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},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "deception",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Täuschung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "deception",
"word": "megtévesztés"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ízmama",
"sense": "deception",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "и́змама"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obmán",
"sense": "deception",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "обма́н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "deception",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "izvrdavanje"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "deception",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "obmana"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "obman",
"sense": "deception",
"word": "обман"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"subterfuge"
],
"word": "subterfuge"
}
{
"called_from": "translations/324",
"msg": "possible sense number in translation item: French: subterfuge (fr) m (1)",
"path": [
"subterfuge"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "subterfuge",
"trace": ""
}
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