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  <Lexicon id="oewn" label="Open English Wordnet" language="en" email="english-wordnet@googlegroups.com" license="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" version="2024" url="https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet">
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-buffer-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="buffer" partOfSpeech="v">
        <Pronunciation variety="GB">ˈbʌfə(ɹ)</Pronunciation>
        <Pronunciation variety="US">ˈbʌfɚ</Pronunciation>
        <Pronunciation variety="AU">ˈbafə(ɹ)</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Sense id="oewn-buffer-v-01579748-v" synset="oewn-01579748-v" dc:identifier="buffer%2:35:00::">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-buffer-n-02914504-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="instrument" target="oewn-buffer-n-02914504-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-cushion-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="cushion" partOfSpeech="v">
        <Pronunciation>ˈkʊʃən</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Sense id="oewn-cushion-v-01579748-v" synset="oewn-01579748-v" dc:identifier="cushion%2:35:00::">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-cushion-n-04205840-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-cushioning-n-03878742-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="instrument" target="oewn-cushion-n-04205840-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="by_means_of" target="oewn-cushion-n-04205840-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-soften-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="soften" partOfSpeech="v">
        <Pronunciation variety="GB">ˈsɒfən</Pronunciation>
        <Pronunciation variety="US">ˈsɔfən</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Sense id="oewn-soften-v-01579748-v" synset="oewn-01579748-v" dc:identifier="soften%2:35:00::"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <Synset id="oewn-01579748-v" ili="i29611" partOfSpeech="v" members="oewn-cushion-v oewn-buffer-v oewn-soften-v" lexfile="verb.contact">
      <Definition language="en">protect from impact</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hypernym" target="oewn-00169614-v"/>
      <Example language="en">cushion the blow</Example>
    </Synset>
  </Lexicon>
</LexicalResource>