"trammel" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtræməl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-trammel.wav Forms: trammels [plural]
Rhymes: -æməl Etymology: From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|trameyle}} Middle English trameyle, {{der|en|fro|tramail||net for catching fish}} Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), {{der|en|LL.|tremaculum}} Late Latin tremaculum, {{affix|la|tri-|macula|nocat=1|t1=tri-|t2=spot, speck; mesh, cell}} tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”), {{cog|it|tramaglio|t=trammel}} Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), {{cog|es|trasmallo|t=drift net}} Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} trammel (plural trammels)
  1. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle. Translations (something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress): пречка (prečka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 桎梏 (zhìgù) (Chinese Mandarin), este (Finnish), pidäke (Finnish), péga [feminine] (Galician), atranco [feminine] (Galician), traba [feminine] (Galician), Behinderung (German), Hinderung [feminine] (German), Fessel [feminine] (German), rete [feminine] (Italian), поме́ха (poméxa) [feminine] (Russian), traba (Spanish), hinder [neuter] (Swedish), band [neuter] (Swedish), fjätter [common-gender] (Swedish), tvångströja [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-trammel-en-noun-jZEKuWAa Disambiguation of 'something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress': 59 2 4 8 1 5 7 13
  2. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle Categories (topical): Fishing
    Sense id: en-trammel-en-noun--I681G25 Disambiguation of Fishing: 8 42 6 9 2 6 11 12 3 3
  3. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
    Sense id: en-trammel-en-noun-T7SwfxJN
  4. A vertical bar with several notches or chain of rings suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots by a hook which has an easily adjustable height. Categories (topical): Tools Categories (lifeform): Horse tack Translations (device to suspend cooking pots over a fire): чатал (čatal) [masculine] (Bulgarian), clemàstecs [masculine, plural] (Catalan), ketelhaak [feminine] (Dutch), heugel [masculine] (Dutch), patakoukku (Finnish), crémaillère [feminine] (French), gramalleira [feminine] (Galician), Kesselhaken [masculine] (German), griglia [feminine] (Italian), anello [masculine] (Italian), piastra [feminine] (Italian), riduzione [feminine] (Italian), radiante [masculine] (Italian), Héil [masculine] (Luxembourgish), skjerding [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), крючо́к (krjučók) (alt: для подве́шивания котла́ над огнём) [masculine] (Russian), llares [feminine, plural] (Spanish), grytkrok [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-trammel-en-noun-NYMy69Pi Disambiguation of Tools: 6 5 5 18 6 11 18 5 7 19 Disambiguation of Horse tack: 6 2 6 20 1 15 16 22 3 7 Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 7 4 7 18 2 12 15 23 8 4 Disambiguation of 'device to suspend cooking pots over a fire': 4 2 6 42 1 9 14 23
  5. Braids or plaits of hair.
    Sense id: en-trammel-en-noun-yYfXWSXQ
  6. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble. Categories (topical): Tools Categories (lifeform): Horse tack
    Sense id: en-trammel-en-noun-32JEc-xI Disambiguation of Tools: 6 5 5 18 6 11 18 5 7 19 Disambiguation of Horse tack: 6 2 6 20 1 15 16 22 3 7 Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 7 4 7 18 2 12 15 23 8 4
  7. (engineering) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil. Categories (topical): Engineering, Tools Categories (lifeform): Horse tack
    Sense id: en-trammel-en-noun-ieDq9DV1 Disambiguation of Tools: 6 5 5 18 6 11 18 5 7 19 Disambiguation of Horse tack: 6 2 6 20 1 15 16 22 3 7 Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 7 4 7 18 2 12 15 23 8 4 Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
  8. A beam compass. Categories (topical): Hair Categories (lifeform): Horse tack
    Sense id: en-trammel-en-noun-AVTq4BIL Disambiguation of Hair: 5 2 7 16 9 13 14 29 3 2 Disambiguation of Horse tack: 6 2 6 20 1 15 16 22 3 7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Luxembourgish translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 2 8 19 1 12 16 31 3 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 2 8 17 2 12 15 29 4 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 2 8 20 1 13 15 33 2 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 1 9 18 1 12 15 34 2 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 8 4 8 17 2 12 13 25 8 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 8 4 8 16 2 11 14 26 8 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 8 3 8 16 3 12 15 25 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 8 4 8 16 2 11 14 26 8 3 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 8 3 8 18 3 12 14 24 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 8 4 8 16 2 11 14 26 8 3 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 9 3 8 17 3 12 14 28 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 8 2 8 16 2 12 15 29 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Luxembourgish translations: 8 2 8 16 2 12 13 27 9 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 7 4 7 18 2 12 15 23 8 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 8 4 8 15 3 11 14 25 9 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 8 2 8 16 2 12 15 29 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 7 2 8 18 2 12 15 29 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 8 3 8 16 2 11 14 26 9 3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: trammel of Archimedes, trammel wheel

