absetzen — meaning in English

English meaning

• elude verb To avoid or escape someone or something, often through cleverness or luck.
• kick off verb To begin something, especially an event, campaign or meeting.
• relegate verb Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
• set off phrasal verb To begin a journey or start out towards somewhere.

Senses

absetzen is used for these senses in English:

• dethrone To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.
• dethrone To remove any governing authority from power.
• elude (transitive) To shake off (a pursuer); to give someone the slip.
• kick off (transitive, US, idiomatic, ranching, slang) To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders, whether by literally kicking it away or another method.
• put down To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
• put down (idiomatic) To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
• put down (obsolete, printing) To set type in lowercase; to switch type from capital to lowercase letters.
• relegate (transitive, done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place.

elude — full definition

1. verb To avoid or escape someone or something, often through cleverness or luck.
2. verb To fail to be remembered or understood by someone.

kick off — full definition

1. verb To begin something, especially an event, campaign or meeting.
2. verb In football and similar sports, to start play by kicking the ball from the centre spot; as a noun, kick-off is the moment play begins.
3. verb To lose your temper or start causing trouble, or of a situation, to erupt into a row or fight.

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