Was heißt »ab­zwa­cken« auf Englisch?

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

  • cut off

Synonyme

ab­luch­sen:
coax
learn
wangle
ab­neh­men:
amputate
answer
believe
buy
confiscate
decrease
dwindle
lessen
lose
play the string game
purchase
receive
remove
steal
take away
take down
take off
take over
test
wane
ab­räu­men:
clear away
ab­rin­gen:
force out
wring
an­eig­nen:
appropriate
ent­wen­den:
purloin
steal
mit­neh­men:
keep
take
take with
weg­neh­men:
take away

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Ten thousand people have had their power supply cut off.

  • I'll sooner cut off my foot than apologize to you!

  • Tom was running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

  • Mary decided to cut off her pigtails.

  • Mary decided to cut off her plaits.

  • We need to fill as many buckets with water as we can, because the water is being cut off.

  • The village was cut off from the surrounding area by a heavy storm.

  • The village is cut off from the outside world.

  • I cut off all ties with Tom.

  • Our electricity was cut off because we forgot to pay the bill.

  • While Tom cut vegetables he cut off a part of his finger.

  • Trust a woman with your secret, but cut off her tongue!

  • The enchantress clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground.

  • Take an axe, and cut off the head of the calf with one blow. With a second, split its head in two, and in its brain you will see a bright red ball. Bring that to me.

  • The soldier immediately cut off her head.

  • Tell me at once what you want to do with the tinder-box, or I will draw my sword, and cut off your head!

  • The Ukrainian security forces are trying to occupy the towns and villages between Donetsk and Luhansk in order to cut off those two important cities from each other.

  • Tom cut off his finger with a circular saw.

  • Don't cut off my head! For then I could not repent of my sin. But cut off my feet with the red shoes.

  • The vehicle is so deformed that the fire department needs to cut off the roof.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: abzwacken. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: abzwacken. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 10927854, 10643018, 10568018, 10506049, 10506047, 10149518, 8920230, 8838558, 6944022, 6329224, 5796876, 5139091, 4846174, 4600543, 3884970, 3884968, 3496212, 2982289, 2672533 & 1936089. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR