string

/strɪŋ/ verb [T] (past tense and past participle strung)

Translation

› to hang something somewhere with string

asmak, dizmek

They had strung flags across the entrance to welcome us home.1947

string sb along phrasal verb

› to deceive someone for a long time about what you are intending to do

kandırmak, aldatmak

1052

be strung out phrasal verb

› If a group of things or people are strung out somewhere, they are in a line with spaces between them.

sıra sıra dizilmek, sırala(n)mak

There were chairs strung out across the room.1266

(Definition of string verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

something which threatens to cause problems or unhappiness in the future

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