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almak — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • buy verb To get something by paying money for it.
  • elicit verb To draw out a response, reaction, or piece of information from someone, often through careful questioning.
  • gather verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
  • get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
  • obtain verb To get or acquire something, often through effort or a formal process.
  • receive verb To be given, sent, or handed something.
  • swallow verb To move food or drink from the mouth down into the stomach.
  • take verb To reach out and get hold of something, or to remove or carry it away.
  • wreak verb To cause or inflict something damaging or violent, such as havoc, damage, or revenge.

Senses

almak is used for these senses in English:

  • buy (transitive, archaic) To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).
  • elicit To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
  • gather (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
  • get (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • pick up (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
  • receive (transitive, dated) To take, as something that is offered; to accept.
  • stand in To substitute for; to replace; (theater) to serve as an understudy.
  • swallow (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb. [from 13th c.]

buy — full definition

  1. verb To get something by paying money for it.
  2. verb To accept something as true or believable.
  3. noun Something purchased, especially a good deal.

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