abnehmen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- accept verb To agree to receive or take something that is offered.
- buy verb To get something by paying money for it.
- contraction noun A shortened form of a word or words, often marked with an apostrophe.
- decline verb To become weaker, smaller, or worse over time.
- decrease verb To become smaller in amount, size, or degree; or to cause something to become smaller.
- dismount verb To get off something you were riding, such as a horse or bicycle.
- drop noun A small round blob of liquid.
- dwindle verb To become steadily smaller, fewer or weaker over time.
- exonerate verb To officially clear someone of blame or wrongdoing.
- lose verb To no longer have something you once had, whether by accident, carelessness, or misfortune.
- reduce verb To make something smaller in size, amount, or intensity.
- shrink verb To become or make smaller.
- slim adj Thin, especially in an attractively slender way.
- take off phrasal verb To leave the ground and begin flying, as an aircraft or bird does.
- taper verb To become gradually narrower toward one end.
- wane verb To gradually become weaker, smaller, or less intense.
- waning adj Becoming gradually weaker, smaller, or less influential.
Senses
abnehmen is used for these senses in English:
- accept (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- break down (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become weak and ineffective.
- buy (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe
- buy into (idiomatic) To believe (something, especially something implausible); to accept (a craze, fad, or notion) as valid.
- contraction A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
- decline (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- decrease (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
- dismount (ambitransitive) To (cause to) get off (something).
accept — full definition
- verb To agree to receive or take something that is offered.
- verb To acknowledge something as true or as a fact, even if reluctantly.
- verb To approve of and include someone, such as in a group or institution.
buy — full definition
- verb To get something by paying money for it.
- verb To accept something as true or believable.
- noun Something purchased, especially a good deal.