pysähtyä — meaning in English

English meaning

• abort verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
• call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
• check noun An inspection to make sure something is correct, safe, or working.
• fail verb To be unsuccessful in achieving something.
• freeze verb To turn solid from cold, or to lower something's temperature until it does.
• halt verb To stop moving or operating, or to cause something to stop.
• pause verb To stop something briefly, intending to continue later.
• stall noun A small stand or booth where goods are sold, as in a market.
• stop verb To cease moving or to bring something to a halt.
• tarry verb (literary) To stay somewhere longer than planned, or to delay leaving.

Senses

pysähtyä is used for these senses in English:

• abort (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
• call To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
• check (transitive) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• check (intransitive, with at) To make a stop; to pause.
• cut out (intransitive) To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
• draw up (transitive) To cause to come to a halt.
• fail (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
• freeze (intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).

abort — full definition

1. verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
2. verb (medical) To end a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the womb.

call — full definition

1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

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