Was heißt »ab­win­ken« auf Englisch?

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

  • wave
  • refuse

Synonyme

ab­leh­nen:
decline
ab­sa­gen:
beg off
call off
cancel
countermand
declare off
decline
renege
turn down
write off
aus­schla­gen:
decline
dislodge
wei­gern:
decline
zu­rück­wei­sen:
refute
reject

Antonyme

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Our town is facing a wave of student protest.

  • I don't see how I can refuse.

  • Tom didn't have the courage to refuse to do what Mary asked him to do.

  • Tom doesn't know whether to accept or to refuse Mary's offer.

  • Tom was wrong to refuse Mary's help.

  • I refuse to answer such a stupid question.

  • We're suffering from an unbearable heat wave for the second week straight.

  • I refuse to be ignored any longer.

  • We're in the second week of an unrelenting heat wave.

  • Never choose a vocation just because your friends are in it, nor refuse another just because your worst enemy is in it.

  • Most people will refuse to admit they've made a mistake.

  • He made me an offer I couldn't refuse.

  • She made me an offer I couldn't refuse.

  • Tom made me an offer I couldn't refuse.

  • I refuse to answer.

  • I refuse to be treated like a child.

  • Tom can't refuse.

  • I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  • It was a mistake to refuse his assistance.

  • It was a mistake to refuse her aid.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: abwinken. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: abwinken. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 1327326, 1096475, 1029324, 1029080, 1027748, 1540774, 958820, 953586, 932923, 847275, 831211, 1848783, 1848784, 681616, 1920456, 621716, 1954758, 573875, 562263 & 562262. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR