto-Germanic *sinwō, *senawō (“sinew”), from Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥ (“tendon, sinew”), from *(s)neh₁- (“to twist (threads), spin, weave”).\nThe word is cognate with sinnow (“sinew”), Scots senon, sinnon, Saterland Frisian Siene (“sinew”), West Frisian senuw, sine (“sinew; nerve”), Dutch zenuw (“nerve, sinew”), German Sehne (“tendon, sinew; cord”), Icelandic sin (“tendon”), Swedish sena (“sinew”), Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭 (snāuuar, “tendon, sinew”), Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “tendon; nerve; cord”), Latin nervus (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), Sanskrit स्नावन् (snāván, “sinew, tendon; muscle”), Tocharian B ṣñor (“sinew”). Doublet of nerve and neuron.",
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]
}
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"pos": "noun",
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"(anatomy) A cord or tendon of the body."
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"Sound",
"Culture",
"Energy",
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"Fundamental"
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"word": "twine"
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"Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength."
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"muscle",
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[
"nerve",
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[
"nervous",
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[
"energy",
"energy"
],
[
"vigor",
"vigor"
],
[
"vigorous",
"vigorous"
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[
"strength",
"strength"
]
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"(figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength."
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"tags": [
"figuratively"
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"roman": "zorutʿyun",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"word": "զորություն"
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"roman": "muskulatura",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "мускулатура"
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"roman": "fizičeska sila",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
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"feminine"
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"word": "физическа сила"
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"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"word": "spierkracht"
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"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"word": "sterkte"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"word": "voima"
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{
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"word": "jäntevyys"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kraft"
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{
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"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
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"feminine"
],
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"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
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"word": "Nervenstärke"
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{
"_dis1": "1 4 83 12 1",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Spannkraft"
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{
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"word": "erő"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 83 12 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"word": "izomerő"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 83 12 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"word": "nerbo"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 83 12 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vână"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 83 12 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"word": "snaga"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 83 12 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "снага"
},
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"_dis1": "1 4 83 12 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
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"word": "spänst"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 83 12 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength",
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]
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{
"ref": "1658, Walter Raleigh, “A Collection of Political Observations (Confirmed by Reason and Experience) Advertising Princes, Statesmen, and Private Persons how to Demean Themselves in All Fortunes and Events”, in The Cabinet-Council: Containing the Cheif Arts of Empire, and Mysteries of State; […], London: Published by John Milton; printed by Tho[mas] Newcomb for Tho[mas] Johnson […], →OCLC, page 101",
"text": "The Bodies of Men, Munition, and Mony may justly be called the ſinews of War, yet of them the two firſt are more neceſſary, for Men and Arms have means to find Mony and Meate: but Mony and Meate cannot ſo eaſily find Soldiers and ſwords.",
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"That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay."
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[
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[
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"(figuratively, often in the plural) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay."
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "that which gives strength or in which strength consists",
"word": "wilskracht"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "that which gives strength or in which strength consists",
"word": "voimanlähde"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 12 86 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "that which gives strength or in which strength consists",
"word": "hajtóerő"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 12 86 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "that which gives strength or in which strength consists",
"word": "mozgatóerő"
}
]
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"(anatomy, obsolete) A nerve."
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],
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]
}
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{
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"General-American"
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