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verhuschen
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German
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fɛɐ̯ˈhʊʃn̩]
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Verb
verhuschen (weak, third-person singular present verhuscht, past tense verhuschte, past participle verhuscht, auxiliary sein) (literary or dialectal)
- (intransitive) to vanish, pass, disappear
- 1843, Charles Sealsfield, Lebensbilder aus der westlichen Hemisphäre. Dritter Theil, 2nd edition, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pages 114–115:
- „Rettet euch!“ schreien zwanzig Stimmen, verhuschen aber in dem Augenblick in ein klägliches Wimmern, denn nun beginnt ein Tosen, ein Sausen, ein Brausen, ein Brüllen des rasenden Elementes, so furchtbar, daß mir wirklich in diesem Augenblicke bangte, Land, Häuser, Felder, Wälder und Hütten würden von dem furchtbaren Orkane gehoben und in alle vier Enden der Erde gerissen werden.
- „Save yourself!“ twenty voices cry, but pass into a pitiful sob the same moment, for now a bawl, a sough, a roar of the ravaging element begins, so frightening that in that moment I really was in fear that land, houses, fields, forests and homesteads would be raised by the terrible windstorm and raped into all four ends of the earth.
Conjugation
1Permitted officially in Austria; used colloquially throughout the German-speaking area.
2Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
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