Polish–English dictionary

przemywać

(transitive) To clean (a wound) with a fluid.

przenajświętszy

Sacred, very holy.

przenieść

(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).

przeniesienie

(countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.

przenikać

(intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.

przenikliwość

Acute discernment or understanding; insight.

przenikliwy

Of a sound, having a high pitch.

przeniknąć

(intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.

przenocować

(transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

przenosić

To move (something) from one place to another.

przenosiciel

(epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.

przenośnie

(manner) In a figurative manner.

przenośnik

A mechanical arrangement for transporting material or objects, generally over short or moderate distances, as from one part of a building to another.

przenośny

Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures.

przenoszenie

(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.

przeobrażać

(transitive) To change greatly the appearance or form of.

przeobrażenie

(pathology) A change, usually degenerative, in the structure of a specific body tissue.

przeoczenie

An omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten.

przeogromny

Huge, gigantic, very large.

przeor

In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.

przeorysza

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. [First attested around 1150 to 1350]

przeorzech

(countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.

przepaść

Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

przepaska

A garment worn about the loins and covering the crotch.

przepaska biodrowa

A garment worn about the loins and covering the crotch.

przepełnienie

(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.

przepełniony

Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.

przepiękny

(of a person or place, sometimes, endearing) Very beautiful.

przepiórka

Coturnix coturnix, a bird in pheasant family.

przepis

Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)

przepisać

(transitive) To write again (without changes).

przepisywać

(medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).

przepity

Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

przeplatać

To twist or twine around something (or one another).

przepleść

(transitive) To combine (things) through weaving.

przepływ

(math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.

przepływać

(intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.

przepowiadać

To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events; to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable outcome.

przepowiadalny

Able to be predicted.

przepowiednia

A statement of what will happen in the future.

przepowiedzieć

To estimate how something will be in the future.

przepracowanie

Excessive work.

przepracowany

Subjected to too much work.

przepracowywać się

(intransitive) To work too hard.

przepraszać

(intransitive) To express regret that a certain event has occurred.

przepraszający

Having the character of apology; regretfully excusing.

przepraszam

Indicates the speaker's apology.

przepraszam?

Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.

przeprawić

To cross a stream by walking through it.

przeprosić

(intransitive) To express regret that a certain event has occurred.

przeprosiny

An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).

przeproszenie

An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).

przeprowadzać

(uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played

przeprowadzać doświadczenie

(transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

przeprowadzać walidację

(transitive) To check or prove the validity of; verify.

przeprowadzać wywiad

(intransitive) To be interviewed; to attend an interview.

przeprowadzająca wywiad

One who interviews.

przeprowadzający wywiad

One who interviews.

przeprowadzić

(intransitive, archaic) To change one's residence or place of business; to move.

przeprowadzić sekcję

(transitive) To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.

przeprowadzka

The event of changing one's residence.

przepuklina

(diseases) A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.

przepust

A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.

przepustka

A leave of absence or vacation.

przepustowość

(operations) The rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.

przepuszczać

(ambitransitive) To spend lavishly or extravagantly, especially money. [from 1911]

przepuszczalny

(by extension) Allowing the passage of persons, information, or other things, especially when such passage occurs despite hopes or expectations otherwise.

przepychacz

A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.

przepyszny

Gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous; of remarkable beauty.

przerabiać

(ambitransitive) To change the form or structure of.

przerastać

(transitive, often, figurative) To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc.

przeraza

A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin

przerażająco

In a frightening or terrifying manner.

przerażający

Causing fear; or capable of causing fear; scary.

przerażenie

A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits

przereklamowany

Given an undue amount of credit for quality or merit in a field; not necessarily related to popularity.

przerobić

(ambitransitive) To change the form or structure of.

przerosnąć

(transitive, often, figurative) To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc.

przerost

(countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.

przerwa

A vacant space or time.

przerwać

(transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.

przerwanie

(computing) The abnormal termination of a program.

przerywać

(transitive) To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.

przerywany

(of a, line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

przerzedzić

To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.

przerzutnik

(computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory. [from 20th c.]

przesączyć

(transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.

przesąd

A belief or beliefs, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that events may be influenced by one's behavior in some magical or mystical way.

przesada

The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.

przesadnie

To an excessive degree.

przesadny

Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.

przesadzać

To overstate, to describe more than the fact.

przesądzający

Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

przesadzenie

An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.

przesadzić

(intransitive, idiomatic) To go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds.

prześcigać

(transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.

prześcignąć

(transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.

przesiać

To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.

przesiadać

(intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)

przesiadka

(countable) A transfer between vehicles.

przesiadywać

(dated, informal) To be unyielding; to hold out.

przesiąknąć

(intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

przesiąknięty

Drenched with water, or other liquid.

przesiąść

(intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)

przesiedlać

(transitive) To force someone to settle in a different place.

przesiedlić

(transitive) To force someone to settle in a different place.

przesiew

(genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.

przesiewać

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

przesiewacz

A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

przesilenie

One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.

prześladować

To cause strain or anxiety to someone.

prześladowanie

Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.

prześladowca

A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.

prześladowczyni

A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.

przesłać tym samym torem

(computing) To combine several signals into one.

przesłaniać

To obscure or overshadow.

przesłanka

An exclusive hereditary or official right or privilege.

przesłanki

An explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something.

przęsło

(architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.

przesłona

(astronomy, photography) The diameter of such a hole which restricts the width of the lightpath through the whole system. For a telescope, this is the diameter of the objective lens.

przesłonić

To obscure or overshadow.

przesłuchać

(transitive) to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner

przesłuchanie

(countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.

przesłuchiwać

(transitive) to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner

przesłyszeć się

(ambitransitive) To hear wrongly.

prześmieszny

Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.

przesmyk

(landforms) A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.

przestać działać

(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.

przestankowanie

A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences; examples include commas, hyphens, and stops (periods).

przestankowy

Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

przestarzałość

The state or quality of being ancient.

przestarzały

(computing) Said of a function or feature planned to be phased out, but still available for use.

przestawnia

(rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.

przestępca

A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

przestępczość

(uncountable) The state of being criminal.

przestępczy

Against the law; forbidden by law.

przestępczyni

A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

przestępny

(botany) of a meristem: situated between zones of permanent tissue, thus a shoot growing at the base of a leaf, in comparison with apical growth at the tip of a root or plant.

przestępstwo

(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.

przestępstwo obyczajowe

(legal) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.

przester

(uncountable, figurative) A state of heightened activity.

przesterować

(transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.

przesterowywać

(transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.

przestój

A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.

przestrach

A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

przestraszać się

(intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. [from 16th c.]

przestraszyć

(informal, transitive) To scare or unnerve someone.

przestraszyć się

(intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. [from 16th c.]

przestroga

A rebuke by an authority that one has erred and should not persist in their actions; a reprimand.

przestronny

Spacious, expansive, comfortable.