Dutch–English dictionary

verhitten

(transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").

verhogen

(intransitive) To increase, to rise

verhoging

(symptom) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

verholen

(figurative) Partly hidden or concealed.

verhongeren

(intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

verhoog

A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. [from c. 1800.]

verhoor

The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.

verhoren

(transitive) to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner

verhouding

A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.

verhuizing

The event of changing one's residence.

verhullen

(transitive) To cover as with or like a cloak.

verhuren

(transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

verhuurder

(property law) The owner of property that is leased; the landlord to a lease.

verificatie

(mathematics) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.

verifiëren

(finance, business) To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes

verijdelen

(transitive) To frustrate, discomfit.

vering

(vehicle) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.

verjaardag

The anniversary of the day on which something is created.

verjagen

(transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.

verjaringstermijn

(law) A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.

verjongen

To render young again.

verjonging

The process of rendering young again.

verkeer

The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.

verkeerd

(of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.

verkeerd begrijpen

(ambitransitive) To hear wrongly.

verkeerd gebruik

Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. [from around 1350 to 1470]

verkeerd gebruiken

(transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert [from around 1350 to 1470.]

verkeerd interpreteren

(transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.

verkeerd omschreven

Not properly named; See, for example, improper fraction.

verkeerd verstaan

(ambitransitive) To hear wrongly.

verkeerd voorstellen

To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose not intended by the original author; to mutilate; to pervert.

verkeerde

The opposite of right; the concept of badness.

verkeersader

A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.

verkeerschaos

(road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.

verkeersinfarct

(road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.

verkeersknooppunt

(countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.

verkeersopstopping

On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.

verkeersplein

(chiefly, UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.

verkeerswisselaar

(countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.

verkenner

One who explores something

verkenning

The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.

verkiezen

To pick; to make the choice of; to select.

verkiezing

A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.

verkiezingsbijeenkomst

A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.

verklaarbaar

(rare) Capable of being accounted for; explicable; explainable.

verklappen

(transitive) To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.

verklaren

(transitive) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

verklarend

Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.

verklaring

An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.

verkleind

Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.

verkleinen

(intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.

verkleinend

(obsolete) Serving to diminish.

verkleinings-

(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

verkleinwoord

(grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

verkleumd

Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation.

verkleuren

(intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.

verklikken

To act as an informer; denounce.

verklikker

(slang) An informer, one who betrays their group.

verkneukeling

The act of one who gloats.

verknocht

Strongly emotionally attached; very fond of someone or something.

verknoeien

(transitive) To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.

verknopen

(transitive) To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.

verkoelen

(intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.

verkoelend

Allowing or suggesting heat relief.

verkolen

(ergative) To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.

verkonden

(transitive) To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.

verkondigen

(transitive) To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.

verkondiger

A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.

verkoop

An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

verkooppraatje

An effort to sell or promote something.

verkoopsmarge

The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price.

verkoopstandaard

A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.

verkoopster

A person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.

verkopen

(transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

verkoper

A man whose job it is to sell things, either in a shop / store or elsewhere.

verkort

Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.

verkorten

(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

verkorting

(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @. [Late 16th century.]

verkoudheid

(countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

verkrachten

(transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape; (reflexive) to masturbate. [from around 1350 to 1470]

verkreukelen

(transitive) To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.

verkrijgen

(transitive) To gain or obtain access to.

verkruimelen

(intransitive, often, figurative) To fall apart; to disintegrate.

verkwanselen

To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance

verkwikkend

Allowing or suggesting heat relief.

verkwisten

(transitive) To use up or waste; squander.

verkwistend

Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

verkwister

Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.

verkwisting

The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.

verlaagd

Humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige.

verlaat

Later in relation to the proper time something should have happened.

verlagen

To debase; to lower; to degrade.

verlaging

The act of something being lowered.

verlamd

(especially, of an, animal) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.

verlammen

(transitive) To afflict with paralysis.

verlammend

That cripples or incapacitates

verlamming

(pathology) Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.

verlangen

To desire or want something, or someone, very much.

verlangend

Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil.

verlaten

(transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]

verlating

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [Late 16th century.]

verleden

(grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state. [from 18th c.]

verleden tijd

(grammar) The past tense.

verlegen

Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.

verlegen maken

(transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.

verlegenheid

The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

verlegging

Removal of water via a canal.

verleidelijk

That beguiles or beguile.

verleiden

(transitive) To entice; to attract.

verleider

A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.

verleiding

The act of seducing.

verleidster

A beautiful, charming and irresistible woman.

verlenen

(ditransitive) To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).

verlener

One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.

verlengen

(obsolete) To prolong or extend. [15th–18th c.]

verlenging

(medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.

verleppen

Diminishing rapidly.

verlicht

Illuminated.

verlicht door de maan

Lit by moonlight.

verlichten

(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.

verlichting

(history) A 17th- and 18th-century European intellectual movement emphasizing rationalism. The period during which it flourished is called the Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason.

verliefd

(dated) Affected with love; in love; enamored.

verliefdheid

(psychology) An involuntary romantic infatuation with another person, especially combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated. [from 20th c.]

verlies

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.

verliezen

(transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

verlinken

(slang, intransitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.

verloden

(countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.

verloederd

Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect.

verloederen

(intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.

verlof

A leave of absence or vacation.

verlokkelijk

That entices; alluring; attractive; charming

verlokken

(transitive) To attract; to allure.

verloning

The result of an action, whether good or bad.

verloochenen

(transitive) To contradict, to show (something) to be false. [from 17th c.]

verloochening

A denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

verloofd

One who is betrothed, i.e. a fiancé or fiancée.

verloop

(sciences) The loss of participants during an experiment.

verloopstekker

Specifically, an AC adapter: a device that reduces voltage and converts AC to DC to allow a battery-powered device to use mains power.

verlopen

(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.

verloren

Abandoned, deserted, left behind.

verloskunde

The practice and science of being a midwife.

verloskundearts

(medicine) A physician who specializes in childbirth.

verloskundige

(obstetrics) A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician.

verlossen

(transitive) To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.

verlosser

One who redeems; one who provides redemption.

verlossing

The act of setting free or extricating from danger, imprisonment, bondage, evil, etc.

verloten

(transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.

verloven

(transitive) To be betrothed to; to promise to marry.

verluchten

(transitive) To let fresh air into (a room or a building), to ventilate.

verluchtigen

(transitive) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.