Stoßen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- buffet noun A meal set out on a table or counter for guests to serve themselves.
- fling verb To throw something suddenly and with force.
- hit verb To strike someone or something, often forcefully.
- jolt verb To shake or push something abruptly and roughly.
- plunge verb To jump or dive suddenly into water or another substance.
- prod verb To poke someone or something, usually with a finger or pointed object.
- push verb To apply force to something so it moves away from you.
- shun verb To deliberately avoid someone or something, often as a form of social rejection.
- stub noun A short remaining piece of something after the main part has been used, cut, or removed.
- thrust noun A sudden strong push or lunge forward.
Senses
Stoßen is used for these senses in English:
- buffet To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
- clean and jerk (weightlifting) The act of lifting the barbell from the floor to a resting position across the front of the shoulders (the clean phase), pausing, and thrusting the barbell over the head to a stationary position in one movement (the jerk phase). The normal technique for both parts of this act involves propelling the barbell upwards, quickly lowering the torso, and then straightening the legs.
- fling An act of throwing, often violently.
- hit (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- jolt An act of jolting.
- plunge (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- prod (transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.
- push (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
buffet — full definition
- noun A meal set out on a table or counter for guests to serve themselves.
- verb To strike or knock about repeatedly, especially by wind, waves, or force.
fling — full definition
- verb To throw something suddenly and with force.
- noun A brief, casual romantic or sexual relationship.
- noun A short period of enthusiastic, unrestrained enjoyment.