erledigen

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German erledigen. Equivalent to er- +‎ ledig +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: er‧le‧di‧gen

Verb

erledigen (weak, third-person singular present erledigt, past tense erledigte, past participle erledigt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (obsolete) to free, to liberate, to release
    Synonyms: befreien, freisetzen
    • 1668, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus Teutsch, Zweytes Buch, III. Capitel, page 127:
      Als mein Herr aufgestanden / schickte er seinen Leibschützen hin / mich auß dem Gänsstall zu holen / der brachte Zeitung / daß er die Thür offen / und ein Loch hinder dem Rigel mit einem Messer geschnitten gefunden / vermittelst dessen der Gefangene sich selbst erledigt hätte.
      When my master got up / he sent his body gunner / to get me out of the goose pen. / He brought the news / that he had found the door open / and a hole cut with a knife behind the bolt, / with the help of which the prisoner would have freed himself.
  2. to finish, to finalize, to complete, to see to, to handle with the result of completed work
  3. (colloquial) to cut off the influence of, to lower in status
  4. (slang) to kill, to murk, to duppy

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Further reading

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