German–English dictionary

Abstinentin

(American spelling) A person who completely abstains from alcoholic beverages.

Abstinenz

Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism). [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]

Abstinenzler

One who abstains; a faster. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

Abstinenzlerin

(American spelling) A person who completely abstains from alcoholic beverages.

Abstinenzverpflichtung

(with the) A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.

abstoßen

(intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.

abstoßend

(informal) Causing discomfort or repulsion due to strange or eccentric behavior.

Abstoßung

The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.

abstrahieren

(transitive) To separate; to disengage. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

abstrahlen

(copulative) To radiate thermal heat.

abstrakt

Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.

abstreichen

(transitive) To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface

abstreitbar

Able to be denied or contradicted.

Abstreitbarkeit

(uncountable) The condition of being deniable.

abstreiten

(transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

Abstreitung

An assertion of untruth.

Abstrich

A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).

Abstriche machen bei

(transitive) To reduce the difficulty of (something).

abstrus

Difficult to comprehend or understand; obscure. [from mid 16th c.]

Abstufung

A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.

abstumpfen

To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

Absturz

(computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

abstürzen

(intransitive, of a machine, computer, vehicle, etc.) To stop functioning.

abstützen

(transitive, sometimes, figurative) To support or shore up something.

abstützend

Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.

Abstützung

(by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.

absuchen

(transitive) To search an area thoroughly.

absurd

Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly. [from mid-16th c.]

Abszess

(pathology) A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

Abt

A number of places in the United States:

abtasten

To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medical) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.

Abtaster

A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium. [from 20th c.]

Abtastung

(signal processing) The measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form.

abtauchen

(intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.

Abtei

A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]

Abteil

A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

abteilen

(transitive) to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line.

Abteilung

A subdivision of an organization.

Äbtissin

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. [First attested around 1150 to 1350]

abtöten

(transitive) To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.

Abtrag

(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.]

Abtragen

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

abträglich

Causing damage or harm.

abtreiben

In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.

abtreibend

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

Abtreibung

(obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion. [Attested from around (1150 to 1350) until the mid 18th century.]

Abtreibungsmittel

(obsolete) A medicine that causes abortion, an abortifacient.

abtrennen

(transitive) To take apart from; to take off.

Abtrennung

(uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.

abtreten

(transitive) To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for. [from mid 17th c.]

Abtretung

(legal) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.

Abtretungsurkunde

(legal) A document that effects this transfer.

Abtritt

An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.

abtrocknen

(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

Abtropfsieb

A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

abtrünnig

Guilty of apostasy.

Abtrünnige

A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

Abtrünniger

A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

Abtrünnigkeit

An act or incidence of defecting.

Abts

A number of places in the United States:

abtun

(rare) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.

aburteilbar

(legal) Of or pertaining to justiciability; able to be evaluated and resolved by the courts; that can be adjudicated.

Abverkauf

Ellipsis of discount sale (“the sale of goods at reduced prices”).

abverlangen

(ambitransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

abwägen

To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.

Abwägung

The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.

abwählen

(transitive) To not select; to rule out of selection.

abwandeln

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

Abwanderung

An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.

abwarten

(intransitive) To delay, to wait.

abwärts

Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.

Abwärts-

Moving, sloping or oriented downward.

Abwärtsbewegung

A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc.

Abwärtstrend

A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc.

Abwasch

Dishwashing

Abwäsche

Dishwashing

Abwaschen

Dishwashing

Abwäscher

A machine for washing dishes.

Abwäscherin

A machine for washing dishes.

Abwasser

A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.

Abwasserentsorgung

The hygienic disposal or recycling of waste.

Abwasserfahne

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

Abwasserkanal

A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

Abwasserschlamm

A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.

Abwassersystem

A network of sewer pipes that geographically transfers wastewater; a sewer system.

abwechseln

(transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.

abwechselnd

Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).

abwechslungslos

Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety.

abwechslungsreich

Consisting of different elements; various.

abwegig

(literal, archaic) Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route.

Abwehr

A means, attitude or position of defense.

Abwehr-

Intended for defence; protective.

abwehren

(transitive, ball games) To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players.

abwehrend

Displaying an inordinate sensitivity to criticism or intrusion; oversensitive; thin-skinned.

Abwehrspannung

(medicine) Tensing of the muscles, especially of the abdomen, in order to minimise the movement and agitation to the internal inflamed organs.

abweichen

(psychology) To redirect culpability to avoid it.

abweichend

Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.

Abweichler

A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

Abweichlerin

A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

Abweichung

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude. [Mid 17th century.]

abweisen

(transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.

abweisend

In a dismissive manner

abweisend reagieren

(intransitive) To show hostility or resentment.

Abweiser

A device used to dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound; specifically, a surface positioned inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one place to another without preventing motion altogether.

Abweisung

(legal) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.

abwenden

(transitive) To turn aside or away.

abwerben

(business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.

abwerfen

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

abwerten

(transitive, legal) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.

abwertend

Tending to deprecate.

Abwertung

Depreciation.

abwesend

Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.

Abwesenheit

A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship

abwickeln

(intransitive, colloquial) To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress

Abwicklung

The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.

abwiegen

(intransitive) To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.

abwimmeln

(transitive) To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).

abwischen

(transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.

abwracken

(transitive) To remove fittings or furnishings from.

Abwurf

The act of delivering goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

abyssisch

(geography) Of or belonging to the ocean depths, especially below 2000 metres (6500 ft): abyssal zone. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

abzählbar

(mathematics, of a set) Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.

abzahlen

(transitive) to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge. [with of or (formerly) from]

Abzeichen

A symbol or token of personal power, status, or office, or of an official body of government or jurisdiction.

abzeichnen

(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.]

abziehbar

Eligible to be deducted.

Abziehbild

A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily.

abziehen

Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract. [15th–19th c.]

Abziehlatte

A tool such as a long strip of wood or other material which is drawn over a wet layer of concrete, plaster, etc., to make it smooth and flat; also, a machine that achieves this effect; a screeder.

Abziehstein

A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.

Abziehung

(arithmetic, uncountable) The process of subtracting a number from another.

abzischen

(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).

abzocken

(transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.

Abzocker

A person who uses confidence tricks to defraud or swindle people after first gaining their trust with a series of confidence games; a scam operator, confidence trickster.

Abzockerbraut

(figuratively, pejorative) A person who cultivates a personal relationship in order to attain wealth.

Abzug

That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed.

Abzugshaube

(UK) An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.

Abzugsleine

(by extension, military) A cord with a hook which is secured to an artillery piece, and pulled to fire the weapon.

Abzugsstück

Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.

Abzweig

(Britain, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.

abzweigen

(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.

Abzweigung

Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.

Accelerator

(business) A mentoring program for startup companies.

Accessoire

Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.

Acedia

Spiritual or mental sloth.

Aceton

(organic compound) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH3)2CO, used as a solvent.

Acetylen

A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.

ach

An expression of sorrow or mourning.

ach nee

Disdainful indication that something is obvious.

ach was

Disdainful indication that something is obvious.