• v.
    ⦿be motionless, in suspension
    lexical concept
  • The bird poised for a few moments before it attacked

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:poise
wn:interlingual indexili:i31441

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelpoise