häipyä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- blow verb To produce a current of air, especially by expelling breath through the mouth.
- dash verb To run or move quickly, usually for a short distance.
- evaporate verb To turn from a liquid into a vapor or gas.
- fade verb To gradually lose colour, brightness, strength, or intensity.
- go off phrasal verb To speak or act with sudden intense energy — either ranting angrily or performing brilliantly. Which one is meant depends entirely on tone.
- scram verb To leave quickly, especially as a command telling someone to go away.
- shoo verb To wave or gesture at a person or animal to make them go away.
- skip verb To move along lightly with a hop in each step.
- take off phrasal verb To leave the ground and begin flying, as an aircraft or bird does.
- trap noun A device designed to catch or kill an animal.
Senses
häipyä is used for these senses in English:
- beat it (idiomatic, chiefly, as imperative, pejorative, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.
- break away To leave suddenly.
- bug off (informal, intransitive) To go away.
- check out (intransitive) To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- check out (intransitive) To leave in a hurry.
- dash (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
- do one (UK, colloquial) To go away, to leave; to get lost.
- evaporate (transitive, figuratively) To give vent to; to dissipate.
blow — full definition
- verb To produce a current of air, especially by expelling breath through the mouth.
- verb To explode or shatter suddenly, or to cause something to do so.
- verb (informal) To waste or squander, especially money or an opportunity.
- noun A hard hit or strike.
- noun A sudden shock or setback.
dash — full definition
- verb To run or move quickly, usually for a short distance.
- verb To destroy or ruin something, especially hopes or plans.
- noun A short horizontal line used in punctuation, or a small added amount of something.