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psuć.

to break; to ruin (to make something unusable)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Polski language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈpsut͡ɕ//ˈpsut͡ɕ/Middle, Polish[ˈpsut͡ɕ][ˈpsut͡ɕ]
  1. to break; to ruin (to make something unusable)

    imperfective · transitive
  2. to spoil; to ruin (to impair function of one's body or its parts, or e.g. one's health)

    imperfective · transitive
  3. to spoil; to ruin (to cause something to change for the worse or less favorable)

    imperfective · transitive
  4. to spoil (to cause a person's behavior, e.g. a child, or character to become worse)

    imperfective · transitive
  5. to blow (to do some work in an incompetent or imprecise manner)

    imperfective · transitive
  6. synonym of urzekać /czarować (“to charm, to enchant”)

    imperfective · transitive
  7. to destroy (to cause someone or something to cease to exist)

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  8. to harm; to insult; to fight (to do something bad to someone, to persecute; of God, to punish)

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  9. synonym of unieważniać /kasować (“to invalidate”)

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  10. synonym of obalać /kwestionować (“to refute, to disprove someone's views”)

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  11. to waste; to lose; to misuse

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  12. synonym of przeszkadzać (“to disallow progress”)

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  13. to misbehave

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · intransitive
  14. to break (to stop working correctly at all))

    imperfective · reflexive
  15. to go bad; to spoil (to become less efficient or less effective)

    imperfective · reflexive
  16. to go bad; to spoil (to become worse)

    imperfective · reflexive
  17. to spoil (change one's behavior for the worse)

    imperfective · reflexive
  18. to go bad; to spoil (to become unfit for consumption due to biological or chemical processes)

    imperfective · reflexive
  19. to give birth prematurely

    imperfective · obsolete · reflexive
  20. to ruin, to spoil

    imperfective · transitive
  21. to break, to break down

    imperfective · reflexive
  22. to go bad, to go off, to spoil

    imperfective · reflexive
  23. synonym of wymiotować (“to vomit”)

    imperfective · reflexive
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Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *pь̀sъ Old Polish pies Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-tei Proto-Slavic *-ti Old Polish -ć Old Polish psuć Polish psuć Inherited from Old Polish psuć. By surface analysis, pies (“dog”) + -ć. For the semantic development, compare English spoil.

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