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                            "id": "doglike",
                            "text": "doglike"
                        }
                    ],
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                        {
                            "etymologies": [
                                "Old English docga, of unknown origin"
                            ],
                            "pronunciations": [
                                {
                                    "dialects": [
                                        "American English"
                                    ],
                                    "phoneticNotation": "respell",
                                    "phoneticSpelling": "d\u00f4\u0261"
                                },
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                                    "audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/dog__us_1_rr.mp3",
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                                        "American English"
                                    ],
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                                    "phoneticSpelling": "d\u0254\u0261"
                                }
                            ],
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                                {
                                    "definitions": [
                                        "a domesticated carnivorous mammal that typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, nonretractable claws, and a barking, howling, or whining voice."
                                    ],
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                                        {
                                            "id": "mammal",
                                            "text": "Mammal"
                                        }
                                    ],
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                                    "notes": [
                                        {
                                            "text": "Canis familiaris, family Canidae (the dog family); probably domesticated from the wolf in the Mesolithic period. The dog family also includes the wolves, coyotes, jackals, and foxes",
                                            "type": "technicalNote"
                                        }
                                    ],
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                                            "id": "canid",
                                            "text": "Canid"
                                        }
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                                        "domesticated carnivorous mammal"
                                    ],
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                                                "a wild animal of the dog family."
                                            ],
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                                                {
                                                    "id": "mammal",
                                                    "text": "Mammal"
                                                }
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                                                    "text": "Canid"
                                                }
                                            ],
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                                                "animal of dog family"
                                            ]
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "definitions": [
                                                "the male of an animal of the dog family, or of some other mammals such as the otter"
                                            ],
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                                                {
                                                    "id": "zoology",
                                                    "text": "Zoology"
                                                }
                                            ],
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                                                    "notes": [
                                                        {
                                                            "text": "as modifier",
                                                            "type": "grammaticalNote"
                                                        }
                                                    ],
                                                    "text": "a dog fox"
                                                }
                                            ],
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                                                {
                                                    "id": "canid",
                                                    "text": "Canid"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "shortDefinitions": [
                                                "male animal"
                                            ]
                                        }
                                    ],
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                                        {
                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "canine"
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "hound"
                                        }
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                                    ]
                                },
                                {
                                    "definitions": [
                                        "an unpleasant, contemptible, or wicked man"
                                    ],
                                    "examples": [
                                        {
                                            "text": "come out, Michael, you dog!"
                                        }
                                    ],
                                    "id": "m_en_gbus0287810.018",
                                    "registers": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "derogatory",
                                            "text": "Derogatory"
                                        }
                                    ],
                                    "semanticClasses": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "disliked_person",
                                            "text": "Disliked_Person"
                                        }
                                    ],
                                    "shortDefinitions": [
                                        "unpleasant man"
                                    ],
                                    "subsenses": [
                                        {
                                            "definitions": [
                                                "used to refer to a person of a specified kind in a tone of playful reprimand, commiseration, or congratulation"
                                            ],
                                            "examples": [
                                                {
                                                    "text": "your historian is a dull dog"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "id": "m_en_gbus0287810.019",
                                            "notes": [
                                                {
                                                    "text": "with adjective",
                                                    "type": "grammaticalNote"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "registers": [
                                                {
                                                    "id": "informal",
                                                    "text": "Informal"
                                                }
                                            ],
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                                                {
                                                    "id": "specified_type",
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                                            ],
                                            "shortDefinitions": [
                                                "person of specified kind"
                                            ],
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                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "fellow"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "thing"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "individual"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "soul"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "character"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "creature"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "wretch"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "beggar"
                                                }
                                            ],
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                                            ]
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "definitions": [
                                                "used in various phrases to refer to someone who is abject or miserable, especially because they have been treated harshly"
                                            ],
                                            "examples": [
                                                {
                                                    "text": "I make him work like a dog"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "text": "Rob was treated like a dog"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "id": "m_en_gbus0287810.020",
                                            "shortDefinitions": [
                                                "referring to someone harshly treated"
                                            ]
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "definitions": [
                                                "a woman regarded as unattractive."
                                            ],
                                            "id": "m_en_gbus0287810.021",
                                            "registers": [
                                                {
                                                    "id": "offensive",
                                                    "text": "Offensive"
                                                }
                                            ],
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                                                {
                                                    "id": "disliked_woman",
                                                    "text": "Disliked_Woman"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "shortDefinitions": [
                                                "unattractive woman"
                                            ]
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "constructions": [
                                                {
                                                    "text": "a dog of a"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "definitions": [
                                                "a thing of poor quality; a failure"
                                            ],
                                            "examples": [
                                                {
                                                    "text": "\n              a dog of a movie"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "id": "m_en_gbus0287810.023",
                                            "registers": [
                                                {
                                                    "id": "derogatory",
                                                    "text": "Derogatory"
                                                }
                                            ],
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                                                {
                                                    "id": "disliked_thing",
                                                    "text": "Disliked_Thing"
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                                            ],
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                                                "poor-quality thing"
                                            ],
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                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "failure"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "disaster"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "debacle"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "catastrophe"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "loser"
                                                }
                                            ],
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                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "scoundrel"
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "rogue"
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "villain"
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "cur"
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "wretch"
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "reprobate"
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "good-for-nothing"
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                                    ]
                                },
                                {
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                                        "a mechanical device for gripping."
