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paisua — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
  • bilge noun The lowest part of a ship's hull, where water collects.
  • bluff verb To pretend to be stronger, more confident, or more prepared than you really are, in order to deceive or intimidate.
  • burgeon verb To grow or expand.
  • mushroom noun The fleshy, umbrella-shaped fruiting body of certain fungi, often eaten as food.
  • snowball noun A ball made of packed snow, often thrown for fun.
  • surge noun A sudden, powerful increase or rush.
  • swell verb To grow bigger, especially by filling with fluid or gas.

Senses

paisua is used for these senses in English:

  • bag (obsolete, ambitransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
  • bilge (intransitive) To bulge or swell.
  • bluff To fluff, puff or swell up.
  • burgeon (intransitive) To swell to the point of bursting.
  • mushroom (intransitive, figurative) To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.
  • snowball (intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state.
  • surge (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
  • swell (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

bag — full definition

  1. noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
  2. verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.

bilge — full definition

  1. noun The lowest part of a ship's hull, where water collects.
  2. noun Nonsense; foolish or worthless talk.

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