Was heißt »de­ckeln« auf Englisch?

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

  • top
  • impose an upper limit on

Synonyme

dros­seln:
choke
curb
throttle
ein­gren­zen:
enclose
limit
ein­schrän­ken:
cut
limit
reduce
restrain

Sinnverwandte Wörter

rü­gen:
reprimand
reprove
schimp­fen:
curse
rant
swear
ta­deln:
blame
censure
find fault with
reprimand
zu­recht­wei­sen:
rebuke
reprimand
scold

Englische Beispielsätze

  • There is an alligator on your top.

  • Off the top of my head, I can't think of another song whose lyrics include the word 'palaver', let alone one that rhymes it.

  • "Mum, why has the bishop in chess got a slit in the top?" "The chess piece as we know it today was designed in 19th-century England, where it was thought to look like a bishop. The slit comes from the mitre's cleft."

  • The Earth spins like a great top.

  • Leave the top button undone.

  • "This pen's stopped writing." "The refills are in the top draw of the desk in the office."

  • I wouldn't want to live in a top-floor flat.

  • I wouldn't want to live in a flat on the top floor.

  • None of us dared to take the lift to the top floor.

  • None of us dared take the lift to the top floor.

  • They reached the top of the mountain at 5 o'clock precisely.

  • The child climbed to the top of the fir tree.

  • Tom got top marks in all his classes.

  • The top floor is an attic.

  • They're putting up a big top in the field.

  • A big top is being put up in the field.

  • Leipzig are at the top of the league table.

  • His spectacular victory against Tom catapulted John to the top of all the rankings.

  • Please look in the cabinet, the top shelf.

  • And to top it all, I was sacked.

Deckeln übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: deckeln. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: deckeln. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 11524611, 11513854, 11455230, 11251958, 11249189, 11246187, 11201135, 11201133, 11180375, 11180372, 11157042, 11118056, 11053855, 11049398, 11027623, 11022902, 10921769, 10910299, 10857217 & 10787794. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR