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wyrąbywać

//vɘ.rɔmˈbɘ.vat͡ɕ/ | /vɨ.rɔ̃ˈbɨ.vat͡ɕ//
Polishverb

Definitions

  1. 1.
    to chop down, to hew down (to remove plants by chopping)
  2. 2.
    to cut open (to make a hole or recess with strong blows from a sharp tool)
  3. 3.
    to cut apart (to break with strong blows from a sharp instrument, especially on the surface of something)
  4. 4.
    to cut out (to to extract something from something by cutting)
  5. 5.
    to go ass over teakettle (to fall and hurt oneself)
  6. 6.
    colloquialto blast (to speak directly, openly, and critically)
  7. 7.
    obsoleteto chop down (to kill all of with a chopping weapon)
  8. 8.
    obsoleteto blurt out (to say without thinking, sometimes by memory)
  9. 9.
    obsoleteto chop out, to cut out (to form, e.g. a figure, by chopping or cutting, e.g. from a block of material)
  10. 10.
    obsoleteto nick (to make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in)
  11. 11.
    obsoleteto chop one's way out of (to leave by chopping thing to make a path)

Synonyms & related words

Etymology

From wyrąbać + -ywać. First attested in the 16th century. Displaced Old Polish wyrębować.

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