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"Rhymes:English/ɛtʃɪŋ",
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English strecchinge, strecchynge, from Old English streċċende, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjandī, present participle of *strakkjan (“to stretch”), equivalent to stretch + -ing.",
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