German–English dictionary

abkehlen

(transitive) To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.

Abklatsch

A copy, especially one that is illegal or inferior.

abklatschen

To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way. [from early 20th c.]

Abklingen

(medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.

abklingend

Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

abkommandieren

(transitive, US) To conscript (a person); to force (a person) to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.

Abkomme

One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.

Abkommen

(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

Abkommin

A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.

abkömmlich

Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.

Abkömmling

(chemistry) A chemical derived from another.

abkratzen

(intransitive, informal) To die.

abkühlen

(intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

Abkühlung

(uncountable) Refrigeration.

Abkunft

(by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.

abkupfern

To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way. [from early 20th c.]

abkuppeln

(transitive) To disconnect or detach one thing from another.

abkürzen

(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

Abkürzung

(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @. [Late 16th century.]

Abladestelle

(countable) An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.

Ablage

The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.

ablagern

(transitive) To dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.

Ablagerung

(geology) Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.

ablaichen

(transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

ablandig

Moving away from the shore.

Ablass

(Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.

ablassen

(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink

Ablation

(surgery) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

Ablauf

(hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second).

ablaufen

(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.

Ablaufstutzen

A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

Ableben

(formal) Death, departure from life.

ablegen

(intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.

Ableger

(countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.

ablehnen

(transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.

ablehnend

(of a look or glance) With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.

Ablehnung

The act of opting out of something.

Ablehnungshinweis

A public disavowal, as of responsibility, pretensions, claims, opinions, etc.

Ableismus

(uncountable) Discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of those without. [from late 20th c.]

ableistisch

Exhibiting or relating to ableism.

ableiten

(transitive, now, rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)

ableitend

Carrying away from.

Ableitung

An interpretation.

ablenken

(transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.

Ablenkung

The act of deflecting or something deflected.

Ablenkungsmanöver

Something that distracts.

Ableseanzeige

A display, particularly one that presents numerical data.

ableugnen

(transitive) To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like.

abliefern

To bring or transport something to its destination.

ablöschen

(transitive, cooking) To detach small pieces of cooked food from a pan by adding liquid, so that they can be used in further cooking.

ablösen

To become separated, literally or figuratively.

Ablösung

(uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.

Abluft

The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

Abluftfahne

A cloud formed by a dispersed substance fanning out or spreading.

Abmachung

An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.

Abmagern

The act of making very lean.

Abmagerung

The act of making very lean.

abmahnen

(of a person) To criticise harshly; to reprove.

abmalen

(transitive) To attract or cause (someone) to come to a particular place or to take a particular course of action; also, to cause (someone) to turn away from a particular condition or course of action. [from 12th c.]

abmarschieren

(intransitive) To break up camp and move on.

Abmaß

Value (quantity, magnitude, extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.

abmelden

(computing) To exit a user account in a computer system, so that one is not recognized until signing in again.

Abmeldung

(computing) The act or process of logging out.

abmildern

(transitive) To weaken.

Abmilderung

A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.

abmindern

(transitive) To give lesser weight or importance to.

abmischen

(transitive, music) To combine (several tracks).

abmühen

(intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.

Abnäher

(sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.

Abnahme

The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression. [First attested from 1340 to 1470.]

abnehmen

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

Abnehmer

A patron, a client; a person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.

Abnehmerin

A patron, a client; a person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.

Abneigung

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

abnorm

Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type. [First attested around the mid 19th century.]

abnormal

Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type. [First attested around the mid 19th century.]

Abnormaler

A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.

Abnormalität

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

abnötigen

(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.

abnutzen

(intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

Abnutzung

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]

Abolition

The act of abrogating.

abolitionistisch

(chiefly, historical) In favor of the abolition of slavery. [since the late 18th century]

Abonnement

A subscription or season ticket in a French-speaking country or another country where abonnement is the local term. [First attested in the late 19th century.]

Abonnent

A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.

Abonnentin

A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.

Abordnung

A group of delegates.

Aborigine

(dated, now, offensive) An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonisation), Aboriginal Australian.

Abort

(military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.

abortiv

(medicine, pharmaceutical effect, rare) Causing abortion; abortifacient.

abpausen

(transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.

abplagen

(intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.

abprallen

(intransitive) To ricochet.

abpressen

(figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

abprotzen

(obsolete) To detach (an artillery piece) from its limber to deploy for firing.

abputzen

(transitive) To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.

Abqualifizierung

(countable) The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.

abrakadabra

Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed. [from 19th c.]

Abrasion

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]

abrasiv

Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface. [First attested in 1805.]

abraten

(transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).

abraten von

(transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).

Abraum

Waste material from a mine.

abräumen

(transitive) To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.

abrauschen

(informal, chiefly, North America, usually, transitive) To move at full speed, especially in retreat.

Abreaktion

(psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross. [First attested in the early 20th century.]

abrechnen

To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

Abrechnung

An opinion or judgement.

Abrechnungsverkehr

(banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.

abreiben

(intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

Abreibung

Grinding down or wearing away by friction.

Abreissblock

A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.

abreißen

(transitive) To intentionally demolish; to pull down.

Abreißzettel

A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.

Abrieb

(geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

abriegeln

(US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

Abriegelung

The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.

abrinden

To strip the bark from; to peel.

Abriss

(countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.

Abrogation

The act of abrogating.

Abroller

An object used to dispense other items.

abrunden

(transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.

Abrundungsbetrag

(mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

Abrundungswert

(mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

abrupfen

(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

abrupt

Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous. [First attested in the early 17th century.]

Abrüstung

The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war.

abrutschen

(transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.

absacken

(intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.

Absacker

A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic. [From 1818.]

Absage

The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

absagen

(transitive) To recall; to cancel or call a halt to.

absahnen

To extract the cream or creamy part from something.

Absatz

(business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.

absatzweise

Stopping or starting at intervals.

Absaugrohr

A pipe through which anything is drawn.

abschaffen

To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]

Abschaffung

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. [First attested from the mid 16th century.]

abschälen

(transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.

abschalten

(chiefly, electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

Abschälung

The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft. [from 19th c.]

abschatten

(transitive) To shade.

Abschattung

(uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.

abschätzen

(transitive, informal) To make a rough estimate of.

abschätzig

Tilted to one side.

abschätzig behandeln

(transitive) To treat (someone or something) with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully; to skimp on one's duties toward.

Abschätzung

A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.

Abschaum

(figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.

abscheiden

To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.

Abscheider

A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk.