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osypywać

//ɔ.sɘˈpɘ.vat͡ɕ/ | /ɔ.sɨˈpɨ.vat͡ɕ/ | [ɔ.sɘˈpɘ.vat͡ɕ]/
Polishverb

Definitions

  1. 1.
    to loosen the soil around a plant and cover it with this soil to protect it
  2. 2.
    to be sprinkled, to be showered
  3. 3.
    to be shed (having broken away from something, to fall in large numbers to some ground)
  4. 4.
    to deform (to lose one's original shape due to fragments sliding or falling off)
  5. 5.
    to shower each other, to sprinkle one another
  6. 6.
    to die en masse
  7. 7.
    literaryto shower, to sprinkle (to cover some surface with a loose substance)
  8. 8.
    literaryto cover (to appear in large quanities)
  9. 9.
    literaryto shed; to lose; to drop (to lose certain parts due to them falling off from the whole)
  10. 10.
    literaryto shower (to cause a very large amount of something to go to someone or some place)
  11. 11.
    colloquialto shed (to quickly lose all leaves or needles)

Synonyms & related words

Synonyms

Etymology

From osypać + -ywać. First attested in 1567.

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