sluta
Pronunciation: /²slʉːta/
“sluta” is a Swedish word. Its 10 meanings in English:
verb
- to stop (come to an end), to end (come to an end)
- to quit (e.g. school, a job or a habit)
- to cease doing something
- to finish; to have as a result (from a competition)
- to close, to shut (make closed by closing one or more openings)
- to become or make oneself closed (as above)
- to retract within oneself; to reduce one's connections with other people
- to join together
- to connect the ends of a curve so that it no longer has any beginning nor end, to close
- to formally agree on (something)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish slūta, from Low German sluten (“to lock up, shut”), from Middle Low German slūten, from Old Saxon *slūtan.
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