#reflexive

• To brutalize — To cause someone to lose their intellectual faculties, sensitivity, or moral dignity, degrading them toward an animalistic state; (reflexive) to become stupid, brutalized, insensitive, or morally degraded due to alcoholism, exhausting labor, or a harmful social environment.
• To refrain — To voluntarily restrain oneself from performing an action, expressing an opinion, or satisfying a craving or physical impulse; to exercise self-control. In the context of deliberative assemblies, committees, or parliamentary voting, it denotes the conscious choice to vote neither 'for' nor 'against', opting for a position of formal neutrality.
• Become indifferent — An archaic or literary verbal form meaning to become indifferent, to manifest adiaphora, or to show complete carelessness and detachment toward rules, dogmas, or external events. This structural term is found in old translations of philosophical or religious texts, designating the conscious act of canceling emotional or dogmatic attachment.
• Alcoholize — The standardized Romanian spelling for alcoholiza; to introduce alcohol into a substance, into a pharmaceutical preparation, or to subject an organism to the action of ethanol. In the reflexive form (a se alcooliza), it signifies the act of a person consuming alcoholic beverages in large quantities until reaching a state of intoxication.
• To deceive — To lead someone into error through false promises, deceptive appearances, or clever words; to deceive, delude, or entice. As a reflexive verb, it means to feed on vain illusions, or to refuse to accept a painful objective reality.
• To postpone — To postpone, delay, defer, or put off an event, activity, obligation, or meeting to a later date or time than originally scheduled. As a reflexive verb, it denotes an action or event whose execution is pushed back due to unfavorable circumstances or administrative decisions.
• To pack — To wrap, pack, or put an object or product into a protective covering (paper, box, foil) for transport, preservation, or sale. In mechanics, it means to race or suddenly increase an engine's speed beyond normal limits. Reflexively, it means to get overly excited or worked up.
• To embarrass — To embarrass or put someone in a predicament, an awkward, or difficult situation; to intimidate, confuse, or nonplus. Reflexively, it means to become embarrassed, confused, or awkward in a social context.
• To embark — To load or take passengers, troops, cargo, or materials onto a ship, boat, aircraft, or public transport vehicle for a journey or logistical operation. Reflexively, it means to go aboard a vessel to sail or, figuratively, to embark or engage enthusiastically in a long-term action or risky venture.
• To remind — To bring something or someone back into someone's memory, to remind; to mention, to touch upon a fact briefly or explicitly. As a reflexive verb ('a-și aminti'), it expresses the structural cognitive process through which a person recalls past impressions, knowledge, or events to their own mind.
• To fall in love — To fall deeply and suddenly in love with someone; to feel a strong affective and passionate attraction toward another person. Used predominantly in its reflexive form, the term retains a slightly romantic, traditional, or familiar resonance in current speech.
• To fall in love — An historical variant, elegant during the 1848 generation, of the verb 'a se amoreza'; it represents the act of falling in love with someone, catching affection, or developing a deep romantic passion. This term was commonly used in the writings of early 19th-century authors (such as Anton Pann, Costache Negruzzi, or Costache Conachi) before the form with 'o' became definitively stabilized.
• Hire — To take a person into service based on a legal employment contract, offering a remuneration; to attract, involve, or introduce someone or a collective into an action, a dispute, or a complex activity. As a reflexive verb, it expresses the act of taking on a firm obligation, pledging oneself, or stepping onto a specific professional or ideological path.
• To pre-entitle — To give a preliminary title, to entitle in advance, or to introduce a provisional heading to a text, a chapter, a literary work, or an administrative document before its final form or official publication. As a reflexive verb, it designates the action of a section or writing to name itself in a certain way in a previous editing phase.
• To prejudge — To express one's legal opinion or conviction publicly or in advance regarding the merits of a pending lawsuit, before the court deliberates and issues an official ruling. In procedural law, the act of a judge prejudging or expressing an opinion beforehand constitutes a severe structural violation of the principles of impartiality and independence, representing a rigorous legal ground for their disqualification or self-recusal.
• Turn watery — To become or cause to become watery, soft, lacking consistency, or saturated with liquid; to dilute excessively by losing the substance's natural density. It is often used in culinary, agricultural, or textile contexts to describe the transformation of firm structures into fluid, spongy, or water-saturated states.
• Flatten — To make flat, flatten, squeeze, or level a three-dimensional structure through external force or mechanical processing; as a reflexive verb, it represents the action of losing its natural relief, roundness, or curvature, becoming perfectly plane. In digital design and software, it refers to the process of merging multiple independent compositional layers into a single final two-dimensional image.
• Bend — To incline, lower, or bend a part of the body or an object from a vertical position into an oblique or downward direction; as a reflexive verb, it represents the action of bending one's stature as a sign of respect, greeting, or reverence. Figuratively, it expresses the mental action of dedicating oneself, studying with close attention, analyzing a phenomenon in depth, or demonstrating goodwill, condescension, or structural submission toward an authority.
• To arrogate to oneself — To claim, assume, or attribute to oneself abusively and unjustifiably a right, title, power, merit, or privilege without having the legal or moral authority to do so. Used almost exclusively as a reflexive verb ('a-și aroga').
• To hide — To place an object, person, or structural entity in a sheltered, secret, or inaccessible place away from sight to prevent it from being found or seen; to conceal, mask, or keep secret a truth, feeling, or intention. As a reflexive verb, it refers to a person placing themselves in a hidden shelter or refuge to evade pursuit or observation.