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обраща́ться — meaning in English

obrashchatsya

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English meaning

  • accost verb To walk up to someone and speak to them in a forceful or unwelcome way.
  • address noun The details of where a building or property is located, used for mail or navigation.
  • apply verb To formally request something, such as a job or place at a school.
  • bespeak verb To talk about or describe something.
  • solicit verb To ask for or try to obtain something, often persistently or formally.
  • treat verb To behave toward someone or something in a particular way.

Senses

обраща́ться is used for these senses in English:

  • address (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.
  • apply (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
  • bespeak (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
  • solicit To make a petition.
  • treat (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way. [from 14th c.]

accost — full definition

  1. verb To walk up to someone and speak to them in a forceful or unwelcome way.
  2. verb To lie right next to something else, touching its edge.
  3. verb To sail close along the coastline or edge of something.
  4. verb To come close to someone or something.

address — full definition

  1. noun The details of where a building or property is located, used for mail or navigation.
  2. noun A formal speech given to an audience.
  3. noun (computing) A code identifying a specific location in memory or on a network.
  4. verb To speak directly to a person or group.
  5. verb To deal with or attempt to solve an issue.
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