Unterlassen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- forbearance noun An arrangement in which a lender agrees to pause or reduce a borrower's payments for a set period instead of treating the loan as in default.
- forgo verb To choose to go without something, even though you could have it.
- neglect verb To fail to give proper care or attention to someone or something.
- omission noun The act of leaving something out, or something that has been left out.
- refrain verb To stop oneself from doing something; to hold back.
Senses
Unterlassen is used for these senses in English:
- cut out (transitive, informal) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).
- forbearance A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.
- forgo To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
- forgo (literary) To refrain from, to abstain from.
- neglect (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
- neglect (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
- omission (grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.
- refrain (intransitive, with preposition "from") To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain; to eschew [from 15th c.]
forbearance — full definition
- noun An arrangement in which a lender agrees to pause or reduce a borrower's payments for a set period instead of treating the loan as in default.
- noun Patient self-control shown by not reacting, retaliating or enforcing a right you could enforce.