merít

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See also: merit, Merit, mèrit, měřit, and mērīt

Hungarian

Etymology

mer (to scoop, ladle) +‎ -ít (causative / transitive verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

Verb

merít

  1. (transitive) to submerge, dip, sink something (into some liquid or gas: -ba/-be)
    Synonyms: márt, süllyeszt
    Middle-voice counterpart: merül
  2. (transitive) to drain, deplete, exhaust
    Synonyms: kiürít, kimerít, elhasznál, apaszt, elapaszt, fogyaszt, elfogyaszt, felél
    Antonyms: tölt, feltölt (to charge )
  3. (transitive, often figuratively) to draw from or draw on some source (to utilize, make use of, or derive from, as a source; with -ból/-ből)
    Synonyms: nyer, talál, lel

Conjugation

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Further reading

  • merít in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN