verziehen

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛʁˈt͡siːən/
  • Hyphenation: ver‧zie‧hen
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Etymology 1

ver- + ziehen

Verb

verziehen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present verzieht, past tense verzog, past participle verzogen, past subjunctive verzöge, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to warp, distort
    Synonym: verzerren
  2. (reflexive) to become warped, distorted
    Synonym: sich verzerren
  3. (reflexive) to thin out, disappear
    Synonym: verschwinden, vergehen, sich auflösen
  4. (reflexive, colloquial, somewhat rude in imperative) to clear off, scram, get lost
    Synonym: abhauen, sich verpissen, verduften
  5. (transitive) to spoil (ruin the character of by overindulgence, coddle or pamper to excess)
    Synonym: verwöhnen
  6. (dated) to hesitate (to do something)
  7. (transitive) to thin (seedlings, plants etc. so the remaining ones have space to grow)
Conjugation
Derived terms

Verb

verziehen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present verzieht, past tense verzog, past participle verzogen, past subjunctive verzöge, auxiliary sein)

  1. (intransitive) to move, to move away (to change residence)
    Synonyms: umziehen, umsiedeln, übersiedeln
Usage notes

If used in colloquial speech it is almost exclusively used in the perfect tense (e.g. Wir sind vor zwei Wochen verzogen; compare the phrase unbekannt verzogen). Usage in the other tenses (e.g. Wir verziehen in zwei Wochen) is rather unusual in colloquial speech and umziehen or übersiedeln is used instead (e.g. Wir ziehen in zwei Wochen um).

Conjugation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

verziehen

  1. inflection of verzeihen:
    1. first/third-person plural preterite
    2. first/third-person plural subjunctive II
    3. past participle

Further reading

  • verziehen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • verziehen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • verziehen” in Duden online
  • verziehen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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