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verduften — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • evaporate verb To turn from a liquid into a vapor or gas.
  • scram verb To leave quickly, especially as a command telling someone to go away.

Senses

verduften is used for these senses in English:

  • kick rocks (slang, dismissal, idiomatic) To leave or run away; to skedaddle; to waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless. (often used imperatively and dismissively).
  • scram (intransitive, originally, US, often, imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away. [from early 20th c.]

evaporate — full definition

  1. verb To turn from a liquid into a vapor or gas.
  2. verb To vanish or fade away completely.

scram — full definition

  1. verb To leave quickly, especially as a command telling someone to go away.
  2. verb To shut down a nuclear reactor rapidly, usually as an emergency safety measure.

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