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German
Etymology
From Middle High German wuochern, from Old High German wuohharōn, derived from wuohhar (“harvest, revenue”), whence modern German Wucher (“usury”). Compare Dutch woekeren (“to practise usury; to overgrow”).
Pronunciation
Verb
wuchern (weak, third-person singular present wuchert, past tense wucherte, past participle gewuchert, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to practise usury; to usure
- (intransitive) to make profitable use (usually in a non-financial sense) [with mit (+ dative) ‘of something’]
- (intransitive, of plants) to overgrow
- (intransitive, of cancer) to develop metastases
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
- auswuchern
- bewuchern
- entwuchern
- überwuchern
- verwuchern
- Wucherer
- Wuchern
- Wucherung
- zuwuchern
Related terms
- Wucherblume, Wucherpflanze
- Wuchermiete, Wucherpreis, Wucherzins
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