üzmek

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to distress, upset, worry; to sadden
  2. (transitive) to abrade
  3. (dialectal, transitive) to break, tear

Synonyms

kederlendirmek

can sıkmak

cesaretini kırmak

içine işlemek

keyfini kaçırmak

kin gütmek

kıvranmak

küçük düşürmek

moralini bozmak

neşesini kaçırmak

ümidini kırmak

zulmetmek

acı çektirmek

acı vermek

aşağı atmak

Frequency

C2
Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish اوزمك (üzmek, “to overstrain, break down, injure, hurt feelings, treat with harshness”), from Proto-Turkic *üŕ- (“to break, tear, demolish”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰇𐰕 (üz-, “to break, tear”), Azerbaijani üzmək (“to break”), Bashkir өҙөү (öźöw, “to tear, break”), Khakas ӱзерге (üzerge, “to break off, pick off”), Kyrgyz үзүү (üzüü, “to interrupt, break, disrupt, pluck”), Turkmen üzmek (“to tear off, pluck”), Uzbek uzmoq (“to break, tear, pick”).

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