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127 lines
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{
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"enmesh":{
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"antonyms":[
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"disentangle",
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"untangle"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to catch or entangle in or as if in meshes":[
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"deeply enmeshed in the plot"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"soon after Eli Whitney had invented it, others copied his cotton gin, and he spent the rest of his life enmeshed in lawsuits trying to protect his invention",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The solution is not to further enmesh health care in politics, but to disentangle it from partisan ideologies. \u2014 Haider J. Warraich, STAT , 8 June 2022",
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"If some senators, such as Cruz and Josh Hawley, seemed especially eager to enmesh themselves in conspiracy theories (the concept that the Democratic Party is one big child-trafficking ring is a QAnon tenet), the attacks were a group effort. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 9 Apr. 2022",
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"Chinese leaders may be content to offer rhetorical support for Moscow and may not want to further enmesh themselves with Mr. Putin by providing military support for the war, those U.S. officials say. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Mar. 2022",
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"For more than 50 years, Bonn and later Berlin had taken a pacific approach: Don\u2019t rile the Russians; enmesh them in trade and diplomacy. \u2014 Josef Joffe, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
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"Its biological imperative is to enmesh itself into a suitable host, reproduce, and disperse, then begin the process anew. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 28 June 2021",
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"The country\u2019s impending departure from the bloc could also enmesh regulators in a legal mess if an EU court were to hear challenges over a jurisdiction where the EU would no longer hold sway. \u2014 Aoife White, Bloomberg.com , 19 Nov. 2020",
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"The proximity of the company\u2019s inner circle to power would enmesh Simulmatics in Vietnam a few years later. \u2014 J.c. Pan, The New Republic , 8 Sep. 2020",
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"The party is enmeshed in a blame game for the defeat, with some members accusing the socialist Corbyn of veering too far to the left and making lavish spending promises that voters regarded as unrealistic. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1604, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"en-",
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"in-\u02c8mesh"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"catch up",
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"ensnare",
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"ensnarl",
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"entangle",
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"entoil",
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"entrap",
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"mesh",
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"net",
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"snare",
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"tangle",
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"trap"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202553",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"enmity":{
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"antonyms":[
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"amity"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Bin Laden may no longer be supplying directions and funding, but his ethos of enmity lives on. \u2014 Michael Hirsh et al. , Newsweek , 10 June 2002",
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"What has earned her the enmity of so many peers is her indiscriminate outspokenness. \u2014 Karen Springer , Newsweek , 10 June 1996",
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"Battles over slavery in the territories broke the second party system apart and then shaped a realigned system that emphasized sectional enmity . \u2014 Mary Beth Norton et al. , A People and a Nation , 1988",
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"There's a long history of enmity between them.",
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"His comments earned him the enmity of his coworkers.",
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"We need to put aside old enmities for the sake of peace.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Still, the seeming enmity is troubling for some Democrats who believe that the appearance of party unity is crucial to staving off serious electoral losses in this year\u2019s midterms and beyond. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
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"While enmity toward Putin and a desire to send assistance to the region is virtually universal in Congress, lawmakers have had a hard time finding unity on other steps. \u2014 Alan Fram, Anchorage Daily News , 10 Mar. 2022",
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"While enmity toward Putin and a desire to send assistance to the region is virtually universal in Congress, lawmakers have had a harder time finding unity on other steps. \u2014 Alan Fram, ajc , 10 Mar. 2022",
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"The fiercest enmity has been reserved toward Fenerbahce, a domestic powerhouse whose influence spreads well beyond the soccer field. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
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"But there is enmity to spare for the West in general for vaccine hoarding, which is seen as just the latest example of a centuries-long disregard for African lives. \u2014 Glen Retief, The New Republic , 18 Dec. 2021",
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"After an employee uproar, Disney stated that the company's goal was for the law to be repealed or struck down in the courts, earning the enmity of right-wing lawmakers. \u2014 Eric Levenson And Steve Contorno, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022",
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"Often seeming as fixated on his enmity toward Enrico as on his love of Lucia, this character actually contributes to her burden rather than relieving it. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
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"This mounting isolation came on top of a foreign policy whose driving force was enmity toward the imperialist West. \u2014 Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English enmite , from Anglo-French enemit\u00e9, enemist\u00e9 , from enemi enemy":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8en-m\u0259-t\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for enmity enmity , hostility , antipathy , antagonism , animosity , rancor , animus mean deep-seated dislike or ill will. enmity suggests positive hatred which may be open or concealed. an unspoken enmity hostility suggests an enmity showing itself in attacks or aggression. hostility between the two nations antipathy and antagonism imply a natural or logical basis for one's hatred or dislike, antipathy suggesting repugnance, a desire to avoid or reject, and antagonism suggesting a clash of temperaments leading readily to hostility. a natural antipathy for self-seekers antagonism between the brothers animosity suggests intense ill will and vindictiveness that threaten to kindle hostility. animosity that led to revenge rancor is especially applied to bitter brooding over a wrong. rancor filled every line of his letters animus adds to animosity the implication of strong prejudice. objections devoid of personal animus",
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"synonyms":[
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"animosity",
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"animus",
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"antagonism",
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"antipathy",
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"bad blood",
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"bitterness",
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"gall",
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"grudge",
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"hostility",
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"jaundice",
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"rancor"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004000",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"enmatter":{
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"type":[
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"transitive verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to endue with or confine in matter":[
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"the essences treated by physical science may be considered as enmattered and formulable"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259\u0307n",
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"en+"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"en- entry 1 + matter , noun":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-161759"
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}
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} |