Значение

значений: 5
  1. (переходный)To listen to, hearken to.

  2. (непереходный, устаревшее)To become calm.

  3. (устаревшее, переходный)To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

  4. (непереходный, устаревшее)To attend; listen, hearken.

  5. (Yorkshire, архаичное, диалектное)To thicken (gravy, etc.)

Примеры

предложений: 5
  1. Love me lithe, love me long.

    Люби меня гибко, люби меня долго.

  2. This ballerina has a lithe body.

    У этой балерины гибкое тело.

  3. Mary has a lithe body.

    У Мэри гибкое тело.

  4. Swiftly, her lithe form darted through the forest paths until she reached the edge of the forest.

  5. Miss Virginia E. Otis was a little girl of fifteen, lithe and lovely as a fawn.

Происхождение

From Middle English lithen, from Old English līþian, līþigian, līþegian (“to soften, calm,

From Middle English lithen, from Old English līþian, līþigian, līþegian (“to soften, calm, mitigate, assuage, appease, be mild”), from Proto-West Germanic *linþijan, from Proto-Germanic *linþijaną (“to soften”), from Proto-Indo-European *lento- (“bendsome, resilient”). Cognate with German lindern (“to alleviate, ease, relieve”).

From Middle English lithen, from Old Norse hlýða (“to listen”), from Proto-Germanic *hliuþijaną (“to listen”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”).

From Middle English lithen (“to make gentle or mild; to relax, soothe”), from Old English līþan (“to assuage, mitigate, soften”), from līþe (“lithe, gentle”).

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Формы

lithes, lithing, lithed, lithed
Базовая формаlithe · to lithe
3-е лицо ед. числаlithes
Причастие настоящего времениlithing
Прошедшее времяlithed
Причастие прошедшего времениlithed

правильный · Урок

Present simpleУрок

I, you, we, theylithe
he, she, itlithes

Past simpleУрок

все лицаlithed

Present perfectУрок

I, you, we, theyhave lithed
he, she, ithas lithed

Future simple (will)Урок

все лицаwill lithe

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