auspacken

German
auspacken

Etymology

aus- +‎ packen

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈaʊ̯sˌpakn̩/
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Verb

auspacken (weak, third-person singular present packt aus, past tense packte aus, past participle ausgepackt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to unpack, to unwrap (a package, gift, etc.)
    Antonym: einpacken
  2. (colloquial, figurative) to come clean, to tell all, to reveal all, to spill the beans
    Synonym: (es) rauslassen
    • 2023 January 17, Janita Hämäläinen, “»Kugeln zischten an mir vorbei«”, in Der Spiegel‎, →ISSN:
      Er schildert seine Flucht und die Gräueltaten der Söldnertruppe von Jewgeni Prigoschin: Andrej Medwedew, Ex-Kommandeur der berüchtigten Wagner-Truppe, ersucht politisches Asyl in Norwegen – und will auspacken.
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Conjugation

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Further reading
  • “auspacken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “auspacken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “auspacken” in Duden online
  • “auspacken” in OpenThesaurus.de
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