pyöritellä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- dwell verb To live or reside in a place.
- equivocate verb To avoid giving a clear or straight answer, using words that could mean more than one thing in order to mislead someone.
- hedge noun A row of closely planted bushes or shrubs forming a barrier or boundary.
- milk noun A white liquid produced by female mammals to feed their young, especially cow's milk used as a food and drink for humans.
- straddle verb To sit or stand with one leg on each side of something.
Senses
pyöritellä is used for these senses in English:
- dwell (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.
- equivocate (intransitive) To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.
- equivocate (transitive) To render equivocal or ambiguous.
- hedge (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- milk (transitive, figurative) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
- straddle (transitive) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
- turn over To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
dwell — full definition
- verb To live or reside in a place.
- verb To keep thinking or talking about something, often unnecessarily.
equivocate — full definition
- verb To avoid giving a clear or straight answer, using words that could mean more than one thing in order to mislead someone.
- verb To make something unclear or open to more than one meaning.
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