figurativ russian

• лес

  woods, forest

  timber, lumber (singular only)

  scaffolding, (plural only)

  much, many (figurative)

• во́здух

  air (usually uncountable)

  (figuratively) atmosphere

  (religion) veil

• замере́ть

  Become completely still

  (figurative) to stop or stop acting

  на устах/на губах/в груди - to remain unspoken

• подста́вить

  put, place, move up, put near, substitute, hold up, offer

  to frame, set up

  (figurative, colloquial) to expose, to leave vulnerable

• перегоро́дка

  partition

  (figuratively) that which separates one thing from another

• бесси́лие

  lack of physical strength or extreme weakness

  (figurative) inability to do something

• подставля́ть

  to put/to place, move up, put near, substitute, hold up, offer

  to frame

  (figurative, colloquial) to expose, to leave vulnerable

• стопа

  sole (of the foot), (figurative) footstep

  stack, pile

• засо́хнуть

  become hard from drying out

  (colloquial and figuratively) lose freshness beauty etc

• бре́дить

  be delirious, rave, be mad, be infatuated

  (figurative) to say nonsense

• су́дорожный

  caused by convulsion/cramp

  (figurative) too restless (about a person)

  (figurative) involuntary and abrupt (about movement)

• образно́й

  Figurative

• о́бразно

  figuratively, graphically

• прошелесте́ть

  to rustle

  (figurative) to whisper

• отлежа́ться

  to lie (in a horizontal position) for some time

  to convalesce, recover one's strength by lying down

  (figurative) to ripen (after lying for some time)

• отлёживаться

  to lie (in a horizontal position) for some time

  to convalesce

  (figurative) to ripen (after lying for some time)

• наполео́новский

  Napoleonic

  (figuratively) grand, ambitious

• фигуральный

  figurative, metaphorical, tropical

• метафори́ческий

  metaphorical, figurative

• о́бразный

  figurative, picturesque, image-bearing, graphic

• засыха́ть

  to become hard from drying out

  (colloquial and figuratively) lose freshness beauty etc

• о́бразность

  imagery and figurativity

• перено́сный

  figurative

Examples

• Метафорический смысл уже не в хо́ду.The figurative meaning is no longer in current use.
• Мне нра́вится ложбан, потому что я мы́слю, образно выражаясь, в его мане́ре.I like Lojban because I think in a figuratively Lojbanic manner.
• В перено́сном смы́сле э́то уже не употребля́ется.The figurative meaning is no longer in current use.