uitvechten
Dutch
FWOTD – 15 April 2019
Etymology
From Middle Dutch utevechten. Equivalent to uit + vechten.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈœy̯tˌfɛx.tə(n)/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: uit‧vech‧ten
Verb
uitvechten
- (transitive) to reach a solution or an end through fighting; to fight it out
- 1799, Samuel Richardson, Geschiedenis van Karel Grandison (= tr. of The History of Sir Charles Grandison), part 4, Johannes Allart (publ.), pages 314 and 315.
- Wel, en meent gij niet, dat wij elkander aankeeken, als een paar zotten, toen wij alleen zagen, opdat wij, om zoo te ſpreken, den ſtrijd zouden uitvechten?
- Well, and you don't suppose that we were looking at one another like a pair of fools, when we were only watching, so that we, so to speak, would fight out the battle?
- 1988, Tijdschrift voor theologie, page 284:
- Onze kennis ervan is zeer beperkt en ook vervalst door de propaganda-oorlogen die de koloniale machten met elkaar uitvochten.
- Our knowledge about it is seriously limited and also falsified by the propaganda wars that the colonial powers fought out with each other.
- 1799, Samuel Richardson, Geschiedenis van Karel Grandison (= tr. of The History of Sir Charles Grandison), part 4, Johannes Allart (publ.), pages 314 and 315.
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