Polish–English dictionary

zmieniać

(ambitransitive) To change the form or structure of.

zmieniać się

(intransitive, or, transitive) To change condition or attitude.

zmieniający życie

Having a significant effect on the course of one's life.

zmienić

(ambitransitive) To change the form or structure of.

zmienić się

(intransitive, or, transitive) To change condition or attitude.

zmiennokształtny

(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.

zmienność

An unsteadiness.

zmienny

Changeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate.

zmierzch

The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.

zmierzyć

To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

zmieszać

(transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand

zmieszanie

The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

zmieszany

Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.

żmij

In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.

żmija

A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.

zminimalizować

(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.

Żmirłacz

A ketch built by Jack London named after Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark

zmniejszać

(transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.

zmniejszać się

(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.

zmniejszający

(obsolete) Serving to diminish.

zmniejszenie

(human resources) A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through injury, incapacitation, retirement, resignation, or death.

zmniejszyć

(transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.

zmniejszyć się

(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.

zmoczyć

(transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.

zmoderować

(transitive) To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.

zmodyfikować geny

(specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).

zmoknięty

Drenched with water, or other liquid.

zmonetyzować

To convert something (especially a security) into currency.

zmontować

(transitive) To put together.

zmora

(informal) An annoying and bothersome person or thing.

zmorowaty

Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.

zmotywować

(transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate.

zmotywowany

Enthusiastic, especially about striving toward a goal.

zmowa

A private agreement for a fraudulent or illegal purpose; conspiracy.

zmówić się

(intransitive, legal) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

zmrok

(uncountable) Nightfall.

zmrużenie

An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.

żmudny

(of a task) Requiring great exertion; very laborious.

zmulczować

(agriculture) To apply mulch.

zmusić

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

zmuszać

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

zmyślny

Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.

zmyślony

Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.

zmysł

Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

zmysł powonienia

A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

zmysłowość

(uncountable) The state of being sensual or sensuous.

zmysłowy

Amorous; lustful.

zmywarka

A machine for washing dishes.

zmywarka do naczyń

A machine for washing dishes.

znać

(transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.

znać się

(transitive, philosophy) To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.

znachor

One who heals, especially through faith.

znachorka

(dated, now, chiefly, literary) A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.

znachorstwo

(countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.

znacząco

In a significant manner or to a significant extent.

znaczący

Significant; worth considering.

znaczek

(US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.

znaczenie

Import, intention or purpose.

znaczenie polityczne

(informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.

znacznie

Significantly; to a degree worth considering.

znacznik

(computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

znaczny

Significant; worth considering.

znaczyć

(transitive) To signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.

znajda

An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.

znajdować

(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.

znajdźka

(video games) An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.

znajoma

(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. [from 14th c.]

znajomość

(uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship. [from 12th c.]

znajomy

(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. [from 14th c.]

znak

(astrology) Any of twelve signs, corresponding to constellations, that are used as the basis of astrology

znak krzyża

(Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.

znak szczególny

A mark on the skin formed before birth.

znak wodny

A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.

znak zapytania

The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.

znakomicie

In an outstanding manner.

znakomity

Exceptional; very good.

znakować

(transitive) To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.

znaleźć

(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.

znaleźć schronienie

(intransitive) To settle into a home.

znaleźć się

(copulative) To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out.

znalezisko

Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.

znamię

A mark on the skin formed before birth.

znamię naczyniowe

The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)

znamienity

(of a person) Distinguished, important, noteworthy.

znany

Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.

znawca

A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste.

znawczyni

A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste.

znęcać się

(transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.

znęcanie

An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.

znęcanie się

Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment. [from late 16th c.]

zniechęcać

(transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).

zniechęcający

That causes discouragement.

zniechęcenie

The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.

zniechęcić

(transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).

zniecierpliwienie

The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable.

znieczulenie

(medicine, American spelling, Canadian spelling) An artificial method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain without causing loss of vital functions, by the administration of one or more agents which block pain impulses before transmitted to the brain.

znieczulica

The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.

zniedołężniały

(often, offensive) Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.

zniekształcać

to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.

zniekształcanie

The act of deforming, or state of being deformed.

zniekształcenie

The result of disfiguring; the state of being disfigured.

zniekształcić

to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.

zniekształcony

Unusual of shape; misshapen.

znienacka

(idiomatic) Unexpectedly; without warning; all of a sudden.

znieść

To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]

zniesienie

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. [First attested from the mid 16th century.]

zniesławienie

The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.

zniewaga

Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies. [from mid-16th c.]

zniewalać

(transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

znieważać

(transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage. [from early 17th c.]

znieważyć

(transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage. [from early 17th c.]

zniewieściałość

The quality of being effeminate.

zniewieściały

(often, derogatory, of a man or boy) Exhibiting behaviour or mannerisms considered typical of a woman; unmasculine.

zniewolenie

The act of enslaving or the state of being a slave; bondage

zniewolić

(transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

znikać

(intransitive) To leave, disappear.

zniknąć

(intransitive) To leave, disappear.

zniknięcie

The action of disappearing or vanishing.

zniszczenie

The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.

zniszczony

Defeated, thwarted.

zniszczyć

(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.

zniuansować

(transitive) To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way.

zniweczyć

(transitive, UK) To thwart or destroy, especially something belonging or pertaining to another.

żniwiarz

One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

żniwo

(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.

żniwować

(intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest.

zniżać

(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.

zniżać się

To come down from a superior position and do something; to deign; (with a negative connotation) to stoop.

zniżka

A reduction in price.

zniżyć

(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.

zniżyć się

To come down from a superior position and do something; to deign; (with a negative connotation) to stoop.

znosić

To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]

znośny

Able to be borne; tolerable; endurable.

znów

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.]

znowu

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.]

znudzenie

(countable) An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.

znudzić

(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.

znudzony

Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

znużenie

(countable) An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.

znużony

Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.

znużyć

(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.

zobaczyć

(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.

zobligowany

Under an obligation to do something.

zobowiązać

(transitive) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.

zobowiązanie

(finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.

zobowiązany

Obligated or locked in (often, but not necessarily, by a pledge) to some course of action.

zobowiązywać

(transitive) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.

zobrazować

(figurative) To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.

zodiakalny

(astronomy, astrology) Of or pertaining to the zodiac.

Zofia

A en given name.