prać

Definitions

1. 1.
   to wash, to launder (to remove dirt from fabrics, e.g. clothing with water and/or with cleaning agents)
2. 2.
   to beat, to pound (to hit or strike someone hard and for a long time)

   • Biczem skórę prają.

     They're beating the skin with a whip.

   • Kijem ją prała.

     She was beating her with a stick.

   • Grad prał.

     The hail was beating.

3. 3.
   to pound (to strike something loudly)

   • Gęś pierze na jeziorze.

     A goose flaps its wings on the lake.

4. 4.
   to be washed (of fabrics, to have dirt removed with water and/or with cleaning agents)
5. 5.
   to cleanse oneself (to free oneself from moral filth; of sin: to be defeated, overcome, to be erased)
6. 6.
   colloquialto blast (to shoot a weapon for a long time or in bursts)
7. 7.
   colloquialdialectalto beat each other, to pound each other (to hit or strike one another hard and for a long time)

   • Jak sie zaceni prać.

     When they started to beat each other.

8. 8.
   colloquialto blast each other (to shoot a weapon at one another for a long time or in bursts)
9. 9.
   colloquialobsoleteto pound oneself (to hit or strike oneself hard and for a long time)
10. 10.
    obsoleteto clamor (to make a loud sound after being beaten)

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