stürzen

From Middle High German stürzen, from Old High German sturzen, from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan. See also the doublet starten, descended from the same source. Compare English start.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtyʁtsən/,
• Hyphenation: stür‧zen

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stürzen (weak, third-person singular present stürzt, past tense stürzte, past participle gestürzt, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (intransitive) to fall down, to drop, to tumble
2. (intransitive) to dash, to rush, to sprint to something
3. (intransitive) to drop off steeply
4. (transitive) to throw, to hurl
5. (transitive) to upturn
6. (transitive) to overthrow, to oust, to dethrone
7. (reflexive, colloquial) to plunge, to dive, to throw oneself

   Ich bin hungrig. Stürzen wir uns auf das Essen.

   I'm hungry. Let's dive into the food.

• bestürzen
• Sturz

• “stürzen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “stürzen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “stürzen” in Duden online
• “stürzen” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “stürzen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891