naciąć

Definitions

1. 1.
   to notch, to nick, to score

   • ... wydobył z kieszeni nóż i naciął nim opuszki lewej ręki.

     ... he got a knife out of his pocket and cut the fingertips of his left hand with it.

   • Potem wyjął nóż – i drugi znaczek naciął na swym kiju.

     Then he took out a knife – and cut a second mark on his cane.

2. 2.
   to gather (a lot of something) by cutting

   • Naciął kamienną siekierą mnóstwo młodych drzewek...

     He cut down a lot of young trees with a stone axe...

   • Z niego [drzewa] naciął Abraham gałęzi na stos...

     Abraham cut a lot of branches from it [the tree] for a pyre...

3. 3.
   to cut oneself, to nick oneself, to wound oneself
4. 4.
   colloquialto cheat or defraud (someone) out of something, especially money

   • W toku dochodzenia zdołano ustalić, że Grzegorz G. naciął na pieniądze 27 kobiet...

     In the course of the investigation, they managed to determine that Grzegorz G. had cheated 27 women out of money...

5. 5.
   colloquialto unexpectedly meet, to run into

   • Naciął się wprawdzie jeden i drugi na obecnego we wnętrzu któregoś z domków Niemca...

     In truth, the one and the other ran into a German present in the interior of one of the houses...

6. 6.
   colloquialto suffer losses by thinking something is more valuable than it is

   • Resort chciał sprawdzić, czy tylko on naciął się na [niesprawne] kupowane w pośpiechu maseczki, które miały pomóc w walce z koronawirusem.

     The resort wanted to check whether it was the only one that had been tricked into paying for [nonfunctional] hastily bought surgical masks which were supposed to help in the fight with the coronavirus.

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