раскрутить

Russian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old East Slavic разкрꙋтити (razkrutiti), from Proto-Slavic *orzkrǫtiti. Morphologically рас- (ras-) +‎ крути́ть (krutítʹ).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

раскрути́ть (raskrutítʹpf (imperfective раскру́чивать)

  1. to unwind, to unroll, to unspin
    раскрути́ть ковёрraskrutítʹ kovjórto roll out the carpet
  2. to promote, to market, to hype
    как раскрути́ть свой сайт в Googlekak raskrutítʹ svoj sajt v Googlehow to make your site have a good ranking in Google search results
  3. to persuade someone into doing something (often with deceit), to hustle someone into doing something/out of their money, etc.
    Францу́зские журнали́сты раскрути́ли сексуа́льную актри́су на небольшо́й экспериме́нт.
    Francúzskije žurnalísty raskrutíli sɛksuálʹnuju aktrísu na nebolʹšój eksperimént.
    French journalists (photographers) persuaded the sexy actress to do a little experiment.
    стриптизёрша "раскрути́ла" клие́нта на 100 до́лларов
    striptizjórša "raskrutíla" klijénta na 100 dóllarov
    the stripper "took" the client for 100 dollars / the stripper hustled the client out of 100 dollars total

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