See slouch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"masculine"
],
"word": "тормоз"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "awkward, heavy, clownish fellow",
"word": "köntys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "awkward, heavy, clownish fellow",
"word": "empoté"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "awkward, heavy, clownish fellow",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Versager"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "awkward, heavy, clownish fellow",
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"word": "Niete"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "uvalenʹ",
"sense": "awkward, heavy, clownish fellow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "увалень"
}
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"word": "slouch"
}
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"3": "slókr",
"4": "",
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"name": "der"
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"4": "to slouch, wilt"
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{
"form": "slouches",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
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},
{
"form": "slouching",
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"participle",
"present"
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"past"
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{
"text": "Do not slouch when playing a flute.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture"
],
"links": [
[
"hang",
"hang"
],
[
"droop",
"droop"
]
],
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"(intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture"
],
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]
},
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"text": "I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner."
],
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"(intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner."
],
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"intransitive"
]
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1896, Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger, page 107:",
"text": "[…] then he slouched his head down on the table and pretended to sleep.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Kim Vogel Sawyer, When Hope Blossoms, page 281:",
"text": "Disappointment slouched him into the pew.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"glosses": [
"To cause to hang down or droop; to depress."
],
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"(transitive) To cause to hang down or droop; to depress."
],
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"ipa": "/slaʊt͡ʃ/"
},
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"audio": "en-us-slouch.ogg",
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"rhymes": "-aʊtʃ"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to adopt a limp posture",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "hrbit se"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to adopt a limp posture",
"word": "encorvar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to walk lazily",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vláčet se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to walk lazily",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "šourat se"
}
],
"word": "slouch"
}
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