German–English dictionary

Erscheinen

An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

Erscheinung

An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

Erscheinung des Herrn

A en given name.

Erscheinungsbild

A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.

erschießen

To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

erschlaffen

(intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.

erschleichen

(transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.

erschlichen

Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).

erschließen

(transitive) To infer by extending known information.

erschöpfbar

Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.

Erschöpfen

The act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion.

erschöpfend

Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.

erschöpflich

Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.

erschöpft

Used up, expended; of which nothing is left.

Erschöpfung

The act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion.

erschrecken

(transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.

erschreckend

Likely to startle; surprising; shocking.

erschrocken

Afraid; suffering from fear.

erschüttern

(intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort.

erschütternd

(colloquial) That causes one to cringe with embarrassment; embarrassing.

erschüttert

In a state of shock or trauma.

Erschütterung

(uncountable, _, in, _, Commonwealth, countable, _) An injury to part of the body, most especially the brain, caused by a violent blow, followed by loss of function.

erschweren

To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. [from 16th c.]

erschwerender Umstand

(legal, or general usage, chiefly, in the plural) A factor that increases the culpability or deleterious consequences of a wrongful act.

Erschwerung

The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

erschwindeln

(transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.

erschwinglich

Able to be afforded; inexpensive or reasonably priced.

ersehnen

(intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.

ersehnt

Wished for; desired; sought.

ersessenes Recht

(legal) An indefeasible right or title, distinguished from a contingent interest, which could be defeated (i.e. cease) if a certain event occurred.

ersetzbar

Capable of being replaced.#: The machine uses a replaceable filter.

ersetzen

(intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

Ersetzung

(linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.

ersinnen

(transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.

erspähen

(transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.

Ersparnisse

(countable, usually, in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.

erst

As recently as.

erstarren

(transitive) To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.

erstarrt

(not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life) .

Erstarrung

Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.

erstatten

(transitive) To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.

Erstattung

Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.

Erstaufführung

The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests.

erstaunen

To surprise greatly.

erstaunlich

Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.

erstaunlicherweise

In an amazing manner; in a way that causes amazement; wonderfully.

erstaunt

Amazed; surprised.

erste

Of or belonging to a first family.

erstechen

(ambitransitive) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.

erstehen

To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.

Ersteinschätzung

(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).

erstellen

(transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

erstens

Before anything else; firstly.

erster

Of or belonging to a first family.

erstere

First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.

ersterer

First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.

ersteres

First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.

erstgeboren

Born as the first one in a family, flock or the like.

Erstgeborene

The first child to be born to a parent or family.

Erstgeborenheit

The state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents.

Erstgeburtsrecht

The principle that the eldest child, traditionally the eldest male, has an exclusive right of inheritance.

Ersti

(US, Canada, Philippines) a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body

ersticken

(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).

Erstickung

Death due to lack of oxygen.

erstklassig

(idiomatic, often hyphenated) Good, superior, excellent.

erstrebenswert

Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.

erstrebsam

Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.

erstrecken

(intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.

Erstsemester

(US, Canada, Philippines) a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body

ersuchen

To beg or request for (something).

ertappen

(transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.

ertasten

(transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.

erteilen

(transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow. [from 16th c.]

Ertrag

(finance) Gains on investments; returns.

ertragen

(transitive) To bear patiently. [from late 15th c.]

erträglich

Able to be borne; tolerable; endurable.

ertränken

(transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

ertrinken

(intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

ertrunken

That has died by drowning.

ertüchtigen

(transitive) To make stiff.

Erudiertheit

(uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.

Eruption

A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.

eruptiv

(geology) Resulting from, or produced by, great heat. With rocks, it could also mean formed from lava or magma.

Erwachen

Arousal from sleep or hibernation.

erwachsen

(intransitive) To increase, to rise

erwachsen werden

(idiomatic, by extension) To mature, or become fully developed.

Erwachsene

An animal that is full-grown.

Erwachsenenalter

The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.

Erwachsener

Fully grown.

erwägen

(transitive) To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind.

Erwägung

The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).

Erwägungsgrund

(legal) A formal, preliminary statement in a deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded, prior to a positive allegation.

erwählt

picked; selected

erwähnen

(intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

Erwähnung

A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.

Erwärmung

(obsolete) The state of being incalescent, or growing warm; calescence.

erwartbarerweise

As usual; predictably; as expected.

erwarten

(transitive) To take up or introduce (something) prematurely.

erwartend

Marked by expectation.

erwartet

Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur

Erwartung

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

erwartungsvoll

Marked by expectation.

erwecken

(transitive) To wake from sleep or stupor; to rouse.

Erweckung

(religion) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.

erweise

Used to form adverbs from adjectives and nouns.

erweisen

(transitive) To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.

erweiterbar

Having the capacity to be expanded.

erweitern

(transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.

erweitert

Longer in length or extension; elongated.

Erweiterung

(sometimes, attributive) Something which can be appended to something else.

Erweiterungsbau

An addition or extension to a building.

erweiterungsfähig

Having the capacity to be expanded.

Erwerb

The act or process of acquiring.

erwerben

(transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.

Erwerbsinn

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

Erwerbsquelle

A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income). [from 14th c.]

Erwerbstätigkeit

The state of being employed.

erwidern

(transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

Erwiderung

A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.

erwischen

(transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.

erwischt

(slang) Caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do.

erworben

(medicine) Developed after birth; not congenital.

erworbenes Recht

(legal) An indefeasible right or title, distinguished from a contingent interest, which could be defeated (i.e. cease) if a certain event occurred.

erwünschen

(transitive, or, with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something).

erwünscht

Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.

Erwürgen

The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.

Erythem

Abnormal redness and inflammation of the skin, due to vasodilation.

Erythrit

(mineral) Red cobalt, a secondary hydrated arsenate of cobalt minerals with the formula (Co3(AsO4)2·8H2O).

Erz

Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.

erzählen

(transitive) To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.

erzählend

Telling a story.

Erzähler

(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.

Erzählerin

(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.

erzählerisch

Telling a story.

erzählt

Narrated; told.

Erzähltheorie

The study of narrative structure.

Erzählung

(countable) A record or narrative description of past events.

Erzählweise

A representation of an event or story in a way to promote a certain point of view.

Erzbischof

A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)

Erzbistum

(ecclesiastical) The jurisdiction of an archbishop.

Erzdiözese

(Christianity) A group of dioceses administered by an archbishop

Erzengel

A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity, and often seen as belonging to a particular archangelical rank or order within a greater hierarchy of angels. (Judeo-Christian examples: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel).

erzeugen

(transitive) To stimulate or induce (feelings); pique.

Erzeuger

A person or company that manufactures.

Erzeugerin

A person or company that manufactures.

Erzeugnis

(countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.

Erzeugung

The total amount produced.

Erzfeind

A principal enemy.

Erzfeindin

A principal enemy.

Erzherzog

(historical) The son or male-line grandson of an emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.