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To bend backwards

  • 1 bend over backwards

    to try very hard:

    He bent over backwards to get us tickets for the concert.

    يُحاوِلُ بِكُلِّ جُهْدِهِ

    Arabic-English dictionary > bend over backwards

  • 2 bend over backwards

    Abbreviation: BOB

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > bend over backwards

  • 3 z|giąć

    pf — z|ginać impf (zegnę, zgięła, zgięli — zginam) Ⅰ vt 1. (nagiąć) to bend, to crook [rękę]
    - zgiąć nogę w kolanie to bend one’s leg at the knee
    - ćwiczenie wykonać na lekko zgiętych nogach bend your knees slightly when doing this exercise
    - rozprostować zgięte plecy to straighten one’s bent back
    - wiatr zginał gałęzie the wind bent the branches
    2. (nadać krzywiznę) to bend [drut, łyżkę] Ⅱ zgiąć się — zginać się 1. (pochylić się) [osoba] to bend
    - zgiąć się do przodu/do tyłu to bend forward a. to stoop/to bend backwards
    - zgiąć się w pół a. we dwoje to bend double, to double up
    - zgiąć się w kabłąk a. pałąk to arch one’s back
    - zgiąć się pod ciężarem plecaka to bend a. bow under the weight of one’s rucksack
    2. (wygiąć się) [gałąź, błotnik] to bend
    - drut łatwo się zginał the wire bent easily

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > z|giąć

  • 4 keikja

    (-ta, -tr), v. to bend backwards (E. keikti hann aptr á bak).
    * * *
    t, to bend backwards, Eg. 397, v. l. to kneykja; Flosi keiktist mjök, of a wrestler, = kikna or lykna (q. v.), Fms. iii. 188.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > keikja

  • 5 KNEIKJA

    (-ta, -tr), v. to bend backwards with force (kneikja e-n aptr á bak).
    * * *
    t, [Dan. knække], to bend backwards with force; hann kneikti hann aptr á bak, Eg. 397; tók í axlir honum ok kneikti hann upp at stöfum, 552; síðan þú kneiktir hann Kallrana, Fas. ii. 131.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > KNEIKJA

  • 6 repono

    rĕ-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3 ( perf. reposivi, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16; part. sync. repostus, a, um, on account of the metre, Lucr. 1, 35; 3, 346; Verg. G. 3, 527; id. A. 1, 26; 6, 59; 655; 11, 149; Hor. Epod. 9, 1; Sil. 7, 507 al.), v. a., to lay, place, put, or set back, i. e.,
    I.
    With the idea of the re predominant.
    A.
    To lay, place, put, or set a thing back in its former place; to replace, restore, etc. (class.; syn. remitto).
    1.
    Lit.:

    cum suo quemque loco lapidem reponeret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 146:

    quicque suo loco,

    Col. 12, 3, 4:

    humum,

    the earth dug from a pit, Verg. G. 2, 231:

    pecuniam in thesauris,

    Liv. 29, 18, 15 Weissenb.; 31, 13; cf.:

    ornamenta templorum in pristinis sedibus,

    Val. Max. 5, 1, 6:

    infans repositus in cunas,

    Suet. Aug. 94:

    ossa in suas sedes,

    Cels. 8, 10, 1:

    femur ne difficulter reponatur vel repositum excidat,

    set again, id. 8, 20; 8, 10, 7: se in cubitum, to lean on the elbow again (at table), Hor. S. 2, 4, 39:

    insigne regium, quod ille de suo capite abjecerat, reposuit,

    Cic. Sest. 27, 58:

    columnas,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

    tantundem inaurati aeris,

    Suet. Caes. 54:

    togam,

    to gather up again, Quint. 6, 3, 54; 11, 3, 149:

    capillum,

    id. 11, 3, 8, prooem. §

    22: excussus curru ac rursus repositus,

    Suet. Ner. 24:

    nos in sceptra,

    to reinstate, Verg. A. 1, 253; cf.:

    reges per bella pulsos,

    Sil. 10, 487:

    aliquem solio,

    Val. Fl. 6, 742:

    veniet qui nos in lucem reponat dies,

    Sen. Ep. 36, 10:

    ut mihi des nummos sexcentos quos continuo tibi reponam hoc triduo aut quadriduo,

    Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 38; Sen. Ben. 4, 32 fin.:

    quosdam nihil reposuisse,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 6:

    donata,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 39:

    flammis ambesa reponunt Robora navigiis,

    to replace, restore, Verg. A. 5, 752:

    aris ignem,

    id. ib. 3, 231:

    molem,

    Sil. 1, 558:

    ruptos vetustate pontes,

    Tac. A. 1, 63:

    fora templaque,

    id. H. 3, 34:

    amissa urbi,

    id. A. 16, 13:

    statuas a plebe disjectas,

    Suet. Caes. 65:

    cenam,

    Mart. 2, 37, 10;

    so esp. freq. in Vergil, of the serving up of a second course, as of a renewed banquet: sublata pocula,

    Verg. A. 8, 175:

    plena pocula,

    id. G. 4, 378:

    vina mensis (soon after, instaurare epulas),

    id. A. 7, 134:

    epulas,

    id. G. 3, 527:

    festas mensas,

    Stat. Th. 2, 88:

    cibi frigidi et repositi,

    Quint. 2, 4, 29.—
    2.
    Trop., to put or bring back; to replace, restore, renew:

    ut, si quid titubaverint (testes), opportuna rursus interrogatione velut in gradum reponantur,

    Quint. 5, 7, 11; cf.:

    excidentes unius admonitione verbi in memoriam reponuntur,

    id. 11, 2, 19:

    nec vera virtus, cum semel excidit, Curat reponi deterioribus,

    Hor. C. 3, 5, 30.—
    (β).
    To represent or describe again, to repeat:

    fabula quae posci vult et spectata reponi,

    Hor. A. P. 190:

    Achillem (after Homer),

    id. ib. 120; cf.:

    dicta paterna,

    Pers. 6, 66.—
    (γ).
    To repay, requite, return:

    cogitemus, alios non facere injuriam, sed reponere,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 19:

    semper ego auditor tantum? nunquamne reponam?

    repay, Juv. 1, 1.—
    (δ).
    To put back, put to rest, quiet:

    pontum et turbata litora,

    Val. Fl. 1, 682; cf.:

    post otiosam et repositam vitam,

    Amm. 29, 1, 44.—
    B.
    To bend backwards, lay back: (grues) mollia crura reponunt, bend back (in walking), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 76 (Ann. v. 545 Vahl.);

    imitated by Virgil: pullus mollia crura reponit,

    Verg. G. 3, 76:

    cervicem reponunt et bracchium in latus jactant,

    Quint. 4, 2, 39:

    tereti cervice repostā,

    Lucr. 1, 35:

    interim quartus (digitus) oblique reponitur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 99:

    hic potissimum et vocem flectunt et cervicem reponunt,

    id. 4, 2, 39:

    membra (mortui) toro,

    Verg. A. 6, 220:

    membra stratis,

    id. ib. 4, 392.—
    C.
    To lay aside or away for preservation; to lay up, store up, keep, preserve, reserve (class.; cf.: regero, reservo).
    1.
    Lit.: nec tempestive demetendi [p. 1571] percipiendique fructūs neque condendi ac reponendi ulla pecudum scientia est, Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156:

    cibum,

    Quint. 2, 4, 29:

    formicae farris acervum tecto reponunt,

    Verg. A. 4, 403:

    Caecubum ad festas dapes,

    Hor. Epod. 9, 1:

    mella in vetustatem,

    Col. 12, 11, 1; 12, 44, 7:

    alimenta in hiemem,

    Quint. 2, 16, 16:

