abwürgen

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German

Etymology

ab- (off) +‎ würgen (to choke)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈapˌvʏrɡən/,
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  • Hyphenation: ab‧wür‧gen

Verb

abwürgen (weak, third-person singular present würgt ab, past tense würgte ab, past participle abgewürgt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (informal, transitive) to silence; to squash (prevent someone from finishing an utterance, or an utterance from being finished)
  2. (informal, transitive) to stall a car (cause the engine of a manual-transmission car to turn off by going too slowly for the selected gear)
  3. (figurative) to stall (to cause to stop making progress)
    • 2023 February 16, Christoph Giesen, Claus Hecking, “Wie China den deutschen Solartraum torpediert”, in Der Spiegel, →ISSN:
      Europas Solarbranche ist nahezu vollständig abhängig von Lieferungen aus China. Nun droht Peking implizit mit Exportbeschränkungen – und könnte damit die deutsche Energiewende abwürgen.
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Further reading

  • abwürgen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • abwürgen” in Duden online
  • abwürgen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon