elszív

Hungarian

Etymology

el- (away, off) + szív (to suck, absorb)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛlsiːv]
  • Hyphenation: el‧szív

Verb

elszív

  1. (transitive) to suck away, to remove or extract (e.g. bad smell) by sucking it away
  2. (transitive) to smoke or have a cigarette/pipe (to complete smoking it)
  3. (transitive, figuratively) to drain (to deplete someone's energy)
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • elszívás
  • elszívat
  • elszívható

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Further reading

  • elszív in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
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