Polish–English dictionary

uciec potajemnie z kochankiem

(intransitive, of a married or engaged person) To run away from home with a paramour.

uciec potajemnie z partnerem

(intransitive, of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.

uciec z domu

(intransitive, dated) To run away from home (for any reason).

uciecha

(uncountable) The condition of enjoying anything.

ucieczka

An act of escaping.

ucieczka z więzienia

An escape from prison.

uciekać

(intransitive) To run away; to escape.

uciekać potajemnie z kochankiem

(intransitive, of a married or engaged person) To run away from home with a paramour.

uciekać potajemnie z partnerem

(intransitive, of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.

uciekać z domu

(intransitive, dated) To run away from home (for any reason).

uciekający

Having run away; escaped; fugitive.

uciekinier

A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation.

uciekinierka

A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation.

ucieleśnienie

(internet, video games) A complex and dynamic digital representation of a person or being in the form of a digital model, used online as a simulation or emulation of a person, or as a person's online alter ego, in a virtual world, virtual chat room, or metaverse.

ucierpieć

(intransitive) To become worse.

ucisk

The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.

uciskany

Subject to oppression.

uciszać

(transitive) To make quiet.

uciszać się

(intransitive, US) To become quieter.

uciszyć

(transitive) To make quiet.

uciszyć się

(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become quiet.

ucywilizować

To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.

ucywilizowany

Having a highly developed society or culture; belonging to civilization.

uczcić

(transitive, or, intransitive) To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.

uczcić pamięć

(transitive) To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.

uczciwie

(idiomatic) Honestly, reputably.

uczciwość

The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]

uczciwy

(of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.

uczelnia

Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

uczeń

A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

uczenie

(uncountable) An act in which something is learned.

uczenie się

Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.

uczennica

A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

uczestnictwo

The act of participating, of taking part in something.

uczestniczka

One who participates.

uczestniczyć

(formal) To take part in an activity; to participate. [with in]

uczestnik

A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.

uczęszczać

(transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place). [from 17th c.]

uczłowieczanie

The act of humanizing.

uczłowieczenie

The act of humanizing.

uczniostwo

(uncountable) The condition of being a disciple.

uczona

One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.

uczony

A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.

uczta

A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

ucztować

(intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.

uczucia

(always, _, in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.

uczucie

A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.

uczuciowość

An act or state of being sentimental.

uczuciowy

Of or relating to the emotions.

uczulenie

(informal, figuratively) An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.

uczyć

(transitive) To instruct or train.

uczyć się

To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

uczynić

(transitive) To perform; to execute.

uczynić hetmanem

(chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.

uczynić niejasnym

(intransitive) To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.

uczynić złożonym

(transitive) To make more complex; to complicate.

uczynny

Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.

udać

(transitive, of a, theatrical company, or, band, etc.) To perform or give performances in or at (a venue or location).

udać chorego

(ambitransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

udać się

(intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).

udany

Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect.

udar mózgu

(by extension) The rower nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rhythm for the other rowers; the position in the boat occupied by this rower.

udar słoneczny

(medicine) Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.

udawać

(transitive) To imitate.

udawać chorego

(ambitransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

udawany

Imitation, not genuine; fake.

udekorować

(transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

uderzać

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

uderzać pałką

(transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.

uderzać piłkę przeciwnika własną piłką

(transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.

uderzać w ślinę

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, colloquial) To kiss passionately.

uderzać workiem z piaskiem

(transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.

uderzać z woleja

(sports, transitive) To hit the ball before it touches the ground

uderzająco

(manner) In a striking way.

uderzający

Making a strong impression.

uderzanie

The pulsation of the heart.

uderzenie

An instance of the act of striking or hitting.

uderzyć

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

uderzyć pałką

(transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.

uderzyć piłkę przeciwnika własną piłką

(transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.

uderzyć workiem z piaskiem

(transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.

uderzyć z łokcia

(transitive) To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.

uderzyć z woleja

(sports, transitive) To hit the ball before it touches the ground

udko

The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food. [from 17th c.]

udo

The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. [from 8th c.]

udobruchać

To placate or mollify. [from 17th c.]

udogodnienie

Any object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.

udój

The act by which any animal is milked.

udomowiony

Selectively bred to live with or around humans. (of an animal or a plant, especially a pet)

udon

A Japanese wheat noodle.

udoskonalać

(transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.

udoskonalić

(transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.

udostępniać

To divide and distribute.

udowadniać

(transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

udowodnić

(transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

udowodniony

Having been proved; having proved its value or truth.

udręczony

(formal) Causing pain or distress; harrying.

udręka

Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

udusić

(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).

uduszenie

The act of strangling or the state of being strangled.

UDW

Initialism of blind carbon copy.

udział

Contribution of work or information, as an opinion or advice.

udziałowiec

One who owns shares of stock in a corporation.

udzielać

(transitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of.

udzielić

(transitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of.

udźwięcznienie

(phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.

ued

A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

uf

An expressive sound made indicating the release of one's inner tension; the release of breath; an expression of relief.

ufać

(transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.

uff

Used to express relief of tension, fatigue, or surprise.

UFO

Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft. [from 20th c.]

ufoludek

Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.

uformować

To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. [from 15th c.]

ufundowanie

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

Uganda

A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.

ugasić

(figurative) To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).

ugaszać

(transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).

ugaszczać

(transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward. [from 16th c.]

ugięcie

Deviation (of a needle or other indicator or mechanism) from a previous position.

ugier

A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.

uginanie

The act of deflecting or something deflected.

ugniatać

(transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.

ugoda

An act of complying.

ugodowość

(uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.

ugodowy

Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

ugorować

(transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

ugorowy

(of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.

ugościć

To perform the role of a host.

ugotować koszernie

(Judaism, transitive) To render kosher.

ugotowany

(of food) Prepared by cooking.

ugryźć

(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.

uiszczenie

Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends. [from 15th c.]

ujarzmiać

(transitive) To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.

ujarzmić

(transitive) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle.

ujawniać

(transitive) To disclose (a secret).

ujawnić

(transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.

ujawnienie

(legal) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.

ujęcie

(film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.

ujędniać

(transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.

ujednolicać

To make homogeneous, to blend or puree.

ujednolicić

To make homogeneous, to blend or puree.

ujednoznaczniać

To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.

ujednoznacznić

To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.

ujemny

Being a negative quantity; pertaining to a deficit or reduction. [from 18th c.]

ujeżdżać

(transitive, of a horse) To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.

ujmujący

Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.

ujrzeć

To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.

ujście

A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

ukamienować

(transitive, legal) To throw stones or other objects at, as punishment, sometimes until death.

ukamienowanie

(legal) The practice or act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death, as punishment