poistaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• abstract noun A short summary of a longer document, especially an academic paper.
• bate verb To reduce the force of something; to abate.
• cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
• clear adj Transparent, or free of clouds, mist, or obstruction.
• defeat verb To beat someone in a fight, contest, or competition.
• delete verb To remove or erase something, especially text or digital data.
• deprive verb To take something away from someone, or prevent them from having it.
• detract verb To take away; to withdraw or remove.
• discard verb To throw away or get rid of something no longer wanted.
• discontinue verb To stop making, selling, or continuing something.
• dislodge verb To force something out of a position it had been fixed or settled in.
• drop noun A small round blob of liquid.
• eject verb To force someone to leave a place.
• erase verb To remove marks, writing, or recorded information completely.
• eviscerate verb To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
• excise noun A tax on goods produced and sold within a country, as opposed to a tax on imports.
• exhaust verb To use up something completely, or to wear someone out.
• expel verb To force someone out of a place, group, or organization, often as punishment.
• expunge verb To erase or strike out.
• extirpate verb To clear an area of roots and stumps.
• extract verb To pull or draw something out, often with effort or force.
• kick verb To hit or strike something with the foot.
• oust verb To force someone out of a position of power or place, often against their will.
• pop verb To make a sudden sharp sound, especially from bursting.
• redact verb To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
• remove verb To take something away from its place.
• strike verb To hit someone or something, often forcefully.
• strip noun A long, narrow piece of material or land.
• uninstall verb To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.
• write off verb To decide that someone or something is a failure and not worth any further effort or attention.

Senses

poistaa is used for these senses in English:

• abstract (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission. [First attested in the late 15th century.]
• bate (transitive, sometimes, figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
• cancel (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
• clear (transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
• cut out (transitive) To remove; to omit.
• defeat (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
• delete (transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. [from 1600s]
• deprive (transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.

abstract — full definition

1. noun A short summary of a longer document, especially an academic paper.
2. adj Existing as an idea rather than a physical, concrete thing.
3. adj Relating to art that uses shapes, colours, and forms rather than realistic depictions.
4. verb To take out or separate a general idea or quality from something specific.

bate — full definition

1. verb To reduce the force of something; to abate.
2. verb To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
3. verb To cut off, remove, take away.
4. verb To leave out, except, bar.

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