kopati komu jamo

1) (a large hole in the ground: The campers dug a pit for their rubbish.) jama

2) (a place from which minerals are dug, especially a coal-mine: a chalk-pit; He works at/down the pit.) rudnik

3) (a place beside a motor race track for repairing and refuelling racing cars: The leading car has gone into the pit(s).) boks

- pitfall

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jama, votlina, špilja, duplina; anatomy votlina (npr. pit of the stomach trebušna votlina); brezno, prepad (tudi figuratively); ( the) pekel; rudniški rov, jašek, rudnik; medicine brazgotina od koz, kozavost; theatre British English parter, publika v parterju; American borza za določeno blago (npr. wheat ŋ borza za pšenico); arena, bojišče (zlasti za petelinji boj); sport doskočna jama; dialectal grob, jama; prostor, kjer se vozila oskrbujejo z bencinom (pri avtomobilskih dirkah)

refuse pit — jama za smeti

figuratively to dig a pit for — kopati komu jamo

zakopati v jamo, dati v jamo; ujeti v jamo, ujeti v past; metallurgy razžreti (korozija); iznakaziti z brazgotinami (koze); agronomy spraviti v zasipnico (repo, krompir); postaviti koga proti drugemu, nahujskati, meriti moči s kom ( against);

izdolbsti se, iznakaziti se (od koz); medicine pustiti otisk (pritisk prsta)

pitted with smallpox — kozav

koščica, peška;

odstraniti koščice, peške

1) (to turn up (earth) with a spade etc: to dig the garden.) prekopati

2) (to make (a hole) in this way: The child dug a tunnel in the sand.) (iz)kopati

3) (to poke: He dug his brother in the ribs with his elbow.) suniti

- digger

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transitive verb & intransitive verb

kopati, izkopati, (iz)dolbsti; riti; suniti; raziskovati, preučevati; American slang vneto delati, guliti se

to dig at s.o — zbadati koga

to dig in the ribs — suniti med rebra

to dig a pit for s.o. — kopati komu jamo, grob

to dig one's way — krčiti si pot

kopanje; arheološko izkopavanje; American slang garanje, guljenje; sunek; figuratively zbadanje, posmeh; American slang gulež

to have a dig at — nekaj poskusiti; zbadljivo o kom pisati ali govoriti