Meaning of hányódik | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to toss, to be tossed (around) (as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas)
   intransitive
2. to drift (to move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc; to move haphazardly without any destination)
   intransitive
3. to kick around (to wander loose; to float around; to hang around)
   intransitive
4. to struggle or wrestle with oneself, hesitate, vacillate, waver, waffle
   figuratively, intransitive, literary

Equivalents

Examples

“Active-voice counterpart: hány”

“1956, János Pilinszky, Apokrif (“Apocrypha”), translation by Ted Hughes & János Csokits”

But keeping vigil in banishment / because that night / I cannot sleep I toss / as the tree with its thousand leaves / and at dead of night I speak as the tree:

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