aavistaa — meaning in English
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English meaning
- divine adj Relating to or coming from God or a god.
- foresee verb To know or realize something will happen before it does.
- hunch noun A feeling or guess based on instinct rather than solid evidence.
- presage noun A warning of a future event; an omen.
- smell noun A sensation caused by breathing in odor particles, pleasant or unpleasant.
- sniff verb To inhale audibly through the nose, often to smell something.
Senses
aavistaa is used for these senses in English:
- divine (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- foresee (obsolete) To provide.
- hunch (intransitive, colloquial) To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
- presage (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
- smell (by extension) To detect or perceive; often with out.
- sniff (transitive) To perceive vaguely.
divine — full definition
- adj Relating to or coming from God or a god.
- adj Wonderful or delightful, in an exaggerated, almost heavenly sense.
- verb To work something out through guesswork, intuition, or insight rather than being told directly.