лезть
Pronunciation: [lʲesʲtʲ]
“лезть” is a Russian word. Its 13 meanings in English:
verb
- to climb (up, on to), to scramble
- to clamber, to crawl, to scramble (through, into, under)
- to get (into); to thrust the hand (into)
- to thrust oneself (upon); to intrude (upon)
- to meddle (in, with)
- to fit (into)
- to fall out, to come out (of hair or fur)
- to stick out, to be conspicuous
- to slip out of position
- to come on, to do something despite obstacles or objections
- to try to climb, to try to reach a better position in life
- to come to pieces (of cloth or leather)
- used in idioms
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic лѣзти (lězti), from Proto-Slavic *lězti (“to crawl, climb”).
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