заглушити

Ukrainian

Etymology

From за- (za-) + глуши́ти (hlušýty). Compare Russian заглуши́ть (zaglušítʹ), Belarusian заглушы́ць (zahlušýcʹ), Polish zagłuszyć.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [zɐɦɫʊˈʃɪte]

Verb

заглуши́ти • (zahlušýty) pf (imperfective заглуша́ти or заглу́шувати) (transitive)

  1. to drown out
  2. to deaden, to muffle, to stifle (to make less audible)
  3. to choke out, to choke (to prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients)
  4. (figuratively) to silence, to stifle (to repress the expression of something)

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  • Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2014), “заглушити”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 5 (з – зв'я́нути), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN, page 133

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