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Meanings of doormat in English

Catalan
estoreta

A flat object for wiping one’s shoes, laid on the floor immediately outside or inside the entrance to a building.

estoreta
Catalan
desnerit
Spanish
débil

A person who is physically weak and ineffectual.

desnerit
Usage of doormat in English
1
However, for most post landing on your doormat, there is no competition.
The Irish Times
2
Fern found the note on her doormat before she went to work.
The witch queen
3
Even the doormat was in tatters and had split down the middle.
First contact: or, it's later than you think
4
He smiled, suddenly appeased, and put his foot unsteadily on the doormat.
Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes
5
Graves speculated that he might have to do a better doormat next.
The new yorker
6
Someone who truly loves you will not treat you like a doormat.
Ebony
7
I'm no doormat, an' nobody alive can wipe their feet on me.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
8
Also known as the 'let's make South Africa our doormat' Union.
The South African
9
I used the key under the doormat and let myself in.
Revival
10
There was a doormat on the concrete floor by the steps.
O+F
11
It made him feel powerful that one of the Corleones was his doormat.
The Godfather
12
Present yourself as a doormat and you will be walked on.
Ebony
13
Someone who might treat you slightly better than a human-shaped doormat.
The Stowaway
14
Mr. Darco darted and shook her as if she had been a doormat.
Despair's Last Journey
15
Jim Bennet, your being a doormat may cost other people their souls' salvation.
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
16
He's more like a doormat with 'Welcome' written on it, than anything else.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
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Translations for doormat
Spanish
débil
Doormat through the time
Doormat across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common