Polish English Dictionary

porażka in English:

1. discomfiture

Robert could hardly keep his countenance and she took pleasure in his discomfiture

English word "porażka"(discomfiture) occurs in sets:

Fiszki z książki - "Uncanny Tales" (Various)
Fiszki z książki - "Hints on Driving" (C. S. Ward)
Fiszki z książki - "Gabriel Conroy" (Bert Harte)
Fiszki z książki - "Bolanyo" (Opie Percival Read)
Fiszki z książki - "Audrey Craven" (May Sinclair)

2. defeat

Let's just hope that our army defeats the enemy army and we can live in peace again.

The defeat didn't dampen his spirits.

Poland defeated Montenegro in a recent football match.

to defeat

Victory and defeat aren't solely decided by the size of your army.

Beyond the Right's populism and the dispersion of the Left which have made this situation possible, I take full responsibility for this defeat and draw the necessary conclusions by retiring from political life after the end of the presidential election.

Defeat and failure make people too humble.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

What happened ysterday was a crushing defeat and I cannot call it otherwise.

He is very strong--so much so that no one can defeat him.

Mr Trump defeated his rival Hillary Clinton to become the USA's 45th President.

In some computer games you have to attack an enemy and defeat them.

Tanks and planes may defeat the troops but they cannot conquer the people.

English word "porażka"(defeat) occurs in sets:

lista 5 2023/24 conflict and warfare
CHAPTER 2 - Passion, Passion, Passion!
01. Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
Ważne słówka, które muszę umieć(2)
Conflict an warfare/ Discourse markers

3. failure

Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default."

business failure

For some companies their treatment of their employees or clients at any given time could affect their share prices and so inevitably have a great influence on the company’s success or failure.

He who wants to travel the path of wisdom must not fear failure, for no matter how much progress he makes, his goal remains unattainably far off.

Britain's currency crisis has turned into a political one over government failure to stop the pound from going into free-fall.

I think this not a method that I can really recommend unless you are willing to risk failure.

Kimura is a Tokyo university graduate who became a taxi driver. According to some people's standards, he might be considered a failure, but I think it's fine as long as he likes driving.

It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.

Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.

For any type of organisation, internal harmony and unity are important factors in deciding its success or failure.

It's not long gone failure, nor heroic deeds to come, but here and now, which you should consider.

The failure or inability of the younger and older generation to communicate and understand each other is often reffered to as "the gap generation".

Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity.

Calculating the risk which is involved in the event of failure, he demanded a show-down with the other party.

English word "porażka"(failure) occurs in sets:

Intelligent Business Intermediate Coursebook unit 2
Longman repetytorium maturalne 3 część 2
FCE Results, 2 Wild, str. 28-30
Intelligent Business Intermediate Coursebook unit 2
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4. bummer

something unpleasant or annoying kanał, obciach, pasztet That last exam was a real bummer.

that's a bummer

not my marriage causing my beliefs, that’s kind of a bummer to find out

I left my notes at home. What a bummer.

English word "porażka"(bummer) occurs in sets:

Słówka z Google Translator
dragon ball 2
Lesson - 30.11.2021
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5. fail

It looks like the peace talks are failing.

All right, do it your own way, but don't blame me if you fail.

I've failed.

Right now my score in Cooking is about 45 out of 100. Great isn't it? That's not a fail!

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

In North America it is against the law to fail to fasten your seatbelt.

Causing competitors to fail, obtaining confidential information, something that big business just can't do without - high risk but at the same time high return work.

Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it.

enterpreneurs fail

It's a perfect strategy, it can't fail

"Movies that are badly made usually fail at the box office."

when something such as a machine or an important part of your body fails, it stops working properly

Promise you will never fail me. What happens if a player fails to turn up for a game?

Well-trained dogs rarely fail to follow instructions.

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind.

English word "porażka"(fail) occurs in sets:

słówka: kultura i sztuka (13)
L7 meeting mishaps
na słówka 07.12
Meeting mishaps

6. disaster

The general took the bull by the horns and saved his army from disaster.

After the disaster, there was scarcely any water left on the island.

The government asked the SDF for a disaster relief deployment to Okinawa.

air disaster

Such a disaster won't come again in my time.

He courted disaster by reckless driving.

War is not a natural disaster like an earthquake or a tsunami. It does not come without warning.

This seat, it's real leather, isn't it? It would be a disaster if some slip-up gets it dirtied.

In 2010 there was a disaster in Haiti when a massive earthquake destroyed many homes.

floods and other natural disasters His idea was a total disaster. The holiday ended in disaster.

The disaster took place two blocks from the bus station.

Failure in Copenhagen would be an environmental, political and moral disaster!

Fire departments, police units and disaster responders all use drones to some degree.

Last night there was an air disaster in which 329 people died.

Even disaster is better than such a divorce between emotion and action.

English word "porażka"(disaster) occurs in sets:

angielski zestaw 8
some up chapter 7

7. reverse

If a man wants to learn to sound like a native speaker of Japanese, he shouldn't only learn Japanese from women. The reverse is true for a woman.

He did the reverse of what I asked.

in reverse order

Instead of putting the car into gear, she put it into reverse, causing a great deal of damage to the store-front.

Our performance was a huge reverse.

Labour have accused him of putting the economy into reverse.

You're blocking my gate - can you reverse a little?

The effects of the disease can only be reversed by a bone-marrow donation.

Driving in reverse is always more difficult than driving forward.

It would take years to reverse the damage that has been done to the environment.

In the morning they walk to school, in the afternoon they simply reverse their earlier route.

You should reverse carefully.

People have plastic surgies because they think they can reverse ageing.

Count from one to five in reverse order, please!

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,—all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

English word "porażka"(reverse) occurs in sets:

PLANTING TREES
disco dzien 2

8. setback

Our negotiations to lower export taxes suffered a big setback.

It's only a minor setback.

Automobile sales suffered a setback at the end of the financial year.

Today’s result was a major setback for the team.

A setback may cause you to take longer to succeed. It doesn't necessarily prevent you from succeeding.

However, I have recently heard that there have been setbacks during the parallel negotiations in Brussels.

He had been recovering, but he suffered a setback last week.

face the setbacks

this would be a setback to our plans

discussions are now taking place in the context of two major setbacks to American efforts in Afghanistan

Then yesterday she had a setback

Have you experienced any setbacks?

The company faced a big setback when their premises were burned down, but they vowed to recover quickly.

The construction had some delay due to unforeseen setbacks.

There were many setbacks in the development of the town.

English word "porażka"(setback) occurs in sets:

nouns based on idioms