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paeta — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bolt noun A metal fastener with a threaded shaft, used with a nut to hold things together.
  • defect noun A flaw, fault, or imperfection in something.
  • escape verb To get free from confinement, danger, or an unpleasant situation.
  • evade verb To cleverly avoid or escape something, such as a person, question, or duty.
  • flee verb To run away from danger or a threatening situation.
  • fly noun A small flying insect, especially the common housefly.
  • run verb To move quickly on foot, faster than walking.

Senses

paeta is used for these senses in English:

  • bolt (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
  • break out (intransitive) To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.
  • defect (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.
  • escape (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
  • escape (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
  • evade (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
  • evade (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
  • fly (ambitransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).

bolt — full definition

  1. noun A metal fastener with a threaded shaft, used with a nut to hold things together.
  2. noun A sliding bar used to lock a door.
  3. noun A flash of lightning.
  4. verb To run away suddenly, or move very fast.
  5. verb To fasten something with a bolt, or to lock a door with a bolt.

defect — full definition

  1. noun A flaw, fault, or imperfection in something.
  2. verb To abandon one's country, party, or cause, especially to join an opposing one.

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