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[
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[
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],
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[
"embolden",
"embolden"
],
[
"dignify",
"dignify"
],
[
"ennoble",
"ennoble"
],
[
"soul",
"soul"
],
[
"orí",
"ori#Yoruba"
],
[
"swell",
"swell"
]
],
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],
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}
],
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{
"word": "ìwú"
},
{
"english": "to cough",
"word": "wúkọ́"
},
{
"english": "to pray",
"word": "wúre"
}
],
"etymology_number": 6,
"forms": [
{
"form": "wú",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "verb",
"head": "wú",
"head2": ""
},
"expansion": "wú",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "verb",
"2": "wú"
},
"expansion": "wú",
"name": "yo-pos"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "wú"
},
"expansion": "wú",
"name": "yo-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Yoruba terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "The surface of the sore swelled up",
"text": "ojú egbò ó wú",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to unearth, uproot, dig up; to exhume"
],
"links": [
[
"unearth",
"unearth"
],
[
"uproot",
"uproot"
],
[
"dig up",
"dig up"
],
[
"exhume",
"exhume"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Yoruba idioms"
],
"glosses": [
"to grow quickly"
],
"links": [
[
"grow",
"grow"
],
[
"quickly",
"quickly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) to grow quickly"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to cough"
],
"links": [
[
"cough",
"cough"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to become or get puffed up"
],
"links": [
[
"puffed",
"puffed"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wú/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hú"
}
],
"word": "wu"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 15 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
"Yoruba lemmas",
"Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Yoruba verbs"
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "to celebrate; to be crowned",
"word": "wúyè"
},
{
"english": "coronation",
"word": "ìwúyè"
}
],
"etymology_number": 7,
"forms": [
{
"form": "wú",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "verb",
"head": "wú",
"head2": ""
},
"expansion": "wú",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "verb",
"2": "wú"
},
"expansion": "wú",
"name": "yo-pos"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "wú"
},
"expansion": "wú",
"name": "yo-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to celebrate"
],
"links": [
[
"celebrate",
"celebrate"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yọ̀"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wú/"
}
],
"word": "wu"
}
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