Meaning

1 senses

  1. (US)To tame; to break (a horse)

    zähmen

    укрощатьukroščatʹ

Examples

11 sentences

  1. Tom is meek.

    Том смиренний. — deniko

    ruТом кроткий. — Wezel

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  2. She is too meek.

    Вона занадто покірна. — deniko

    ruОна слишком кроткая. — odexed

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  3. The meek shall inherit the earth.

    deDie Schwachen werden das Land erben. — Yorwba

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  4. The strong shall devour the meek's reward.

    deDie Starken werden verzehren der Schwachen Lohn. — Yorwba

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  5. He'd always been a meek and understanding man.

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to tame, to break:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to tame, to break:

Origin

From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, probably a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; me

From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, probably a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”); compare Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan.

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Forms

meeks, meeking, meeked, meeked
Base formmeek · to meek
3rd person singularmeeks
Present participlemeeking
Past simplemeeked
Past participlemeeked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymeek
he, she, itmeeks

Past simpleLesson

all personsmeeked

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill meek

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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