umstellen — meaning in English

English meaning

besiege verb To surround a place with soldiers in order to force the people inside to give up.
commute verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
rearrange verb To change the order or arrangement of things.
retool verb To change, improve or rebuild something.
transpose verb To swap the order or position of two or more things.

umstellen is used for these senses in English:

besiege (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
commute (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
rearrange (transitive) To change the order or arrangement of (one or more items).
retool (transitive) To adjust; to optimize; to rebuild.
transpose (transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
transpose (transitive, algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.

verb To surround a place with soldiers in order to force the people inside to give up.
verb To trouble or surround someone persistently.
verb To keep asking someone for something, again and again.