abwürgen
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈapˌvʏrɡən/, [ˈʔäpˌʋʏɐ̯ɡŋ̍]
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Verb
abwürgen (weak, third-person singular present würgt ab, past tense würgte ab, past participle abgewürgt, auxiliary haben)
- (informal, transitive) to silence; to squash (prevent someone from finishing an utterance, or an utterance from being finished)
- (informal, transitive) to stall a car (cause the engine of a manual-transmission car to turn off by going too slowly for the selected gear)
- (figurative) to stall (to cause to stop making progress)
- 2023 February 16, Christoph Giesen, Claus Hecking, “Wie China den deutschen Solartraum torpediert”, in Der Spiegel, →ISSN:
- Europas Solarbranche ist nahezu vollständig abhängig von Lieferungen aus China. Nun droht Peking implizit mit Exportbeschränkungen – und könnte damit die deutsche Energiewende abwürgen.
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Conjugation
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