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"english": "The New Arcadia",
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"text": "A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.",
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"text": "with the slipping of the pommel , the point swerved",
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"ref": "1785, The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel:",
"text": "I swerve not from thy commandments.",
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"ref": "1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:",
"text": "They swerve from the strict letter of the law.",
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"ref": "1705 November 8 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Standing Revelation, the Best Means of Conviction. A Sermon Preach’d before Her Majesty, at St. James’s Chapel, on Sunday, October 28. 1705, being the Festival of St. Simon and St. Jude.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 334:",
"text": "[T]here are many Perſons, who, through the Heat of their Luſts and Paſſions, through the Contagion of Ill Example, or too deep an Immerſion in the Affairs of Life, ſwerve exceedingly from the Rules of their Holy Faith; […]",
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"_dis1": "26 13 40 1 1 4 3 2 10",
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"roman": "otklonjavam se",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "отклонявам се"
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"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
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"word": "se détourner"
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"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "kotiti"
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"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "دونمك"
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"_dis1": "26 13 40 1 1 4 3 2 10",
"alt": "от правил",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "otxodítʹ",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
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"word": "отходи́ть"
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"alt": "закон",
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"roman": "prestupátʹ",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
"text": "The battle swerved.",
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"roman": "izvivam se",
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"word": "извивам се"
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"text": "The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.",
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"_dis1": "5 2 6 2 2 70 1 2 10",
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"roman": "uklonjátʹsja",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
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"ref": "2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:",
"text": "Snodgrass also saw a free-kick swerve just wide before Arsenal, with Walcott and Fabregas by now off the bench, turned their vastly superior possession into chances in the closing moments",
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"ref": "1869, Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, Part 10, Chapter 39:",
"text": "The French invaders, like an infuriated animal that has in its onslaught received a mortal wound, felt that they were perishing, but could not stop, any more than the Russian army, weaker by one half, could help swerving.",
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"roman": "otklonjátʹsja",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
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"word": "отклоня́ться"
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"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
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"word": "свора́чивать"
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"roman": "svernútʹ",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
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"word": "сверну́ть"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "povoráčivatʹ",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
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"word": "повора́чивать"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "povernútʹ",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"tags": [
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"word": "поверну́ть"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otklonjavam se",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "отклонявам се"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "zwerven"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "se détourner"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "dévier"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "deviare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "kotiti"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "dönmek",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "دونمك"
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"alt": "от правил",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otxodítʹ",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "отходи́ть"
},
{
"alt": "закон",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prestupátʹ",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"tags": [
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"word": "преступа́ть"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izvivam se",
"sense": "to bend",
"word": "извивам се"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to bend",
"word": "inclinarsi"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to bend",
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"word": "сгиба́ться"
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"sense": "to bend",
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],
"word": "согну́ться"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to climb or move upward",
"word": "arrampicarsi"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izbjagvam",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "избягвам"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "ausweichen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "schivare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "scansare"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "scapolare"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "derapare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "tataha"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "uklonjátʹsja",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
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],
"word": "уклоня́ться"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "uklonítʹsja",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уклони́ться"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "väja"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "gira"
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"ref": "1990, American Motorcyclist, volume 44, number 7, page 11:",
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"ref": "1874, William Edwin Boardman, Faith-work, Or the Labours of Dr. Cullis, in Boston, page 56:",
"text": "[…] indubitable evidence of a swerve from the principle of the work.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otklonenie",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
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"word": "отклонение"
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"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
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"word": "esquive"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
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"word": "Schlenker"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
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"word": "Ausweichmanöver"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sbandata"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
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"word": "deviazione"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
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"word": "scarto"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
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"word": "sbalzo"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
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"word": "scostamento"
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"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
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"word": "guinada"
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"word": "volantazo"
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