verjagen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- dispel verb To make fears, doubts, or false ideas disappear by showing they have no basis.
- evict verb To legally force someone to leave a property they rent or occupy.
- expel verb To force someone out of a place, group, or organization, often as punishment.
- repel verb To drive back or fight off an attack or attacker.
Senses
verjagen is used for these senses in English:
- dispel (transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
- drive off (idiomatic) To force to leave or go away.
- evict (transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
- expel (transitive) To eject.
- repel (transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.). [from 15th c.]
evict — full definition
- verb To legally force someone to leave a property they rent or occupy.
- verb (computing) To remove data from a cache to free up space for newer data.