    (caseum) hiemi,

    Verg. G. 3, 403:

    omnia quae multo ante memor provisa repones,

    id. ib. 1, 167:

    thesaurum,

    Quint. 2, 7, 4:

    scripta in aliquod tempus,

    id. 10, 4, 2.— Poet.:

    eadem (gratia) sequitur tellure repostos, i. e. conditos,

    buried, Verg. A. 6, 655; cf.:

    an poteris siccis mea fata reponere ocellis? (= me mortuum),

    Prop. 1, 17, 11:

    tu pias laetis animas reponis Sedibus,

    Hor. C. 1, 10, 17:

    repono infelix lacrimas, et tristia carmina servo,

    Stat. S. 5, 5, 47.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    opus est studio praecedente et acquisitā facultate et quasi repositā,

    Quint. 8, prooem. §

    29: aliquid scriptis,

    id. 11, 2, 9:

    manet altā mente repostum Judicium Paridis,

    Verg. A. 1, 26:

    reponere odium,

    Tac. Agr. 39 fin.:

    sensibus haec imis... reponas,

    Verg. E. 3, 54.—
    D.
    To put in the place of, to substitute one thing for another (class.).
    1.
    Lit.:

    non puto te meas epistulas delere, ut reponas tuas,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 2:

    Aristophanem pro Eupoli,

    id. Att. 12, 6, 2; Quint. 11, 2, 49:

    eorumque in vicem idonea reponenda,

    Col. 4, 26, 2:

    dira ne sedes vacet, monstrum repone majus,

    Sen. Phoen. 122.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    at vero praeclarum diem illis reposuisti, Verria ut agerent,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 21, § 52.—
    E. 1.
    Lit.:

    remum,

    Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16:

    arma omnia,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 14:

    caestus artemque,

    Verg. A. 5, 484:

    feretro reposto,

    id. ib. 11, 149:

    onus,

    Cat. 31, 8:

    telasque calathosque infectaque pensa,

    Ov. M. 4, 10; Sil. 7, 507:

    rursus sumptas figuras,

    Ov. M. 12, 557:

    bracchia,

    to let down, Val. Fl. 4, 279.— Poet.:

    jam falcem arbusta reponunt,

    i. e. permit to be laid aside, Verg. G. 2, 416.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    brevem fugam,

    to end the flight, Stat. Th. 6, 592:

    iram,

    Manil. 2, 649.—
    II.
    With the idea of the verb predominant, to lay, place, put, set a thing anywhere (freq. and class.; syn. colloco).
    A.
    Lit.:

    grues in tergo praevolantium colla et capita reponunt,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125:

    colla in plumis,

    Ov. M. 10, 269:

    litteras in gremio,

    Liv. 26, 15:

    hunc celso in ostro,

    Val. Fl. 3, 339:

    ligna super foco Large reponens,

    Hor. C. 1, 9, 6:

    (nidum) ante fores sacras reponit,

    Ov. M. 15, 407.— With in and acc.:

    uvas in vasa nova,

    Col. 12, 16:

    data sunt legatis, quae in aerarium reposuerant,

    Val. Max. 4, 3, 9:

    anulos in locellum,

    id. 7, 8, 9; cf.:

    mergum altius in terram,

    Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 205.—
    B.
    Trop., to place, put, set; to place, count, reckon among:

    in vestrā mansuetudine atque humanitate causam totam repono,

    Cic. Sull. 33, 92:

    vos meam defensionem in aliquo artis loco reponetis,

    id. de Or. 2, 48, 198:

    suos hortatur, ut spem omnem in virtute reponant,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 41:

    in se omnem spem,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 36:

    nihil spei in caritate civium,

    Liv. 1, 49; 2, 39:

    salutem ac libertatem in illorum armis dextrisque,

    id. 27, 45:

    verum honorem non in splendore titulorum, sed in judiciis hominum,

    Plin. Pan. 84, 8; id. Ep. 1, 3, 3:

    plus in duce quam in exercitu,

    Tac. G. 30; Liv. 24, 37:

    plus in deo quam in viribus reponentes,

    Just. 24, 8, 2:

    fiduciam in re reponere,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 16; 1, 8, 14:

    ea facta, quae in obscuritate et silentio reponuntur,

    id. ib. 1, 8, 6:

    quos equidem in deorum immortalium coetu ac numero repono,

    place, count, reckon among, Cic. Sest. 68, 143; so,

    sidera in deorum numero,

    id. N. D. 2, 21, 54; cf. id. ib. 3, 19, 47 Mos. N. cr.:

    Catulum in clarissimorum hominum numero,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 90, § 210: aliquem in suis, Antonius ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1.— With in and acc.:

    homines morte deletos in deos,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 38:

    in deorum numerum reponemus,

    id. ib. 3, 19, 47:

    Isocratem hunc in numerum non repono,

    id. Opt. Gen. 6, 17:

    aliquid in fabularum numerum,

    id. Inv. 1, 26, 39; and:

    hanc partem in numerum,

    id. ib. 1, 51, 97:

    in ejus sinum rem publicam,

    Suet. Aug. 94.—Hence, rĕpŏsĭ-tus ( rĕpostus), a, um, P. a.
    I.
    Remote, distant (syn. remotus;

    very rare): penitusque repostas Massylum gentes,

    Verg. A. 6, 59:

    terrae,

    id. ib. 3, 364:

    populi,

    Sil. 3, 325:

    convalles,

    App. M. 4, p. 145, 6.—
    II.
    Laid aside, stored up:

    spes,

    Vulg. Col. 1, 5:

    corona justitiae,

    id. 2, Tim. 4, 8.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > repono

  • 7 KIKNA

    (að), v. to bend backwards to sink at the knees (kikna í knésbótum).
    * * *
    að. [cp. keikr], to sink at the knees through a heavy burden; kikna í knésbótum, Fbr. 159, v. l. (but lyknar, Fb. l. c.); rekr klærnar framan í fangit svá at Ormr kiknar við, Fb. i. 530; ok er hann bar af sér lagit kiknaði hann við, Grett. 3 new Ed.; lá við at hann mundi kikna, Fms. iii. 187.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > KIKNA

  • 8 supīnō

        supīnō —, ātus, āre    [supinus], to bend backwards, lay back, throw over: supinatae glaebae, i. e. turned up by the plough, V.: nasum nidore supinor, turn up my nose, H.
    * * *
    supinare, supinavi, supinatus V
    lay on the back; turn up; tilt back

    Latin-English dictionary > supīnō

  • 9 whanawhana

    Maori for To bend backwards and forwards, dud, kicking

    Maori-English dictionary > whanawhana

  • 10 inclinarse hacia adelante

    • bend forward
    • bend forwards
    • lean backwards
    • lean meat

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > inclinarse hacia adelante

  • 11 gøre alt for

    bend / fall over backwards

    Danish-English dictionary > gøre alt for

  • 12 hodně se snažit

    bend / fall over backwards

    Czech-English dictionary > hodně se snažit

  • 13 udělat vše pro

    Czech-English dictionary > udělat vše pro

  • 14 leggja sig í líma, kappkosta

    bend/fall over backwards

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > leggja sig í líma, kappkosta

  • 15 desvivirse

    • bend over backward
    • do the impossible
    • fall over oneself
    • go out of one's mind
    • go out of one's way for
    • lean out on
    • lean over backwards to

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > desvivirse

  • 16 doblar el espinazo

    • bend over backwards

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > doblar el espinazo

  • 17 doblarse hacia atrás

    • bend over backwards

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > doblarse hacia atrás

  • 18 inclinarse sobre

    • bend over
    • lean forward
    • lean on one's elbow
    • lean out of
    • lean over backwards

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > inclinarse sobre

  • 19 tomarse muchas molestias por

    • bend over backwards for
    • put oneself out for

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > tomarse muchas molestias por

  • 20 yrittää tosissaan

    • bend over backwards

    Suomi-Englanti sanakirja > yrittää tosissaan

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