Dutch–English dictionary

vertegenwoordiging

(legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.

vertekenen

To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.

verteld

Narrated; told.

vertelde

That which is narrated.

vertellen

(transitive) To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.

vertellend

Telling a story.

vertelling

The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.

vertelsel

An account of real or fictional events.

verteltrant

A representation of an event or story in a way to promote a certain point of view.

verteren

(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.

vertering

The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.

verticaal

Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.

vertienvoudigen

By ten times as much.

vertier

(uncountable) Entertainment.

vertolker

(theater) An actor in a dramatic play.

vertolking

An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work. [from 19th c.]

vertonen

(transitive) To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.

vertoning

An instance of exhibiting.

vertoog

(social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).

vertoon

A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.

vertoornen

(transitive) To anger or infuriate.

vertragen

(ambitransitive) To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.

vertraging

(uncountable) The act or process of decelerating.

vertrappen

To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.

vertrapt

Trodden down.

vertrek

(archaic) A particular portion of space. [from 11th c.]

vertrekken

(intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away. [From mid 16th century.]

vertrekpunt

The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.

vertroebelen

(transitive, of a fluid, especially a liquid) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.

vertroetelen

(transitive) To treat gently or with great care.

vertroosten

(transitive) To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.

vertroosting

The act or example of consoling; the condition of being consoled.

vertrouwd

Closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction.

vertrouwelijk

Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly

vertrouweling

A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.

vertrouwelinge

A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.

vertrouwen

(intransitive, with in) To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with.

vertwijfeld

Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.

vervaardigen

To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.

vervaardiger

(economics) An individual or organization that creates goods and services.

vervaarlijk

Full of something causing dread, whether

vervagen

To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.

verval

(ecology, medicine) The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.

vervaldag

The state of being mature, ready or ripe; the prime state of productibility and self expression.

vervallen

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

vervallend

declining; growing less

vervalsen

(transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.

vervalser

A person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud, e.g. to create a false will or illicit copies of currency; counterfeiter.

vervalsing

The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.

vervalst

Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.

vervangbaar

(originally, finance, and, commerce) Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility.

vervangen

(idiomatic, transitive) To replace; to act as a double or substitute for.

vervanger

A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

vervanging

(countable) A replacement.

verveeld

Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

vervelen

(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

vervelend

Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.

verveling

(countable) An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.

vervellen

(intransitive) To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.

verven

(ambitransitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

verver

One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.

vervetten

(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.

verviervoudigen

(transitive) To multiply by four.

vervliegen

A gradual reduction in number.

vervloeken

To damn; to wish misery or evil upon

vervloeking

(ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed. [from early 17th c.]

vervloekt

Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.

vervlogen

Having been or happened in the distant past.

vervlogene

The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.

vervluchtigen

(chemistry) The transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapor state such that it does not pass through the intermediate liquid phase. [from late 14th c.]

vervoegen

(grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.

vervoeging

(grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take.

vervoer

An act of transporting; conveyance.

vervoerder

A person or company in the business of shipping freight.

vervoeren

(transitive) To charm, delight or captivate.

vervoering

Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

vervoersmiddel

A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.

vervoersprijs

(countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.

vervolg

(narratology) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.

vervolgen

(transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.

vervolgens

Accordingly, therefore (implying a logical connection or deduction), consequently.

vervolging

The act of persecuting, especially a specific group of people; an instance of persecution.

vervolledigen

(transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

vervolmaken

(transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

vervormd

Distorted by warping; twisted out of shape

vervormen

(transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.

vervorming

The act of deforming, or state of being deformed.

vervreemd

The state of being alienated.

vervreemden

(Marxism) The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.

vervreemding

The state of being alienated.

vervroegen

(transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

vervuiler

A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.

vervuiling

Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc. [from 18th c.]

vervullen

(transitive) to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge. [with of or (formerly) from]

vervulling

The fulfillment of something worked for.

verwaand

Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.

verwaand heerschap

(dated) A vain, gaudy person; someone who is shallow or superficial. [from 16th c.]

verwaandheid

(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. [from 17th c.]

verwaardigen

(transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.

verwaarloosbaar

Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

verwaarloosd

Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.

verwaarlozen

(transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.

verwaarlozing

The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.

verwacht

Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur

verwachten

(transitive) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.

verwachting

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

verwant

(often, followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.

verwante

(linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.

verwanten

One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.

verwantschap

Relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.

verward

Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed. [from early 19th c.]

verwardheid

The state of being befuddled.

verwarmde serre

A heated greenhouse.

verwarmen

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

verwarmend

Causing heat.

verwarming

A system that raises the temperature of a room or building. Compare heater.

verwarren

(transitive) To perplex, confuse (someone).

verwarrend

Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.

verwarring

The state of being befuddled.

verwedden

To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.

verweer

A formal justification, defence.

verweerder

(legal) In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.

Verweggistan

(figurative) Any proverbially distant or remote place.

verwekken

To cause; to produce; to bring forth.

verwekker

(figuratively) One who originates or creates something.

verwelken

(intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

verwelking

The act of wilting or the state of being wilted.

verwelkingsziekte

(plant disease) Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting.

verwelkomen

To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".

verwelkoming

The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.

verwelkt

(of plants) Drooping, typically due to lack of water.

verwend

(of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.

verwennen

(transitive) To treat gently or with great care.

verwensing

(literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

verweren

To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.

verwering

(geology) Mechanical or chemical breaking down of rocks in situ by weather or other causes.

verwerken

(transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.

verwerker

A device which processes, which changes something (a computer processor, food processor, etc.).

verwerking

A conversion or transition from one thing to another.

verwerpelijk

Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.

verwerpen

(transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]

verwerping

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

verwerven

(transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. [from 14th c.]

verwerving

The act or process of acquiring.

verweven

To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh- or net-like manner.

verwezenlijken

(transitive) To accomplish, to achieve.

verwezenlijking

A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.

verwijden

(intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended. [from 14th c.]

verwijderd

At a distance; disconnected.

verwijderen

(transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. [from 1600s]