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vykonávat
(transitive) To execute or perform; to put into operation; to do.
výkonnost
The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
výkonný
Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.
výkonný ředitel
(business) The highest-ranking corporate officer or executive officer of a corporation, company, or agency, responsible for carrying out the policies of the board of directors on a day-to-day basis; CEO.
vykonstruovat
(figurative) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
výkop
(football, American football) The opening kick of each half of a game of football.
vykopat
(intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
vykořisťovatel
One who exploits.
vykoupení
(theology, often with capitalized initial) The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.
vykoupit
To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.
vykousnout se
(slang, chiefly, US, intransitive) To embrace and kiss passionately. [from 20th c.]
vykouzlit
(transitive) To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
vykračovat si
(intransitive) To walk haughtily.
vykradač hrobů
A graverobber.
vykrást se
(intransitive) To sneak about furtively.
výkres
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
výkřik
A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
vykřiknout
(intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
vykřikovat
To speak or protest loudly.
vykrmit
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
vykrmovat
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
vykroutit
(transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.
vykrvácet
(intransitive) To die due to excess bloodloss; to bleed to death.
vykuchat
(transitive) To eviscerate.
vykydat
To shovel muck.
výkyv
(by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
vyléčit
(transitive) To restore to health.
vyléčitelný
Capable of being cured.
vylekat
(intransitive) (To be able) to be scared.
vylepšit
(transitive) To make better; improve.
vylepšovat
(transitive) To make better; improve.
výlet
A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
výlet lodí
A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
vyletět
(ambitransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
vyletět nahoru
(intransitive) To rise or increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.
výlev
A liquid outpouring.
výlevka
(chiefly, US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
vylidnit
(transitive) To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
vylíhnout
(intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
vylíhnutí
(zoology) The act of an egg hatching, eclosion.
vylikvidovat
(informal) To kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim; to assassinate, to murder; also, to abolish or eliminate (something); to do away with, to put an end to.
vylít
(transitive) To distribute or spread (something), as if it were a liquid.
vylít se
(transitive) To spill or dump liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
vylodit
(transitive) To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore
vylomeniny
Rough or rowdy play that can often result in unintentional physical harm.
vylosovat
(cricket, archaic) Of a batter: to hit (a ball) from the off side to the leg side, especially with an inclined bat; also, to hit (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. [from 19th c.]
vyloučit
(transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
vyloudit
(US, British, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
vyloupit
(transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
vyloupnout
(transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
vyložit
(transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
výlučně
Alone; exclusively.
vylučování
The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
vyluhovat
(transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
výluka
(labor) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
vymáhat zaplacení
(transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
vymahatelný
Capable of being enforced.
vymámit
(transitive) To obtain through guile or cunning.
vymanit
(transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
Výmar
An independent city in Thuringia, Germany.
vymastit
(transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
vymazání
The act of deleting. [c. 1600]
vymazat
(transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
výměna
An act of exchanging or trading.
vyměňovat si
(transitive) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
výměšek
(countable) Any substance that is secreted by an organism.
vyměšování
(uncountable) The act of secreting a substance, especially from a gland.
vymezení
The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.
vymezit
To mark the limits or boundaries of something; to delimit.
výmluva
(countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
výmluvnost
The quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
výmluvný
Fluently persuasive and articulate.
vymoženost
A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant.
vymřelý
(chiefly, biology) Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
vymření
The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
vymrštit
(transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
vymykat se
(transitive) To escape being understandable to; to be incomprehensible to.
výmysl
That which comes from one's imagination.
vymyslet
(transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
vymyslet si
(figurative) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
vymýt mozek
(psychology) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)
vymýtit
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
vymývání mozků
A form of indoctrination that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favour of another set of beliefs by conditioning through various forms of pressure or torture.
vynadat
(transitive) To chide or scold vehemently.
vynalézavost
The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing.
vynalézavý
Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
vynálezce
One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
vynalézt
To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
vynášení do nebe
Speaking highly of someone or something; the act of praising or commending someone or something.
vynášet
(transitive) To pass down.
vynásobit
(transitive, arithmetic, with by) To perform multiplication on (a number).
vynechat
To leave out or omit (something).
vynervovaný
(British) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.
vynést
(transitive) To pass down.
vynikající
celebrated, well-known or eminent because of past achievements; prestigious
vynikat
(intransitive) To be much better than others.
vynoření
The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.
výnos
A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
výnosnost
The property of being lucrative.
vynucený
Obtained forcefully, not naturally.
vynucovací
Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce.
vynucovat
(transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
vynulovat
(transitive) To set some amount to be zero.
vynutit
(transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
vynutit si
(transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about. [from early 17th c.]
vyobcování
The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
vyobrazení
A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
vypáčit
To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
výpad
(military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
vypadat
(intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
vypadat nadšeně
To gaze especially passionately at something.
výpadek
A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
vypadnout
(literally) To come out of something by falling.
vypálit
(transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
vypalovací pec
An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
vypaření
A conversion of a solid or a liquid into a gas.
vypařit
(ergative) To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.
vypařit se
(intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish; to fleet.
vypařování
A conversion of a solid or a liquid into a gas.
vypasený
Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby.
vypátrat
(ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
vypeckovat
(transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
vypínač
A switch, usually mounted on a wall in a building, used to turn the light or another appliance such as a fan on and off.
výpis
(finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
vypít
To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. [from mid-16th c.]
vyplachovač
A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for irrigation.
vyplatit
(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
vyplavovat
(transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
vyplenit
(transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
vyplísnit
(transitive) To criticise, rebuke, or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone. [from 14th c.]
výplň
(dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
vyplnit
(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
výplod
Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
vyplynout
(ambitransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
vyplývat
(obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. [15th–17th c.]
vypnout
(chiefly, electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
výpočet
(mathematics, countable) The result of calculating.
vypoltářovat
To furnish with cushions.
vypořádat se
To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.
vypouklý
Curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl, circle, or sphere.
vypouštět
(intransitive) To come out, to be sent out or given off.
výpověď
(countable) A formal notification or warning.
vypovědět
(transitive) To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
vyprahlý
Very dry.
vyprahnout
(intransitive) To become superficially burnt; to become sunburned.
výprask
(colloquial, figuratively, countable) A beating or spanking.
výprava
A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
vypravěč
(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.
vyprávěcí
Telling a story.
vypravěčka
(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.

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