                                    ],
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                                            "id": "mechanics",
                                            "text": "Mechanics"
                                        }
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                                            "text": "Clamp"
                                        }
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                                        "gripping device"
                                    ]
                                },
                                {
                                    "definitions": [
                                        "feet"
                                    ],
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                                        {
                                            "text": "if only I could sit down and rest my tired dogs"
                                        }
                                    ],
                                    "id": "m_en_gbus0287810.032",
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                                            "text": "\"dogs\"",
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                                            "text": "North_American"
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                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "tootsie"
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                                            "language": "en",
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                        "id": "noun",
                        "text": "Noun"
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                        {
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                            "text": "dog out"
                        }
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                            "id": "a_dog%27s_age",
                            "text": "a dog's age"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "a_dog%27s_life",
                            "text": "a dog's life"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "dog_eat_dog",
                            "text": "dog eat dog"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "every_dog_has_its_day",
                            "text": "every dog has its day"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "go_to_the_dogs",
                            "text": "go to the dogs"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "have_a_dog_in_the_fight",
                            "text": "have a dog in the fight"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "like_a_dog_with_a_bone",
                            "text": "like a dog with a bone"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "not_a_dog%27s_chance",
                            "text": "not a dog's chance"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "put_on_the_dog",
                            "text": "put on the dog"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "the_dogs_of_war",
                            "text": "the dogs of war"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "throw_someone_to_the_dogs",
                            "text": "throw someone to the dogs"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "you_can%27t_teach_an_old_dog_new_tricks",
                            "text": "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"
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                    ],
                    "text": "dog"
                },
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                        {
                            "id": "doglike",
                            "text": "doglike"
                        }
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                                    "id": "transitive",
                                    "text": "Transitive",
                                    "type": "Subcategorization"
                                }
                            ],
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                                            "id": "transitive",
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                                            "type": "Subcategorization"
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                                            "type": "Subcategorization"
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                                            "type": "Subcategorization"
                                        }
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                                {
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                                        "American English"
                                    ],
                                    "phoneticNotation": "respell",
                                    "phoneticSpelling": "d\u00f4\u0261"
                                },
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                                    "audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/dog__us_1_rr.mp3",
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                                        "American English"
                                    ],
                                    "phoneticNotation": "IPA",
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                                {
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                                        "follow (someone or their movements) closely and persistently"
                                    ],
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                                        {
                                            "text": "photographers seemed to dog her every step"
                                        }
                                    ],
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                                        "follow closely and persistently"
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                                    "subsenses": [
                                        {
                                            "definitions": [
                                                "(of a problem) cause continual trouble for"
                                            ],
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                                                {
                                                    "text": "their finance committee has been dogged by controversy"
                                                }
                                            ],
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                                            "shortDefinitions": [
                                                "cause continual trouble for"
                                            ],
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                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "trouble"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "disturb"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "worry"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "plague"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "beset"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "torture"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "torment"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "rack"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "bedevil"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "nag"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "vex"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "harass"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "pester"
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                                                    "language": "en",
                                                    "text": "dog"
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                                            "text": "pursue"
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                                            "text": "follow"
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                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "stalk"
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                                        {
                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "track"
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                                        {
                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "trail"
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                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "shadow"
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                                },
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                                    "definitions": [
                                        "act lazily; fail to try one's hardest"
                                    ],
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                                        {
                                            "text": "Eric had a reputation for dogging it a little"
                                        }
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                                        {
                                            "text": "\"dog it\"",
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                                            "text": "North_American"
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                                        "be lazy"
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                                },
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                                        "grip (something) with a mechanical device"
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                                            "text": "Mechanics"
                                        }
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                                                {
                                                    "text": "with object and complement",
                                                    "type": "grammaticalNote"
                                                }
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                                            "text": "she has dogged the door shut"
                                        }
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                                        "grip with mechanical device"
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                        "id": "verb",
                        "text": "Verb"
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                            "text": "dog out"
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                            "id": "a_dog%27s_age",
                            "text": "a dog's age"
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                        {
                            "id": "a_dog%27s_life",
                            "text": "a dog's life"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "dog_eat_dog",
                            "text": "dog eat dog"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "every_dog_has_its_day",
                            "text": "every dog has its day"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "go_to_the_dogs",
                            "text": "go to the dogs"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "have_a_dog_in_the_fight",
                            "text": "have a dog in the fight"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "like_a_dog_with_a_bone",
                            "text": "like a dog with a bone"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "not_a_dog%27s_chance",
                            "text": "not a dog's chance"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "put_on_the_dog",
                            "text": "put on the dog"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "the_dogs_of_war",
                            "text": "the dogs of war"
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "throw_someone_to_the_dogs",
                            "text": "throw someone to the dogs"
                        },
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                            "id": "you_can%27t_teach_an_old_dog_new_tricks",
                            "text": "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"
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}