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  • 61 خرم

    خَرَّمَ \ perforate: to make a hole (or holes) in: Stamps have perforated edges. riddle: to fill with little holes: The machine gun riddled his body. \ See Also ثقب (ثَقَبَ)‏

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  • 62 στρεβλόω

    στρεβλόω (στρέφω, cp. prec. entry) impv. 2 sg. στρέβλου (Hdt., Aristoph. et al.; pap, LXX) orig. ‘twist, make taut’ of cables, then in various senses of wrenching dislocated limbs for the purpose of setting them, and of the use of tortuous devices in the course of inquiries (s. e.g. BGU 195, 13 [II A.D.]; 4 Macc; Jos., Bell. 7, 373); in our lit. only fig. (cp. 2 Km 22:27 of perverse pers.)
    to cause inward pain, torture, torment (Diod S 16, 61, 3 tortured by anxiety) μὴ στρέβλου σεαυτόν do not trouble yourself (with the solving of a riddle, as Vi. Aesopi W 78 P.) Hs 9, 2, 7.
    to distort a statement so that a false mng. results, twist, distort (2 Km 22:27) τὶ someth. (Numenius of Apamea, περὶ τῆς τῶν Ἀκαδημαϊκῶν πρὸς Πλάτωνα διαστάσεως 1, 1 ed. KGuthrie [1917] p. 63) 2 Pt 3:16.—DELG s.v. στρεβλό. M-M.

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  • 63 delik

    1. hole, opening, orifice. 2. puncture. 3. bored, pierced, drilled, perforated. 4. punctured. 5. anat. foramen. 6. slang prison, jail, jug, clink, cooler, lockup. - açmak /a/ to make a hole in, bore, pierce, drill, perforate. - büyük, yama küçük. colloq. The problem is bigger than any available solution. - deşik full of holes. - deşik etmek /ı/ to fill with holes, riddle. - deşik olmak to be riddled, be filled with holes. -e girmek slang to be thrown in jail, be locked up. -e tıkmak /ı/ slang to throw (someone) in jail, imprison, jail, jug, lock (someone) up.

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