ஒடுங்கு
odungku
III. v. i. be compressed, contracted, narrow, அடங்கு; 2. shrink, grow lean or low, be reduced, குறை; 3. be submissive, கீழ்ப்படி; 4. recede, go out of the way (in meeting a
J.P. Fabricius Dictionary
, [oṭungku] கிறேன், ஒடுங்கினேன், வே ன், ஒடுங்க, ''v. n.'' To shrink, become re duced, compressed, closed, contracted, narrow, to lessen, to abate, crouch, lie within a small compass, diminish, grow less--as a globe from the centre to the poles, அடங்க. 2. To be restrained--as the senses, desires, &c., புலனொங்க. 3. To give place, recede, pass on one side--as in meet ing a superior; to shrink within one's self, showing reverence, taking off the mantle, turban, sandals, &c.; to creep along side ways, ஒதுங்க. 4. To be reduced in cir cumstances, power, prosperity, in show, in expenditure, in the mental or bodily fa culties, energies, &c., to grow lean, be reduced in size, whether by disease, want of food, or otherwise, குறைய. 5. To cease- as noise, bustle, stir, &c., அமைய. 6. To sink or retire--as the soul in sleep, faint ing, or through the different stages at death, சோர. 7. To become dissolved or involved one within another--as the ele ments, worlds, &c., till all is absorbed in the deity, பூதங்களொடுங்க. 8. To end, ter minate, cease, முடிய. 9. To obey, submit, கீழ்ப்படிய. 1. To be concealed, பதுங்க. 11. To be packed, stowed away, செறிய. 12. To be retrenched, சுருங்க. 13. To disap pear, become absorbed, dissolved--as salt in water, &c., கரைய. 14. To grow dim- as a light, a heavenly body, &c., to be come extinct--as light by passing into its previous elements or ether, ஒளிமழுங்க. மாடுநுகத்தைக்கண்டொடுங்குகிறது. The ox has assumed a sickly appearance; or it shrinks at the sight of the yoke. ஊணொடுங்கவீணொடுங்கும். If his food be reduced, his dissipation will cease.
Miron Winslow