Russian

Verb

затя́гиваться • ‎(zatjágivatʹsja) impf ‎(perfective затяну́ться)

1. to be tightened, jam
2. to grow overcast
3. (medicine) to skin over, to heal (of wounds)

   ра́на затя́гивалась‎ ― rána zatjágivalasʹ ― the wound was skinning over / the wound was closing

4. to be delayed, to be dragged out
5. to inhale (cigarette, cigar, smoking pipe)
6. passive of затя́гивать ‎(zatjágivatʹ)

Conjugation

Related terms

• затя́гивание n ‎(zatjágivanije)