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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadušliv",
"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "задушлив"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "étouffant"
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"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "abafante"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "pongere"
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"ref": "1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century, page 507",
"text": "Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.",
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"ref": "2022 November 30, Philip Haigh, “Expansion plans to restore Washington to rail network”, in RAIL, number 971, page 64",
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"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "задушлив"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "étouffant"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "abafante"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "sufocante"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "fullasztó"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "pongere"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "pōngerengere"
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"code": "pdt",
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"sense": "that stifles",
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "sufocante"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "that stifles",
"word": "sofocante"
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"word": "kvävande"
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"ref": "2022 November 30, Philip Haigh, “Expansion plans to restore Washington to rail network”, in RAIL, number 971, page 64",
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"glosses": [
"The act by which something is stifled."
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