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zasjesti

//zǎsjesti//
Serbo-Croatianverb

Definitions

  1. 1.
    to sit down to or at something, such as a table or a meal
  2. 2.
    to firmly plant oneself somewhere for a length of time
  3. 3.
    to firmly plant oneself in some position or office, not allowing oneself to be dislodged
  4. 4.
    to overstay, to stay too long in company or as a guest
  5. 5.
    to lodge in one’s throat
  6. 6.
    to set
  7. 7.
    to sit, to start to be in session
  8. 8.
    to mount (a horse)
  9. 9.
    to set an ambush for, to start lying in wait for
  10. 10.
    to besiege, to invest, to lay siege to
  11. 11.
    to bar (the way), to block off (passage)
  12. 12.
    archaicto take, to occupy (a seat, especially a throne)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zasěsti; compare Russian засесть (zasestʹ). By surface analysis, za- + sjȅsti.

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