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weglassen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  • cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
  • lose verb To no longer have something you once had, whether by accident, carelessness, or misfortune.
  • omit verb To leave something out or exclude it.

Senses

weglassen is used for these senses in English:

  • abate Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract. [15th–19th c.]
  • cancel (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
  • cut out (transitive) To remove; to omit.
  • elide To leave out or omit (something).
  • lose (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
  • miss off (transitive, UK) To drop; leave off; omit.
  • omit (transitive) To leave out or exclude.

abate — full definition

  1. verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  2. verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.

cancel — full definition

  1. verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
  2. verb To make something officially invalid.
  3. verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
  4. verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.

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