Was heißt »Schwund« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv Schwund lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • loss
  • attrition

Synonyme

Ab­bau:
dismantling
Ab­fall:
garbage
rubbish
waste
Ab­nah­me:
decrease
lessening
shrinkage
Dämp­fung:
damping
Ein­bu­ße:
damage
forfeit
Ka­ch­e­xie:
cachexia
Ma­ras­mus:
marasmus
Rück­gang:
decline
decrease
drop
fall
Ver­fall:
decay
Ver­min­de­rung:
decrease
decreation
lessening
reduction
Ver­schwin­den:
disappearance

Englische Beispielsätze

  • I heard about your loss.

  • Hair loss is often hereditary.

  • Are you suffering from loss of appetite?

  • The company made a big loss in the previous quarter.

  • Can a worm-infested wooden house be insulated against heat loss?

  • Chemotherapy and radiation cause hair loss, because they prevent cell division.

  • In spite of his progressive sight loss, he's still allowed to drive a car.

  • An Australian researcher has developed a new first-aid technique that could save shark attack victims from a fatal loss of blood in the crucial moments after the attack.

  • To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

  • Tom is suffering from memory loss.

  • Tom suffers from memory loss.

  • Within the last six months, have you experienced a significant loss?

  • The loss of a camel is a real catastrophe for a Tuareg family.

  • The victory of others is almost felt like a loss of your own.

  • The farmer was saddened by the loss of the harvest.

  • The loss of the harvest made the farmer sad.

  • Brazil lost 1.4 million hectares of mature forest in 2019, more than one-third of the world total and nearly three times more than the country with the next-largest loss, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  • Someone said not long ago: "I earn 100,000 for acting and 6 million for the loss of my privacy."

  • We'll make up for the loss.

  • Tom is suffering from loss of memory.

Untergeordnete Begriffe

Ah­nen­schwund:
pedigree collapse
Ar­ten­schwund:
species loss (L=E)
Haar­schwund:
alopecia
loss of hair
Mus­kel­schwund:
muscular dystrophy

Schwund übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Schwund. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2024, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: Schwund. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 12103617, 12056751, 11477834, 11090547, 10577261, 10508893, 10325685, 10321379, 10096140, 10025905, 10025904, 9849517, 9690235, 9548543, 8855670, 8855669, 8814429, 8423692, 7426619 & 6251407. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR