See whelp in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To give birth."
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"(transitive, intransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth."
],
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"of she-dog"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "okučvam se",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "окучвам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "cadellar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "quissoiar"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "hvalpe, få hvalpe"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "hvølpa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "mettre bas"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "werfen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "Junge werfen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "jungen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "wölfen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "gennó",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "γεννώ"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "lehamlit",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "להמליט"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "ellik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "megellik"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "hwelpian"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "parir"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "făta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ščenítʹsja",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "щени́ться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"word": "parir"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(animals) to give birth",
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"word": "bwrw"
}
],
"word": "whelp"
}
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"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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}
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"path": [
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"section": "English",
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"title": "whelp",
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"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: transitive, intransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.",
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