wyrąbywać
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Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From wyrąbać + -ywać. First attested in the 16th century.[1] Displaced Old Polish wyrębować.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɘvat͡ɕ
- Syllabification: wy‧rą‧by‧wać
Verb
[edit]wyrąbywać impf (perfective wyrąbać)
- (transitive) to chop down, to hew down (to remove plants by chopping)
- (transitive) to cut open (to make a hole or recess with strong blows from a sharp tool) [with w (+ locative) ‘in what’]
- (transitive) to cut apart (to break with strong blows from a sharp instrument, especially on the surface of something) [with w (+ locative) ‘on what surface’]
- Synonym: wybić
- (transitive, colloquial) to blast (to speak directly, openly, and critically)
- (transitive) to cut out (to to extract something from something by cutting)
- (transitive, obsolete) to chop down (to kill all of with a chopping weapon)
- Synonym: wyciąć
- (transitive, obsolete) to blurt out (to say without thinking, sometimes by memory)
- Synonym: wyklepać
- (transitive, obsolete) to chop out, to cut out (to form, e.g. a figure, by chopping or cutting, e.g. from a block of material)
- (transitive, obsolete) to nick (to make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in)
- Synonym: wyszczerbić
- (reflexive with się) to go ass over teakettle (to fall and hurt oneself)
- (reflexive with się, obsolete) to chop one's way out of (to leave by chopping thing to make a path)
Conjugation
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- wyrąbywać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wyrąbywać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wyrąbywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wyrąbywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 1003