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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

  1. adj Relating to or coming from God or a god.
  2. adj Wonderful or delightful, in an exaggerated, almost heavenly sense.
  3. verb To work something out through guesswork, intuition, or insight rather than being told directly.

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