German–English dictionary

Verbot

A prohibition.

verboten

Strongly disapproved of.

verbrämen

To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, embroider, or even misrepresent or lie.

verbrannt

Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.

verbraten

Made unpalatable or inedible by cooking for too long.

Verbrauch

The amount consumed.

verbrauchen

(transitive) To use up.

Verbraucher

(economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

Verbraucherin

(economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

Verbrauchsgut

(economics) Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.

Verbrauchsmaterial

A material or product that is produced for consumption.

Verbrauchswert

The amount consumed.

verbraucht

Weakened or worn out from age or wear.

Verbrechen

(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.

Verbrecher

A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

verbrecherhaft

Of, relating to, being, or having the quality of felony.

Verbrecherin

A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

verbrecherisch

Of, relating to, being, or having the quality of felony.

Verbrecherjagd

An organized search for a criminal or enemy.

Verbrecherwelt

That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice, and particularly those involved in organized crime.

verbreiten

(transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.

verbreitet

Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.

Verbreitetsein

The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.

Verbreitung

The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.

Verbreitungsgebiet

(ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.

verbrennbar

Capable of burning.

verbrennen

(chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

Verbrennung

A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

Verbrennungsanlage

A furnace that burns refuse.

Verbrennungsofen

A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.

verbringen

(ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.

verbrüdern

(transitive) To treat as a brother.

Verbrüderung

The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers.

verbrühen

To burn with hot liquid.

Verbrühung

A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

verbuchen

(transitive) To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.

Verbum

(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.

Verbund

(uncountable) The state of being allied.

verbunden

Connected; touching; abutting.

verbunden sein

(intransitive) To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’]. [from 16th c.]

verbunden sein (mit)

To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.

verbündet

Joined as allies.

Verbündete

A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.

Verbündeten

(with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.

Verbündeter

A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.

Verbundschrift

(uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.

verbürgen

To affirm or warrant the correctness or truth of (something); also, to affirm or warrant (the truth of an assertion or statement).

verchromen

(transitive) To plate with chrome.

Verdacht

(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

verdächtig

(figurative) Suspicious; inspiring doubt.

Verdächtige

Viewed with suspicion; suspected.

verdächtigen

(transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.

Verdächtiger

A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.

Verdächtigung

The imagining of something without evidence.

verdammen

(transitive) To criticize harshly.

verdammenswert

Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.

Verdammnis

The state of being condemned.

verdammt

(colloquial) Accursed; damned.

verdammt noch mal

(mildly, vulgar) Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.

Verdammung

A condemnation.

verdammungswürdig

Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.

verdampfen

(ergative) To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.

Verdampfung

The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.

verdauen

(transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

verdaulich

Capable of being digested.

verdaulich sein

(transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.

Verdaute

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

verdauungsfördernd

Of, relating to, or functioning in digestion.

Verdauungsstörung

(pathology) Any mild disorder of digestion characterised by stomach pain, discomfort, heartburn, and nausea, often following a meal.

Verdeck

(automotive, chiefly, UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

verdecken

(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

verdeckt

In a secret or covert manner.

verdeckte Operation

(law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to engage in criminal activity in order to catch a criminal.

Verdehnung

An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.

verderben

(transitive) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).

verderblich

Liable to perish, especially naturally subject to quick decomposition or decay.

Verderbliches

(in the plural) Food that does not keep for long.

Verderbnis

The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.

verderbt

Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.

verderbte Stelle

(metalanguage) A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. (See a usage note about this sense.)

Verderbtheit

(uncountable) Low moral standards.

Verderbung

The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

verdeutlichen

(figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.

Verdeutlichung

The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.

verdichten

To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes

Verdichtungsraum

A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.

Verdickungsmittel

(chemistry) A chemical or other substance that causes two other substances to form into one.

verdienen

Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

Verdienst

(often, in the plural, ;, now, chiefly, technical (in philosophy), or) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.

verdient

Meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)

verdingen

(transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

verdolmetschen

(transitive) To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.

verdoppeln

(transitive) To multiply by two.

verdoppelt

Being the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original.

verdorben

Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.

Verdorbenheit

The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.

verdorren

(transitive) To cause to become dry.

verdorrt

dried

verdrahtet

Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.

verdrängen

(idiomatic) To keep suppressed and hidden.

Verdrängung

The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.

verdrecken

(transitive) To make (something) dirty.

verdreckt

Wet and limp; unkempt.

Verdrehen

The act of twining or winding round.

verdreht

Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.

Verdrehung

An act of distorting.

verdreifachen

(transitive, dated) To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.

verdreschen

(transitive, informal) To assault someone with the intention of causing physical injury; to beat up.

verdrießen

(transitive) To bother or vex; to mortify.

verdrießlich

Stern, harsh and forbidding.

verdrossen

Constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny.

Verdruss

(uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.

verduften

(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).

verdummt

Intellectually or morally blinded.

Verdun

A small city in Meuse department, Grand Est, France, the site of a ten-month long battle in World War I.

verdunkeln

(intransitive, ergative) To become black.

verdunkelt

Slightly colored, having tint.

Verdunklung

Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.

verdünnen

(transitive) To rarefy.

Verdünner

That which dilutes.

verdünnt

Having a low concentration.

Verdünnung

That which dilutes.

Verdünnungsmittel

That which dilutes.

verdunsten

(ergative) To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.

verdunstend

(physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.

Verdunstung

The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.

verdutzen

To confuse or perplex (someone) completely; to bewilder, to confound, to puzzle. [from 17th c.]

verdutzt

Thoroughly confused, puzzled

Verdutztheit

The state of being bewildered.

Verdutzung

The state of being bewildered.

veredeln

To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing.

Veredelung

(horticulture) The act, art, or process of inserting grafts.

verehren

(transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.

verehren mit

To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render.

verehrenswert

Worthy of reverence.

Verehrer

(religion) A believer in a particular religion or god.

verehrte Frau

A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.

Verehrung

(countable, religion) An act of religious worship.

verehrungswürdig

Worthy of reverence.

vereidigen

To initiate or usher in (something, as a (significant) course of action, development, organization, or period of time) with a formal ceremony or in a ceremonious manner; also (loosely) , to begin or commence (something); to start.

Vereidigung

A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.

Verein

A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

vereinbar

Able to be combined.

vereinbaren

(transitive) To arrange.

Vereinbarkeit

(telecommunication) the capability of two or more items or components of equipment or material to exist or function in the same system or environment without mutual interference.

Vereinbarung

(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

vereindeutigen

To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.

vereinen

(transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.

vereinfachen

(transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.

vereinfachend

Represented too simply or in an overly formulaic way, reflecting a shallow or incomplete understanding of complex subject matter.