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غته

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to actions of overwhelming, suppressing, or causing distress. It encompasses concepts like choking, suffocating, overwhelming with a task, or suppressing laughter. It can also describe a rapid succession of actions or a deep, difficult drink.

Derived headwords

غَتَّهُ بالأمرverb
  1. 1.
    overwhelm with a taskboth

    To burden someone heavily with a task or command, making it difficult for them.

غَطَّهُverb
  1. 1.
    submerge in waterboth

    To submerge or immerse something or someone in water.

أَخْفَاهُverb
  1. 1.
    suppress laughterboth

    To hide or suppress laughter, preventing it from being openly expressed.

بَكَتَهُverb
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    reprimand harshlyclassical

    To scold, rebuke, or reproach someone severely, often with harsh words.

شَرِبَ جَرْعًاverb
  1. 1.
    drink in gulpsboth

    To drink water in large, successive gulps without lifting the container from the mouth.

غَمَّهُverb
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    distress someoneboth

    To cause someone grief, sorrow, or distress; to afflict them with sadness.

خَنَقَهُverb
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    choke someoneboth

    To constrict the throat of someone or something, causing suffocation or difficulty breathing.

أَتْعَبَهَاverb
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    tire out a mountboth

    To exhaust a horse or other animal by making it run for a distance or two.

أَتْبَعَ بَعْضَهُ بَعْضًاverb
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    follow in successionboth

    To cause one thing to follow another in rapid succession or to be linked together.

Parallel reading

غته بالأمر: كده
He overwhelmed him with the command: he exhausted him.
و في الماء: غطه
And in water: he submerged him.
و الضحك: أخفاه
And the laughter: he suppressed it.
و بالكلام: بكته
And with words: he reprimanded him harshly.
و الماء: شرب جرعا بعد جرع من غير إبانة الإناء عن فيه
And the water: he drank it gulp after gulp without lifting the vessel from his mouth.
و فلانا: غمه، وخنقه
And so-and-so: he distressed him, and choked him.
و الدابة شوطا أو شوطين: أتعبها في ركضها
And the animal for a furlong or two: he tired it out in its running.
و الشيء الشيء: أتبع بعضه بعضا
And a thing [followed] a thing: he made them follow each other.