Was heißt »ab­tö­ten« auf Englisch?

Das Verb »ab­tö­ten« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • deaden
  • mortify
  • kill
  • devitalize

Synonyme

be­täu­ben:
benumb
numb

Sinnverwandte Wörter

aus­lö­schen:
extinguish
aus­rot­ten:
eradicate
un­ter­drü­cken:
blanket
bottle up
oppress
smother
stifle
subdue
suppress
ver­nich­ten:
annihilate
zu­rück­drän­gen:
push back
repel

Antonyme

er­we­cken:
arouse
awaken
wake up
ge­bä­ren:
bear
deliver
give birth

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Hopefully, being ridiculous doesn't kill you !

  • Why did Tom kill Mary?

  • Please don't kill me!

  • The students who are occupying the administration building have threatened to kill themselves.

  • We have no choice but to kill.

  • I'm late. Mary is going to kill me.

  • 'Call off your dogs, or they will kill me. What harm have I ever done to you?' At these words, coming from a bear, the prince was so startled that for a moment he stood stock-still.

  • Maria tried to kill herself with sleeping pills.

  • You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

  • Why did Dan kill himself?

  • Why did Tom kill himself?

  • Tom tried to kill us.

  • What doesn't kill you will make you stronger.

  • "Mary told Tom we were dating?" "Yes." "I'm going to kill her!"

  • If you watch past season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer without me, I'm going to kill you.

  • We're killing in the polls, we're killing in every state and if I become president - I promise you this - we will kill everybody.

  • I thought that my father was going to kill me.

  • How did you kill the cockroach?

  • When I became a vegetarian, I didn't think of the environment; I only thought of animal rights and the fact that I didn't want to kill an animal.

  • Tom didn't want to kill anybody.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: abtöten. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: abtöten. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 4603399, 4629768, 4660515, 4495489, 4781024, 4781080, 4846373, 4861677, 4890604, 4948414, 4955263, 5003776, 5022645, 4124485, 4097562, 5094443, 4079965, 5143867, 3949857 & 5231058. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR