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"word": "Leonine verse"
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"word": "Pythian verse"
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"word": "serpentine verse"
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"word": "sword verse"
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"sense": "poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme",
"word": "পদ্য"
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"sense": "poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme",
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"word": "ھەڵبەست"
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"sense": "poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme",
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"word": "పద్యము"
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],
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],
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],
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],
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],
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],
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],
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],
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],
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{
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"tags": [
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],
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vers"
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{
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],
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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],
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],
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"video game",
"video game"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, sometimes proscribed) To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"proscribed",
"sometimes"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈvɝs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈvɜːs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)s"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-verse.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/En-us-verse.ogg/En-us-verse.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/En-us-verse.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "verse"
}
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