abscheiden — meaning in English

English meaning

• sequester verb To keep someone or something away from all outside contact or influence.
• strain verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.

Senses

abscheiden is used for these senses in English:

• sequester To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
• strain (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.

sequester — full definition

1. verb To keep someone or something away from all outside contact or influence.
2. verb To set something apart in order to keep it in storage.
3. verb To put something aside, away from everything else.
4. verb (chemistry) To stop an ion in a solution behaving normally by locking it into a more complex compound.

strain — full definition

1. verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.
2. verb To make a great, often exhausting effort.
3. verb To pass a liquid through a sieve or strainer to remove solids.
4. noun Physical or mental pressure, tension, or exhaustion.
5. noun A particular variety of a virus, bacterium, or other organism.

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