zunichte machen — meaning in English

English meaning

• abrogate verb (formal) To officially cancel a law or agreement.
• confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
• cripple noun An outdated and now offensive term for a person with a serious physical disability.
• kill verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.

Senses

zunichte machen is used for these senses in English:

• abrogate (transitive) To put an end to; to do away with. [First attested in the early 16th century.]
• confound (archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
• cripple (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
• kill (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.

abrogate — full definition

1. verb (formal) To officially cancel a law or agreement.
2. verb To stop something officially or get rid of it completely.
3. verb To stop a process or function from working.

confound — full definition

1. verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
2. verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
3. verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
4. noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").

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