Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

dręczyć in English:

1. rankle


His constant whistling would rankle her, sometimes causing her to leave in a huff.
Her words rankled him.

English word "dręczyć"(rankle) occurs in sets:

Fiszki z książki - "Remarks" (Bill Nye)
Fiszki z książki - "Poems" (Walter R. Cassels)
Fiszki z książki - "My Lord Duke" (E. W. Hornung)
Fiszki z książki - "To Love" (Margaret Peterson)
Fiszki z książki - "Advanced Bridge" (J.B. Elwell)

2. bully


Little children can be scared when bigger children bully them in the playground.
Every playground has its bully.
Go and beat up that bully.
Tom was warned not to bully Mary again.
Stop bullying younger boys!
She is a bully I am being bullied
... inner tube, and the bully of the camp grabbed...
Bart's got a problem with a local young bully named Nelson.
Why do children sometimes bully younger ones at school?
That big boy is bullying the little children / Mary was bullied by her classmates
He is the office bully.
Her team leader, Valma is a bully.
When there’s a crisis in the office, the happy, joking ‘friend’ disappears and is replaced by a bossy bully.
did you bully him or anything like that?
I still have these little groupings of scabs from when the school bully tossed live leeches at me.

English word "dręczyć"(bully) occurs in sets:

unit 3 (szkoła)
DZ. SZKOŁA.CZ.4
szkolna codziennosc
Dzial 3 - Edukacja
życie szkoły

3. harass


Stop harassing me!
enemy soldiers continued to harass the defenders,
An employer shall prevent persistent and long-lasting harassment or intimidation of an employee.
The whole situation harassed her mind too much.

English word "dręczyć"(harass) occurs in sets:

ezoteryczna ficha
Sprawdzian 1
PADUCH SŁÓWKA

4. torment


Working in this temperature is torment for me.
All evening the question tormented her. This boy always torments other children at school.(Ten chłopak zawsze dręczy inne dzieci w szkole.)
To be in torment
Stop tormenting this guy!
“It was a great torment,” she said, as tears flowed down her face.
This boy always torments other children at school.
The journey must have been a torment for them.
He was tormented by jealousy.
This emptiness was tormenting in itself.
As remote sensing methods develop, it is to be hoped that they will help reduce the bureaucracy which is a continual torment to farmers.
Her eyes revealed the torment in her mind.
The exam session was a torment for me. I was in torment the whole night.
The bigger kids keep tormenting him.
We are tormented by the fact that our little Madeleine... is so full of hate.
Waiting for the exam results was sheer torment.

English word "dręczyć"(torment) occurs in sets:

Unit 8 Cutting Edge Upper Student's Book
SPEAK UP unit 68-1
January Vocabulary
words from the books
gifted generation 1

5. nag


When you are hungry you start nagging.
How far did she take her nagging?
Don't nag! You are so lucky!
This issue has been nagging me for weeks
She has been nagging him to paint the window
Why do you nag this poor dog? Leave him alone.
Stop nagging - I'll do it as soon as I can. She has been nagging him to paint the window.
A feeling of unease nagged at her. Doubts nagged me all evening.
My mum's always nagging me to get my hair cut.
I'm always nagging him about his diet.
‘she constantly nags her daughter about getting married.
Now if you find that they are, then I would – without trying to nag you – that maybe it might be beneficial to listen to them in sequence, because it is a pyramid building of knowledge that we’re trying to do here, so I think that it may be worth doi

English word "dręczyć"(nag) occurs in sets:

Matura rozszerzona 2016-17

6. plague


If you don't start treating people with a little more respect, people may start avoiding you like the plague.
Thousands of people died during the plague.
Rats carry the plague.
Tom has been avoiding me like the plague ever since he borrowed my car.
The plague occurred that year.
More often than not, famine is accompanied by plague.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
A worldwide plague of theft emptied museums.
My conscience plagues me
In ancient times, plagues killed many people
So today’s rally, for example, was opened by a Native American speaker who spoke about the issues that plague Native American women, including the number of women being murdered – Native American women one of the highest rates in the country.
She soon began to plague him with her rather prickly vanity.
avoid like a plague
Then the plague killed 99% of the population, including Lucy’s family.

English word "dręczyć"(plague) occurs in sets:

ciąg dalszy elżbiety k
king Henry the VIII

7. To pester