törmätä — meaning in English
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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 propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.
- 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
- verb To get off a vehicle or dismount from an animal.
- verb To land after flying, or to come to rest somewhere.
- adj On fire, or lit up with light.
bonk — full definition
- verb To bump or knock into something with a light thud.
- noun A sudden, extreme fatigue during endurance exercise caused by running out of energy stores.