wstrzymać — meaning in English

English meaning

• abstain verb To deliberately not take part in something, especially eating, drinking, or voting.
• cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
• prorogue verb To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session.

Senses

wstrzymać is used for these senses in English:

• abstain (intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
• cancel (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
• prorogue (transitive, now, _, rare) To defer. [from 15th c.]

cancel — full definition

1. verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
2. verb To make something officially invalid.
3. verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
4. verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.

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