zakręcać

From zakręcić +‎ -ać. First attested in 1644.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /zaˈkrɛn.t͡sat͡ɕ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt͡sat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: za‧krę‧cać

zakręcać impf (perfective zakręcić)

1. (transitive) to start spinning, to start twisting (to cause something to begin to rotate) [with accusative or instrumental]
2. (transitive) to curl (to twist or form (e.g. hair, etc.) into ringlets or waves)
3. (transitive) to spin, to twist (to tightly wrap something around something else)
4. (intransitive, of roads) to wind, to bend (to change directions)
5. (intransitive, of people, vehicles, etc.) to turn (to change directions)
6. (transitive) to shut off by twisting (closing off a pipe etc. to cut the flow of a gas, liquid, or heat)
7. (transitive) to screw on (to close or cover something, e.g. a jar or bottle, tightly)

zakręcać impf

1. (reflexive with się) to spin, to twist (growing or running quickly, to make a sudden turn)

• zakręcać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zakręcać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zakręcać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zakręcać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zakręcać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 135