обиноваться

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Verb

обинова́ться (obinovátʹsjaimpf (perfective обину́ться)

  1. to hesitate
    • 1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 17”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:
      Она́ так себя́ держа́ла, что ка́ждый челове́к, не обину́ясь, выска́зывал пе́ред ней свои́ мне́ния.
      Oná tak sebjá deržála, što káždyj čelovék, ne obinújasʹ, vyskázyval péred nej svoí mnénija.
      Her manner was such that people never hesitated to say what they thought in front of her.

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