обставлять

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Russian

Etymology

обста́вить (obstávitʹ) +‎ -я́ть (-játʹ)

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Verb

обставля́ть (obstavljátʹimpf (perfective обста́вить)

  1. to surround (with), to encircle (with)
  2. to furnish
    обставля́ть кварти́руobstavljátʹ kvartíruto furnish a flat (an apartment)
    • 1903, Антон Чехов , “chapter III”, in Невеста, Санкт-Петербург: Журнал для всех; English translation from Robert Payne, transl., The Bride, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963:
      Пото́м вошли́ в столо́вую с буфе́том, пото́м в спа́льню; здесь в полумра́ке стоя́ли ря́дом две крова́ти, и похо́же бы́ло, что когда́ обставля́ли спа́льню, то име́ли в виду́, что всегда́ тут бу́дет о́чень хорошо́ и ина́че быть не мо́жет.
      Potóm vošlí v stolóvuju s bufétom, potóm v spálʹnju; zdesʹ v polumráke stojáli rjádom dve krováti, i poxóže býlo, što kogdá obstavljáli spálʹnju, to iméli v vidú, što vsegdá tut búdet óčenʹ xorošó i ináče bytʹ ne móžet.
      They passed into the dining room, where there was a sideboard, then into the bedroom, where two beds could be seen side by side in the half dusk: it seemed as though the bedroom had been furnished in such a way that life there would always be happy and could never be anything else.
  3. to arrange
  4. (colloquial) to trick, to cheat
  5. (colloquial) to get ahead (of)
  6. (colloquial) to beat, to defeat

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