Verb

IPA: /ˈtræməl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-trammel.wav Forms: trammels [present, singular, third-person], trammelling [UK, participle, present], trammeling [US, participle, present], trammelled [UK, participle, past], trammelled [UK, past], trammeled [US, participle, past], trammeled [US, past]
Rhymes: -æməl Etymology: From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|trameyle}} Middle English trameyle, {{der|en|fro|tramail||net for catching fish}} Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), {{der|en|LL.|tremaculum}} Late Latin tremaculum, {{affix|la|tri-|macula|nocat=1|t1=tri-|t2=spot, speck; mesh, cell}} tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”), {{cog|it|tramaglio|t=trammel}} Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), {{cog|es|trasmallo|t=drift net}} Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”) Head templates: {{en-verb|++|past2=trammeled|past2_qual=US|past_qual=UK|pres_ptc2=trammeling|pres_ptc2_qual=US|pres_ptc_qual=UK}} trammel (third-person singular simple present trammels, present participle (UK) trammelling or (US) trammeling, simple past and past participle (UK) trammelled or (US) trammeled)
  1. To entangle, as in a net. Translations (to entangle, as in a net): kietoa (Finnish), fesseln (German), umfangen (German), лови́ть (lovítʹ) (alt: не́водом, се́тью) (Russian), trabar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-trammel-en-verb-9YMhYhcK Disambiguation of 'to entangle, as in a net': 98 2
  2. (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Tools Translations (to hamper): преча (preča) (Bulgarian), спъвам (spǎvam) (Bulgarian), kahlita (Finnish), behindern (German), hemmen (German), hindern (German), bremsen (German), заде́рживать (zadérživatʹ) (Russian), препя́тствовать (prepjátstvovatʹ) (Russian), меша́ть (mešátʹ) (Russian), затрудня́ть (zatrudnjátʹ) (Russian), trabar (Spanish), hindra (Swedish), fånga (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-trammel-en-verb-SYoiSR9x Disambiguation of Tools: 6 5 5 18 6 11 18 5 7 19 Disambiguation of 'to hamper': 7 93

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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          "word": "griglia"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "anello"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 2 6 42 1 9 14 23",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "piastra"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 2 6 42 1 9 14 23",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "riduzione"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 2 6 42 1 9 14 23",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "radiante"
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        {
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          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Héil"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 2 6 42 1 9 14 23",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "skjerding"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 2 6 42 1 9 14 23",
          "alt": "для подве́шивания котла́ над огнём",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "krjučók",
          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "крючо́к"
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        {
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "llares"
        },
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      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
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      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "word": "桎梏"
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      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "word": "este"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "traba"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "word": "Behinderung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Fessel"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rete"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "poméxa",
      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "поме́ха"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "word": "traba"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "fjätter"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tvångströja"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "čatal",
      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "чатал"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ketelhaak"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "Kesselhaken"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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      "word": "skjerding"
    },
    {
      "alt": "для подве́шивания котла́ над огнём",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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        "masculine"
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "llares"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "device to suspend cooking pots over a fire",
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    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
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          "ref": "1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, lines 9–10:",
          "text": "the scarce-snatched hours\nWhich deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: —\nHeaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.",
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          "ref": "1854, Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts:",
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          "ref": "1948, Winston Churchill, The Second World War:",
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        "(transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to entangle, as in a net",
      "word": "kietoa"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to entangle, as in a net",
      "word": "fesseln"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to entangle, as in a net",
      "word": "umfangen"
    },
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      "alt": "не́водом, се́тью",
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      "sense": "to entangle, as in a net",
      "word": "лови́ть"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "to entangle, as in a net",
      "word": "trabar"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "sense": "to hamper",
      "word": "преча"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "word": "спъвам"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to hamper",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to hamper",
      "word": "behindern"
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "hemmen"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to hamper",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to hamper",
      "word": "bremsen"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "zadérživatʹ",
      "sense": "to hamper",
      "word": "заде́рживать"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "prepjátstvovatʹ",
      "sense": "to hamper",
      "word": "препя́тствовать"
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      "sense": "to hamper",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "zatrudnjátʹ",
      "sense": "to hamper",
      "word": "затрудня́ть"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "to hamper",
      "word": "trabar"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to hamper",
      "word": "hindra"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to hamper",
      "word": "fånga"
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}

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