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},
{
"form": "wordsmithed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "wordsmith (third-person singular simple present wordsmiths, present participle wordsmithing, simple past and past participle wordsmithed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"word‧smith"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022 November 10, Simon Montlake, “In Ohio, one man’s quest to get more voters to agree to disagree”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-05",
"text": "Then he reads the prompt, which has been carefully wordsmithed by Mr. [Ted] Wetzel and his collaborators.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To skilfully compose or craft (something written)."
],
"links": [
[
"skilfully",
"skillfully"
],
[
"compose",
"compose"
],
[
"craft",
"craft#Verb"
],
[
"written",
"written#Adjective"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To skilfully compose or craft (something written)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɜːdsmɪθ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɝdˌsmɪθ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wordsmith.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wordsmith.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wordsmith.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wordsmith.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wordsmith.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to skilfully compose or craft (something written)",
"word": "巧妙地運用語言"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiǎomiào de yùnyòng yǔyán",
"sense": "to skilfully compose or craft (something written)",
"word": "巧妙地运用语言"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to skilfully compose or craft (something written)",
"word": "sanaseppoilla"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "krasnomovljáty",
"sense": "to skilfully compose or craft (something written)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "красномовля́ти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "krasnomóvyty",
"sense": "to skilfully compose or craft (something written)",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "красномо́вити"
}
],
"word": "wordsmith"
}
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