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81 motorcyclist
noun (a person who rides a motorbike: The motorcyclist was injured in the road accident.) ökumaður mótorhjóls -
82 pelt
[pelt]1) (to throw (things) at: The children pelted each other with snowballs.) láta dynja á, kasta (e-u) að2) (to run very fast: He pelted down the road.) skjótast3) ((of rain; sometimes also of hailstones) to fall very heavily: You can't leave now - it's pelting (down).) dynja, steypast yfir; hellirigna• -
83 proceed
[prə'si:d, 'prousi:d]1) (to go on; to continue: They proceeded along the road; They proceeded with their work.) halda áfram2) (to follow a course of action: I want to make a cupboard, but I don't know how to proceed.) fylgja tilteknum aðferðum3) (to begin (to do something): They proceeded to ask a lot of questions.) byrja á4) (to result: Fear often proceeds from ignorance.) orsakast af5) (to take legal action (against): The police decided not to proceed against her.) höfða mál gegn•- proceeds -
84 subsidence
noun (the process of subsiding: The road has had to be closed because of subsidence.) (land)sig -
85 toil
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86 totter
['totə](to move unsteadily as if about to fall: The building tottered and collapsed; He tottered down the road.) riða (til falls) -
87 trip
[trip] 1. past tense, past participle - tripped; verb1) ((often with up or over) to (cause to) catch one's foot and stumble or fall: She tripped and fell; She tripped over the carpet.) hrasa2) (to walk with short, light steps: She tripped happily along the road.) trítla2. noun(a journey or tour: She went on / took a trip to Paris.) ferð, ferðalag- tripper -
88 undermine
1) (to make (eg a building) insecure by digging away or destroying the base or foundations: The road was being undermined by a stream.) grafa göng undir; grafa undan2) (to weaken (eg a person's health or authority): Constant hard work had undermined his health.) grafa undan, veikja -
89 uneven
1) (not even: The road surface here is very uneven.) ósléttur2) ((of work etc) not all of the same quality: His work is very uneven.) misjafn•- unevenly -
90 veer
[viə](to change direction suddenly: The car veered across the road to avoid hitting a small boy.) breyta um stefnu; snúast -
91 widen
verb (to make, or become, wide or wider: They have widened the road; The lane widens here.) víkka -
92 abreast
[ə'brest](side by side: They walked along the road three abreast.) samsíða, hlið við hlið -
93 at a jog-trot
(at a gentle running pace: Every morning he goes down the road at a jog-trot.) hægt brokk, skokk -
94 at full pelt
((running) as fast as possible: They set off down the road at full pelt.) á fullri ferð -
95 at intervals
(here and there; now and then: Trees grew at intervals along the road.) með millibili; hér og þar -
96 dig up
We dug up that old tree; They dug up a skeleton; They're digging up the road yet again.) grafa upp -
97 disobey
[disə'bei](to fail or refuse to do what is commanded: He disobeyed my orders not to go into the road; He disobeyed his mother.) óhlÿðnast- disobedient
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98 impassable
(not able to be passed through or travelled along: The road is impassable because of flooding.) ófær -
99 jaywalker
['‹eiwo:kə](a person who walks carelessly among traffic: She never looks to see if there's a car coming before she crosses the road - she's a jaywalker.) kærulaus gangandi vegfarandi -
100 puddle
(a small, usually dirty, pool (of water): It had been raining, and there were puddles in the road.) (forar)pollur
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