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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈʃuːrol]
  • Hyphenation: sú‧rol
  • Rhymes: -ol

Verb

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súrol

  1. (transitive) to scour, clean, scrub (to wash a surface by rubbing it with a cleaning tool, especially a hard brush or cleaning powder)
    Synonyms: mos, sikál
  2. (transitive) to brush, graze (to touch something lightly in passing)
    A golyó súrolta a falat.The bullet grazed the wall.
  3. (transitive, figurative) to touch (to come close to or almost identical to something, usually in the non-physical sense)
    Synonym: megközelít
    Ez már súrolja a szabotázs fogalmát.This already touches the concept of sabotage.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • súrol 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