Meaning of rettent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of retten
   form-of, indefinite, indicative, past, singular, third-person
2. to deter (to prevent or discourage someone from doing something)
   literary, transitive

Examples

“Nem szégyenlem, ha kitalálom, // hisz kitaszit / a világ így is olyat, akit / kábít a nap, rettent az álom.”

It’s not a shame to guess this right, // but I’m aware / that we are hated everywhere / who dream by day and fret at night. (literally, “…who is dazed by the Sun and terrified by dreams.”) I’m not ashamed that I found it out. // Because who is / scared by his dreams dazed by the sun / will be driven out in any case. No shame on me to find just only one // solution, since / an outcast I am / frightened by dreams and dazed by the sun.

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