See versus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "compared with",
"word": "vgl."
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "siehe auch"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "rest"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "leʿumát",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "לעומת"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "(ezzel) szemben"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "szemben azzal"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "ha"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "hogy…"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "salīdzinot ar"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "a"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "contra"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "v sravnénii s",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "в сравне́нии с"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "po sravnéniju s",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "по сравне́нию с"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "mot"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "jämfört"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "gzhan las",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "གཞན་ལས"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "bamuqābila",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "مقابلہ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "compared with",
"word": "và"
}
],
"word": "versus"
}
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"name": "der"
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{
"form": "versuses",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "versusing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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"form": "versused",
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"past"
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{
"glosses": [
"To face in competition"
],
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"face",
"face"
],
[
"competition",
"competition"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To fight"
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"links": [
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"fight",
"fight"
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"homophone": "verse"
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}
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