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Meaning of megken | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
[ˈmɛkːɛn]

Definitions

  1. to smear, grease (something) (to cover by rubbing)
    transitive
  2. to bribe (someone)
    informal, transitive
  3. to beat up, thrash (someone) (to give a severe beating to)
    dialectal, transitive

Equivalents

English Bribe Grease

Examples

“Megkentem a tésztát tojássárgájával.”

I brushed the dough with egg yolk.

“He was over forty when he entered that oddest portal, the Victoria Terminus at Bombay, and—having bribed a European ticket inspector—took his luggage into the compartment of his first tropical train.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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