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figurative russian

  • лес

    woods, forest

    timber, lumber (singular only)

    scaffolding, (plural only)

    much, many (figurative)

  • во́здух

    air (usually uncountable)

    (figuratively) atmosphere

    (religion) veil

  • ого́нь

    fire

    flame, light

    (Figuratively) Enthusiasm / Passion / Activity.

    (Colloquial / To admire) Something amazing or excellent.

  • ору́дие

    tool or device for performing some work

    (figuratively) pawn, puppet (a person acting under another's control)

    (military) gun, cannon, artillery piece

  • замере́ть

    to freeze, stand motionless

    (figurative) to come to a standstill

    to die down (of a sound)

    to remain unspoken

  • подъём

    lifting, rising, climb, hoisting, salvaging, ascent, slope, rise, raising

    upsurge, enthusiasm, development, animation, reveille

    instep

    1. Ascent / Height

    Getting up (from sleep or from bed)

    Recovery/Improvement (figuratively)

  • грань

    facet, side

    border, verge, brink (figuratively)

  • 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

  • стопа́

    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 talk nonsense

  • су́дорожный

    caused by convulsion/cramp

    (figurative) too restless (about a person)

    (figurative) involuntary and abrupt (about movement)

    frantic

  • 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)

  • подкоси́ть

    to weaken, to knock down figuratively

    to knock someone off their feet

    cut

  • отлёживаться

    to lie (in a horizontal position) for some time

    to convalesce

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

  • похолода́ть

    to cool down

    Figurative use (less common) – “to cool down” emotionally

  • 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

  • перено́сный

    figurative

  • метафори́чность

    metaphoricity, metaphorical quality, figurativeness

  • сви́нтус

    slob, pig (figuratively), messy person

  • жёванный

    chewed, masticated, crumpled (informal, figuratively)

  • запродававший

    having sold out, having sold in advance

    having betrayed, having sold out (figuratively)

  • заро́ненный

    instilled, implanted, sown, dropped (figurative)

  • заскору́знувший

    hardened, stiff, chapped, rough, coarse, encrusted

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

  • кольну́вший

    that pricked, that stung, having pricked, having stung

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

  • ма́сленный

    oily, buttery, oil-based, made with oil

    oil (as in oil painting)

    languid, lustful, greasy (figurative), oleaginous (figurative)

  • наплёванный

    spat upon

    disregarded, neglected, spat on (figurative)

  • обмусливаемый

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

  • ожига́ться

    to burn oneself, to scald oneself

    to get burnt (figurative), to suffer a setback

  • оступи́вшийся

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

  • подъедаемый

    being eaten away, being nibbled at, being gnawed at

    being undermined, being eroded, being eaten away (figuratively)

  • прикра́шивавший

    embellishing, adorning, decorating

    sugarcoating, glossing over, embellishing (figuratively)

  • прикрашиваемый

    embellished, adorned, beautified, being embellished, being adorned, being beautified

    sugarcoated, embellished (figuratively), beautified (figuratively), being sugarcoated

  • проби́вший

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

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

  • прогни́вший

    rotten, decayed, putrid

    corrupt, rotten (figurative), depraved, degenerate

  • разъеда́ющий

    corrosive, caustic, eroding

    gnawing, debilitating, eroding (figurative), consuming

  • распаля́вший

    inflaming, inciting, kindling (figurative), stirring up

  • расша́тываемый

    being loosened, being shaken loose, wobbly, rickety

    being destabilized, being undermined, being shaken (figurative)

  • сжира́ющий

    devouring, gobbling up, eating up

    consuming, using up, exhausting

    corroding, eating away

    consuming, overwhelming, destructive, devouring (figurative)

  • соба́чащийся

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

  • тле́ющий

    smoldering, glowing, dying down

    smoldering (figurative), dormant, lingering, decaying

  • укореня́ющийся

    taking root, rooting

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

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