застигати

• IPA^(key): [zɐsteˈɦate]

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From засти́г(нути) (zastýh(nuty)) +‎ -а́ти (-áty). Compare Polish zastygać (but Belarusian застыва́ць (zastyvácʹ), Russian застыва́ть (zastyvátʹ)).

застига́ти • (zastyháty) impf (perfective засти́гнути or засти́гти) (intransitive)

1. (third person only) to congeal, to harden, to set, to solidify, to stiffen (to change from liquid to solid due to cold)
2. (third person only) to freeze, to freeze solid
3. to get cold, to go cold
4. to freeze (to be affected by extreme cold)
5. (of animates, body parts) to go stiff/to stiffen up with cold
6. (figuratively) to freeze (to become motionless)

• (all senses): сти́гнути impf (stýhnuty)
• (get cold, go cold): холо́нути impf (xolónuty)
• (freeze solid, freeze (be affected by extreme cold)): ме́рзнути impf (mérznuty) замерза́ти impf (zamerzáty)
• (go stiff/stiffen up with cold): кля́кнути impf (kljáknuty), дубі́ти impf (dubíty)

From засти́г(ти) (zastýh(ty)) +‎ -а́ти (-áty). Compare Russian застига́ть (zastigátʹ), Polish zaścigać.

застига́ти • (zastyháty) impf (perfective засти́гти)

1. (transitive, rare) to catch out (to take by surprise)

   Synonym: застава́ти impf (zastaváty)

• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2014), “застигати”, 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
• “застигати”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1972), “застигати”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (З), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 329
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “застигати”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “застигати”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries
• “застигати”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
• “застигати”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)