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},
"expansion": "soap + stone",
"name": "compound"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": ",",
"name": ","
}
],
"etymology_text": "soap + stone; so called because the archetypal varieties of the stone resemble soap in multiple ways: their feel, appearance, and carvability.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "soapstones",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "soapstoning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "soapstoned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "soapstoned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "soapstone (third-person singular simple present soapstones, present participle soapstoning, simple past and past participle soapstoned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To scrub with soapstone."
],
"links": [
[
"scrub",
"scrub"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To scrub with soapstone."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "soapstone"
}
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