zakwaszać

From zakwasić +‎ -ać. First attested in the 16th century.^[1] Compare Slovincian zakwaszac.

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• Rhymes: -aʂat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: za‧kwa‧szać

zakwaszać impf (perfective zakwasić)

1. (transitive) to pickle; to leaven (to ferment a vegetable so as to preserve it, giving it a sour taste in the process)

   Synonym: ukwaszać

2. (transitive) to sour (to cause to taste sour) [with instrumental ‘with what’]
3. (transitive) to acidify (to saturate with acid) [with instrumental ‘with what’]
4. (transitive, medicine, colloquial) to acidify (to cause an abundance of acid in the body)
5. (transitive, exercise) to burn (to cause muscle pain as a result of intense exertion)
6. (transitive, obsolete) to sour (to make unpleasent)
7. (transitive, obsolete) to devour, to bite off
8. (transitive, obsolete, metalurgy) to harden steel

   Synonym: hartować

9. (reflexive with się) to pickle; to leaven (of vegetables, to undergo preservational fermentation)

   Synonyms: kisić się, kwasić się

10. (reflexive with się) to acidify (to become saturated with acid)
11. (reflexive with się, medicine, colloquial) to acidify (of the body, to obtain an abundance of acid)
12. (reflexive with się, exercise) to feel the burn (to feel muscle pain as a result of intense exertion)
13. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to sour (to become unpleasent)

• zakwaszać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zakwaszać się in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zakwaszać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zakwaszać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zakwaszać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 144
• zakwaszać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego