törmätä — meaning in English

English meaning

• alight verb To get off a vehicle or dismount from an animal.
• bonk verb To bump or knock into something with a light thud.
• bump noun A light collision or jolt, or the sound it makes.
• charge noun An amount of money asked for a service or product.
• collide verb To crash into something else with force, usually by accident.
• conflict noun A serious disagreement or clash, especially a prolonged one.
• crash noun A violent collision, especially involving a vehicle.
• hurtle verb To throw something with great force.
• impact noun The force of one object striking another; a collision.
• jostle verb To bump or push against someone while moving, often in a crowd.
• light noun Brightness that lets people see, from the sun, a lamp, or fire.

Senses

törmätä is used for these senses in English:

• alight (figuratively) Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon.
• bonk (informal) To strike or collide with something.
• charge (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
• charge (transitive, of a, hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
• come across (idiomatic, transitive) To find, usually by accident.
• crash (intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
• hurtle Of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence; also, of two people or things: to collide together; to clash.
• jostle (ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.

alight — full definition

1. verb To get off a vehicle or dismount from an animal.
2. verb To land after flying, or to come to rest somewhere.
3. adj On fire, or lit up with light.

bonk — full definition

1. verb To bump or knock into something with a light thud.
2. noun A sudden, extreme fatigue during endurance exercise caused by running out of energy stores.

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