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erota — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ajar adj Slightly open, not fully shut.
  • bow out verb To withdraw from a contest, role or commitment, especially gracefully and by your own choice.
  • differ verb To be unlike something else in one or more ways.
  • differentiate verb To recognize, show, or create a difference between things.
  • dissociate verb In psychology, to become mentally detached from your thoughts, feelings, body or surroundings, so that experience feels unreal or distant. It often happens under stress or trauma.
  • diverge verb To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • divorce noun The legal ending of a marriage.
  • leave verb To go away from a place or person.
  • part noun A piece or portion of something larger.
  • quit verb To resign from a job or position.
  • resign verb To formally give up a job or position.
  • secede verb To formally withdraw from a country, federation, alliance or other organisation, ending membership of it.
  • vacate verb To leave a property, room, or position, making it available for someone else.

Senses

erota is used for these senses in English:

  • ajar (rare, perhaps, _, nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
  • bow out (idiomatic) To resign, or leave, with one's credibility or reputation still intact.
  • break away To become separated, literally or figuratively.
  • differ (intransitive) Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
  • differentiate To show or be the difference or distinction between things.
  • dissociate (intransitive) To part; to stop associating.
  • diverge (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • leave (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).

bow out — full definition

  1. verb To withdraw from a contest, role or commitment, especially gracefully and by your own choice.
  2. verb Of a team or competitor, to be eliminated from a competition.

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