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1 brandish
размахивать; размахнутьСинонимический ряд:1. show (verb) display; disport; exhibit; expose; flash; flaunt; parade; show; show off; sport; swagger; trot out2. threatening gesture (verb) flourish; gesture; shake; sweep; swing; threaten; threatening gesture; twirl; warn; wave; wieldАнтонимический ряд: -
2 turn
TURN TO, ONTurn to означает 'повернуть(ся), поворачивать(ся)': to turn to one's interlocutor, to turn to the right. Turn to означает также 'обратиться к чему-л.' (направить внимание на что-л., приступить к чему-л.): to turn to one's work, to turn to Shakespeare (в лекции, докладе и т. д.); Turn to имеет, кроме того, значение 'обратиться к кому-л. (за поддержкой, советом): to turn to a person for help, to turn to a friend for comfort. Turn on означает 'внезапно обратиться против, наброситься на': to turn on somebody with a scornful look (with a threatening gesture).Difficulties of the English language (lexical reference) English-Russian dictionary > turn
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3 ominous
a зловещий, угрожающийСинонимический ряд:1. apocalyptic (adj.) apocalyptic; baleful; baneful; direful; doomed; doomful; grave; hopeless; ill-boding; ill-omened; inauspicious; portentous; suggestive; unlucky; unpropitious2. dangerous (adj.) clouded; dangerous; dire; fearful; gloomy; grim; haunting; perilous3. dismal (adj.) dismal; imminent; presaging; prophetic; significant4. fateful (adj.) fateful; forbidding; foreboding; impending; menacing; threateningАнтонимический ряд:auspicious; insignificant; meaningless; propitious
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