figurativ russian

• дви́гатель

  engine, motor

  driving force, mover, motor (figurative)

• орби́та

  orbit

  sphere of influence, orbit (figurative)

  eye socket, orbit (anatomical)

• ба́ня

  banya, bathhouse, sauna

  bath (figurative)

• ру́сло

  riverbed, channel, bed (of a river)

  course, track, channel (figurative)

• волше́бница

  sorceress, enchantress, magician (female)

  fairy godmother, charmer, enchantress (figurative)

• разворо́т

  U-turn, turn, turning around

  turn, rotation, twist

  about-face, reversal, U-turn (figurative)

  deployment

  development, unfolding, full scope

• ме́рка

  measurement, measurements

  measure, standard, yardstick (figurative)

  measuring rod, measuring stick, gauge

• перено́сный

  portable

  figurative

• зароди́ться

  to arise, to originate, to come into being, to be born (figurative)

  to be conceived, to begin to develop

• о́бразно

  figuratively, metaphorically, in a figurative sense

  graphically, vividly, in vivid imagery

• крестоно́сец

  crusader

  crusader (figurative), one who bravely bears his cross

  garden chafer, garden foliage beetle

• прогни́вший

  rotten, decayed, putrid

  corrupt, rotten (figurative), depraved, degenerate

• бесси́лие

  weakness, lack of strength, feebleness

  powerlessness, helplessness, impotence (figurative)

  impotence (sexual)

• тле́ющий

  smoldering, glowing, dying down (of a fire)

  smoldering (figurative), dormant, lingering, latent

  decaying, rotting, mouldering

• клоа́ка

  sewer, cesspool, cesspit

  foul place, den of filth, cesspit (figurative)

  cloaca

• о́бразный

  figurative, vivid, graphic, picturesque

  -shaped, -like

• сви́нтус

  slob, pig (figuratively), messy person

• зача́ток

  germ, seed, first beginnings, embryo (figurative)

  rudiment, primordium, undeveloped organ

• ко́рмчий

  helmsman, steersman, pilot

  leader (of a nation), helmsman (figurative), guiding leader

• разъеда́ющий

  corrosive, caustic, eroding

  gnawing, consuming, corroding (figurative), debilitating

• метафори́ческий

  metaphorical, figurative

• о́бразность

  imagery and figurativity

• оступи́вшийся

  stumbled (figuratively), erred, having gone astray, having made a mistake

• проби́вший

  having pierced, having punched, having broken through, having shot through

  having made one's way, having pushed through, having broken through (figuratively)

• жёванный

  chewed, masticated, crumpled (informal, figuratively)

• метафори́чность

  metaphoricity, metaphorical quality, figurativeness

• фигуральный

  figurative, metaphorical, tropical

• протрезвля́ть

  to sober up (someone), to make sober, to dispel intoxication

  to bring (someone) to their senses, to disillusion, to sober (someone) up (figuratively)

• заро́ненный

  instilled, implanted, sown, dropped (figurative)

• наплёванный

  spat upon, spat on, covered with spit

  disregarded, treated with contempt, spat on (figuratively)

• укореня́ющийся

  taking root, rooting

  becoming established, taking hold, becoming ingrained, taking root (figuratively)

• обмусливаемый

  being slobbered on, being mouthed, being gnawed, being chewed over (figuratively)

• распаля́вший

  inflaming, inciting, kindling (figurative), stirring up

• соба́чащийся

  quarreling, bickering, contentious, dog-fighting (figurative)

• кольну́вший

  that pricked, that stung, having pricked, having stung

  that caused a sharp sudden pain, that gave a pang, that pricked (figuratively)

• образно́й

  figurative, vivid, graphic

  -shaped, -like, -form

  icon-, icon-like

• ау́кавшийся

  echoing, that echoed, reverberating

  that had repercussions, that came back to haunt, reverberating (figurative)

• заскору́знувший

  hardened, stiff, chapped, rough

  hardened (figurative), insensitive, set in one's ways, ossified

• ожига́ться

  to burn oneself, to scald oneself

  to get burnt (figurative), to suffer a setback, to learn one's lesson the hard way

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.

• Самоорганизованные и целеустремлённые европе́йцы привы́кли всё сказанное сначала понима́ть буквально и только потом обду́мывать в перено́сном смы́сле. "Амо́рфные" и беспорядочно-суетливые россия́не всё де́лают наоборот.

  Self-organized and goal-oriented Europeans are accustomed to understanding everything that is said literally at first, and only then considering it in a figurative sense. “Amorphous” and disorderly, fidgety Russians do everything the other way around.

• Он говори́т очень образно.

  He speaks very figuratively.

• Он говорил образным языком, полным метафор.

  He spoke in figurative language full of metaphors.

• В её стихах много образной лексики.

  There is a lot of figurative vocabulary in her poems.

• Это выражение нужно понимать в фигуральном смысле.

  This expression should be understood in a figurative sense.

• Он говорил фигурально, а не буквально.

  He was speaking figuratively, not literally.

• Фигуральный язык часто используют поэты.

  Poets often use figurative language.

• Она использовала метафорический язык в своём стихотворении.

  She used figurative language in her poem.

• Это образное выражение, не понимай его буквально.

  This is a figurative expression; don’t take it literally.