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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "whakamoho"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
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"(transitive) To accost or intercept unexpectedly."
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"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "заговарям"
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"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "攔路搶劫"
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"_dis1": "5 95",
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"roman": "lánlùqiǎngjié",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
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"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "onderscheppen"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "yllättää"
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"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "auflauern"
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"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "pisamar"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "whakamoho"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "դարանակալել"
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"roman": "pothe ōt patiẏa thaka",
"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "পথে ওত পাতিয়া থাকা"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "причаквам"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "правя засада"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "belagen"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "opwachten"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "varitsema"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "väijyä"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "hyökätä väijyksistä"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "aseitar"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "wegelagern"
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"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "auflauern"
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"alt": "まちぶせする",
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"roman": "machibuse suru",
"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "待ち伏せする"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "whakamoho"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"word": "tāwhanga"
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"roman": "podsteregátʹ",
"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
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"word": "подстерега́ть"
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"roman": "podkaraúlivatʹ",
"sense": "to lie in wait for and attack from ambush",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "подкарау́ливать"
},
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zagovarjam",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "заговарям"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "攔路搶劫"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lánlùqiǎngjié",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "拦路抢劫"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "onderscheppen"
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{
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"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "yllättää"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "auflauern"
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{
"code": "io",
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"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "pisamar"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "whakamoho"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podkaraúlivatʹ",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
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"word": "подкарау́ливать"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podžidátʹ",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"tags": [
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"word": "поджида́ть"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "abordar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to accost or intercept unexpectedly",
"word": "coger por banda"
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"word": "waylay"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.