winseln

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German

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  • Hyphenation: win‧seln

Verb

winseln (weak, third-person singular present winselt, past tense winselte, past participle gewinselt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to whine, to whimper
    • 1914, Walther Kabel (as W. Belka), Die Versprengten, Verlag moderner Lektüre, page 8:
      Das Tier, mit dem ganzen Körper zwischen Ziegeln und Balken eingeklemmt, begann jetzt leise zu winseln.
      The animal, pinched with the whole body between bricks and girts, now began to faintly whimper.

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  • winseln” in Duden online
  • winseln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache