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]
},
{
"form": "swiddening",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "swiddened",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swiddened",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "swidden (third-person singular simple present swiddens, present participle swiddening, simple past and past participle swiddened)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "burn-beat"
},
{
"word": "slash and burn"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009 February 13, Drake Bennett, quoting James Scott, “The mystery of Zomia”, in The Boston Globe, Boston",
"text": "The reason, Scott says, is that swiddening provides a freedom that fixed agriculture does not.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To clear an area of land by cutting and burning."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈswɪdn̩/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪdən"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "kulottaa"
}
],
"word": "swidden"
}
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