behúz
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
behúz
- (transitive) to drag something (to somewhere -ba/-be)
- Behúzta a szekrényt a sarokba. ― He dragged the closet to the corner.
- (transitive) to close (the door)
- Behúztam az ajtót. ― I closed the door.
- (transitive) to draw (the curtain)
- Behúztam a függönyt. ― I drew the curtains.
- (transitive) to upholster, to cover something (with something -val/-vel)
- (transitive) to punch (someone -nak/-nek) in the face
- Behúzott egyet Tamásnak. ― He punched Tamás.
- (transitive, typography) to indent (to begin a line at a little distance within the flush line of the column, as in the first line of a paragraph)
ConjugationEdit
conjugation of behúz
Derived termsEdit
Expressions
- behúz a csőbe (or csőbe húz)
Further readingEdit
- behúz in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- behúz in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2022)