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опуска́ть — meaning in English

opuskat

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English meaning

  • humiliate verb To make someone feel ashamed or foolish, often publicly.
  • lower verb To move something down, or reduce its height, amount, or intensity.
  • vilify verb To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of.

Senses

опуска́ть is used for these senses in English:

  • draw down To initiate a drawdown (withdrawal of equipment, supplies, etc., potentially to provide it to another party).
  • get off (transitive) To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
  • humiliate (transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
  • let down (transitive) To allow to descend.
  • lower (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
  • lower (transitive) To depress as to direction
  • vilify (transitive) To belittle through speech; to put down.

lower — full definition

  1. verb To move something down, or reduce its height, amount, or intensity.
  2. verb To bring down in dignity or status; to demean.

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