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SQUEEZE
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Traducere în limba română
squeeze I. verb A. tranzitiv
1. a presa, a strânge; a comprima;
to squeeze moist clay a fărâmiţa argilă umedă;
to squeeze smb.’s hand a strânge mâna cuiva.
2. a stoarce, a tescui;
to squeeze a lemon a stoarce o lămâie;
to squeeze out a tear a se forţa să lăcrimeze.
3. (fig.) a obţine cu forţa, a stoarce, a smulge (mărturisiri, bani).
4. a presa, a sili, a constrânge (guvernul etc.).
5. a obţine / a lua amprenta (unei monede).
6. (fam.) a îmbrăţişa călduros.
7. a frământa (cocă).
squeeze I. verb B. reflexiv
to squeeze oneself through a-şi face cu greu drum prin.
squeeze I. verb C. intranzitiv
1. a se stoarce;
lemons that squeeze well lămâi care se storc bine.
2. to squeeze in / into a se înghesui în, a se împinge în, a se băga în;
to squeeze past a-şi face drum pe lângă;
to squeeze through a-şi face cu greu drum prin.
squeeze II. substantiv
1. presiune, apăsare, strângere, comprimare, contractare;
squeeze of the hand strângere de mână.
2. (fam.) constrângere; şantaj.
3. (fam.) stoarcere (de bani).
4. înghesuială, îmbulzeală.
5. (şi tight squeeze) (fam.) situaţie grea / dificilă; strâmtoare, greu.
6. imprimat, amprentă (de monedă etc.).
7. (mine) tasare a terenului.
8. (fam.) îmbrăţişare;
to give smb. a hearty squeeze a îmbrătişa cu căldură pe cineva.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
She gave my hand a squeeze, and shook her head.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Nevertheless, he wished to try him first, and took a stone in his hand and squeezed it together so that water dropped out of it.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
If you could see your chart, you would be amazed to see Pluto, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter all squeezed into one little part of the chart, and the Sun and new moon eclipse are heading there too, to arrive by the third week of December.
(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)
The black hole squeezes about 10 million times the mass of our sun into a region only 30 times the diameter of the sun, and it spins so rapidly that space and time are dragged around with it.
(NuSTAR sees rare blurring of black hole light, NASA)
He longed to lay Amy's head down on his shoulder, and tell her to have a good cry, but he did not dare, so took her hand instead, and gave it a sympathetic squeeze that was better than words.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
These blanks were not always sufficient, and you can see that the second man had a squeeze to fit his ‘quarter’ in between the ‘at’ and the ‘to,’ showing that the latter were already written.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They squeezed me so hard sometimes, that I could not help crying out, “Oh! If you please!”—which they didn't like at all, because it woke them.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
But her mother squeezed it in till the blood came, and took her to the king’s son: and he set her as his bride by his side on his horse, and rode away with her.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
Beth blushed like a rose under the friendly look he wore, but she was not frightened now, and gave the hand a grateful squeeze because she had no words to thank him for the precious gift he had given her.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
After another and a final squeeze with both arms, she got down from the cart and ran away; and, my belief is, and has always been, without a solitary button on her gown.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
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