päästä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- access noun The right or ability to enter, use, or obtain something.
- bleed verb To lose blood from an injury.
- escape verb To get free from confinement, danger, or an unpleasant situation.
- place noun A particular area, location, or spot.
- qualify verb To meet the requirements needed for something, such as a job, benefit, or competition stage.
- resort noun A place people visit for a holiday, often with hotels, entertainment, and leisure facilities.
- utter adjective Complete and total; absolute.
Senses
päästä is used for these senses in English:
- access (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.
- bleed (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
- come to (transitive) To befall; to happen to; to come upon.
- escape (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
- escape (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- get off (transitive) To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.
- make it To succeed in doing something, for example in reaching a place, going somewhere, attending an event, arriving in time for something, adding to one's schedule or itinerary, or in getting where one wants to be in one's life or career, which sometimes means becoming or wanting to become successful (succeed in a big way) or famous.
- place (ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
access — full definition
- noun The right or ability to enter, use, or obtain something.
- verb To obtain or gain entry to something, especially information or a place.
bleed — full definition
- verb To lose blood from an injury.
- verb To drain someone or something of money or resources over time.
- verb Of colour or ink, to spread beyond its intended area.