töten

I vt/i kill; fig. auch destroy; du sollst nicht töten BIBL. thou shalt not kill; Nerv 2

II v/refl kill o.s., commit suicide, take one’s (own) life, die by one’s own hand geh.

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die Toten

the dead (Pl.)

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tö|ten ['tøːtn]

vti (lit, fig)

to kill; Zahnnerv to deaden

See:

→ Blick

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1) (to cause to be killed: The criminal was put to death by hanging.) put to death

2) (to cause the death of: He killed the rats with poison; The outbreak of typhoid killed many people; The flat tyre killed our hopes of getting home before midnight.) kill

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tö·ten

[ˈtø:tn̩]

vt

▪ jdn/etw \töten to kill sb/sth; s.a. Blick, Nerv

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transitives, intransitives Verb kill; s. auch Nerv 1)

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töten

A. v/t & v/i kill; fig auch destroy;

du sollst nicht töten BIBEL thou shalt not kill; → Nerv 2

B. v/r kill o.s., commit suicide, take one’s (own) life, die by one’s own hand geh

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transitives, intransitives Verb kill; s. auch Nerv 1)

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v.

to kill v.

to slay v.

(§ p.,p.p.: slew, slain)