Wuchern — meaning in English
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English meaning
- mushroom noun The fleshy, umbrella-shaped fruiting body of certain fungi, often eaten as food.
- sprawl verb To sit or lie with the arms and legs spread out carelessly.
- straggle verb To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.
- usury noun The practice of lending money at an unfairly high, often illegal, rate of interest.
Senses
Wuchern is used for these senses in English:
- mushroom (intransitive, figurative) To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.
- sprawl A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
- straggle (intransitive) To act in a disorderly and irregular way.
- usury (countable) An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
- usury (uncountable) The practice of lending money at such rates.
mushroom — full definition
- noun The fleshy, umbrella-shaped fruiting body of certain fungi, often eaten as food.
- verb To grow or increase very quickly in size, number, or scale.
- adj Shaped like a mushroom, with a wide cap on a narrower stem.
sprawl — full definition
- verb To sit or lie with the arms and legs spread out carelessly.
- noun Unplanned, spread-out growth of buildings, especially on the outskirts of a city.