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"ref": "1806 October, J. H. K., “Hints on the Manner in which Christian Parents should Improve the Death of Children”, in The Evangelical Magazine, volume XIV, London: […] [G. Auld] for Williams and Smith, […], →OCLC, page 441",
"text": "[W]e never know the full force of parental affection till our children are about to be taken from us. It is then that we discover how strongly they have entwined themselves round our hearts; when we behold the fixed eye, the pale lips, the convulsive throws of death distorting the countenance; or when with aching and throbbing hearts we deposit those who are a part of ourselves in the cold and silent grave.",
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"A severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.",
"The pain of labour or childbirth; the suffering of death."
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"A severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.",
"(usually in the plural) The pain of labour or childbirth; the suffering of death."
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"sense": "pain of labour or childbirth",
"word": "երկունք"
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"Any severe pang or spasm, especially an outburst of feeling; a paroxysm."
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"ref": "2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-03-04",
"text": "Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).",
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"word": "ܚܒܠܐ"
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"sense": "severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die",
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"sense": "severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die",
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"sense": "severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die",
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"sense": "severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die",
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"sense": "severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die",
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"sense": "severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die",
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},
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"sense": "severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die",
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"roman": "erkunkʿ",
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"sense": "pain of labour or childbirth",
"word": "երկն"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vyzyvátʹ agóniju",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to feel throes, as if in childbirth; to put in agony",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "терза́ть"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "agoniziram",
"sense": "to feel throes; to struggle in extreme pain",
"word": "агонизирам"
}
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