"insinuate" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈsɪnjueɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation, US] Audio: en-us-insinuate.ogg [US], en-au-insinuate.ogg [Australia] Forms: insinuates [present, singular, third-person], insinuating [participle, present], insinuated [participle, past], insinuated [past]
Etymology: From Latin īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”), from in (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|īnsinuō||to push in, creep in, steal in}} Latin īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”), {{m|la|in||in}} in (“in”), {{m|la|sinus||a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom}} sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} insinuate (third-person singular simple present insinuates, present participle insinuating, simple past and past participle insinuated)
  1. To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement. Synonyms: allude Translations (hint at (something)): لَمَّحَ (lammaḥa) (Arabic), أَلْمَحَ (ʔalmaḥa) (Arabic), أَشَارَ (ʔašāra) (Arabic), намеквам (namekvam) (Bulgarian), insinuar (Catalan), naznačit [perfective] (Czech), naznačovat [imperfective] (Czech), insinueren (Dutch), vihjata (Finnish), insinuer (French), andeuten (German), unterstellen (German), insinuieren (German), υπονοώ (yponoó) (Greek), υπαινίσσομαι (ypainíssomai) (Greek), insynuować (Polish), insinuar (Portuguese), намека́ть (namekátʹ) (Russian), insinuar (Spanish), insinuera (Swedish), iparinig (Tagalog), magparinig (Tagalog), paringgan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-insinuate-en-verb-yUOGUu6g Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 32 15 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 54 25 21 Disambiguation of 'hint at (something)': 85 8 7
  2. (rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices. Tags: rare Translations (creep or wind into, to enter gently): تسحّب (Arabic), تسلل (Arabic), прокрадвам се (prokradvam se) (Bulgarian), tihkua (Finnish), hivuttautua (Finnish), insinuare (Italian)
    Sense id: en-insinuate-en-verb-PU51drXU Disambiguation of 'creep or wind into, to enter gently': 8 86 5
  3. (figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means. Tags: broadly, figuratively Translations (ingratiate oneself): اِنْدَسّ (indass) (Arabic), vetřít se [perfective] (Czech), vlichotit se [perfective] (Czech), protlačit se [perfective] (Czech), mielistellä (Finnish), insinuer (French), sich einschmeicheln (German), sich einschleichen (German), przypochlebiać się (Polish), заи́скивать пе́ред (zaískivatʹ péred) (Russian), сниска́ть ми́лость (alt: чью-нибу́дь) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-insinuate-en-verb-askAfNqO Disambiguation of 'ingratiate oneself': 5 5 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: insinuation, insinuator, sinuous

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|verb form}} insinuate
  1. inflection of insinuare:
    second-person plural present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, plural, present, second-person
    Sense id: en-insinuate-it-verb-Sr5prCHr Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 83 12 4
  2. inflection of insinuare:
    second-person plural imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, plural, second-person
    Sense id: en-insinuate-it-verb-ZKipSd49
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|past participle form|g=f-p}} insinuate f pl
  1. feminine plural of insinuato Tags: feminine, form-of, participle, plural Form of: insinuato
    Sense id: en-insinuate-it-verb-zEb-h7Qg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [Latin]

Forms: īnsinuāte [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=īnsinuāte}} īnsinuāte
  1. second-person plural present active imperative of īnsinuō Tags: active, form-of, imperative, plural, present, second-person Form of: īnsinuō
    Sense id: en-insinuate-la-verb-9zNcUySk Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header

Verb [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} insinuate
  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of insinuar combined with te Tags: form-of, imperative, object-second-person, object-singular, second-person, singular, with-voseo Form of: insinuar
    Sense id: en-insinuate-es-verb-pV-o2q-6 Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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        }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        "(figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means."
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        "US"
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      "code": "ar",
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      "roman": "lammaḥa",
      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "لَمَّحَ"
    },
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      "word": "أَلْمَحَ"
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      "word": "намеквам"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "word": "insinuar"
    },
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      ],
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
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      "word": "naznačovat"
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "insinueren"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "vihjata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "word": "insinuer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "andeuten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "unterstellen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "insinuieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "yponoó",
      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "υπονοώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "υπαινίσσομαι"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "insynuować"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "insinuar"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "намека́ть"
    },
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    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "insinuera"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "iparinig"
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "magparinig"
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      "code": "tl",
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      "sense": "hint at (something)",
      "word": "paringgan"
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      "code": "ar",
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      "sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
      "word": "تسحّب"
    },
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
      "word": "تسلل"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prokradvam se",
      "sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
      "word": "прокрадвам се"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
      "word": "tihkua"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
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      "sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
      "word": "insinuare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "indass",
      "sense": "ingratiate oneself",
      "word": "اِنْدَسّ"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "ingratiate oneself",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "vetřít se"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "ingratiate oneself",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vlichotit se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "ingratiate oneself",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "protlačit se"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ingratiate oneself",
      "word": "mielistellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "ingratiate oneself",
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    },
    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "ingratiate oneself",
      "word": "sich einschmeicheln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ingratiate oneself",
      "word": "sich einschleichen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ingratiate oneself",
      "word": "przypochlebiać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaískivatʹ péred",
      "sense": "ingratiate oneself",
      "word": "заи́скивать пе́ред"
    },
    {
      "alt": "чью-нибу́дь",
      "code": "ru",
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}

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          "word": "insinuato"
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        "feminine plural of insinuato"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "insinuato",
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      "tags": [
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    }
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        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
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        "Latin verb forms"
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        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
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}

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