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ociągać
(transitive) Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose. [from late 18th c.]
ociągnąć
(transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
ociekający tłuszczem
Containing a lot of grease or fat.
ocieniać
(transitive) To obscure something by casting a shadow.
ocienić
(transitive) To obscure something by casting a shadow.
ocieplenie
The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
ocieplina
Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
ocierać
(intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
ociężały
Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
oczarować
To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
oczarowany
Fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell; captivated.
oczekiwać
(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
oczekiwanie
The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
oczerniać
To defame or sully.
oczernić
To defame or sully.
oczko
A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, pin, rope, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
ocznik
A cichlid fish of species Astronotus ocellatus, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.
oczodół
(anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
oczyścić
(ergative, of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make or become clear or bright by freeing from impurities or turbidity.
oczyścić z zarzutów
(transitive) To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
oczyszczać
(ergative, of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make or become clear or bright by freeing from impurities or turbidity.
oczyszczać z zarzutów
(transitive) To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
oczyszczacz
A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
oczyszczanie
The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.
oczyszczarka
A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
oczyszczenie
(religion) A rite of purification, especially washing.
oczytanie
Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
oczytany
Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read.
oczywiście
(idiomatic, North America) Used to indicate that a preceding event or statement by another is an unsurprising accompaniment of known facts and circumstances.
oczywisty
Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
od
(idiomatic) At or by a specified time, with the implication that the said condition will be true from that time onward.
od czapy
(idiomatic) Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd.
od czasu do czasu
(idiomatic) Occasionally; sometimes; once in a while.
od czasu kiedy
From the time that.
od kiedy
From the time that.
od nowa
Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion. [from 16thc.]
od razu
(archaic) Straight away; at once.
od-
reversal, undoing
oda
A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
odąć
(transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
odaliska
(historical) A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio.
odbić
(idiomatic, dated) To dance with someone who is already dancing by replacing his or her partner.
odbić się
(intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
odbicie
The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
odbiec
(intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
odbiegać
(intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
odbiegający
Showing deviation or disagreement.
odbierać
(transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.
odbierać mowę
(transitive) To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.
odbijać
(idiomatic, dated) To dance with someone who is already dancing by replacing his or her partner.
odbijać się
(intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
odbijacz
(US) a shield, usually of plastic or metal, on a bicycle that protects the rider from mud or water
odbiór
(procedure word, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and is expecting a response.
odbiorca
The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.
odbiorczyni
The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.
odbiornik
Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such. [from 19th c.]
odbitka
(photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
odblask
A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles.
odblokować
(chiefly, electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
odbudowa
The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
odbudować
(ambitransitive) To build again or anew.
odbudowywać
(ambitransitive) To build again or anew.
odburkiwać
(intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
odbyt
(anatomy) The orifice of the rectum in most mammals, teleost fish, and many invertebrates, through which feces and flatus are ejected.
odbytnica
(anatomy) The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon, but before leaving the body through the anus or cloaca.
odbytnicowy
(not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
odbytniczy
(not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
odbytowy
(not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
odcedzać
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
odcedzanie
A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
odcedzić
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
odchody
(now, _, specifically) Human and non-human animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
odchodzić
(intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
odchwaszczać
(transitive) To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
odchylenie
(statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
odciąć
(transitive) To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.
odciągać
To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
odciągnąć
To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
odciągnięcie
(figuratively) The act of refusing to address something (questions, criticism, etc.).
odciągnięty
(firearms) Of a firearm or crossbow; to have the cock lifted or prepared to be fired.
odciążać
(transitive, archaic) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
odciążyć
(transitive, archaic) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
odcień
These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
odcinek
(geometry) A region of a circle bounded by an arc and the chord connecting the endpoints of the arc.
odcinek podcastu
(loosely, by extension) An individual episode of such a program.
odcisk
The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
odczarować
(transitive) To remove the mystery from something; to explain or clarify.
odczarowywać
(transitive) To remove the mystery from something; to explain or clarify.
odczasownikowy
(grammar, linguistics) Derived from a verb.
odczuwalny
That which can be detected, noticeable.
odczynnik
(chemistry) A compound or mixture of compounds used to treat or test materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.
odczytać
(transitive, or, intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
odczytywać
(transitive, or, intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
oddać
(archaic) To recede; to retreat.
oddalać się
To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.
oddalenie
The quality of being remote.
oddalić się
To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.
oddalona osiedla
An outlying settlement.
oddalony
Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
oddanie
(uncountable) Feeling of strong or fervent affection; dedication.
oddany
Obligated or locked in (often, but not necessarily, by a pledge) to some course of action.
oddawać
(archaic) To recede; to retreat.
oddech
(countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
oddechowy
(relational) Relating to respiration or the organs of respiration; breathing.
oddolny
Of or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from multiple small subunits to a single, large basic unit.
oddychać
(intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
oddychać swobodnie
(intransitive, figurative) To live.
oddychanie
(countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
oddział
A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
oddziaływać
(transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
oddziaływanie
The situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce a new effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence.
oddzielać
(transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
oddzielenie
The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
oddzielić
(transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
oddzielnie
In a separate manner; not together; apart.
oddzielny
Separate, distinct.
oddzielony
Hidden, isolated, remote.
odebrać mowę
(transitive) To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.
odebranie
The act of answering a telephone.
odejmować
(transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
odejść
(intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
odejście
A departure.
oderwać
(transitive, often, with off, or, out) To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
oderwany
Having broken away from a larger unit.
odesłać
(intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
odetchnąć
(intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
odetkać
(transitive) To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.
odezwa
A statement which is proclaimed; formal public announcement.
odezwać się niepytany
To speak when inappropriate, particularly in a school environment.
odfajkować
(transitive, US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
odfiletować
(transitive) To slice, bone or make into fillets.
odgadnąć
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
odgadywać
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
odgazować
(transitive) To remove the gas from.
odgazowany
(of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
odgłos
Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
odgrywać rolę
To become involved, start to play a role.
odgryzać
(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
odgryźć
(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
odgrzewać
(transitive) To repeat with minor variation.
odhaczać
(sometimes, metaphorical) To sign an item on a list with a tick mark, especially as a signal that the item has veen verified or completed.
odhaczyć
(transitive, US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
odinstalować
(computing) To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.
odinstalowywać
(computing) To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.
odizolować
(transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.
odizolowany
Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
odizolowywać
(transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.
odjąć
(transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
odjazd
A departure.
odkąd
Continuously since a specified time or event.

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