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im Stich lassen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
  • desert noun A large, dry area of land with little rainfall, vegetation, or water, often sandy or rocky.
  • forsake verb To abandon or give up someone or something, often permanently.
  • maroon adj A dark brownish-red colour.

Senses

im Stich lassen is used for these senses in English:

  • betray (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
  • desert To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.
  • forsake (transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
  • go back on To be treacherous or faithless to; to betray.
  • leave someone in the lurch (idiomatic) To abandon somebody; especially, to abandon somebody and leave him or her in a difficult situation.
  • let down (transitive, idiomatic) To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody.
  • maroon To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island.

betray — full definition

  1. verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
  2. verb To reveal something unintentionally.

desert — full definition

  1. noun A large, dry area of land with little rainfall, vegetation, or water, often sandy or rocky.
  2. verb To abandon a place, person, or duty, especially when you had promised or were obligated to stay.
  3. noun What someone deserves, whether reward or punishment (usually in the phrase "just deserts").

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