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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wittering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wittered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "wittered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "witter (third-person singular simple present witters, present participle wittering, simple past and past participle wittered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"to make sure, inform, or declare."
],
"links": [
[
"inform",
"inform"
],
[
"declare",
"declare"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪtɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈwɪɾɚ]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪtə(ɹ)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-witter.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-witter.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-witter.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-witter.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-witter.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "witter"
}
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