ausspannen
See also: Ausspannen
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaʊ̯sˌʃpanən/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: aus‧span‧nen
Verb
ausspannen (weak, third-person singular present spannt aus, past tense spannte aus, past participle ausgespannt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to unclamp, to unharness, to unhitch (reversal of the action done by einspannen)
- Synonym: (of a draft animal) abschirren
- Antonym: einspannen
- die Pferde ausspannen ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- to expand spatially in various senses:
- (transitive, reflexive) to stretch between two points
- Synonym: spannen
- (transitive, reflexive) to unfold and stretch
- die Flügel ausspannen ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (transitive, reflexive, higher register) to expand, to extend, to stretch (to take up space)
- Synonym: ausdehnen
- (transitive, reflexive) to stretch between two points
- (transitive, colloquial) to steal (someone's partner)
- die Freundin ausspannen ― to steal (someone's) girlfriend
- 2009 [2006], Clemens Meyer, Als wir träumten [As We Were Dreaming], Fischer, →ISBN:
- Ich glaub, ich spinne. Sag's nochmal, sag's doch bitte nochmal: Wer hat dir die Freundin ausgespannt, du scheiß Zecke?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (intransitive) to relax, to unwind
- Synonym: relaxen
- 1909 [1901], Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks […] , Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, →OCLC, page 636:
- Darf ich mir einen Ratschlag erlauben? Sie sollten sich dieses Jahr noch ein bißchen ausspannen!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “ausspannen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “ausspannen” in Duden online
- “ausspannen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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