#reflexive verb

• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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 mark — To mark, note, or brand an object, a territory, or cattle for recognition; to leave a distinctive sign. In the reflexive form, it means to resemble, to tend towards a match in form or behavior with someone, or to register as a witness by signing an old deed.
• Liken — To establish a similarity or analogy between people, objects, or phenomena; to compare, to place side by side, or to equate in value. Used reflexively ('a se asemui'), it defines the action of an entity becoming similar, matching, resembling, or competing in traits with someone or something else, often having a poetic, vivid, or popular connotation in speech.
• Subjugate — To bring a person, a collectivity, or an institution into a state of total dependence, slavery, or submission; to subjugate or enslave from a political, economic, or spiritual point of view. When used reflexively ('a se aservi'), it defines an individual's conscious or forced act of blindly placing oneself at the service of someone's interests, losing autonomy and freedom of decision.
• To place — To put, place, or arrange a person or an object in a certain location, in a specific order, or in a fixed position; to establish one's domicile or residence in a region (in the reflexive form). In a structural and physical sense, it also defines the sedimentation of solid particles from a fluid or the stabilization of a building on its foundation, as well as the establishment of peace, order, or quiet.