to rumple, to crumple, to wrinkle, to fumble, to crease · to pound, to crush, to grind (to make smaller by breaking with a device) · to flatten, to crush
to torture (intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on) · to torture, torment, rack, be killing (cause severe suffering to) · to torment, rack (cause mental suffering to)
çekim: geçmiş βασάνισα · ortaç έχοντας βασανίσει · şimdiki βασανίζει · ulaç βασανίζοντας
köken: From Ancient Greek βασανίζω (basanízō, “to examine, to investigate, put to the test”), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”) + -ίζω (-ízō, “verbal suffix”), literally “to test with touchstone”. The modern sense of "torture" developed from the association of investigations and inquisitions of prisoners with physical tortures.
to annoy, to irritate, to irk, to get on the nerves of, to vex · to exasperate · to tease, to goad, to get a rise out of (provoke)
çekim: geçmiş драто́ваний · şimdiki драту́є
eş: роздрато́вувати
köken: Possibly from дра́ти (dráty) + -увати (-uvaty), from Proto-Slavic *dьràti. Cognate with Russian дратовать (dratovatʹ), Bulgarian дретат (dretat).
to irritate, annoy (mentally and/or physically); to bother, exasperate, irk, rub someone the wrong way (mentally) · to tease, harass, hector · to stimulate
çekim: geçmiş ärsyttänyt · şimdiki ärsyttäisi · ulaç ärsyttävä
köken: From ärtyä + -ttää. The change from -t- to -s- is dialectal variation and unexplained; the expected form, ärryttää is found in dialects and can be seen in cognates like Estonian ärritama, Karelian ärrytteä and Livonian ertļõ.
to soften, make tender by soaking or steeping · to weaken, waste away · to vex, torment, distress
çekim: ortaç mācerātus · şimdiki mācerat · ulaç mācerāns
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱeseh₂ti, from *meh₂ǵ-, *meh₂ḱ- (“to knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō, “knead”), Lithuanian makonė, Old Church Slavonic мокръ (mokrŭ, “wet”), Russian мочи́ть (močítʹ, “to wet”).