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"forms": [
{
"form": "wastes away",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wasting away",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wasted away",
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}
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
],
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},
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She watched him waste away from lack of food or exercise."
},
{
"ref": "2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/why-we-wont-avoid-a-climate-catastrophe-feature/”, in National Geographic",
"text": "The perennial Arctic ice cap—the sea ice that persists through winter and summer—is wasting away. Over the past half century it has shrunk by more than a million square miles",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lose energy and/or become weak and feeble."
],
"id": "en-waste_away-en-verb-nIpiLOR7",
"links": [
[
"energy",
"energy"
],
[
"weak",
"weak"
],
[
"feeble",
"feeble"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To lose energy and/or become weak and feeble."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pine away"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "wegkwijnen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "kuihtua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "riutua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "dépérir"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "maraínomai",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "μαραίνομαι"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yaseotoroeru",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "やせ衰える"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "tābeō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "tabescō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "ngongo"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "horokiwa"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "dwīnan"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "definhar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čáxnutʹ",
"sense": "lose energy",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ча́хнуть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "začáxnutʹ",
"sense": "lose energy",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "зача́хнуть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "istoščátʹsja",
"sense": "lose energy",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "истоща́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "istoščítʹsja",
"sense": "lose energy",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "истощи́ться"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "kṣīyate",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "क्षीयते"
}
]
}
],
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-au-waste_away.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "waste away"
}
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"forms": [
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"form": "wastes away",
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"singular",
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},
{
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wasted away",
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"participle",
"past"
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},
{
"form": "wasted away",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "She watched him waste away from lack of food or exercise."
},
{
"ref": "2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/why-we-wont-avoid-a-climate-catastrophe-feature/”, in National Geographic",
"text": "The perennial Arctic ice cap—the sea ice that persists through winter and summer—is wasting away. Over the past half century it has shrunk by more than a million square miles",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lose energy and/or become weak and feeble."
],
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"energy",
"energy"
],
[
"weak",
"weak"
],
[
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"feeble"
]
],
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"(idiomatic) To lose energy and/or become weak and feeble."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/En-au-waste_away.ogg/En-au-waste_away.ogg.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pine away"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "wegkwijnen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "kuihtua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "riutua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "dépérir"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "maraínomai",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "μαραίνομαι"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yaseotoroeru",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "やせ衰える"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "tābeō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "tabescō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "ngongo"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "horokiwa"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "dwīnan"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "definhar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čáxnutʹ",
"sense": "lose energy",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ча́хнуть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "začáxnutʹ",
"sense": "lose energy",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "зача́хнуть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "istoščátʹsja",
"sense": "lose energy",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "истоща́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "istoščítʹsja",
"sense": "lose energy",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "истощи́ться"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "kṣīyate",
"sense": "lose energy",
"word": "क्षीयते"
}
],
"word": "waste away"
}
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