Verziehen — meaning in English

English meaning

• spoil verb To ruin something, making it unusable, unpleasant, or less enjoyable.
• twist verb To turn or bend something, often forcefully, so it becomes distorted or wound.
• warp noun A twist or distortion out of the normal or original shape.

Senses

Verziehen is used for these senses in English:

• bugger off (intransitive, idiomatic, vulgar) To leave, go away, disappear.
• kick rocks (slang, dismissal, idiomatic) To leave or run away; to skedaddle; to waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless. (often used imperatively and dismissively).
• screw up (transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
• spoil (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. [from 17th c.]
• twist To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• warp (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.

spoil — full definition

1. verb To ruin something, making it unusable, unpleasant, or less enjoyable.
2. verb To indulge someone, especially a child, so much that it damages their character.
3. verb (of food) To go bad.
4. noun Plunder or loot taken by force, often in the phrase "the spoils of war."

twist — full definition

1. verb To turn or bend something, often forcefully, so it becomes distorted or wound.
2. verb To distort the meaning of something said or written.
3. noun An unexpected turn or development in a story or situation.

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