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figurative russian

  • ба́ня

    banya, bathhouse, sauna

    bath (figurative)

  • дви́гатель

    engine, motor

    driving force, mover, motor (figurative)

  • волше́бница

    sorceress, enchantress, magician (female)

    fairy godmother, charmer, enchantress (figurative)

  • ру́сло

    riverbed, channel, bed (of a river)

    course, track, channel (figurative)

  • орби́та

    orbit

    sphere of influence, orbit (figurative)

    eye socket, orbit (anatomical)

  • бесси́лие

    weakness, lack of strength, feebleness

    powerlessness, helplessness, impotence (figurative)

    impotence (sexual)

  • ме́рка

    measurement, measurements

    measure, standard, yardstick (figurative)

    measuring rod, measuring stick, gauge

  • зароди́ться

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

    to be conceived, to begin to develop

  • разворо́т

    U-turn, turn, turning around

    turn, rotation, twist

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

    deployment

    development, unfolding, full scope

  • образно́й

    figurative, vivid, graphic

    -shaped, -like, -form

    icon-, icon-like

  • 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

  • клоа́ка

    sewer, cesspool, cesspit

    foul place, den of filth, cesspit (figurative)

    cloaca

  • фигуральный

    figurative, metaphorical, tropical

  • зача́ток

    germ, seed, first beginnings, embryo (figurative)

    rudiment, primordium, undeveloped organ

  • ко́рмчий

    helmsman, steersman, pilot

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

  • метафори́ческий

    metaphorical, figurative

  • о́бразный

    figurative, vivid, graphic, picturesque

    -shaped, -like

  • перено́сный

    portable

    figurative

  • заро́ненный

    instilled, implanted, sown, dropped (figurative)

  • распаля́вший

    inflaming, inciting, kindling (figurative), stirring up

  • соба́чащийся

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

  • прогни́вший

    rotten, decayed, putrid

    corrupt, rotten (figurative), depraved, degenerate

  • ау́кавшийся

    echoing, that echoed, reverberating

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

  • разъеда́ющий

    corrosive, caustic, eroding

    gnawing, consuming, corroding (figurative), debilitating

  • заскору́знувший

    hardened, stiff, chapped, rough

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

  • тле́ющий

    smoldering, glowing, dying down (of a fire)

    smoldering (figurative), dormant, lingering, latent

    decaying, rotting, mouldering

  • ожига́ться

    to burn oneself, to scald oneself

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

  • протрезвля́ть

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

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

  • метафори́чность

    metaphoricity, metaphorical quality, figurativeness

  • сви́нтус

    slob, pig (figuratively), messy person

  • жёванный

    chewed, masticated, crumpled (informal, figuratively)

  • оступи́вшийся

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

  • обмусливаемый

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

  • кольну́вший

    that pricked, that stung, having pricked, having stung

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

  • наплёванный

    spat upon, spat on, covered with spit

    disregarded, treated with contempt, spat on (figuratively)

  • проби́вший

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

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

  • укореня́ющийся

    taking root, rooting

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

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