aussiedeln

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German

Etymology

From aus- +‎ siedeln.

Verb

aussiedeln (weak, third-person singular present siedelt aus, past tense siedelte aus, past participle ausgesiedelt, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (transitive) to cause (someone) to leave the area where they live, to resettle, evacuate, expel
    Synonyms: evakuieren, vertreiben
  2. (intransitive) to leave one’s area of settlement, to resettle, emigrate
    Synonyms: auswandern, emigrieren
    Nach dem Fall der Sowjetunion sind viele Russlanddeutsche ausgesiedelt.
    Many Germans of Russia emigrated after the downfall of the Soviet Union.
  3. (transitive, Nazism, euphemistic slang) to kill (usually Jews)
    • 1943 May 16, Jürgen Stroop, “Tagesmeldung vom 21. April 1943”, in Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr („Stroop-Bericht“):
      Erst nachdem das Feuer einen erheblichen Umfang angenommen hatte, kamen schreiende Juden zum Vorschein, die sofort ausgesiedelt wurden.
      (literally, “Only when the fire had grown to a considerable size did screaming Jews appear, who were resettled immediately.”)

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