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"roman": "zapušvam",
"sense": "to fill a hole or block an opening or passage",
"word": "запушвам"
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"To permanently close or block (a road or path); to legally extinguish a right of way."
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"(photography) To increase the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a higher number to an f/stop represented by a lower number and causing more light to pass into the camera."
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"roman": "zapušvam",
"sense": "to fill a hole or block an opening or passage",
"word": "запушвам"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to fill a hole or block an opening or passage",
"word": "ŝtopi"
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{
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"sense": "to fill a hole or block an opening or passage",
"word": "obtūrō"
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"word": "stop up"
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