Dutch–English dictionary

verwijdering

The act of deleting. [c. 1600]

verwijfd

(often, derogatory, of a man or boy) Exhibiting behaviour or mannerisms considered typical of a woman; unmasculine.

verwijt

(uncommon) A strong rebuke or scolding.

verwijtbaar

Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.

verwijten

(transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).

verwijzen

(obsolete, transitive) To turn attention to, to take notice of (something). [15th–19th c.]

verwijzing

(engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

verwikkeld zijn

To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.

verwikkelen

(figurative) To entangle; to enmesh.

verwikkeling

(countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.

verwilderd

Of an animal, wild but descended from domestic or captive ancestors; thus, in the wild, although not necessarily of the wild type.

verwisselen

(transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).

verwittiging

(countable) A formal notification or warning.

verwoesten

(transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.

verwoestend

Causing destruction; damaging.

verwoestende

Causing destruction; damaging.

verwoesting

The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

verwonden

(transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

verwonderen

(transitive) To delight and fill with wonder.

verwondering

(uncountable) The condition of being amazed; a state of overwhelming wonder, as from surprise or sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.

verwonderlijk

By supernatural or uncommon causes, e.g. by a god; that cannot be explained in terms of normal events.

verwonding

The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

verwoorden

(transitive) To put into a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

verwoording

A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.

verworden

(transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

verworpeling

A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class. [from early 16th c.]

verworpen

(rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.

verworpenheid

(obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down. [Attested from the early 16th century until the mid 17th century.]

verworven

(medicine) Developed after birth; not congenital.

verworvenheid

The thing acquired or gained; a gain.

verwringen

(transitive) To twist in a violent manner.

verwringing

The act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself.

verwrongen

mentally disturbed or unsound

verwrongen of ontzet raken

(intransitive) To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.

verwurging

A grip or control so strong as to stifle or cut off.

verzachten

(transitive, medicine) To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate; to soothe.

verzachtend

(pharmaceutical effect) Capable of soothing or eliminating pain. [from 16th c.]

verzachting

The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression. [First attested from 1340 to 1470.]

verzadigd

(informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.

verzadigen

(transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

verzadiging

The state of being satiated.

verzaken

To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate. [from 15th c.]

verzaken (ann)

(transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.

verzaken aan een eed

(historical) To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw. [from 15th c.]

verzaking

(archaic) Absolute renunciation; repudiation; retraction. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

verzamelaar

(literal) One who, or that which, accumulates.

verzamelen

(transitive) To gather together; amass.

verzameling

A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. [from 17th c.]

verzamelnaam

(grammar) A collective noun or name.

verzamelstoornis

(psychology) An anxiety disorder characterized by a compulsive need to accumulate goods and feelings of anxiety or discomfort about discarding such goods.

verzegeling

Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.

verzekeren

(transitive) To assert earnestly, seriously, and confidently

verzekering

A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.

verzekeringnemer

(insurance) The party to an insurance contract who transfers a risk to an insurer.

verzekeringswiskundige

A professional who calculates financial values associated with uncertain events subject to risk, such as insurance premiums or pension contributions.

verzenden

(transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

verzending

The transportation of goods.

verzengen

(transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it

verzet

(uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.

verzet aantekenen

Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.

verzetsstrijder

A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.

verzetten

(transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another

verzieken

To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.

verziekt

(figuratively) Negative, harmful.

verziendheid

(pathology) The condition of being unable to focus on near objects; presbyopia.

verzijp

A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

verzinken

(intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

verzinnen

(by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).

verzinsel

(countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood.

verzoek

(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.

verzoekschrift

(law, by extension) A formal written application made to a magistrate or court for an order or a suit for divorce. [from 1730s]

verzoenen

(transitive) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.

verzoening

An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.

verzoeningspolitiek

The state of being appeased; the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace.

verzonnen

Unreal or imagined.

verzorgen

(ambitransitive) To speak clearly; to enunciate.

verzorger

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.

verzorging

The act of taking care or taking charge of something.

verzuchting

(figurative) a manifestation of grief; a lament.

verzuimen

(specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative) , a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.

verzuipen

(transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

verzwakken

To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate. [from 14th c.]

verzwakking

A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.

verzwakt

Rendered less effective.

verzwijgen

To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.

verzwikken

(transitive) To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench. [from 19th c.]

verzwinden

(intransitive) To vanish.

verzwindend

Disappearing, vanishing.

vesikel

A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as:

Vespasianus

a Roman cognomen, notably borne by Titus Flavius Vespasianus, the Roman emperor from AD 69 to 79

vessemen

(transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.

vest

A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)

Vesta

(Roman god) The virgin goddess of the hearth, fire, and the household, and therefore a deity of domestic life. The Roman counterpart of Hestia.

vestaals

Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.

vestiaire

(British, Irish, India) A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.

vestibule

(architecture) A small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building. [from the 17th c.]

vestigen

To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.

vestiging

A location of an organization with several locations.

vesting

A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.

vestingswerk

(geography) A protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level.

Vesuvius

A volcanic mountain located on the Gulf of Naples in Italy.

vet

(typography, of, _, typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.

vetberg

A large accumulation of fat and discarded toiletries which clogs sewers. [From the late 2000s.]

vete

A state of long-standing mutual hostility.

veteraan

Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.

veterinair

A medical doctor who treats non-human animals.

vetgans

Any of several flightless sea birds, of the family Spheniscidae within the order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage. [from 16th c.]

vetgedrukt

(typography, of, _, typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.

vetkrijt

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

vetmesten

(transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.

vetplant

(botany) Having fleshy leaves or other tissues that store water.

vetzak

(coarse, slang, pejorative) A rotund, overweight, or obese person.

vetzuchtig

Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2.

veulen

A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

vexatoir

Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.

vezel

(countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

vezelig

Like fibre; fibrous.

vgl.

Compare; compare to; compare with.

via

By way of; passing through.

viaduct

(transport) A bridge with several spans that carries rail or road traffic over a valley or other obstacles.

viaticum

(especially, Catholicism) The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.

vibrato

A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.

vibreren

(intransitive) To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.

vice versa

(generally after or) The same but with the two items mentioned reversed.

Vico

A city and commune of Corse-du-Sud department, Corsica, France.

Victor

A en given name.

Victoria

A state of Australia, located in the southeastern part of the continent; a former British colony from 1851 to 1901. Capital: Melbourne.

Victoriameer

The largest lake in Africa, with shoreline in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania; one of the African Great Lakes.

victorie

(uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.

video

A motion picture stored on VHS or some other format.

videoband

A relatively wide magnetic tape used for recording visual images and sounds (as of a television production) for subsequent playback or broadcasting.

videocamera

A camera recorder: a portable electronic device for recording images and audio on to a storage device, hence functioning as a camera and a recorder in a single unit.

videocassette

(dated) VHS.

vier

(countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.

vierde

The ordinal form of the number four.

vierde petit

(uncountable, US, _, printing, rare, dated) A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.

vierdeel

(historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard. [from 14th c.]

vierdelen

(transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

vieren

(transitive, usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).

vierendelen

(transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering.

vierhoek

(geometry) A polygon with four sides.

vierhoekig

Having the shape of a quadrangle; in the shape of a quadrangle.

viering

The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament.

vierkant

Having four equal sides; square.

vierkantig

Shaped like a square (the polygon).

vierling

One of a group of four, particularly one of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth.

viertal

A group of four, a quartet or a game (such as golf) played by four players, especially by two teams of two.

viervlak

(geometry) A solid with triangular lateral faces and a polygonal (often square or rectangular) base.

viervoud

Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.

vies

Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.