stöta
Pronunciation: /²støːta/
“stöta” is a Swedish word. Its 17 meanings in English:
verb
- to hit ((against) something) with a short, sharp impact; to bump, etc. (see usage notes below)
- to shoot (in cue sports)
- to crush (with a pestle or the like)
- to deliberate on (an issue or the like), (often) to discuss back and forth
- to push away, to repel (more generally, possibly at a distance)
- to push away, to alienate, etc.
- to reject (a transplant)
- to meet by chance; to run into, to bump into, (more idiomatic for an animal) to encounter, etc.
- to encounter (a thing or something more abstract); to run into, to meet with, to come across, to encounter, to hit on, etc.
- to hit on (someone)
- to thrust, to lunge (with something)
- to offend
- to upset (so as to get on bad terms with), to get on the wrong side of
- to be irritated by (something)
- to blow (on an instrument, like a horn or a trumpet)
- to have a particular color tint
- to throw, to put (the ball/shot, in shot put (kulstötning))
Etymology
stöt + -a
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